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Oxford Nanopore, DOAC, THG, ASOS: Week's best-read stories GoCardless sold to rival Mollie in €1.1bn deal British Design Fund secures £5m from British Business Bank Arsenal FC agrees major multi-year Deel Married founders to score strike with Conveyd Listed data firm 1Spatial to be taken private in £87m deal CapRelease secures £27m just eight months after pre-seed round BusinessBite: Card Factory shares plunge after profit warning Panache Cruises sails away with £2.75m refinance deal Manchester trio launch AI platform for conquering global markets Heathrow appoints ex-BT CEO Philip Jansen as chair RWS chair steps down as annual profit cut by almost half EdTech RM plc posts huge profit increase NCC swings from big loss to huge profit despite falling revenues California firm Azul swoops for Worcestershire-based Payara Sir Nick Clegg joins HIRO Capital: 'We are now living in the internet' Morpheus Lending announces £110m funding line BusinessBite: Games consortium snaps up Bulkhead from Tencent Who is Priya Dogra? Sky exec named new Channel 4 CEO Scissero snaps up troubled LegalTech Robin AI Figure behind $285m exit leaves retirement to found startup NatWest joins £3.5m funding round into UK FinTech Nu Quantum raises £45m to scale quantum computers The dos and don'ts of your first private equity meeting Made Tech way ahead of expectations as revenue flies Netcall plc agrees £19.2m deal for Jadu Bartlett’s DOAC podcast launches fact-checking service BusinessBite: Ocado up 17%... which FTSE tech firms won and lost today? Moulding increases stake in THG to 25% FinTech founder named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 'Women backing Women' fund targets £130m first close North East's TechNExt Festival to return in June 2026 Steven Bartlett's FlightStory invests 7 figures in Hot Smart Rich Venture Life sells two brands to Covestus in £4.5m deal 'PXN Ventures merger marks new era for North - we can rival US' PE-backed Polaris snaps up American customer BusinessBite: Winners and losers on the FTSE 100 & 250 today British Business Bank in record £75m fund commitment Multi-million-pound takeover at Welsh EdTech Learna After Deliveroo's 20-minute revolution, what's next for hospitality? ASOS revenues down but losses narrow during 'recovery period' AIM-listed firm embroiled in legal battle bullish ahead of results Revealing UK’s RegTech 50 for 2025 FinTech Greengage & Co to float on Aquis Exchange New CEO of £1.2bn Oxford Nanopore revealed Leadership changes at listed firm eyeing Versarien rescue BusinessBite: Cristiano Ronaldo makes AI investment Zally, Sokin, Ten Percent Club, Aspire: The week's best-read stories PE-backed Causeway makes European acquisition Stop Firing Humans: AI campaign counters Artisan’s viral ‘anti-human’ message Dragons’ Den beauty tech firm raises extra £9.5m UK among first countries to recognise crypto as personal property Tech group Halma seals £230m swoop BusinessBite: 'The Great London Lie' - Built in Notts launches amid claims city is underfunded GM-based Squosh to scale with Green Economy support Sedulo Group celebrates record year with £25m revenues KKR completes £4.7bn acquisition of Spectris Liverpool to be ‘transformed’ as Mayor reveals regeneration plan Engineering group in talks with Versarien administrators Zally CEO’s ‘regret’ over 11 previous business failures Revenue up, profits down as Frasers slams Government Future plc replaces chair as annual profits drop BusinessBite: ICO action on cookies 'boosts personal info control for millions' FTSE 100 firm Smiths Group to sell Detection arm for £2bn Revolut & LSEG become latest to turn to OpenAI FTSE 250 firm Zigup sees share price fly on positive results BGF backs Citrus-Lime with multi-million-pound investment Currensea appoints former Amex & Wise executive as COO Outra, a data firm used by Sky & Zoopla, names new CEO BGF exits tech-enabled fairground firm Fairgame Travel Counsellors expands into North America with Canadian deal LDC leads major funding deal for Gateshead’s Aspire NVM & eComplete back £31m MBO of fragrance business 8 startups funded by PXN’s PraeSeed programme BusinessBite: