(IN BRIEF) NIB has agreed a six-year EUR 125 million loan with Peab to support the Swedish construction company’s role in delivering projects linked to total defence across the Nordic region. The agreement is NIB’s first defence-related financing for the … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Construction, Defence, Environment, Financial, Finland, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Security & Safety, Sweden
Tagged asphalt plants, civil engineering, concrete plants, construction financing, construction sector, Critical Infrastructure, defence infrastructure, Denmark, equipment depots, EUR 125 million loan, Finland, geopolitical environment, infrastructure investment, infrastructure preparedness, Jeanette Vitasp, Jesper Göransson, Nasdaq Stockholm, NIB, NIB Provides First Construction Sector Defence Loan Following Sustainability Policy Update, Nordic Investment Bank, Nordic resilience, Nordic-Baltic region, Norway, Peab, Peab Financing Agreement Supports Nordic Infrastructure Resilience and Preparedness, prefabrication factories, security of supply, six-year loan agreement, Sweden, total defence
(IN BRIEF) CapMan is carrying out a targeted renewal of the 366-room Admiral Hotel in central Copenhagen, a historic waterfront property operated by Strawberry and acquired by CapMan in March 2025. The programme focuses on improving operational flow, strengthening the … Read the full press release
Posted in Art & Culture, Business, Denmark, Food & Beverage, Real Estate, Travel
Tagged active ownership, Admiral Hotel, Admiral Hotel Renewal Combines Historic Waterfront Character With New Guest Facilities, Admiral Hotel Repositioning Targets Stronger Operations and Year-Round City Engagement, CapMan, CapMan Advances Heritage-Sensitive Renewal of Copenhagen’s Admiral Hotel, CapMan Real Estate, city-centre hotel, commercial positioning, Copenhagen, Copenhagen waterfront, Denmark, event facilities, Food and Beverage, former warehouse, guest experience, gym, heritage property, historic hotel, hospitality development, hospitality real estate, Hotel investment, hotel operations, hotel renewal, Marcus Carlsson, meetings and events, outdoor pool, Robin Stenlund, spa area, Strawberry, waterfront hotel, year-round tourism
(IN BRIEF) NLB has improved its voluntary public takeover offer for Addiko Bank AG by raising the proposed consideration to EUR 37.00 per share, cum dividend. The offer seeks to secure control of the Austrian-listed bank, which operates in several … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Banks, Business, Economy, Financial, Investment, Law, Slovenia
Tagged acceptance period, Addiko Bank AG, Addiko shares, amended offering memorandum, Austria, Austrian Takeover Commission, bank takeover, banking acquisition, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Central and South-Eastern Europe, competition clearance, CROATIA, CSEE markets, cum dividend, EUR 37.00 per share, financial services, Montenegro, NLB d.d., NLB Increases Cash Offer for Addiko Bank as Competition Clearances Advance, NLB Moves Forward With EUR 37.00 Per Share Offer for Addiko Bank AG, NORTH MACEDONIA, Raiffeisen Bank International AG, regulatory approvals, SERBIA, shareholder acceptance, Slovenia, voluntary public takeover offer, withdrawal rights
(IN BRIEF) EQT Life Sciences has joined a USD 115 million Series A financing for UK biotechnology company RQ Bio, alongside lead investor Frazier Life Sciences, other new investors and existing backers. The funding will support clinical development of RQB01, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Healthcare, Investment, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Sweden, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged antibody discovery, antibody therapies, biopharmaceuticals, biotechnology investment, Christian S. Schade, clinical development, EQT Life Sciences, Felice Verduyn-van Weegen, flu season protection, Forbion, Frazier Life Sciences, Halda Therapeutics, high-risk populations, immunocompromised patients, infectious diseases, influenza prevention, LifeArc, Mike Westby, Monograph, New Series A Financing Supports RQB01 Development for High-Risk Influenza Patients, Oxford Science Enterprises, Oxford University Innovation, preventive therapy, rare and vulnerable patient populations, respiratory viral diseases, RQ Bio, RQ Bio Expands Investor Base and Appoints Christian S. Schade as Executive Chairman, RQ Bio Secures Major Funding Round for Antibody-Based Respiratory Disease Prevention Pipeline, RQB01, seasonal influenza, Series A financing, Wellington Management
(IN BRIEF) Metso has signed two filtration Life Cycle Services contracts worth around EUR 60 million with mining customers in South America and Asia Pacific. The five-year agreement supports a copper producer, while the four-year contract covers a lead and … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Commodities, Environment, Finland, Industrial, Metals and Minerals, Technology
