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Ninja Innovation: What Governments Can Learn from the Next Web Leaders

The Next Web

Gary will be speaking at The Next Web Conference Europe 2013 , which takes place in Amsterdam on 25-26 April. The bank crisis in Cyprus threatened property rights of depositors; the EU economy is challenged and the US is slipping in global competitiveness rankings. His views expressed here are his own.

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Marketing automation startup Retail Rocket nabs $24M for expansion

TechCrunch

Retail Rocket , a retention management platform for brands, today announced that it raised $24 million in a Series A round led by Cyprus-based private equity fund Flintera. We expect that the global e-commerce market will continue its growth at more than 10% per annum, with Latin America leading the race.”

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Meet the women-led web3 startups from Thousand Faces’ demo day

TechCrunch

Company name: SALUBATA What it does: Shoes made of recycled plastic Founder: Yewande Akinse Country: Nigeria The pitch: SALUBATA makes patented modular shoes from recycled plastic waste in an effort to decrease the global carbon footprint. and is looking to raise $3 million to scale globally, Akinse shared.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

Yaccarino will be leaving her role as chairman of Global Advertising & Partnerships at NBCU. X opens up its ad revenue sharing program globally The company announced its “Ads Revenue Sharing” program is now available for eligible creators globally. X also changed its App Store tagline from “Let’s talk.”

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. Viber is quite global. Obviously, we index better in some countries (and worse in others), but it’s pretty much a global phenomenon. What size is your staff, where are the offices located, and has the company ever raised funding?

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and Berlin’s hip coffee shops to East London’s Silicon Roundabout , the world is well versed in the global innovation boom towns. But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina? Nicosia, Cyprus?. What other global cities are being put on the map of innovation?