TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

As part of that broader movement, the mighty WhatsApp, a dominant force in the messaging world, has been pushing deeper into the business arena with myriad tools to connect retailers with customers — from product catalogs and collections , to shopping carts and Instagram Shops integration. Conversational commerce comes to Europe.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 23, 2024

Apple is gradually adapting to the new business rules enforced by Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA). While still risking a fine amounting to 10 percent of its global revenue due to restrictions on third-party app developers, Cupertino appears willing to comply with the DMA's requirements regarding browser choice and default.

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TechSpot

MAY 4, 2021

It's a financial image that is in stark contrast to that of many other businesses and industries, which have suffered or even succumbed under the pressure of. Last month, Amazon reported more than $8 billion in profit for the first three months of 2021, tripling its profits year over year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Yair Snir is vice president and managing director of Dell Technologies Capital, leading venture investment activity in Europe and Israel. Prior to becoming an early-stage investor at DTC, I ran business development and M&A for Microsoft across Europe and Israel. Contributor. Good companies get bought not sold.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It would appear that OpenAI’s Chat GPT allying with Bing will not be the only threat to Google’s search business model in the future. With its release of WhatsApp Business app (WAB), Meta is effectively building a sort of rival search engine to Google to keep us all inside the app. has the third most WhatsApp users in Europe with 40.41

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

SumUp , a London-based startup that helps businesses power revenues through card payments — by way of physical readers, online payments, invoices and other services — is itself powering up in a big way. and basing their service around small card payment dongles that attached to phones or tablets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Economies of scale are an essential cornerstone for on-demand companies, and to that end one of the hopefuls in the space has raised a big round to grow its business. “All of our business units are growing,” founder and CEO Markus Villig said in an interview this week. . billion ($8.4 billion).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

There are multiple messaging apps active in Southeast Asia and most consumers prefer to use them over email when they contact a business. Respond.io’s dashboard, which processes over 140 million messages per month, consolidates all the messages a business gets, so the right person can see them. Respond.io Respond.io When Respond.io

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TechSpot

JUNE 22, 2023

After recently doing the same in Europe, Google has now publicly accused Microsoft of anti-competitive behavior over the US cloud market. Mountain View singled out Microsoft in a letter sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which was seeking industry comments about the business practices of cloud computing providers that.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

First-time access the mobile internet is exploding across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East and in Europe, North America, and Australia, the mobile web has surpassed desktop. Source: Business Insider. Source: Rothschild’s Giraffe Project. 9) The white population in the United States will become a minority by 2044.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

Deep tech has become a hot topic in Europe, with hopes that the region can have an edge over the rest of the world for innovation rooted in fundamental research. “From startups to universities, we join forces to make Europe a world leader in the new wave of deep tech innovation!” Want it in your inbox every Saturday?

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TechSpot

JULY 28, 2023

After a "truce" which lasted more than a decade, the European Commission is once again probing Microsoft for unfair and monopolistic business practices. The cloud and AI corporation is seemingly back to its old nasty behaviors towards competitors, trying to crush third-party companies by exploiting unfair advantages like bundling Teams.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

On one side, restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries and other food businesses contribute surplus food items. It’s a win for everybody as businesses can generate a bit of revenue from surplus food, customers can buy food at great prices and it reduces unnecessary waste. 65,000 businesses have sold something on Too Good To Go so far.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2023

SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe, the Americas and Australia — has picked up some growth funding to navigate the choppy waters of the current fintech market, waters that have tipped and swayed SumUp itself.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Today, we’re going to talk about the three major categories your association — and really any business — can optimize to make a kick-ass workplace. Are folks busy enjoying their work, or working to look busy? Early business magnates like the Rothschilds and the Barings lived and worked out of their giant manors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

All business crowdfunding platforms wishing to operate within the European Union (EU) must now comply with a new EU-wide regulatory framework that brings a uniform set of rules to the bloc. Crowdfunding platforms that had previously been greenlighted to operate had until today to receive authorization under the new rules.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

It was also reported this morning that Tesla’s Model 3 became the first electric vehicle to top monthly sales charts in Europe this September. Anyone renting a Tesla from Hertz will be able to use the automaker’s network of 3,000 superchargers across the US and Europe. It’s been a very good month for Tesla. GOAT’s recognize GOAT’s.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The app gives busy parents on-demand access to scripts and other personalized guidance, drawing on Kennedys expertise and advice from other parenting coaches. Smalt For tackling a shortage of climate workers across Europe To meet renewable energy goals, Europe has plans to add more than 3 million new jobs across the climate sector by 2030.