Tagged 'Metso Plus', asset management, base metals, beneficiation, component repairs, component reuse, condition tracking, copper processing, cost per tonne, dewatering, Digital Monitoring, embedded carbon, equipment upgrades, filtration services, Frank Araneda, hydrometallurgy, Larox PF filters, LCS, lead processing, Life Cycle Services, Maintenance and Reconditioning for Mining Filtration Assets, Metso, Metso Agreements Combine Digital Monitoring, Metso Strengthens Global Aftermarket Position With Major Filtration Life Cycle Services Orders, Miika Tirkkonen, mining aftermarket services, Mining Industry, operational reliability, plant availability, plant maintenance, Plate Pack Management Service, plate packs, PPMS, proactive maintenance, resource efficiency, Spare parts, zinc processing
(IN BRIEF) The Atapuerca Foundation has awarded Ignacio S. Galán, Executive Chairman of Iberdrola, its Evolution in Human Values Award in recognition of his contribution to social progress, sustainable development and initiatives connected with human development. The announcement was made … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Society, Spain
Tagged Antonio Miguel Méndez Pozo, Atapuerca Foundation, Atapuerca Foundation Highlights Ignacio Galán’s Contribution to Progress and Sustainable Development, Awards, Carlos Peretto, Corporate Leadership, Emiliano Aguirre Prize, environmental responsibility, Evolution in Human Values Award, human development, Iberdrola, Iberdrola Executive Chairman Ignacio Galán Receives Evolution in Human Values Award, Ignacio Galán, Ignacio S. Galán, Prize for Scientific Achievement, Queen Mother Sofía, Social Commitment, Social Progress, society, Spain, sustainability, sustainable development
FranklinWH plans to enter Europe’s residential energy storage market in 2027 The company’s platform combines home batteries, solar, EV charging and energy controls FranklinWH brings experience from more than 25 U.S. virtual power plant and demand-response programmes The system is … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Germany, Infrastructure & Utilities, Technology
Tagged $FranklinWH, aGate intelligent controller, aHub, aPower 2, aPower S, backup power, California manufacturing, clean energy transition, demand response, distributed energy resources, energy resilience, European energy market, EV charging, FranklinWH Energy Storage, FranklinWH System, Gary Lam, grid flexibility, home battery storage, home energy management, Intersolar Europe 2026, LFP battery technology, lithium iron phosphate batteries, Messe München, residential energy storage, RSD Duo, Santa Clara, smart energy, Solar Power World, solar self-consumption, Vincent Ambrose, virtual power plants, VPPs
(IN BRIEF) Langley Holdings has agreed to transfer major parts of the Manroland Sheetfed business to HEIDELBERG, subject to the usual approvals and closing conditions. HEIDELBERG is expected to take over Manroland’s global service and spare-parts operations, related intellectual property, … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Electronics & Machinery, Germany, Industrial, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Anthony Langley, Cartonmaster, customer continuity, German insolvency proceedings, Germany, global service network, Heidelberg, HEIDELBERG Expands Global Printing Service Network Through Proposed Manroland Sheetfed Deal, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, industrial consolidation, installed base, Jürgen Otto, Langley Holdings, Langley Holdings Reaches Agreement With HEIDELBERG on Manroland Sheetfed Service Business Transfer, lifecycle services, logistics infrastructure, Manroland Sheetfed, market organisations, Planned HEIDELBERG Transaction Aims to Secure Long-Term Support for Manroland Sheetfed Users, Print Technologies division, printing machinery, printing press industry, printing technology, Retford, Roland 900, service operations, sheetfed offset printing, spare parts business, technical support, United Kingdom
(IN BRIEF) TÜV Rheinland has launched a new Nuremberg-based testing service for the secure interoperability of emergency, intensive care and surgical medical devices. The ISO/IEC 17025-accredited laboratory will assess whether equipment from different manufacturers can exchange data and operate together … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Electronics & Machinery, Germany, Healthcare, Science, Security & Safety, Technology