Spire Healthcare plummets on profit warning FTSE 100 & 250 video report - Auto Trader & Rightmove suffer S&W snaps up Fredward to bolster consulting practice Former IBM CFO among strategic hires at IRIS Major RegTech deal sees ID-Pal swoop for NorthRow Record year at Manchester’s On the Beach Avis Budget to close Zipcar UK operations Warhammer strikes - FTSE 100 & 250: November in review ‘Sanguine about Budget’: Trio of listed investors publish results Finity partners with Hydr as it explores new category BusinessBite: FTSE 100 banks leap after successful stress tests £38m deal for Manchester United partner backed by Rio Ferdinand Reports: Steven Bartlett to launch tech news website Why student entrepreneurship is the best education you will ever receive BusinessCloud's record-breaking year continues Newcastle's BSF Enterprise raises £15m for lab-grown leather Stricken Versarien to appoint administrators Virgin Media fined £23.8m for putting vulnerable customers at risk Listed Leeds spinout in danger of insolvency gets emergency funds BusinessBite: Plus500 biggest climber on FTSE 100 Alvarez & Marsal launch new Public Company Advisory team Microlise, boohoo, Innovate UK, Budget: The week's best-read stories TCS to power Aldi’s cloud & AI transformation Whitespace secures £10m to scale UK-built sovereign AI Eddie Hearn's Matchroom signs deal with Ten Percent Club Founder ponders bid for essensys plc as it issues profit warning Amazing AI's shares suspended from AQSE amid Winnfrith saga Microlise share price crashes after global sales hit BusinessBite: FTSE 100 & 250 remain steady as Raspberry Pi falls JPMorganChase reveals potential £10bn boost for UK economy SportTech servicing HYROX craze sees users double in six months IDHL continues acquisition charge with Vervaunt swoop Yorkshire's Intelligent Servers acquired by Danish IT firm Sky Bet & Paddy Power owner 'very disappointed' by UK Budget boohoo cuts losses but revenue drops amid pivot Revolution Beauty losses almost doubled before founders' return FE fundinfo acquires five-year-old startup from Equisoft What did Rachel Reeves' Budget mean for business & tech? FTSE firm 'in wind-down mode' sees shares dip upon Arqiva news The Northcoders consultancy brand 'changing how tech gets done' UKG swoops for UK startup again with Mo acquisition THG Studios launches corporate away day packages FSP brings headcount to over 450 with acquisition of data & AI firm Pets at Home profit drops as retail revenue takes huge hit Goodwill impairment charge sees ATG swing to $134.2m loss Leadership shakeup at Judges Scientific as founder takes chair role Versarien sale collapses as administration looms Germany World Cup hero joins ElevenLabs exec’s VC fund What did 2025 Autumn Budget mean for UK business & tech? Former Lloyds CEO appointed by Tunstall Healthcare Leeds smart tech firm raises £3m to replace dashboard controls Tom Winnifrith v Amazing AI plc: Bizarre dispute heads towards legal action FinTech PLC eyes US listing after $200m funding line agreed Revenues & profits up at AO World despite ‘headwinds’ BusinessBite live: Profits plunge at identity specialist GBG Revolut share sale values FinTech at huge $75bn Revealing the 2025 FinTech 50 - true finance trailblazers from across the UK Ogury replaces CEO with WPP executive 'Innovate UK scheme is an insolvency accelerator' - Wootzano founder M+C Saatchi cuts 2025 outlook amid US & Australia woes S4 Capital issues stock market warning as revenues fall Microlise Group to cut workforce as global sales hit BusinessBite live: Frasers, HubBox, Truespeed, FTSE risers Curve, Zuto, THG, Sage: The week's best-read stories Multi-year Arsenal deal for Zilch Circle of Trust unveils new platforms & advisory team British Business Bank reveals first partners for £200m fund Monzo founder appointed by Government ahead of Budget PolyModels Hub raises £7m to transform drug development Vyntelligence secures £23m PE injection to fuel US expansion Lindsey Burrow caps glorious night at 2025 Northern Leaders Hg agrees $2.3bn sale of Intelerad to GE HealthCare techUK calls for bolder action to unlock regional tech growth BusinessBite live: Focus Group acquires Chalkline