CUBE, a global ecosystem dedicated to connecting startups and corporations, opened its new collaboration space in Berlin. The space is the official point of connection between CUBE's curated startups and its partners. CUBE aims to facilitate even greater connections between industry leaders and innovative B2B startups by placing teams side by side.

Novartis has announced the launch of an innovative technology-based healthcare program called SMS for Life 2.0 in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The program aims to increase the availability of essential medicines and improve care for patients across the region by using simple, available, and affordable technology.

Giving people with disabilities the power to control objects with their minds, automating breast health monitoring and a wireless injectable device for connected drug delivery services are among the innovative technologies being developed by the eight semifinalists selected for the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) Watson Health and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) have announced a collaboration that will utilize IBM Watson for Drug Discovery to help accelerate Pfizer's research in immuno-oncology, an approach to cancer treatment that uses the body's immune system to help fight cancer.

Nuritas, the Irish digital-biotechnology and R&D company founded by Dr Nora Khaldi, has announced it will triple its workforce in Ireland to over 60 in 2017 as part of a major expansion of its Irish operations. It has also confirmed U2 band members Bono and The Edge as investors in the company.

The Wyss Center, a not-for-profit neurotechnology organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, has launched a global neurotech innovation challenge to connect the human brain with the digital world. The Challenge seeks the most disruptive new technologies for brain stimulation and neural signal recording. The goal is to develop technology with a clinical application that could help paralyzed people move, overcome depression or memory loss, restore vision or address other nervous system disorders.

iMDsoft®, a global leader in clinical information systems, today announced that it has been acquired by Harris Computer Corporation, an arm of the Constellation Software group. iMDsoft will be run as an independent business unit within Harris. It will be led by Shahar Sery, a seasoned iMDsoft executive, who has been nominated to the role of Executive Vice President.