Tagged Clinical Data Exchange, critical care, cross-vendor connectivity, emergency medicine, Germany, healthcare technology, hospital systems, infusion pumps, intensive care medicine, intermediate care units, ISO/IEC 17025, ISO/IEEE 11073, medical device communication, medical device interfaces, medical device interoperability, medical device testing, New TÜV Rheinland Laboratory Service Tests Secure Data Exchange in Critical Care Technology, Nuremberg, Nuremberg Laboratory to Assess Safe Interoperability Between Medical Devices From Different Manufacturers, Open Plug-and-Trust, patient monitoring, patient safety, Remote Control, Sandro Holl, secure device networking, surgical devices, TÜV Rheinland, TÜV Rheinland Introduces Independent Testing for Connected Emergency and Critical Care Equipment, ventilators, vital signs monitor
(IN BRIEF) Voith has launched PluraMaze, a new refiner filling range for paper manufacturers that combines a labyrinth-inspired geometry with application-specific configurations aimed at reducing energy use, improving fibre treatment and extending component life. Customer installations showed reductions in no-load … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Germany, Industrial, Technology
Tagged Burg, containerboard, energy efficiency, fibre treatment, Germany, Kevin Zilm, labyrinth design, no-load power, OCC pulp, old corrugated container, paper industry, paper manufacturing, patent-pending technology, Pfleiderer Spezialpapiere, Pluralis, PluraMaze, PluraMaze Helps Paper Producers Cut No-Load Power and Extend Refiner Filling Lifetime, process stability, production costs, PROgroup, pulp refining, refiner fillings, refiner lifetime, refining efficiency, Reinhold Walter, specialty paper, Teisnach, Voith, Voith Expands Refining Technology Portfolio With Labyrinth-Inspired PluraMaze Design, Voith Introduces New Refiner Filling Range for More Efficient Paper Production, wear parts
(IN BRIEF) Skanska has won a USD 325 million contract to construct a 21-story Marriott convention center hotel in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The 700-room development will cover approximately 61,400 square metres and will stand opposite the First Financial Convention Center. … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Construction, Infrastructure & Utilities, Real Estate, Sweden, Travel
Tagged 2028 completion, 21-story hotel, 700-room hotel, ballrooms, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Convention District Set for New Marriott Hotel With Skybridge and Event Facilities, commercial real estate, conference rooms, construction contract, construction project, convention center hotel, convention travel, downtown Cincinnati, economic development, First Financial Convention Center, ground-floor retail, hospitality development, hotel construction, Marriott, meeting space, Ohio, Portman Holdings, rooftop terrace, SEK 3.0 billion, Skanska, Skanska Begins Construction of Major Convention Center Hotel in Downtown Cincinnati, skybridge, USD 325 million contract
(IN BRIEF) A review by researchers from the University of Copenhagen and German diabetes research institutions suggests that repeated weight loss and regain may not independently cause the lasting health damage often associated with yo-yo dieting. Published as a peer-reviewed … Read the full press release
Posted in Denmark, Education, Healthcare, Science, Technology
Tagged body composition, cardiovascular disease, clinical research, diet, exercise, Faidon Magkos, German Center for Diabetes Research, Helmholtz Munich, Lancet Review Reassesses Links Between Weight Cycling Metabolism and Long-Term Health Risks, metabolic health, METABOLISM, Norbert Stefan, Nutrition, Obesity, overweight, peer-reviewed research, Personal View, public health, quality of life, repeated weight loss, Repeated Weight-Loss Attempts Should Not Automatically Be Seen as Harmful Researchers Conclude, Researchers Say Concern About Weight Regain Should Not Prevent Attempts to Lose Weight, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, type 2 diabetes, University Hospital Tübingen, University of Copenhagen, weight cycling, weight management, weight regain, weight-management medication, yo-yo dieting, Yo-Yo Dieting May Be Less Harmful Than Commonly Believed Review of Research Suggests
(IN BRIEF) Gasum has sold its biogas upgrading unit in Lahti, Finland, to Nevel, which already operates the connected biogas plant in Kujala. Gasum will continue to purchase all upgraded biogas produced at the facility through a long-term agreement, inject … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Environment, Finland, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities
Tagged 000 tonnes, 50 GWh, 90, biodegradable waste, biogas production, biogas upgrading unit, circular economy, digestion plant, energy transition, Finland, gas container unloading station, gas network, gas-grid connection, Gasum, Gasum and Nevel Reshape Lahti Biogas Value Chain Through New Ownership Arrangement, industrial side streams, Kujala, Labio Oy, Lahti, Long-Term Biogas Agreement Supports Continued Gas Network Supply From Lahti Plant, long-term purchase agreement, Nevel, Nevel Expands Lahti Biogas Operations With Acquisition of Gasum Upgrading Facility, Nevel Plans Capacity and Efficiency Upgrades at Acquired Lahti Biogas Unit, production efficiency, renewable gas, sewage sludge, upgraded biogas, upgrading capacity, Waste-to-energy
