Solutions specialist National Response Corporation purchases OP-TECH Environmental Services. National Response Corporation (NRC) announced Tuesday that it has finalized its purchase of OP-TECH Environmental Services for an undisclosed amount.

Communitech admitted eleven startups in the third cycle of its HYPERDRIVE accelerator. Waterloo-based Communitech admitted eleven new startups to the third cycle of its HYPERDRIVE accelerator.

Edimer Pharma gets a second round funding US $18 million, which will be used to develop a product that can treat XLHED condition.

China Stock Market top regulator Xiao Gang attended a meeting in July with gray hair which sparked debates if he was overwhelmed with challenges confronting Asia's worse stock market or he has just ceased in dying his hair.

Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd and Windarra Minerals Ltd finalized a definitive agreement on the acquisition of common shares.

Bina Technologies gets additional financing worth US $1.7 million in a round participated in by AME Cloud Ventures and Columbus.

American hospital chain Community Health agreed to buy Health Management Associates Inc. for US$3.9 billion in cash and stock.

UC Funding granted a USD 9.94 million bridge loan to real estate developers in Norfolk, VA. Capital solutions provider UC Funding structured the funding of a bridge loan to real estate developers in Norfolk, Virginia worth USD 9.

Trōv raises its capitalization fund to US $6.8 million after it completed its second round financing.

Retail management solutions company Amplience secured GBP3.7 million after the close of a series B financing.

Visa and MasterCard will ease EMV migration through tech licensing deal. MasterCard and Visa agreed to a deal for easing of mag-stripe to EMV migration.

A unit of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. was slapped USD 410 million in fines by the FERC. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) fined a unit of J. P.

Scaleogy gets two new unnamed investors but the agreement's terms were not revealed. London-based Scaleogy Ltd. welcomed two new investors into the company.

Vodafone upgraded the New Zealand capital's wireless networks to 4G technology. Suburbs in many countries all over the world have been revolutionized by the 4G (4th generation) wireless technology.

Android is king of the tablet market, according to data from Strategy Analytics. The Android is unmistakably the king of the tablet market. Strategy Analytics has data and figures to back this statement.

Smartphone sellers in Taiwan expressed their concern over 8-core platforms and its effect on the quad-core dominated market.

Zynga Inc. lost three more top executives this month, following more than a dozen exit of top managers in the company after it announced IPO last December 2011.

Qualcomm Ventures and Nokia Growth Partners are Finnish game developer Grand Cru's newest partners in its recent Series A funding round.

Olapic secures US $5 million after the close of a series A financing round led by Great Longworth Venture Partners and Fung Capital USA.

Alcatel-Lucent beats estimates set by analysts after Qualcomm Inc. announced to purchase the former's minority stake.

Microsoft Windows 8 and Surface RT tablets were lagging behind competitors. Windows 8, the operating system Microsoft designed for touch PCs, was still finding it hard to capture a sizeable audience.

According to Gartner, HP's server market share dropped for the second consecutive time. In the latest quarterly report of Hewlett Packard, server shipment shares from across the globe fell significantly.

Analysts believe that Asus' late entry to the US tech market will be its toughest challenge yet.

Apple and Motorola dropped 14 patents, which now left with them with 8 patents-in-suit. Apple and Google's Motorola agreed to drop 14 patent suits Monday.

Alcatel-Lucent partnered with Qualcomm for small cell development. Alcatel-Lucent and Qualcom partner for small cell development. The development aimed to be useful for enterprise and residential deployments.

The CEO of Softbank Corp said that there is no "firm plan" in place for the widely-anticipated Alibaba IPO.

Alcatel rebounded with strong growth that beat estimates. Alcatel-Lucent rode in strong growth and beat analysts' estimates. The struggling telecom equipment maker posted this strong growth for its key US market.

Researchers said that Apple led the South African tablet industry while Samsung trailed at second. Over 1. 4 million units of tablets were purchased by South Africans in a span of three years, said research firm World Wide Worx.

Android posted a massive increase in the latest quarterly report for tablets, while Apple's iOS continued to decline.

Nepal's telecom industry expanded after aggressive importing. According to the Nepal Telecommunications Authority, imports of telecom related equipment almost reached double the amount of last year.