September 2023
Tesserent shareholders back $176 million takeover
Cybersecurity firm Tesserent is set to leave the ASX after shareholders backed a plan to sell the company to French giant Thales.
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- Tess Bennett
June 2023
Tesserent shares climb 145pc on takeover bid from France’s Thales
Share in the ASX-listed cybersecurity firm jumped after it received a takeover bid from the defence giant on Tuesday morning.
- Tess Bennett
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- Chanticleer
How big French group made the most of cyber company’s ASX woes
A toehold position in a booming sector wasn’t enough to catch and hold investor attention. Now Tesserent is headed to life away from the ASX boards.
- Anthony Macdonald
France’s Thales lobs $176m offer for cyber firm Tesserent
The deal comes as local defence spending increases, and with cybersecurity elevated to a central position among risks that companies and governments face.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
October 2021
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- Company mergers
The little four about to eat the big four’s lunch
Sekuro will launch this week after a quartet agreed to merge without a cent changing hands, to fight the consulting giants for lucrative cybersecurity work.
- Paul Smith
July 2021
Cyber criminals increasingly target builders
As construction belatedly embraces technology, it is becoming susceptible to the type of attacks that have long been targeted at other industries.
- Michael Bleby
June 2021
Buy, hold, sell: Brainchip, EML Payments, Tesserent, Maxitrans
Fund managers discuss three fan favourites and two stocks on the rise.
January 2020
UXC's Geoff Lord to chair ASX cyber security small cap
Renowned tech investor of UXC fame Geoff Lord hopes to turn cyber security business Tesserent into another big success.
- Yolanda Redrup
June 2019
Taylor Collison raises for cyber microcap Tesserent
Stockbroker Taylor Collison is in front of clients drumming up interest in listed microcap Tesserent on Thursday.
- Sarah Thompson and Anthony Macdonald
June 2000
June 1999
TNT `mystery' buyer
Ord Minnett broker Mr Andrew Staehli placed a $90,000 order for a "high risk" options trade for an investor with no permanent address, contacting him only through a post office box, a hotel telephone number or an answering service, a Sydney court heard yesterday.
- Kathryn Bice
September 1997
Transport pioneer Thomas dead at 84
Mr Ken Thomas, one of Australia's most colourful postwar industrial pioneers and a founder of the international transport conglomerate, TNT Ltd, has died at the age of 84.
May 1997
Sale of mail carrier ends TNT dispute
KPN, the new Dutch owner of TNT, has begun a disposal of TNT assets - but of one it had not planned to sell.
- Fred Brenchley London
April 1997
TNT staff feel first effects of takeover
TNT Ltd's global head office has become the first major casualty of the $2 billion takeover by the Dutch postal and telecommunications group KPN, with 80 administrative staff losing their jobs.
- Ian Thomas
February 1997
TNT joins high-speed race for rail service
TNT Ltd has revived its high-speed rail ambitions by assuming a key role in a new consortium that is pursuing a $1 billion scheme to develop a 250km/h tilt train service between Sydney and Canberra.
- Ian Thomas
January 1997
How Mr Booth has left his Mark
The inability of the Australian Securities Commission to easily identify TNT options trader Mr Mark Booth highlights a problem facing all securities regulators, according to ASC national enforcement co-ordinator Mr Joe Longo.
- Bill Pheasant
Railway monopoly under fire
Carpentaria Transport, a subsidiary of TNT Ltd, has launched the first bid under national competition laws to compete with a State rail monopoly - Queensland Rail - in freight delivery on the Brisbane-Cairns rail corridor.
- Katharine Murphy
Chinese walls the order of the day
In the financial services industry reputation is everything, which explains why the charges laid against Macquarie Bank executive director Simon Hannes rocked the firm yesterday and was the talk of the market.
- JOHN DURIE
Trader had faith and timing
The Australian Securities Commission's interest in the man known as Mr Mark Booth was triggered by the faith and timing behind his options trading strategy in TNT last September.
- Neil Chenoweth
December 1996
Mystery TNT trader yields on $2m gain
The mysterious trader in TNT Ltd options - the so-called Mr Mark Booth - has agreed to the Federal Court's orders for the Australian Securities Commission to seize the $1.98 million profit he made from his $90,000 investment, according to his brokers.
- Finola Burke