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Mastercard and R3 Partner to Develop New Cross Border Payments Platform

Mastercard partners with R3, a leading enterprise blockchain software provider, to develop a blockchain based solution for overseas payments

Arcadia Biosciences Enters into Collaboration with Arista Cereal Technologies and Bay State Milling Company

Arcadia Biosciences, Arista Cereal Technologies and Bay State Milling Company are partnering for commercialization of high fiber wheat

Cisco to Acquire Customer Experience Platform CloudCherry

IT & Networking major, Cisco has announced plans to acquire Customer Experience Management company, CloudCherry for an undisclosed amount

Salesforce to Takeover Israeli firm ClickSoftware

Salesforce announces signing definitive agreement for acquisition of ClickSoftware, to diversify beyond CRM software and become a leader in the field service software industry

Waymo LLC and DeepMind Technologies Enter into Collaboration

Waymo LLC is collaborating with DeepMind Technologies for enhancing the functionality of Self-Driving Cars

Spectrio Acquires LifeShare Technologies

Spectrio announces acquisition of living communication and engagement technology company, LifeShare Technologies

Volkswagen and Ford Motor Join Forces to Invest Around $7 Billion in Argo AI

As part of the Volkswagen-Ford alliance, Volkswagen will be investing $2.6 billion in technology platform company, Argo AI

IBM Becomes World’s no. 1 Hybrid Cloud Provider with Acquisition of Red Hat

IBM closes acquisition of Red Hat for $34 Billion to boost innovation by offering a next generation hybrid multi-cloud platform

Scomi Oiltools and Petronas Chemicals Enter into Collaboration

Petronas Chemicals Marketing (Labuan) and Scomi Oiltools are collaborating for research and development and marketing of chemical solutions

Waymo Goes Global by Signing Mobility Partnership with Renault and Nissan

Waymo announces partnership with Renault and Nissan to explore all aspects of driverless mobility services for transportation and deliveries in France and Japan

Salesforce to Acquire Big Data Firm Tableau for $ 15.7 Billion

Salesforce announces acquisition of Tableau, a leading global analytics company, to diversify beyond CRM software and dive deep into the layers of analytics.

Shell Begins Shipping LNG from $15B Prelude FLNG project in Australia

Shell announced on Tuesday that it has finally sent the first shipment of LNG from its Prelude floating production facility off the coast of Australia

Toys R Us Set to Reopen in Australia

Less than a year after going into liquidation, Toys R Us is set to reopen in Australia. Babies R Us and Toys R Us, both are owned by Tru Kids Inc, a US based company. Tru Kids Inc announced that it was entering into a licensing agreement with Hobby Warehouse, an Australian company. However, the bra

SSE Australia and XCharge to Set up Over 1000 EV Fast Chargers in Australia

China based electric vehicle (EV) charging solution provider, XCharge plans to set up over 1000 DC fast chargers in partnership with Southern Sustainable Electric Australia (SSE Australia)

DowDuPont's Agriculture Division to Become Corteva Agriscience™

Board of Directors of DowDuPont has given its approval for the previously announced separation of the company’s Agriculture Division, which will become Corteva Agriscience™ on June 1 2019. The board, to effect the separation of the division, has declared a pro rata dividend of all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Corteva, Inc.

Linde Divests Select Korean Assets to IMM for $1.2 Billion

Linde AG completed the sale of select assets of Linde Korea for $1.2 billion to IMM Private Equity

Mastercard to Invest $ 1 Billion In India in Next Five Years

Mastercard is planning to invest $ 1 billion in the coming five years focused at converting India into a vital node in the company’s infrastructure

BASF’s Light Stabilizer to Increase Crop Yield and Reduce Waste

BASF Announces Light Stabilizer for Greenhouse Films to Increase Crop Yields

Ferrero to Acquire Keebler and Famous Amos for $ 1.3 Billion

Kellogg’s, the American multinational food-manufacturing company, announced plans to divest its Keebler cookie brand as well as other brands, to Ferrero Group for $ 1.3 billion. Products included in the deal include Keebler, Mother’s, Famous Amos, Murray, fruit and fruit-flavored snacks, pie crusts

BASF to Expand Production Capacity for Biodiesel Production in Brazil

BASF announces the expansion of Biodiesel production capacity in Brazil