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TechSpot

MARCH 10, 2025

"If it had lasted until Friday, there would have been big risk-management questions for banks," Alistair Milne, a professor of financial economics at Britain's Loughborough Business School, told Reuters, which provided a timeline of events in an exclusive report. Bank risk managers would have to decide: Are we willing to.

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TechSpot

MARCH 31, 2023

Google is officially accusing Microsoft of anti-competitive behavior in the cloud computing business as the Redmond corporation is striking specific agreements with several cloud vendors in Europe. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

In order to understand the changes that are sweeping fintech and reconfiguring the way that the industry works with small businesses, it’s important to understand open banking. This is not necessarily because open-banking frameworks offer specific new functionality that will be useful to small and medium-sized businesses.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

Given the likely global recession, small businesses are reaching for new kinds of financing. Thus, the buy now, pay later business model is now expanding into this B2B world at a rate of knots. Philipp Povel, co-founder and co-CEO of Mondu, said there is a “$200 billion opportunity just in Europe and the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With Flutterwave, we now have a way to drive both value for creators and revenue to sustain the business. Recently, we have diversified into building tools that will help freelancers, businesses and now creators grow,” Flutterwave CEO Olugbengba “GB” Agboola said in an email. “We With most of Disha’s customers based in the U.S.,

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The Verge

MARCH 23, 2021

Intel Foundry Services is a “standalone foundry business unit,” and it will develop x86, Arm, and RISC-V core chips for external clients using Intel’s manufacturing technology. And crucially for government work, Intel’s foundries will be located in the US and Europe, a benefit that competitors like TSMC don’t have.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

billion European payments giant, has made another acquisition, this time to dig deeper into financial services for small and medium businesses in the region. Ironically, now it’s become part of a company that will realistically represent an even bigger rival to Toast in Europe (and potentially elsewhere).

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

-based startup platform Bloom has now secured a £300 million / $377 million financing round led by Credo Capital and Fortress Investment Group LLC (NYSE:FIG), making it one of the better-funded revenue-based lending businesses in Europe. Christopher Dailey, Credo Capital added: “Demand for eCommerce lending has expanded in Europe.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In March 2020, the company made headlines for laying off nearly 300 employees in the face of a slowdown in business related to the pandemic. TripActions is also planning a broader expansion in Europe, which has grown to represent 30% of its business. And, new add-on businesses like Liquid are scaling nicely.” .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Scalable Capital, a Munich startup that aims to make investing in financial markets accessible to a wider range of consumers, is putting more fuel in its tank to drive deeper into Europe. It will be using to build out its business in […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

The two met through the startup’s investor Cathay Innovation , and the acqui-hire will pave the way for Laiye’s entry into the Europe market, said Wang. Wang also saw a strong “cultural alignment” between his business and the French startup led by a team of young founders. Laiye CEO Guanchun Wang.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

These are tech companies backed by VCs but they also need financial partners due to their capital-intensive businesses in order to do this. Western Europe, U.K., As Ido Vigdor, general partner at Viola Credit, says: “There is a disruption happening in financial services. Viola Credit, will partner with fintech platforms across the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48% of Nigeria’s GDP in the last five years, But the tide is turning. Some include Pastel , Kippa and OZÉ. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

It recently hired Pavel Khristolubov , an ex-Tinkoff executive, as its global chief operating officer and Elena Lavezzi , a former Revolut executive in Europe, as chief strategy officer to oversee efforts in this regard and also grow its over 4 million customer base. Kuda, the African challenger bank, raises $55M at a $500M valuation.

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The Verge

JULY 5, 2021

Amazon currently dominates online commerce in the US and parts of Europe, and serves as a backbone to much of the modern web thanks to Amazon Web Services. Bezos’ successor, Andy Jassy, joined the company shortly after graduating from Harvard Business School in 1997, and has led AWS since the team was founded in 2003.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Deal of the week The battery business keeps attracting capital. That cash will be used to build new factories in North America and Europe. At about the 19-minute mark Musk had to intervene and take control of the vehicle when it misread the traffic signal and tried to go through a busy intersection at the wrong time.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2022

Spotify will use its sponsorship as an opportunity to “amplify the work of artists” in a way that brings “the worlds of music and football together, giving a global stage to players and artists” at Spotify Camp Nou, Alex Norström, Spotify’s chief freemium business officer, said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In a report analyzing Europe’s general economic health, cost of doing business, business environment and labor force quality, analysts looked for highly educated populations, strong economies, healthy business environments and relatively low costs for conducting business.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The process of digitizing the operations of mom and pop stores in Nigeria is serious business right now. Europe and Asia, including Michael Novogratz’s, participated in the round. Alerzo claims to have built up a network of up to 100,000 small businesses, 90% of which are women-led. The company is announcing a $10.5

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