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() shares jumped to 19-year highs on Wednesday after the real-time technologies company hiked its full-year revenue and earnings expectations.

() said its investee company, Guild Esports PLC, has announced its global launch and an association with David Beckham as it looks to develop a talent pipeline in the UK. Beckham and Blue Star have both taken part in a £25mln fundraising by Guild.

() has signed a research evaluation agreement with an unnamed “major biotechnology company” with the pair set to collaborate on a technology that can deliver gene-silencing therapeutics.

(), the security and managed services specialist, has started a new project to introduce specialist ‘unattended retail’ vending machines that will dispense masks and facial coverings in the UK.

() said it has secured renewals for a number of client contracts with extended durations that it says will underpin its current annual recurring revenue (ARR) expectations in future periods.

subsidiary CoM3D has completed a £1mln funding round to continue developing nanomaterial technology at the University of Texas at Austin.

() (OTCQB:WRHLF) has appointed international hemp and cannabidiol (CBD) executive Ross Westbrook as an advisor for North American growth and operations.

() has been granted two important patents for its technology in the USA. The AIM-quoted company focused on sustainable biopesticides, said it has secured patents for its Sustaine encapsulation technology and compositions for insecticide products from the US Patent Office.

() has hailed “major progress” in its latest results as it targeted regulatory submission for its Parsortix system to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the third quarter of 2020.

() said it expects to deliver “modest growth” in both in revenues and profitability in the first half of its financial year.

() has supplied Gipave, the company’s proprietary asphalt super-modifier containing graphene nanoplatelets, for use in a road trial in Dartford, Kent that started this month

() chairman Matthew King said the company is making “excellent progress” towards securing a long-term offtake for its spodumene concentrate.

() told investors it is in a strong position as the current environment presents challenges and also opportunities.

() said it has repaid the outstanding A$1.8mln loan from former partner New Age Exploration (NAE) on its Redmoor tin and tungsten project in Cornwall.

Tim Livesey, chief executive of (), said he was “delighted” to see the advancement of exploration at the Pandora and Hesdaba prospects in Djibouti.

() has extended the deadline before closing its takeover offer for Alaska exploration peer XCD Energy, to 7pm (Sydney time) on July 13 2020.

() confirmed that it has raised another £109,800 in a subscription on top of the £1.49mln placing completed earlier in the week.

() confirmed that 56.4% of shares available to existing shareholders had been taken up in the…