[ad_1] ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LENSAR, Inc. (Nasdaq: LNSR) (LENSAR or the Company) today announced that a majority of the independent members of LENSAR’s board of directors granted three newly-hired non-executive employees stock options to purchase an aggregate of 1,650 shares of the Company’s common stock. The options were granted as of January 2, 2025, as inducements material to each employee entering into employment with the Company. The options were granted in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4). The options have an exercise price of $8.69 per share, which is equal to the closing price of…
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[ad_1] Sony Ventures takes a look at the trends in climate tech — large language models, biomaterials and … [+] energy demand will drive corporate investment.getty According to the 2024 Carbon & Emissions Tech Report from PitchBook, climate tech deals grew 37.9% in Q1. The May 2024 report says infrastructure, industry and renewable battery deals were hot commodities, and median pre-money valuations were rising across the board. However, a December PWC report, The State of Climate Tech, says that in the 12 months through September 2024, capital flows and transaction volume continued to trend downwards, dropping below levels recorded in…
[ad_1] HOUSTON—Kamal Ghaffarian, a director and significant shareholder of Intuitive Machines, Inc. (NASDAQ:LUNR), has sold a substantial portion of his holdings in the company, according to a recent SEC filing. The transactions, which took place on December 30, 2024, involved the sale of Class A Common Stock valued at approximately $6.94 million. The sale comes as the space technology company, now valued at $2.55 billion, has seen its stock surge over 670% in the past year. InvestingPro analysis indicates the stock is currently trading above its Fair Value. The shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $17.9644…
[ad_1] Cloudflare’s AI Innovations And Sales Strategy Drive Goldman Sachs Upgrade Cloudflare Inc (NYSE:NET) stock is trading upwards Thursday after Goldman Sachs analyst Gabriela Borges upgraded the stock from Sell to Buy and raised its price target from $77 to $140. Security stock performance in 2024 can almost entirely be explained by the extent to which the market believed each company was a platform rather than a point product, as per the analyst. Borges flagged two catalysts for Cloudflare stock in 2025, including an improving sales and marketing productivity cycle after two years of evolution to better address platform sales…
[ad_1] Stocks erased session gains on Thursday to kick off the first trading day of the new year as Wall Street returned from a holiday break. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell 0.2% after opening in green territory. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) shed about 0.3%, or 150 points, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) fell less than 0.2%. Markets had been eyeing a comeback after a year-end slide to begin the week dented hopes for a “Santa Claus rally.” The decline capped a blowout 2024 for US stocks that saw the S&P 500 (^GSPC) post two years in…
[ad_1] Facebook vice president of global public policy Joel Kaplan and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leave the Elysee Presidential Palace after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on May 23, 2018 in Paris, France.Chesnot | Getty ImagesFacebook parent Meta is replacing its president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, with Joel Kaplan, the company’s current policy vice president and a former Republican Party staffer.The shake-up comes three weeks before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, and it’s the latest sign of how tech companies are positioning themselves for a new administration in Washington.Clegg, a former British deputy prime minister, said he is…
[ad_1] William H. Adams III, a director at TXO Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ:TXO), recently purchased 14,000 common units of the company. The transaction, executed on December 30, 2024, was completed at a weighted average price of $16.9284 per share, totaling approximately $236,997. The purchase comes as the company maintains an attractive dividend yield of ~14%, according to InvestingPro data. Following this acquisition, Adams holds 92,784 shares directly. The shares were bought in multiple trades at prices ranging from $16.75 to $17.00. With analyst price targets ranging from $25 to $26, suggesting significant upside potential, and the stock currently trading near its…
[ad_1] Happy New Year!This week we’re joined by Cornell University Professor Sara Bronin to talk about her book Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World. We chat about all the ways that land is regulated and why zoning is an opportunity for people to reshape their communities. We also chat about food policy, connecting the street to property and the relationship between land and natural systems.Scroll down below the audio player for an edited excerpt of our conversation, or click here for an unedited, AI-generated transcript of the entire conversation.Jeff Wood: How much do you think streets should play a part in…
[ad_1] (Bloomberg) — Municipal bonds sold by colleges and charter schools became distressed at record levels in 2024, as the amount of defaulted state and local government debt hit a three-year high. Most Read from Bloomberg Last year was the “worst year for municipal defaults since 2021, breaking a three-year streak of sector-wide credit improvement,” wrote Matt Fabian and Lisa Washburn at Municipal Market Analytics in a report published Tuesday. Inclusive of the defaults, borrowers recorded 185 impairments, the most since the coronavirus pandemic roiled credit markets. Impairments can be a missed debt-service payment or an indicator of financial stress,…
[ad_1] In recent trading activity, HRT Financial LP, a significant shareholder in XChange TEC Inc. (NASDAQ:XHG), executed a notable transaction involving the company’s Class A shares. On December 30, 2024, HRT Financial sold 20,385 shares at a price of $0.90 each, amounting to a total of $18,346. This sale reduced HRT Financial’s holdings to 9,720 shares. The transaction comes amid significant market volatility for XHG, which has seen its share price decline by 94% over the past six months, according to InvestingPro data. Earlier in the week, on December 27, 2024, HRT Financial acquired 12,027 Class A shares at $0.89…