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Private healthcare partnership Circle will unveil its strategy for turning round a debt-laden NHS hospital this week as it takes over the day-to-day running of the site.

With over 10 million unique visitors a month, Habbo Hotel is the world’s largest game and online community for teenagers, with users in over 150 countries. With parent company Sulake releasing Niko, its second iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) game, this week, VentureBeat spoke to chief executive Paul LaFontaine, about his cross-platform strategy.

SCYTL, the global leader in secure electronic voting technologies, announced today the acquisition of 100% of SOE Software, the leading software provider of election management solutions in the United States. 

The investor consortium, led by major European venture capital firm Balderton Capital also includes existing investor Index Ventures who reinvested pro-rata.  Tim Bunting of Balderton Capital will join Neil Rimer of Index Ventures and HouseTrip.com founders Arnaud Bertrand and Junjun Chen on the board. 

‘WE LIVE our lives at 35,000 feet,” says Joe Hogan, one half of the technology and business duo that runs Openet, the relatively low- key Irish software company which employs 840 staff and could have revenues of about €100 million this year.

SCVNGR today announced that it has successfully deployed its new LevelUp mobile payments solution to consumers and businesses over T-Mobile's nationwide 4G network.

JOE HOGAN and Niall Norton of Openet were last night announced as the winners of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, 2011. 

Facebook purchased Friend.ly, a two-year-old question-and-answer site that could add even more value to the social networking giant's efforts in connecting people.

Rapidly growing home & garden e-tailer WorldStores has today announced the acquisition of Timcris, a specialist in off-the-page reader offers to newspapers and magazines.