(IN BRIEF) Coretura, the software-defined vehicle platform company founded by Daimler Truck and Volvo Group, has selected Accenture as an engineering partner to accelerate development of a shared software platform for trucks, buses and other medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles. … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automotive, Business, Electronics & Machinery, Germany, Ireland, Security & Safety, Sweden, Technology, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged Accenture, AI-based engineering, API management, automotive software, buses, cloud infrastructure, Commercial Vehicles, Coretura, Coretura Advances Common Software Foundation for Next-Generation Commercial Vehicle Development, Coretura and Accenture Target Faster Industrialisation of Software-Defined Commercial Vehicles, Cybersecurity, Daimler truck, Daimler Truck and Volvo Group Venture Expands Development of Reusable Commercial Vehicle Software Stack, E/E architecture, electrical and electronic architecture, Embedded Software, Fleet operators, Functional safety, Gothenburg, hardware abstraction, high-performance computing, Johan Lundén, Kronberg im Taunus, middleware, Over-the-Air Updates, Rainer Oder, reusable software stack, SDV platform, software platform, software-defined vehicles, Tracey Countryman, transport vehicles, Trucks, vehicle automation, vehicle lifecycle, Volvo Group
(IN BRIEF) Nokia and Amazon Web Services are expanding their collaboration to make Nokia’s Autonomous Network Fabric available on AWS later in 2026. The cloud-based platform is designed to help telecommunications operators move toward Level 4 autonomous network operations by … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Finland, Infrastructure & Utilities, Internet & Online, Technology, Telecom
Tagged 5G Core SaaS, agentic AI, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Web Services, Amir Rao, anomaly detection, artificial intelligence, Autonomous Network Fabric, autonomous networks, aws, Citymesh, closed-loop automation, cloud infrastructure, cloud-native networks, Digital Twins, du, fixed networks, intent-based networking, Level 4 autonomy, mobile networks, multi-domain networks, multi-vendor networks, network automation, network observability, network optimisation, Network slicing, Nokia, Nokia and AWS Target Faster Network Automation and Service Innovation for Telecom Operators, Nokia Extends Autonomous Networks Strategy Through Expanded AWS Cloud Partnership, Oguz Sunay, operational transformation, Orange, root-cause analysis, service orchestration, telecom cloud, telecommunications operators, transport networks, Unified Data Management
(IN BRIEF) Nokia and Databricks have completed a joint proof of concept for a unified, cloud-agnostic data platform designed to support AI-driven autonomous networks. The project showed that telecom operators can create data pipelines once and deploy them across Databricks … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Finland, Internet & Online, Security & Safety, Technology, Telecom
Tagged agentic AI, AI agents, AI-driven operations, Apache Flink, Apache Iceberg, Apache Kafka, autonomous networks, cloud infrastructure, cloud-agnostic architecture, cross-domain decision-making, data fabric, data pipelines, Databricks, Delta Live Tables, Flink SQL, intelligent data fabric agent, network automation, network data, Nevash Pillay, New Nokia and Databricks Architecture Targets Faster AI Deployment Across Telecom Cloud Environments, Nokia, Nokia and Databricks Advance Data Foundations for Real-Time Agentic AI in Telecom Networks, Nokia and Databricks Test Reusable Data Pipelines for Cross-Platform Autonomous Network Operations, Oguz Sunay, on-premise infrastructure, Performance Management, Python, query-time data products, real-time analytics, root-cause analysis, streaming data, substrate-agnostic data platform, telecom analytics, telecommunications operators, unified data platform, zero-copy sharing
(IN BRIEF) Ericsson has expanded its Intelligent Automation Platform to include core network automation, creating a unified platform for RAN and core operations. The enhanced EIAP will support new AI-driven core automation applications, known as cApps, alongside existing rApps for … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Electronics & Machinery, International Trade, Management, Security & Safety, Sweden, Technology, Telecom
