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To improve cooling of electronic modules for commercial, military applications Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has licensed its air-flow-through (AFT) cooling technology, used to improve the cooling of high-power electronics, to GE Intelligent Platforms (NYSE:GE). AFT technology improves the air cooling of advanced electronic modules by incorporating a novel heat exchanger design that...

Industry’s First ETF for European Small Cap Equity Exposure Without the Euro WisdomTree (Nasdaq:WETF), an exchange-traded fund and exchange-traded product sponsor and asset manager, today announced the launch of the WisdomTree Europe Hedged SmallCap Equity Fund (EUSC) on the NYSE Arca. EUSC seeks to provide exposure to small capitalization stocks within European equity markets while...

The Henriksdal Wastewater Treatment Plant Will Become the World’s Largest MBR Facility GE (NYSE:GE) today announced it will provide Stockholm Vatten with membrane bioreactor (MBR) equipment for the Henriksdal municipal wastewater treatment facility to upgrade the existing technology, making it the largest MBR plant in the world. The Henriksdal facility is responsible for treating two...

The share price of Barclays (LSE:BARC) fell 3.22% on the LSE today, closing at 254.30, dragging the nearly record-setting FTSE 100 index from its lofty heights of 02 March back to 6,889.13. The decline today was clearly attributable to two things: the release of the bank’s final results for the year ended 31 December 2014 […]

Leading Mobile Platform Provider to Expand Product and Market Footprint and Continue to Transform Enterprise Mobile App Development CloudMine, the industry’s most secure cloud mobile platform, has announced that it raised a $5 million Series A financing round, led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE:SFE) with participation by MentorTech Ventures, DreamIt Ventures, DeSimone Group Investments...

The share price of Glencore (LSE:GLEN) dropped by 3.11% in trading today, closing at 291.20. Since Glencore acquired Xstrata in May 2013 the impact of picking up the coal mining assets has combined with the broader world economic conditions to weigh on the company’s FY 2014 results. Taking the good with the bad On the […]

Waht are the details? Wintrust Financial Corporation (Nasdaq:WTFC) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Community Financial Shares, Inc. CFIS is the parent company of Community Bank-Wheaton/Glen Ellyn, an Illinois-state chartered bank, which operates four banking locations in Wheaton and Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Since its formation in 1994, CBWGE has an exemplary...

Indeed they are. SunOpta Inc. (Nasdaq:STKL) (TSX:SOY), a global company focused on organic and healthy foods today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Citrusource, LLC.. The acquisition transaction closed contemporaneously with the execution of the definitive agreement. Citrusource is a leading supplier of premium not-from-concentrate private label organic and...

Net loss was $24.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2014 and $135.6 million for the year KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:KYTH) today reported financial results for its quarter and year ended December 31, 2014. “Last year KYTHERA achieved many milestones and this year we continue our upward momentum. Most notably, we filed our New Drug […]

Lately the U.S. and UK markets have been getting excitinger and excitinger. I know that’s bad grammar, but I just can’t help it. It’s exciting! We’ve been watching the FTSE 100 as we promised. (Obviously we would do that anyway.) But we can’t ignore the NASDAQ and the Russell 2000, both of which are reaching […]