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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020: Black holes and the Milky Way's darkest secret

Three Laureates share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole. Roger Penrose showed that the general theory of relativity leads to the formation of black holes. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez discovered that an invisible and extremely heavy object governs the orbits of stars at the centre of our galaxy. A supermassive black hole is the only currently known explanation.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 to Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, UK,

Stayble initiates clinical phase 2b study in Spain

Stayble Therapeutics today announced that the Company has initiated the first clinic in Spain for its clinical phase 2b study with the drug candidate STA363. Patient recruitment will commence immediately. The Company has now initiated clinics in all the three countries where it plans to conduct the study: the Netherlands, Russia and Spain. STA363 is intended for patients suffering from chronic disc-related low back pain.CEO Andreas Gerward comments: COVID-19, and hence the access to healthcare services, has posed a challenge to us in our effort to initiate clinics. The fact that we now have

Sustainable supply of raw material important to Dicot

Press release: Uppsala, October 6, 2020. Dicot AB, together with its partner in South Africa, Parceval Ltd, has initiated a partnership with the BioInnovation Africa (BIA) project of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to ensure the long-term supply of raw material for Dicot's drug candidate. The aim of the BioInnovation Africa project, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), is to promote sustainable and mutually beneficial business partnerships between Europe and Africa by ensuring high ethical, social and

STRAX: AirPop “Air Wearables” world-wide launch

STRAX & Aetheris entered into a strategic partnership and exclusive 5 year distribution agreement to accelerate the supply of AirPop high performance face masks across the world. We are thrilled to announce the simultaneous launch of Airpop products through our dedicated direct to consumer website and online, www.airpophealth.com, and marketplace platforms across the world. Since 2015 Airpop has been creating custom designed medical grade performance, air purifying face masks for the inhabitants of some of the most polluted cities in the World. AirPop’s innovative combination of raw

Penneo A/S acquires KYC software business activities from CLA Reply ApS to fuel Penneo’s international expansion

Company Announcement No. 8-2020Copenhagen, October 06, 2020 Today, Penneo A/S (Penneo) entered into an agreement with CLA Reply ApS (CLA Reply) to acquire the company’s Know-Your-Customer (KYC) software activities. CLA Reply is a Danish SaaS company offering verticalized software for the audit and accounting industry. The acquisition is expected to strengthen the international roll out of Penneo’s end-to-end platform. “CLA Reply offers an innovative market-leading KYC software for audit and accounting firms. The KYC software has strong global potential that taps into the increasing

Metsä Board’s professional magazine wins an Ozzie in Folio Awards

Metsä Board Corporation press release 06.10.2020Metsä Board, a leading European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards and part of Metsä Group, has recently won a prestigious Ozzie Award for its stakeholder communications magazine spring 2020 issue. The award was given for design excellence in the category of cover design 2020, B2B, under 25,000 circulation. Metsä Board’s customer magazine is produced by Hube Helsinki Oy.   Marjo Halonen, VP Communications from Metsä Board said: “Our goal is to inspire and inform our customers globally about the potential and innovations in fibre-

Vestas introduces low-wind variant suited for India’s wind market and expands its production footprint in the country

News release from Vestas Wind Systems A/SAarhus, 6 October 2020The global demand for sustainable energy solutions in low and ultra-low wind areas continues to grow as renewable technology improves in efficiency and cost. This trend is especially prominent in India, the world’s fourth largest wind energy market, where the energy demand is expected to double and the government intends to add around 100 GW wind power in the predominantly low-wind market by 2030.[1] While the new turbine is globally applicable, it initially targets low and ultra-low wind condition projects in India and

Saudi Arabia: C20 attendees must call on government to free jailed activists

In January 2020, over 220 Civil Society Organizations endorsed a statement  issued by Amnesty International, CIVICUS and Transparency International announcing that they will not be participating in the sham Civil20 process hosted by Saudi Arabia, due to the Kingdom’s horrific human rights record. Ahead of the Civil20 Summit on 6-10 October, we address this letter to all the NGOs and CSOs attending the Summit.We are writing this open letter to raise our serious concerns relating to the

