Small caps round-up: Nasstar, Seeing Machines, Oxford Advanced Surfaces

26th Sep 2012 14:02

Nasstar, which describes itself as a cloud services provider, has announced that one of its partners, iomart Hosting, part of iomart Group, a managed hosting and cloud computing services company, has signed a 70+ user contract for hosted desktop services with an international recruitment consultancy

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Small caps round-up: Byotrol, sareum, KDD ...

19th Jul 2012 12:07

Byotrol, an anti-microbial hygiene company, has continued to make progress and has maintained the momentum seen in the second half of last year into the current financial year. The balance sheet continues to remain strong and is well positioned to its objective of positive cash generation at the ear

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SSE director sells 1,000 shares

21st Feb 2012 16:04

Jim McPhillimy, the Managing Director of Group Services at energy firm SSE, has sold off 1,000 shares in the firm for 1,289.00p each. The sale comes three weeks after the company said it was on course to deliver an increase in the dividend per share and an increase in pre-tax profits for the financ

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Seeing Machines 'ruggedises' its hardware platform

30th Jan 2012 15:21

Seeing Machines, the maker of equipment that tracks the facial movements of drivers to make sure they are awake, has launched the latest version of its Driver State System (DSS) product, alongside the establishment of its Fatigue Consulting Services. The hardware platform of DSS Version 3.0 is con

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Seeing Machines losses widen

17th Oct 2011 09:21

Seeing Machines, the maker of equipment that tracks the facial movements of drivers to make sure they are awake, saw losses widen in the year to 30 June as it continued to invest in technology to boost sales. Revenue jumped to A$7.16m (£4.68m) from $4.5m the previous year, but net losses were up to

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Seeing Machines wins mining contract

8th Aug 2011 07:31

Seeing Machines, which makes systems that monitor drivers' facial movements to detect drowsiness, has announced a new contract for its Driver State System (DSS) with Toll Mining Services in Australia. Toll Mining Services, part of logistics company Toll Group, has contracted Seeing Machines to im

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London close: record gold price = scared investors

18th Jul 2011 16:03

Stock markets fell across the board today as concerns persist over European and US sovereign debt. Friday's European banking stress tests were seen as something of a damp squib by markets after they failed to adequately analyse the impact sovereign debt default would have on the Continent's banks.

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Sector movers: Shares rise in 3D

18th Jul 2011 14:45

The automobiles and parts sector led the FTSE down today, with shares down 3.6% on average. Enova, which develops electric, hybrid and fuel cell digital power management systems, fell hardest, down almost 5% in mid-afternoon trading. Industry giant GKN also fell after announcing it is to buy engin

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London midday: Stress test results cast shadow

18th Jul 2011 12:15

Stocks are firmly in the red after Friday's European Banking stress tests. Eight European banks failed stress tests drawn up by the European Banking Authority (EBA). Five Spanish banks - Catalunya Caixa, Pastor, Unnim, Caja3 and CAM - and two from Greece - ATEbank and EFG Eurobank - were deemed not

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Seeing machines sees shares soar

18th Jul 2011 09:43

Shares in technology firm Seeing Machines jumped 25% on Monday after it trumpeted the arrival of the world's first 3D laptop that requires no special glasses for watching movies or playing games in 3D. Seeing Machines' said its faceAPI technology was a key technological component in the glasses-fre

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London open: Stocks stressed after banking tests

18th Jul 2011 08:20

Stocks have taken a bit of a tumble after the release of the results from banking stress tests after the close on Friday. Eight European banks failed stress tests drawn up by the European Banking Authority (EBA). Five Spanish banks - Catalunya Caixa, Pastor, Unnim, Caja3 and CAM - and two from Gree

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Seeing Machines drives forward

31st Mar 2011 18:17

AIM-quoted Seeing Machines significantly increased its revenues at the interim stage thanks to sales of its DSS driver monitoring system. Revenues jumped from A$2.32m to A$4.02m in the six months to December 2010. R&D spending was increased from A$682,000 to A$1.24m and that was one of the main re

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Small caps round-up: DQ Entertainment, Mwana Africa, Nighthawk...

20th Oct 2010 13:23

Shares in DQ Entertainment, the entertainment production and distribution company, moved a step closer to their 52-week high Wednesday morning after the announcement of a deal with Noga Communications, Israel's leading independent television content producer and broadcaster. Noga has acquired the I

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Seeing Machines confident as losses narrow

20th Sep 2010 08:01

Seeing Machines, which makes systems that monitor drivers' facial movements to detect drowsiness, saw losses narrow in the year to June 30 despite lower revenues as it cut costs. Losses narrowed to A$1.8m from $2.3m the previous year on revenues that fell to $4.2m from $4.9m. The company said tha

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Seeing Machines Awarded DSS Mining Contract In Peru

29th Jul 2010 07:47

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Seeing Machines Ltd (SEE.LN), a developer of advanced vision based industrial systems, said Thursday that it has been awarded a contract to install the DSS driver monitoring equipment in the haul truck fleet at an open-pit mine in Peru. MAIN FACTS: -The DSS is an active s

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