Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2005

Yet, the social enterprise issues were similar to the ones I know from the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Doubling-down on Europe. After some impressive growth across multiple markets, the startup has refocused on its core market (Europe) and its core products (revenue from card transactions, subscriptions and banking products). In particular, Valentin Stalf told me several times that the company’s focus is now Europe. In the U.S.,

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

The March 5th FCC filing asked for “a blanket license authorizing operation” of Starlink terminals on so-called Earth Stations in Motion — an umbrella term for cars, trucks, maritime vessels, and aircraft. “No port, or while on a domestic or international flight,” the filing read. “No

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s a new section of Disney Plus for international audiences that will offer more mature R-rated films, TV shows from FX, and other shows and movies that Disney owns the rights to but don’t fit into Disney Plus’ family-friendly image. Star is effectively Disney’s solution to the fact that Hulu doesn’t exist in international markets.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

I just got back from a terrific week in Austria at the International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs conference. People from all over Europe talked to me about their dreams for improved accessibility. I posted these on my Flickr site with creative commons licenses (of course)!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

While Revolut has yet to obtain a banking license in the U.K. its home country), the company now has a full banking license in Lithuania. It can use this license across the European Economic Area through passporting rules , which means that Revolut could be considered as a bank in Europe.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

They spent money managing corporate structures for holding companies in Delaware, Canada, and Europe but maintained paper-based subsidiaries across Africa. pre-seed after bagging country’s first SEC license. However , Raise aims to build the platform behind them to streamline more asset classes and investment opportunities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

” FairMoney, founded by Laurin Hainy , Matthieu Gendreau and Nicolas Berthozat , is a licensed online lender that provides instant loans and bill payments to underserved consumers in emerging markets. Neobanks like Revolut in the UK and N26 in Germany were picking up across Europe.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. But in 2020, NALA started testing international money transfers after some users expressed interest in moving money from the U.K. and the E.U.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

It has licenses to operate throughout Asia, Europe and all 50 United States states. Bolttech launched in Singapore in April 2020 and was able to establish an international presence for several reasons. Bolttech bills itself as one of the world’s leading embedded insurance providers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Though headquartered in Los Angeles, the company is basically remote, with more than 300 employees across its major hubs in LA, Lagos, Nigeria, Singapore and Europe. The company is also investing in additional product categories, new brands and potentially licensing its proprietary software.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

The duo have built a distributed team of 10 across Asia and Eastern Europe as they gear up to expand beyond the product’s current source available (i.e. ELv2), the very same license enterprise search company Elastic adopted two years ago as part of its transition away from true open source.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Founded in 2019, the startup is operational in Vietnam and has applied for a license to launch in Indonesia. Before launching Jeff, Niparts was CEO of Spain for Digital Finance International, a fintech company that is part of the Finstar Financial Group. It also plans to enter the Philippines in the third quarter.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Microsoft released the model under an open-source and open-weights license, so developers can use it to develop edge models or apps that run on phones or laptops. Thats why the theyre are spending more and more on non-public and specialty content that the license from publisher partners. AI companies like OpenAI.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And when Bose gave up on making earbuds for sleep, a new startup called Ozlo picked up the slack, licensing Boses design for tiny sleep buds and building out new features such as Bluetooth audio and sleep detection. A companion app lets you tweak temperatures and monitor the meats doneness through internal probes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

In addition to licensing deals, JustKitchen also develops its own brands and performs research and development for its partners. The company’s long-term plan is to license spoke operation to franchisees, while providing order management software and content (i.e. recipes, packaging and branding) to maintain consistent quality.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

opens in a new window) license. Basically we have a set of internal objectives. That is going to help close that gap… What if startups and scale-ups in Spain work together with our international companies in order to attract and retain that talent? “What we do is that work of coordination with all the ministries.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

