VENTURE CAPITAL POST

A gene therapy for Bubble Boy Disease has received positive evaluation from European regulatory panel, paving a way for official approval. Currently, there’s no gene therapy for the disease, and the therapy would enhance patient’s success in survival and even recovery.

In America, employees work an average of almost 47 hours a week and rather choose to have more flexible time on the job than less time. Normally a full-time employee works 40 hours or more in a week but at some Swedish firms, work period is cut to 30 hours. Studies showed that lesser hours of work makes employees more productive and promotes better morale, according to CNN Money.

Britain's leading fashion brands are hoping to give menswear sales a lift by targeting younger, digitally savvy male shoppers with live streaming and social media to promote the twice-yearly mens fashion week that began on Friday.

Milan, Italy-based mobile app development platform AppsBuilder bagged $1.5 million in a funding round from United Ventures to consolidate its businesses in the UK and the US.

Private equity investor Andrea Bonomi, the biggest investor in Milan, Italy-based banking firm Banca Popolare di Milano (Pop Milano), has offloaded his entire 8.6% stake in the bank, according to a source familiar with the matter.

CNH Industrial started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday at USD12.75 per share piece, said a Reuters report.