Tagged 5G Core, agentic AI, Anders Vestergren, artificial intelligence, AT&T, autonomous networks, cApps, closed-loop automation, cloud-native core, communications service providers, core network automation, core networks, CSPs, EIAP, ENM, Ericsson, Ericsson Adds Low-Latency Data Streaming and AI-Driven Core Automation to EIAP, Ericsson Extends EIAP Beyond RAN to Support End-to-End Network Automation for CSPs, Ericsson Intelligent Automation Platform, Ericsson Introduces Core Network cApps and Real-Time Data Streaming for Autonomous Operations, Ericsson Network Manager, Ericsson Stream Processing and Enrichment, Espe, Intelligent Core, low-latency data, Monica Zethzon, multi-vendor networks, network data streaming, network performance, network resilience, Omdia, Open RAN, Philipp Bichsel, radio access network, RAN automation, rApps, Rob Soni, Roberto Kompany, service experience, Swisscom, telecom operations, Telstra, vodafone
(IN BRIEF) Ericsson has launched OSS/BSS Business Value Pathways to help communications service providers advance autonomous network operations through defined, outcome-focused AI and automation programmes. The new framework combines Ericsson’s OSS/BSS portfolio, agentic AI, data transformation, operational experience and cloud-native … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Internet & Online, Management, Security & Safety, Sweden, Technology, Telecom
Tagged agentic AI, AI driven analytics, ANO, Appledore Research, artificial intelligence, autonomous network operations, autonomous networks, BSS, closed-loop automation, cloud-native platforms, communications service providers, Copenhagen, CSPs, data transformation, DTW Ignite, Ericsson, Ericsson Brings Streaming Data Agentic AI and Automation Together for Telecom Operators, Ericsson Expands Autonomous Network Strategy With AI-Driven OSS/BSS Transformation Pathways, Ericsson Launches OSS/BSS Business Value Pathways to Support Autonomous Network Operations, explainable AI, Grant Lehanan, intelligent IT operations, Intelligent IT Suite, intent-based networks, Mats Karlsson, network autonomy, network intelligence, network monetisation, New Ericsson OSS/BSS Framework Helps CSPs Turn Autonomous Network Goals Into Business Outcomes, Operational Efficiency, OSS, OSS/BSS Business Value Pathways, service experience management, service lifecycle management, streaming data architecture, subscriber experience, telecom automation, telecom operations, telecom transformation, zero-touch product launch
(IN BRIEF) Sanofi’s Wayrilz® (rilzabrutinib) has received approval in Japan for the treatment of persistent or chronic immune thrombocytopenia in patients who have not responded sufficiently to other therapies or have tolerability concerns with existing options. The authorization is based … Read the full press release
Posted in France, Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech, Science, Security & Safety, Technology
Tagged abdominal pain, bleeding risk, Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor, BTKi, chronic ITP, clinical research, diarrhoea, durable platelet response, headache, Hisashi Kato, IgG4-related disease, immune thrombocytopenia, ITP, Japan, Japan Approval Adds Wayrilz to Treatment Options for Persistent or Chronic ITP, LUNA 3, Manuela Buxo, Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare, multi-immune modulation, nausea, orphan drug designation, persistent ITP, Phase 3 clinical trial, platelet counts, platelet response, quality of life, rare disease, rilzabrutinib, Sanofi, Sanofi Expands ITP Treatment Portfolio With Wayrilz Approval in Japan, Sanofi’s Wayrilz Receives Japan Approval for Persistent and Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenia, sickle cell disease, specialty care, warm autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, Wayrilz, Wayrilz Approved in Japan Following Positive Phase 3 LUNA 3 Results in Immune Thrombocytopenia
(IN BRIEF) Rabobank has established an Agentic Hub to support the broader and more responsible use of AI agents in software development. The Hub brings together knowledge, technical capabilities, practical experience and reusable tools to help more than 1,100 development … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Banks, Business, Financial, Management, Netherlands, Security & Safety, Technology
Tagged agentic AI, Agentic Hub, Agentic Hub Supports Rabobank Engineers as AI Changes Software Development Workflows, AI agents, AI strategy, artificial intelligence, code review, coding automation, compliance, Cybersecurity, developer productivity, digital transformation, engineering teams, Governance, Myrna Vonk, Netherlands, Operational Efficiency, quality assurance, Rabobank, Rabobank Develops Shared Approach to AI Agents for Coding, Rabobank Launches Agentic Hub to Scale Responsible AI Use Across Software Development Teams, Responsible AI, reusable building blocks, software delivery, software development, software engineering, software testing, technology adoption, Testing and Software Review, transformation lead
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