PT currently has fellowships in Boston, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem -- and will be expanding next year to Europe and other cities in North America. . PT started using Salesforce.com in 2008, taking advantage of its free licenses for nonprofits. It was not used efficiently at the beginning.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Rather than pouring investors’ money on the ground, our strategy was to build a strong internal operation team to make sure each scooter makes a positive return, which has worked,” said Shin. . Mobility has been a big focus for us as we’ve been fortunate to partner with leading companies such as Tier Mobility and Finn Auto in Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Lunar has a full banking license (setting it apart from a number of other neobanks, which operate on other banks’ rails), and it offers checking and deposit accounts; loans and other credit services like buy now, pay later; stock, fund and ETF investing for consumers; plus business accounts, loans and financial management for SMBs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Something else that stands out about this raise is that Pacaso, which just launched in October 2020, has achieved unicorn status faster than any other company, according to an internal company analysis of Crunchbase data. It eventually plans to also expand globally — in Europe and potentially in Mexico and the Caribbean.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Belfast-headquartered startup allows businesses to manage all the incoming software it uses via the cloud, meaning you don’t have to have dedicated support staff in the office, which requires dedicated staffing, VPNs and licenses. Cloudsmith says its software scans for security vulnerabilities and has customers in Europe, the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017. The first he calls internal momentum: “How fast are we moving as an organisation? Yet, somewhere along the way, Siemiatkowski says Klarna had lost internal momentum.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

“This is the largest batch we have ever funded and it’s about 50% international. Amenli, founded by Shady El Tohfa and Adham Nauman in 2020, is addressing an untapped $2 billion market, being the first licensed online insurance broker in the country. There are millions of African immigrants in Europe and North America.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Indeed, Moxie’s 45 employees were working on a very different company until COVID-19 took hold in Europe and the U.S., Well, according to Goldberg, it’s all far more sophisticated than that. following its initial outbreak in China. Moxie is based in Berlin.)

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Before starting Forerunner, the UCLA business economics graduate and licensed CPA was an equity research analyst and investor at Banc of America Securities, formerly Montgomery Securities, covering publicly traded retail and consumer stocks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

“We’ve built tools, both internal and external, for collecting, maintaining, and making data accessible more easily — for example, automatic detection of package changes, in order to keep up-to-date data only … [O]ur algorithms learn and improve automatically throughout the usage of the system. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

.” The pandemic, geopolitical tensions and other factors led many Chinese venture funds to pare back their international investments, but that’s largely “because during COVID, China’s economy recovered much faster than other countries’,” writes Kalinin. ” Is it so bad to take money from Chinese venture funds?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

International NetSquared group leaders will also get together for training throughout the year, with our first events already planned for the United Kingdom, Cameroon, and Kenya. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in: Africa. Image Name: Author / License.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

So, more generally, its strategy to drive uptake of DAC is to zero in on a dovetailing of needs that it reckons will foster the right conditions for scaling the tech — and so scaling DAC’s utility as a climate-change mitigation measure — as well as for growing a technology licensing business around that.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Tyk , which has built a way for users to access and manage multiple internal enterprise APIs through a universal interface by way of GraphQL, has picked up $35 million, an investment that it will be using both for hiring and to continue enhancing and expanding the tools that it provides to users. “So I built my own,” he said.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

According to the International Environmental Technology Center of the United Nations Environment Program. The great thing about Europe is that has a comprehensive and formal regional strategy on electronics recycling. Things are actually going pretty well in Europe. World Snapshot. Asia is also a good news-bad news story.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Alviere plans to use its new capital in part to expand beyond North America (it is licensed in “ almost” all 50 U.S. states) to Europe and Latin America. The goal is to provide financial services to a new cohort of users.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Europe and the UK. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Europe and the UK. Africa and the Middle East.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Sources say Web Summit, the giant tech conference company that specialized in very large gatherings in cities like Lisbon, is poised to spin out its Hopin-like proprietary conference software as an independent startup.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

As of late Thursday night and Friday morning, the fallout from the shutdown of Silicon Valley Bank in the US had reached the shores of the UK and Europe. SVB UK secured a UK banking license in 2012 but became a UK Standalone bank in August 2022 and has 700 full-time employees).

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