On Monday, in a statement Roche said, it has entered into a $1.15 billion licensing deal with Sarepta Therapeutics to obtain the right to launch and commercialize Sarepta’s investigational gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) outside the United States. Roche will be making an upfront payment of $750 million in cash and $400 million…
Holiday gifts could get delivered by drones to homes next year. The race for development of commercial drone delivery systems and to make it a reality is hotting up with biggest players in logistics and packages in the world trying to outdo each other in this area. And “UPS and Alphabet have the early lead”…
The proposal of acquiring the United Kingdom based defence and aerospace company Cobham by a private equity firm of the United States has been approved by the UK government. The £4bn offer to buy Cobham announced by Advent International in July had been held up as the UK government wanted to review the deal because…
Following an influential parliamentary committee calling on Rome to block China’s Huawei to build Italy’s 5G telecom infrastructure, the country’s industry minister stated, Huawei should be allowed to bid for Italy’s 5G spectrum. “We have passed legislation that guarantees national security. With the right defenses, the possibility of (Huawei’s) access is not up for debate,”…
Funds worth more than $1 billion have been raised so far this year for its wind and solar business by the Indian startup ReNew Power. In addition to that being a sign of investor confidence in ReNew, one of India’s best performing unicorns, it is also being seen as a sign of the shifting of…
The top court of Europe has ruled that there is no need to for obtaining an estate agent’s license to operate in France for the accommodation booking service app Airbnb. The court gave this ruling in reference to a case filed against Airbnb by the French tourism association alleging that the company did not have…
France’s competition watchdog has levied a fine of $167 million on Google citing Google’s non-transparent advertising rules and the fact that it changes them at will. Google is facing a growing number of investigations into its advertisement business practices, on both sides of the Atlantic. The ruling is the first penalty by the French authorities…
Following a ruling by a judge that Uber’s ride hailing services in Colombia is in violation of competition rules, Colombia has ordered Uber to cease its ride-hailing operations in the country. The court order came in the wake of a lawsuit filed by COTECH SA against against Uber alleging that the U.S. company had the…
In a significant development that bodes well for the environment, Estonians who have typically gone to the forest to down cut trees in the thousands to celebrate Christmas, can now do so with a smartphone app. The state forestry company of Estonia, has launched a mobile application which allows people to search for their trees…
In a development that marks Amazon’s growing in-house delivery business, the world’s largest online retailer stated, it was on track to deliver 3.5 billion customer packages globally this year. Amazon’s growing network of delivery trucks, planes, and vans, is considered as potentially a long-term threat to United Parcel Service Inc and FedEx Corp. FedEx has…
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