Shares in theme Park ticketing specialist accesso (LON:ACSO) soared as the tech group predicted improving earnings for the next two and a half year as the benefits of new contracts come through.
In a separate announcement, it revealed an exclusive long term agreement with attractions giant Merlin Entertainments (LON:MERL) to provide onsite ticketing and eCommerce across its global estate.
Elsewhere in the tech sector, APC Technology (LON:APC) has acquired energy efficiency specialist EEVS Insight to beef up its sustainable power services.
Energy efficiency companies need to have recommendations approved by the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP), which EEVS provides.
Pharmaceutical sector-focused IT firm Instem (LON:INS) expects trading for the year to December 31 to be in line with market expectations.
"The encouraging market dynamics for the pre-clinical and clinical industries, which helped to generate a record order book as we entered 2015, began to be converted into positive financial results in the first six months of the financial year and this performance has continued post the period end," it said.
Talking of healthcare, Tissue Regenix (LON:TRX) has increased Medicare coverage for skin graft product DermaPure to almost two-thirds of the US with First Coast Service Options' approval for the product.
First Coast’s jurisdiction includes Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and increases the number of potential patients for DermaPure by 2.5mln.
Silence Therapeutics’ (LON:SLN) chief executive Ali Mortazavi has taken a temporary leave of absence due to an acute illness in his family, the company said.
Non-executive chairman, Alastair Riddell, will take on the role of executive chairman on an interim basis, until Mortazavi's return.
In other board room news, Tern (LON:TERN) announced that executive director Michael Clark has left the company with immediate effect.
"The directors thank him for his valued contribution and wish him well" the company said.
Institutional shareholders snapped up 3.5mln shares in fastjet (LON:FJET) after HEXAM Capital Partners sold the shares.
Hexam, which is 52% owned by fastjet non-executive director Bryan Collings through Coppin Collings, brought its stake in the company down from 16% to 11%.
British engineering group Hayward Tyler (LON:HAYT) told investors its expansion of a centre of excellence in Luton is on-track and on-budget.
When it comes online in a year’s time the expanded facility will double capacity and reduce lead times for the delivery of orders.
Recent work, funded by a loan note funding, has seen the demolition of eight redundant buildings and construction has begun on test bays.
Wolf Minerals (LON:WLFE) is on track to deliver first production to customers in September 2015, the tungsten miner said, as it updated on progress in the June quarter at its Drakelands open pit mine in Devon.
Russell Clark, the managing director, said today: "Commissioning of the processing plant is continuing and the flow sheet is working as envisaged. We are now working with GR Engineering towards the "Performance Test" in August, ahead of the plant being handed across to Wolf."
Sirius Minerals (LON:SXX) posted a pre-tax loss of £10.068mln in the year to the end of March, compared to a loss of £10.129mln in 2014.
The group ended the year with cash and equivalents of £26.6 million, reduced from £48.4 million in 2014.
Nostra Terra (LON:NTOG) told investors that the first producing wells at the Don Pedro and San Miguel prospects have now come online.
Actual rates were not disclosed for the projects, which are only 1% owned by the AIM quoted group, though chief executive Matt Lofgran declared himself ‘encouraged’.