Mobile gaming software group Nektan PLC (LON:NKTN) has partnered with Metric Gaming to enter the US sports betting market. Last week the US Supreme Court lifted a federal ban on sports betting and numerous US states are expected to pass legislation to enable gambling across a whole range of events.
i3 Energy PLC (LON:I3E) has landed an important acreage package in the vicinity of the group’s flagship Liberator field in the North Sea. The acreage was awarded by the UK authorities via the 30th Offshore Licensing Round.
Amphion Innovations Plc (LON:AMP) has sold a 4.3% stake in drug discoverer Motif Bio Plc (LON:MTFB) to pay down some of its debt.
Scancell Holdings Plc (LON:SCLP) said the European Patent Office has granted a patent for the company's Moditope immunotherapy platform, which comes into effect from June 13. This provides what's described as "broad protection" for the company's pipeline of Moditope-derived vaccines.
A revaluation of its stake in SkinBiotherapeutics following the skincare subsidiary's flotation in April catapulted OptiBiotix PLC's (LON:OPTI) into the black last year.
Medical imaging services specialist IXICO Plc (LON:IXI) delivered yet another six months of double-digit revenue growth in the first half of its fiscal year, driven by a string of new contract wins. IXICO’s technology platform manages and helps interpret images from MRI and positron emission tomography as well as collating and making sense of biosensor data.
TyraTech Inc (LON:TYR) has seen strong growth in sales of its poultry mite dust and its equine fly repellent, it said, as it announced a narrowing of losses in 2017.
Specialist bank PCF Group Plc (LON:PCF) said its new blanking platform has delivered increased profitability, with the prospect of more to come as the lending portfolio grows.
The US regulator, FINRA, has approved Newbridge's request for a change of ownership, allowing European Wealth Group Limited (LON:EWG) to move to the final stages of its commercial due diligence on its acquisition.
Galantas Gold Corporation (LON:GAL, CVE:GAL) chief executive Roland Phelps highlighted continuing improvements at the Omagh mine as underground development advances. The company, in a quarterly results statement, said it expects the underground gold mine will restart producing concentrate from development ore in the early part of the third quarter.
Cabot Energy PLC (LON:CAB) has deferred further drilling at its Rainbow prospect in Canada while it upgrades the infrastructure at the site and analyses the latest sidetrack well data. Four sidetracks drilled earlier this year produced 350 barrels per day (bopd) on average on test.
AfriTin Mining Ltd (LON:ATM) has said it will conduct a share placing to raise funds for an accelerated work programme at its Uis Tin Mine in Namibia.
Arc Minerals Limited (LON:ARCM) said it has been notified that its executive chairman, Nick von Schirnding, yesterday purchased 472,900 shares in the company at a price of 3.10p each. Following this transaction, the firm added, von Schirnding holds a beneficial interest in 8,103,975 ordinary shares representing approximately 1.50% of the company's issued share capital.
Alan Broome, the chairman of Strategic Minerals Plc (LON:SML) called 2017 “a stellar year” as the group's profit before tax ballooned to US$2.23mln. The company, which is actively developing projects prospective for battery materials, said the profit in 2017 was directly related to the substantial turnaround the company's subsidiary, Southern Minerals Group (SMG), achieved in 2017.
Eurasia Mining plc (LON:EUA) has highlighted that the West Kytlim platinum mine is now fully operational. The company, in a stock market statement, said that the project’s washplant achieved design capacity, of 130 cubic metres per hour over a minimum 18 hour operational day.
ClearStar, Inc. (LON:CLSU), the technology and service provider to the background screening industry, announced that its new marketing campaign, "We Work", has earned two Gold Hermes Creative Awards in the category "Electronic/Social/Interactive Media" for its lead video and newly-rebranded website.
Kore Potash PLC (LON:KP2) the potash development company whose flagship asset is the 97%-owned Sintoukola Potash Project, has announced the appointment of José Antonio Merino as a non-executive directo nominated by Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile SA with immediate effect. It said Antonio replaces Pablo Altimiras, whose resignation was announced on 26 April 2018.
Alba Mineral Resources Plc (LON:ALBA) told investors that it wants to extend its licence for the Limerick base metal project in the Republic of Ireland. The company, which holds 100% of the project via Aurum Mineral Resources, said that a review of the exploration results has identified up to five drill targets for a future work programme planned for the summer.