FARMINGTON, CT and PLEASANTON, CA — Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) (“Horizon”), a leading specialty finance company that provides secured loans to venture capital and private equity backed development-stage companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and cleantech industries, today announced it led a $10 million venture loan for IntegenX Inc.(“IntegenX”), […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it will redeem $500 million of $600 million outstanding 6.50 percent senior notes due November 2017 on Oct. 20, 2014, the redemption date. This decision is consistent with Agilent’s intention to resize its debt portfolio in connection with the expected spinoff of Keysight Technologies. […]

Jena (Germany)-– The Supervisory Board of Analytik Jena AG today approved the resolution of the Executive Board to submit an application to the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to revoke the admission of its shares to the regulated market, including their current listing in the Prime Standard segment. The present listing of the shares for over-the-counter trading […]

Woburn, MA — SeqLL Inc., the owner of the True Single Molecule Sequencing (tSMS™) technology, announced today the closing of a $1M Series-A funding round. This round of investment, led by Genomic Diagnostic Technologies, will increase the power of tSMS™ technology for scientific and diagnostic applications. Founded in March 2013 by Daniel Jones, a former […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced today that its board of directors has approved the separation of its electronic measurement subsidiary, Keysight Technologies Inc., and declared a special dividend distribution of all outstanding shares of Keysight’s common stock to Agilent’s shareholders. For every two shares of Agilent common stock held, Agilent shareholders […]

MADISON, Wisconsin –– DNASTAR® announced that it received a Phase II SBIR grant award from the National Institutes of Health entitled, “Structural bioinformatics software for epitope selection and antibody engineering”. This is the second phase of a project for which the first phase concluded in 2013, resulting in the creation of a new epitope prediction […]

LANCASTER, Calif.– Simulations Plus, Inc. (SLP), a leading provider of consulting services and software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today announced that it has been notified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that the company has been awarded a $200,000 cooperative agreement to develop improved modeling and simulation capabilities for dosage forms designed […]

RYE BROOK, N.Y. — Xylem Inc. (NYSE: XYL), a leading global water technology company dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues, announced today that it has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index for the third consecutive year in recognition of its ongoing sustainability initiatives. Xylem is one of 140 […]

TORONTO — Tornado Spectral Systems Inc., an emerging tech company developing radically superior tools for measuring the chemical composition and structure of materials in real-time for a variety of demanding industrial processes, announced additional funding led by venture capital firms BeauVest and Roadmap Capital. The new investments will be used to finance Tornado’s continued growth […]

THOUSAND OAKS, California — Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) today announced that it has entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement with a financial institution to repurchase 1,030,000 shares of Teledyne’s common stock, pursuant to the company’s previously announced share repurchase program. The estimated value of the accelerated repurchase transaction is approximately $100 million. Under Teledyne’s […]