A roundup of the most newsworthy tech announcements from PR Newswire, including Chainlink and Mastercard’s partnership, Techno’s new POVA series, and Bolt and Palantir’s Checkout 2.0.
NEW YORK, July 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — With thousands of press releases published each month, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help tech journalists and consumers stay on top of the month’s most popular releases and newsworthy trends, here’s a recap of some of the past month’s most read- and engaged-with stories.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
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Chainlink and Mastercard Partner to Enable Over 3 Billion Cardholders to Purchase Crypto Directly Onchain Bringing zerohash, Shift4 Payments, Swapper Finance, and XSwap technologies together with the Chainlink standard and the power of the Mastercard network allows large amounts of previously hard to access value to now be leveraged for executing transactions onchain.
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Big4Bio and BYTE51 Announce Partnership at 2025 BIO International Convention to Make Life Sciences Intelligence Accessible to All BYTE51 provides powerful tools for exploring privately held biotech companies, allowing users to filter by scientific indications, mechanisms of action, funding stages, location, capital raised, clinical progress, investors, and partners. This empowers VCs, business developers, and startup executives alike to make faster, smarter, and more strategic decisions, all of which can benefit the diverse Big4Bio audience.
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Illumina to acquire SomaLogic, accelerating its proteomics business and advancing the company’s multiomics strategy “Illumina and SomaLogic have partnered closely for more than three years, and this combination increases our ability to serve our customers and accelerate our technology roadmap towards advanced biomarker discovery and disease profiling,” said Jacob Thaysen, chief executive officer of Illumina.
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TECNO POVA 7 Series Launches: Boasting Refreshing Trendy Design, AI-Driven Gaming Power and Numerous Surprising Features Designed for the next generation of users, the new series combines futuristic, minimalist, and premium aesthetics with next-level AI capabilities and high-performance hardware tailored for immersive gaming and all-day entertainment.
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BitMine Immersion Technologies Announces $250 Million Private Placement to Initiate Ethereum Treasury Strategy; Expected to Become One of the Largest Publicly Traded ETH Holders With the net proceeds of the offering, the company plans to purchase “ETH,” the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain, and contribute it to the company’s treasury operations. The company’s primary treasury reserve asset will be ETH.
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Bolt and Palantir Partner to Launch Checkout 2.0: The Smartest, Most Personalized Checkout Experience Yet
Bolt will leverage Palantir’s platform to help scale Checkout 2.0 across enterprise retailers and expand it within Bolt’s recently launched SuperApp—an all-in-one finance and crypto hub that delivers real-time shopper signals. As both platforms evolve, Checkout 2.0 will bring deeper personalization and intelligence to every phase of the buying journey. -
Xero to acquire Melio, a leading US SMB bill pay solution, to accelerate global growth This acquisition solves a critical customer need in the US, uniting Accounting and Payments in one platform for customers.
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PepsiCo Leverages Salesforce’s Agentforce to Advance AI Agenda Through this expanded collaboration with Salesforce, PepsiCo will leverage AI agents to manage key functions, enhancing customer support and operational efficiency, while empowering sales teams to focus on strategic growth and deeper engagement with retailers.
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Genpact Acquires XponentL Data to Accelerate AI-Led Innovation This acquisition builds on Genpact’s pivot to data, AI, and other advanced technologies, further enhancing Genpact’s ability to help clients across the lifecycle of AI transformation, from strategy through implementation.
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Ratio Therapeutics and Nusano Enter Long-Term, Multi-Isotope Supply Agreement to Boost Production of Cancer Radiopharmaceuticals As the need for diagnostic and therapeutic isotopes is increasing, the two businesses’ common goal of accelerating innovation in the radiopharmaceutical industry is reflected in this supply agreement. The logistics of scale-up and delivery will be streamlined by Ratio’s new manufacturing plant in Utah, which is only a few miles away from Nusano’s activities.
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Honeywell Completes Acquisition of Sundyne to Expand Process Industry Capabilities
Nusano is a radioisotope producer with a proprietary platform capable of generating more than 40 different isotopes for medical and industrial applications. The company intends to use these capabilities to help stabilize the existing medical radioisotope market and enable oncology innovation by providing researchers and drugmakers with isotopes yet to be fully explored for their cancer-fighting properties.
