08:20 AM EST, 01/24/2025 (MT Newswires) -- NextGen Digital Platforms (NXT.CN) said Friday that it appointed Mario Nawfal, a Web3 and blockchain industry veteran, as strategic advisor. Nawfal founded IBC Group, a venture capital and incubator platform in the crypto space. He also founded several innovative ventures in the consumers and healthcare spaces and he is the host of The...

(Reuters) - AT&T ( T ) said on Friday it has secured $850 million through the sale-leaseback of its underused central office facilities that house its legacy copper networks to real estate development firm Reign Capital. The U.S. telecom major is planning to exit a majority of its copper network operations by 2029 as customers shift to newer technologies such...

08:23 AM EST, 01/24/2025 (MT Newswires) -- NV5 Global ( NVEE ) said Friday it was awarded a $4 million contract from a New Zealand public service department to create 3D geospatial maps of roughly 20% of New Zealand's coastline. The company said the contract involves mapping 4,780 square kilometers of coastline and adjacent sea floor using topobathymetric lidar and...

Jan 24 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1320 GMT on Friday: ** Monte dei Paschi di Siena has launched a 13.3 billion euro ($14 billion) all-share buyout offer for merchant bank Mediobanca, just over seven years after Italy rescued the Tuscan bank to avert a wider crisis. ** The unit of Blackstone dedicated...