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Edinburgh Napier University has received a funding gift from Trimble to establish a state-of-the-art technology lab for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC).

The International Auditing & Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) has appointed the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Josephine Jackson to its board. Her appointment will commence on 1 January 2020 and will be for an initial term of three years. Ms Jackson is the FRC’s technical

The damage caused in the movie Home Alone would have cost almost £9,000 to fix, according to research. According to Mr Carl Goulding from MyBuilder.com, Kevin McCallister's 4,250ft, three-storey Winnetka, Illinois home featured in the film would have racked up nearly £9,000 worth of repa

KPMG has cut the average pay of each of its 621 equity partners by £52,000 after the firm experienced a decline in profits. The average pay for KPMG's partners fell by £52,000 to ££549,000 last year. This amount is lower than that for partners at the other Big Four firms. Del

Scottish brewer Innis & Gunn is well on the way to building the largest major brewery in Edinburgh for over 150 years as it’s ‘Beer Money’ crowdfunding campaign sails past the crucial £2 million mark.

Coventry Building Society has released a statement which admits the society's exaggeration of its financial strength for the last 11 years due to a calculation error. The building society issued a capital update last night which corrected the company's calculation of risk-weighted assets.

St James's Place Wealth Management (SJP) has today announced its acquisition of the Linlithgow-based financial advice firm Policy Services Ltd (PSL). PSL has been a longstanding provider of administration, fee reconciliation and advice services to partners of SJP and their clients who hold non-

Edinburgh-based Specialized Signs, a signs and graphics company, has purchased the very first HP R1000 printer in Scotland, enabling the company to print far faster and more efficiently, following a six-figure funding package from HSBC UK. The business predicts this will lead to an increase in turno

House prices in Scotland continued to hold up in November, despite ongoing uncertainty and a subdued picture regarding activity, according to the monthly Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey.

St Andrews-based Ceres Holographics has been awarded a €1.4 million  European Commission Horizon 2020 grant to accelerate the commercialisation of its holographic technology. Ceres Hologrpahics is an innovative developer of thin-film Holographic Optical Elements (HOEs) for next-genera

Edinburgh-based Current Health has closed a £9 million ($11.5m) Series A funding round led by MMC Ventures and Legal & General. Par Equity and the Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise also participated in this funding round.

Waracle, one of the UK's largest mobile apps and digital products developers, has received a £4.8m investment from BGF, one of the UK and Ireland’s most active investors in growing businesses, to support its long-term growth plans. Waracle designs, develops and manages mobile apps a

Erris Resources has announced that it has entered into an Option Agreement with GreenOre Gold Plc giving it the option to acquire 80% of the Loch Tay gold and associated base metals project in Perthshire. The option agreement allows Erris Resources to search for gold in the area covered by the Loch

Sir Brian Souter and Dame Ann Gloag have announced that they will step down from Stagecoach Group's board of directors. The group has announced Sir Brian Souter will step down as chairman on 31 December 2019 and will continue on the board as a non-executive director from 1 January 2020.

SIS Ventures, Scotland’s leading ‘profit with purpose’ fund, has appointed David Ovens as it gears up for its next phase of fundraising with the appointment of a new chair. David Ovens, chief operating officer at Archangels and current vice-chair of SIS Ventures, takes over as chai