Finnair flies to 51 destinations in Europe and Asia in the winter, increases destinations for summer 2021

Finnair has trimmed its flight schedule for the winter season in line with customer demand, while planning to boost frequencies during spring 2021.  The update comes as the airline responds to a temporary softening of demand in the market due to widespread travel restrictions.  From 25 October, 2020 to 31 March 2021, Finnair will serve 45 domestic and European destinations with reduced weekly frequencies on almost all routes.   Finnair’s long-haul flights will focus on Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nanjing and Bangkok, which are also important cargo destinations. On the

Visma broadens its offering in cloud-based welfare ERP for the health and social care sectors with the acquisition of DomaCare in Finland

Visma’s acquisition of Invian Oy, and their key product DomaCare, will allow health and social care sector professionals to streamline customer processes, quality of care and financial management tasks. “DomaCare simplifies and integrates processes for over 100 private health and social care sector customers with one of the sector's preferred ERP systems and a broad understanding of their processes. Their solutions fit very well with Visma's product portfolio for automating the care and social sectors,” says Ari-Pekka Salovaara, Segment Director of Visma Software Nordics. Invian Oy’s

Clean water - an environmental issue on the rise

Axolot Solutions - Commercial updateWith its concept for industrial water purification, Axolot Solutions is acting not only on the technical and commercial arena. The issue of access to sufficient quantities of clean water also has a very clear political dimension. In fact, water is a common denominator for all the 17 global goals for a sustainable development, which the United Nations’ General Assembly has adopted, with a vision towards 2030. Bearing that in mind, it is rather surprising how little of the public debate that really relates to water, as is also the lack of sufficient efforts

BAMLET treatment of colon cancer in an animal model

BAMLET (bovine α-lactalbumin made lethal to tumour cells) is a molecular complex formed by bovine α-lactalbumin and oleic acid. New studies now reveal potent therapeutic effects of BAMLET in an animal model of colon cancer.BAMLET administration into the stomach or in the drinking water markedly reduced colon cancer development in susceptible mice. The effect was quantified as a reduction in tumor number and tumor size after 2 weeks. Long-term effects were also found in mice that had been treated for 27 weeks, which survived longer than untreated controls, where the disease developed faster.

Invitation to a presentation of the Momentum Group’s Interim Report for the second quarter 2020

Momentum Group will publish its Interim Report for the second quarter of the financial year 2020* on Friday, 23 October 2020 at 08:00 a.m. CEST. In conjunction with this, Momentum Group are pleased to issue this invitation to a webcast conference call in which CEO & President Ulf Lilius, CFO Niklas Enmark and Business Area Manager Clein Johansson Ullenvik will present the report and current status for the integration of Swedol in the Group and answer any subsequent questions. The conference call and presentation are available on the web or by telephone in accordance with the details

DOCOMO Digital appoints Jonathan Bennett as SVP to grow its payments’ portfolio with global fintech partnerships

6 October, LondonNTT DOCOMO’s international payments’ business, DOCOMO Digital, has announced the appointment of Jonathan Bennett as its new Senior Vice President, responsible for all commercial activities globally to lead the company’s ambitions to scale its payments-as-a-managed-services-platform offering for digital merchants and mobile carriers. Mr. Bennett will be a part of the executive team, reporting to the CEO. Jonathan joins DOCOMO Digital from Cashflows, a European fintech, where he served as the Chief Commercial Officer. He brings deep expertise in scaling payments’

Lifco publishes its interim report for January-September on 22 October

Lifco  publishes its report for the period January-September on Thursday 22 October at 7.30 a.m. CEST. On the same day at 9.00 a.m. CEST you are invited to a conference call with Per Waldemarson, CEO and Therése Hoffman, CFO. Investors, analysts and media are welcome to take part in the conference call at 9.00 a.m. CEST on 22 October. Link to presentation: https://tv.streamfabriken.com/lifco-q3-2020  Call-in numbers: Sverige +46 8 505 583 52UK +44 3333 00 90 32US +1 833 823 05 90 The presentation is

Notification of managers’ and closely related parties’ transactions with Dampskibsselskabet NORDEN A/S’ shares in connection with share buy-back program

