PARIS, Oct 24 (Reuters) - The European Space Agency unveiled measures on Thursday to speed up payments to the space industry in the face of mounting job cuts, while imposing greater scrutiny following a raft of cost overruns and delays. Director General Josef Aschbacher announced the plan after a council meeting of the 22-nation agency, a week after Airbus announced...

09:33 AM EDT, 10/24/2024 (MT Newswires) -- ZenaTech ( ZENA ) shares jumped in recent Thursday premarket trading after the software technology company said its ZenaDrone unit is acquiring a US patent for a design related to the second-generation design used in the ZenaDrone 1000 autonomous drone. ZenaTech ( ZENA ) said that the patent was purchased from ZenaTech's (...

09:57 AM EDT, 10/24/2024 (MT Newswires) -- GSK (GSK) reported Thursday that preliminary data from a phase 3 study of its respiratory syncytial virus vaccine Arexvy demonstrated its potential to help protect a larger group of adults at risk from getting RSV. The British pharmaceutical company said the trial, which involved patients between the ages of 18 and 49, could...

Eni S.p.A. and KKR & Co. Inc. ( KKR ) shares are trading higher on Thursday. KKR agreed to acquire a 25% stake in Enilive for €2.938 billion ($3.172 billion). The transaction includes a €500 million ($540 million) capital increase reserved for KKR and the purchase of €2.438 billion ($2.633 billion) in Enilive shares from Eni. The transaction price values Enilive's total...