TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

DOJ files antitrust lawsuit challenging Visa’s $5.3 France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Belgium, Austria and the Netherlands and the plan is to expand to 10 markets in 2021. billion acquisition of Plaid. It is live in Sweden, U.K., Lydia partners with Tink to improve open banking features.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Founded by Matteo Pichi and Vittoria Zanetti, Poke House has opened 30+ stores in Italy, Portugal and Spain, and now has 400 employees. Matteo Pichi, co-founder of Poke House said: “The pandemic has challenged our food sector, and we see technology as the way forward to innovate and digitalize the traditional restaurant experience.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

But the company is already looking at other markets as well — Belgium, Italy, Spain, maybe Portugal or Eastern Europe countries. So the company faces some of the challenges that Deliveroo and Uber Eats also face. Cajoo is currently the only French company operating at this scale in this category.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

It also has operations in Portugal and the U.K. The challenge that Salsify is addressing is a pretty big one that has only gotten bigger with the growth of e-commerce. . “Big brands want to operate at scale and this allows us to go into new geographies,” said Purcell.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Lisbon’s startup scene rises as Portugal gears up to be a European tech tiger. They say the provisions are a collection of best practices that already exist, challenge Member States to do more and set “binary challenges” that states can either fulfill or not (like launch a startup online in a day).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We spoke to four food security organizations in Colombia, Portugal, South Africa, and the United States to better understand the challenges facing organizations working in food security and the ways the pandemic has shifted operations for them.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

and Portugal, onboarding new properties and hiring a team, which already includes hires drawn from hotel group Mr & Mrs Smith , Ometria, Quill, McKinsey’s Generation and Resi. Flown has now closed a $1.5 The funding will be used to build out the Flown platform ahead of its formal launch in the U.K. Alicia Navarro, founder, Flown.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

. “The COVID-19 [pandemic] has been the most tremendous, the most challenging time for any mobility company,” said Schwämmlein in a conversation with journalists, “and obviously this also affected our business very heavily.” but mainly had to reduce or completely stop services in the last year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We see historic fires in Greece, Portugal and North America’s entire West Coast ; epic floods in Germany ; devastating tornadoes in historically temperate geographies such as the Czech Republic ; record-breaking hurricanes in the Caribbean and Philippines; drought in Syria that ultimately led to civil war; destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Challenge: Few-Shot Generalization Most modern MT systems are trained on millions or billions of example translations, such as an English input sentence and its corresponding Portuguese translation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Another challenge, according to Weitzman, is the difficulty in capturing data transmitted through apps such as WhatsApp. In addition, Shield opened an R&D facility in Lisbon this year, Weitzman said, adding that the company chose Portugal because it is becoming a major European tech hub.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

.” The country has also — over the last decade or so — gained a bit of a reputation for successfully challenging digital developments over specific societal impacts in Europe’s courts. Uber loses gig workers rights challenge in UK Supreme Court. And in there we have pointed out four big challenges that we have.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

— it was originally founded in Portugal but now is based out of San Mateo — and towards business development, specifically via partnerships to integrate and sell its tools. “Feedzai offers a powerful solution to one of the biggest challenges we are facing today: financial crime in the digital age.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Ukio was created to overcome this challenge.” But it has also expanded into Lisbon (Portugal) and Berlin (Germany), with Paris and Milan on the horizon for the coming months, followed by London and Dublin, among others. Image Credits: Ukio.

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The Verge

AUGUST 29, 2021

The challenge, for Hawkins, arises after she has already been on a couple dates with someone. Ramasami says he recently matched with someone in Portugal. Hawkins adds that in her experience, many men on dating apps were fascinated by her decision and expressed a desire to also do something similar.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Hiring internationally has always been a costly, time-consuming and organizationally challenged endeavor, so much so that many companies have opted not to do it at all, or to reserve it for very unique cases. That paradigm has drastically shifted in recent years, however.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

What have they learned from this challenging year? They left the UK as soon as they could and traveled to Portugal where they own property and a barn, which they’ve focused on fixing up. And will we collectively agree to forget 2020 ever happened and try to resume normalcy in 2021?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Challenge slide. Going from zero to 700 weekly active users in a new market (Portugal) is impressive, too. ” Cover slide. Problem impact slide. Problem slide. Solution slide. Product slide. Product slide. Product slide. Value proposition slide. Business model slide. Market size slide. Market slide. Traction slide. Metrics slide.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Formally announced at Web Summit in Portugal today, Mozilla Ventures builds on other recent investments the company has made as part of its Mozilla Builders startup incubator program, though in truth Mozilla has sporadically invested in nearly 20 companies over the past decade. .”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Another tool that we have in order to accelerate investment in the Spanish startup ecosystem is the Next Tech Fund , which is going to help Spanish startups become scale-ups which is the real challenge that we have in our country in terms of investment. In Spain, we know that we have four main challenges for the startup ecosystem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Bev Trayner is an independent consultant from Portugal. Preconditions, entry points and strategies for using web based technologies for collaboration and KS. Experience gained in supporting adoption of distributed tools and processes for collaboration and KS (case studies featuring Dgroups experiences are especially welcome).

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 2, 2025

Portugal and India are leading fabric-producing countries, he tells me.) For instance, it has worked closely with its factory in Portugal to update its linen sheets to a weave that is exclusively available at Brooklinen; it’s softer and stronger than before, and made from traceable European flax.

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