The Coca-Cola and record company-backed streaming service is set to raise the money in the next few weeks at an $8.4bn valuation.

A spinout from Manchester University, working with the UK and EU-funded National Graphene Institute, has created the first UK originating commercial graphene product: The graphene lightbulb.

Oxford University's commercialisation company, Isis Innovation, has appointed UK trademark and patent attorney Barker Brettell to its patent application panel.

The Netherlands-based oncology company, backed by corporate venturing subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson, Novartis and Pfizer, plans to float in the US later this year.

Investment into London startups up by 66% year-on-year as US VC cash flows into the UK capital.

Media monitoring startup Signal raises $1.8m in round led by Frontline Ventures.