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Your business doesn’t have to slow down just because the calendar does.With the summer winddown often meaning quieter inboxes and fewer in-person meetings, it can actually be the perfect time to step away from day-to-day distractions and invest in building your business relationships through networking.Luckily, there are still plenty of events running through the summer months – from informal meetups and coworking sessions to larger business gatherings. Whatever you’re looking for, networking is a great way for founders, freelancers, and business owners to connect, share ideas, and open doors to new opportunities when others are taking a break.With that, we’ve gathered…

XRP (XRP) has recovered from its April lows of $1.26, rising as much as 19% to a three-week high of $1.50 on Sunday.Whale activity, network growth and a strengthening technical setup suggested that the XRP/USD pair was primed for a move higher once resistance at $1.50 is broken. Key takeaways:XRP whale addresses hit record highs of 332,230, indicating accumulation.XRP Ledger monthly transactions hit an all-time high of 71 million in April.Price must break above the $1.50 resistance to continue its upside toward $2.XRP whales show growing convictionXRP whales remain confident about the prospects of a breakout, using the recent consolidation range…

Cerebras Systems raised $5.5 billion in its IPO on Thursday, pricing shares at $185 Wednesday evening, way higher than its range ($115 to $125, later raised to $150-$160), even as it increased the size of the offering to 30 million shares. It then opened to public trading at $385, more than double (up 108%), as retail investors bid up the price to grab them. The stock cooled only slightly soon after. It is currently trading heavily mid-day at above $330. Even at the IPO price of $185, the company entered its first day of trading at a fully-diluted valuation of…

Thursday 14 May 2026 5:06 pm  |  Updated:  Thursday 14 May 2026 5:07 pm Xsolla, a leading global video game commerce company, today announced a strategic partnership with Skich, an alternative mobile game marketplace operating on iOS in the EU under Apple’s Digital Markets Act provisions and on Android globally. Under the agreement, Xsolla will serve as Merchant of Record for in-app purchases and paid game sales distributed through the Skich Store. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260514867730/en/ Skich serves as an alternative to traditional mobile storefronts, offering developers a way to reach players outside platform-controlled…

ScotRail’s latest schedule comes into effect on Sunday, 17 May 2026, and brings changes to routes serving Glasgow and surrounding areas. The operator says most adjustments focus on Saturdays and Sundays to support rising demand for leisure travel, with more services on several lines. (Image: Newsquest) Mark Ilderton, ScotRail’s service delivery director, said: “We are reminding customers that timetable changes will come into effect from Sunday, 17 May, with most changes focused on weekends to support the continued growth in leisure travel across Scotland.” Some weekday services will also be updated, partly to accommodate operational needs and ongoing engineering projects—most…

The Judge also rejected suggestions the bomb attack was an “elaborate incident to scare or terrorise the police” and instead said it fell within a “violent dissident terrorism agenda.”17:05, 14 May 2026Updated 17:18, 14 May 2026Charlie Love has been charged with an attack on police in StrabaneA Co Tyrone man was today found guilty of attempting to murder police officers in Strabane in a bomb attack later claimed by the New IRA.As he convicted Charlie Love on all four charges he faced at Belfast Crown Court, Mr Justice Fowler said he was satisfied Love was “intimately connected with the planning…

For a financial services firm, managing this can be very challenging. A Forrester study found that 57% of financial organizations are still developing the necessary internal capabilities to fully leverage agentic AI. “The data exists in many different formats, created over the course of a bank’s history,” says Mayzak. “Take any bank that’s been around for 50 years: They might have 60 different types of PDFs for the exact same thing. And at the same time, we want the output of these systems to be 100% accurate. In many cases, there is no ‘good enough’.” That is, companies need to…

A large clinical trial suggests that taking a daily multivitamin could help slow biological aging in older adults, especially in people whose bodies were aging faster than expected at the start of the study. Researchers from Mass General Brigham analyzed data from older adults who participated in a randomized clinical trial and found that two years of multivitamin use was linked to slower biological aging across several DNA-based measurements. The effect was equal to roughly four fewer months of biological aging over the course of the study. The findings were published in Nature Medicine. “There is a lot of interest…

Ian Crosby, whose previous startup Bench Accounting famously shut down in 2024 before being bought for scraps, is taking another shot at building a business out of automating the arduous work of bookkeeping. His new startup, Synthetic, aims to build a fully autonomous AI bookkeeper that can generate accrual-based financials without direct human involvement. Although the product is still in the design phase — and Crosby admits his vision may not yet be technologically possible — the startup has raised $10 million in a Seed funding round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Basis Set Ventures and Shopify CEO…

Councillor Sophie Cox, borough councillor for Castle Ward, took over as leader of the council in July 2024. Following local elections last week, Labour lost overall control of the council, with six Green candidates, five Reform UK, one Labour and one Liberal Democrat being elected. Today, May 14, Cllr Cox announced she will not be standing as leader of Worthing Labour Group, meaning she will not be put forward as a candidate for the next council leader. In a statement shared on Facebook, she said it has been “an absolute privilege” to lead the town for two years and she…