ANNOUNCEMENT NO. 64 - 6 OCTOBER 2020 In connection with the announced share buy-back program in Dampskibsselskabet NORDEN A/S, Motortramp A/S continuously sells shares pro rata and the market is to be informed accordingly – see the attached file. Kind regards, Dampskibsselskabet NORDEN A/S Martin Badsted CFO For further information: Martin Badsted, CFO, tel.: +45 3315 0451Anne-Louise Dam-Rasmussen, Head of Communications, tel.: +45 3273 0624

Exercise of subscription warrants in Swedish Stirling

In total, 35 subscription warrants have been exercised to subscribe for 350,000 new shares in Swedish Stirling AB (publ), whereby Swedish Stirling has received approximately SEK 800,000.In accordance with the company’s warrant program, resolved by the extraordinary general meeting held on 10 October 2014, a total of 35 subscription warrants have been exercised to subscribe for 350,000 new shares in Swedish Stirling (the “Exercise”). Through the Exercise, Swedish Stirling has received approximately SEK 800,000. Each subscription warrant in the warrant program entitles the holder to

The Nomination Committee for Concentric’s Annual General Meeting 2021

The members of the Nomination Committee for the Concentric Annual General Meeting 2021 have been appointed.The AGM has resolved that Concentric’s Nomination Committee shall have five members which consist of the Chairman of the Board and one representative of each of the four largest shareholders. The members of the Nomination Committee have been appointed based on the ownership structure as of 31 August 2020. The members are: Göran Espelund, Lannebo Fonder, Chairman of the Nomination Committee, e-mail: goran.espelund@lannebofonder.se Erik Durhan, Nordea Fonder, e-mail: erik.durhan@

Speqta extends its exclusivity agreements with leading Nordic media house Aller Media

Speqta ("SPEQT") has, through its service Affilijet, extended its cooperation agreement with the leading Nordic media house Aller Media, by also taking responsibility for the comparison service within credit cards, on Dagbladet.no. Speqta AB (plc) (“SPEQT”) has, as of today and through its service Affilijet, entered into an agreement to expand the collaboration with Aller Media. Since May 2020, Speqta has been the sole provider of services regarding discount codes for the media house Dagbladet.no - one of Norway's largest News Sites, with more than 1,5 million unique readers daily.

Componenta Corporation: Notification under Chapter 9 Section 10 of the Finnish Securities Market Act

Componenta Corporation Stock Exchange Release on 6 October 2020 at 10:10 Componenta Corporation has on 5 October 2020 received the following notification pursuant to Chapter 9, section 5 of the Securities Markets Act according to which the holding of CapMan Buyout VIII Fund A L.P. in Componenta Corporation shares and voting rights has decreased below 5% on 5 October 2020.  The crossing below the notification limit is related to the change in major shareholders of Componenta Corporation, as published on 5 October 2020. In connection with this change, it was published that CapMan

Componenta Corporation: Notification under Chapter 9 Section 10 of the Finnish Securities Market Act

Componenta Corporation Stock Exchange Release on 6 October 2020 at 10:10 Componenta Corporation has on 5 October 2020 received the following notification pursuant to Chapter 9, section 5 of the Securities Markets Act. According to the notification, ownership of Joensuun Kauppa ja Kone Oy controlled by Kyösti Kakkonen to shares and voting rights in Componenta Corporation has exceeded 10% on 5 October 2020.  The crossing above the notification limit is related to the change in major shareholders of Componenta Corporation, as published on 5 October 2020. In connection with this change,

Scandion Oncology receives approximately MSEK 12.3 through successful warrant exercise

On Thursday, October 1, 2020, the exercise period for Scandion Oncology A/S (“Scandion Oncology” or “the Company”) warrants of series TO 1 (“TO 1”) ended. A total of 2,371,455 TO 1 were exercised, corresponding to a subscription rate of approximately 99.6 percent of TO 1. Scandion Oncology is thus provided with a total of approximately MSEK 12.3 before issue costs. With this, the Company has secured capital for the continued clinical development ofSCO-101.CEO Bo Rode Hansen comments: ”I would like to thank everyone who has shown interest and confidence in our business with the exercise

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