Primary Health Properties CEO buys £68,862 sharesBango CEO buys £20,013 sharesLiteracy Capital director investsHarry Hyman, CEO of FTSE 250-listed REIT (real estate investment trust) Primary Health Properties (PHP) has bought 74,890 shares at a total value of £68,862.40 on 9 April.Hyman?s move comes after research firm Peel Hunt gave Primary Health Properties a bullish rating after reporting a

- Dunkerton increases Superdry stake- N Brown largest shareholder ups stake- Bango director sells shares to meet divorce settlementWhile squashing market rumours of plans to take embattled clothing and footwear retailer Superdry (SDRY) private, founder and chief executive Julian Dunkerton was busily topping up his shareholding.Between 31 January and 3 February, Dunkerton purchased 353,756 shares a

- One-click payments firm strikes crucial scale deal - Analysts estimate rough $10 million cash cost - Revenue forecasts rise more than 40% One-click mobile payments firm Bango (BGO:AIM) is taking out one of its chief competitors in emerging markets as it expands its direct carrier billing footprint.DOCOMO Digital is the global payments business of NTT DOCOMO (9437:TYO), one of Japan's largest mob

Apple (AAPL:NASDAQ) is thought to be preparing a flurry of new product launches as the tech giant attempts to reverse a slump in its share price.This year, Apple shares have fallen more than 22% as investors rejected growth stocks in the face of rising interest rates aimed at curbing high inflation, worse than the performance of the S&P 500 (-19%).Apple is now trading on its lowest price to earnin

- Analyst claims Apple is tech multi-national new client- Impact on forecasts could be 'material' in time- Shares have slumped more than 30% in 2022One-click mobile payments firm Bango (BGO:AIM) is reckoned to have bagged Apple (AAPL:NASDAQ), the world's biggest technology company, as a new client, according to one analyst.'Considering the company currently partners with Google Play, Microsoft's W

Digital payments firm Bango (BGO:AIM) has made a bold move into South Korea, one that should bring up to 37 million new consumers into the company's payments ecosystem.Cambridge-based Bango runs a direct carrier billing payments platform that gives online shoppers a 'one-click' solution to buy goods and services by adding the internet shopping charges to their mobile phone bill, once they have set

London's FTSE 100 finished Monday's session 0.56% higher at 7,068.43 points as a risk appetite rebound took oil prices higher and drove demand for index heavyweights Royal Dutch Shell (RDSB) and BP (BP.), shares in both improving by more than 2% to £14.57 and 302.3p respectively.Amid the FTSE 250 ranks, low-cost airline EasyJet (EZJ) fell 14% to 586.4p on a UBS downgrade, having announced a £1.2

The digital payments space is booming and not just because of lockdown. We are all buying more stuff online, and that requires safe and easy ways to pay.A forecast-thumping fourth quarter for industry leader Paypal earlier this month saw its stock jump to new all-time highs. Cambridge-based Bango (BGO:AIM) is much smaller but well worth a look.It runs a direct carrier billing (DCB) payments platfo

Mobile payments firm Bango (BGO:AIM) is to team up with BT (BT.A) to help power the telecoms giant's bundled subscription services. Subscriptions are seen as a key tool for BT to deliver a range of third-party products and services to its customers and open-up greater entertainment and commerce opportunities for it.BT has the UK's largest fixed-line and mobile customer base across its BT, EE and P

London's FTSE 100 traded 44.2 points lower at 5,436 early on Friday as doubts grew about Donald Trump's claim that he had convinced Russia and Saudi Arabia to agree to cut oil production, which weighed on energy stocks.BP (BP.) fell 3.8% to 339.90p, while Royal Dutch Shell (RDSB) was down 2.6% at £14.41.Investors were also bracing for US jobs data due later Friday set to show how much the spreadi

UK blue chip shares have tumbled this morning as investors end the year on a cautious note.It mirrors last night's moves on Wall Street, where the S&P 500 closed 0.6% down and the Nasdaq Composite 0.7% down.Not helping London's leading basket of stocks, which is exporter-heavy, is a strengthening of the pound against the dollar to $1.3132.At around 8.50am, the benchmark FTSE 100 index was down aro

London's FTSE 100 index appeared to have gotten of relatively lightly on Tuesday morning, trading down 23.4 points at 7,203.3 despite global markets reeling from a range of issues spanning Brexit to the US-China trade war as well as Italian political instability.Travel giant TUI (TUI) was in demand, the shares sparking up 3.5% to 839p despite posting a slump in third quarter profit amid weak consu

Financial technology company R8 is preparing a London stock market share listing as it looks to raise extra growth funding, possibly as soon as July 2019.The company is believed to be sounding out new investors that could see it raise something like £20m of fresh funding, with speculation suggesting a £50m market valuation if it gets the IPO (initial public offering) away.R8 recently raised arou

App store and digital content company Boku (BOKU:AIM) may soon be a profitable business. Stockbroker Peel Hunt forecasts $0.7m of pre-tax profit (approximately £0.49m, the company reports in dollars) for the year to 31 December 2018. That could soar to $8.5m in 2019 if the broker has got its assumptions right.Analysts believe the company's value proposition and supplier relationships with key dig

Direct carrier billing specialists Bango (BGO:AIM) and peer Boku (BOKU:AIM) have seen their commission from app store purchases shrink to just 1.4% each.Direct carrier billing is where consumers can elect to charge app store purchases to their monthly phone bill rather use a credit card.But as digital purchases continue to soar, large app store operators - Amazon, Google and Apple, for example - a

Cambridge-based Bango (BGO:AIM) is a mobile payments platform supplier. It's 'one-click' system means online shoppers can purchase goods on the internet with a simple press of a smartphone button once they have set-up an account. Bango makes its money by getting a tiny percentage per transaction.What the company has announced today is a direct carrier billing (DCB) launch with Amazon in Japan via

One-click mobile app store payments platform Bango (BGO:AIM) continues to post rapid growth in end user spend metrics (EUS) but experience pressure on profit margins. Total EUS trebled in 2016 to £132m yet Bango's 1.8% app store EUS margins stayed flat. Analysts estimate that total EUS will have to soar past £300m before the company gets close to breaking even.

Hayward Tyler (HAYT:AIM) is a gainer in a falling market today as fund manager Richard Sneller lifted a personal stake in the small cap engineer to 6.5%.Hayward's gearing towards the US, China and India, where it sells its industrial pumps, may have played a part in emerging markets specialist Sneller's decision to invest, Shares understands.Sneller has good knowledge of Hayward's key markets and

One-click mobile carrier billing company Bango (BGO:AIM) continues its long walk to profit, now in its 11th year and counting. The headline reads a 250% hike in end user app store spend, or EUS, to £159 million (on an annualised basis) in the first half to 30 June.What this ultimately means is a 39% rise in core revenues of £0.85 million for the period on EUS of £46.2 million. The company state

In the wake of Monday's stock market surge investors are looking largely puffed-out in early trade on Tueday with little sign of strong movement one way or the other. The FTSE 100 index nudges around 7 points lower, or about 0.06%, to 6,807, although there is a marginally firmer downward wind blowing across midcaps, the FTSE 250 off 0.11%.'The reason behind this sudden slowdown is likely the proxi