LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - An Australian computer scientist who claimed he invented bitcoin was on Friday accused of contempt of court after he filed a 911 million-pound ($1.18 billion) lawsuit against Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's payments firm Block in Britain. Craig Wright claimed to have been the author of the foundational text of bitcoin published under the pseudonym Satoshi...

08:44 AM EDT, 11/01/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Char Technologies ( CTRNF ) on Friday said it has closed its non-brokered private placement, raising $3.27 million to advance the Thorold Project in Ontario to biocarbon production The company issued 16.4 million units at $0.20 each. Each unit consists of one share and half a warrant. Each two-year warrant can buy an...

08:46 AM EDT, 11/01/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Sutro Biopharma ( STRO ) said Friday it has opened enrollment for its registration-directed study of the drug luveltamab tazevibulin in children with a certain type of acute myeloid leukemia. The trial is global and the majority of the sites are planned to be open by the end of the year, the company...

09:01 AM EDT, 11/01/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Abbott (ABT) and UK-based Reckitt's Mead Johnson were cleared by a jury Thursday of responsibility for a young boy's intestinal disease in a lawsuit over baby formulas for premature babies, according to multiple media reports. Lawyers for the plaintiff during the five-week trial in a Missouri state court urged jurors to award more...