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JANUARY 9, 2013

Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities. The investments that Amazon, Apple and Google, among others, are making in aggregating Spanish-language digital content signal their priority on developing the Spanish-language markets in Latin America.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Byton once had its own global ambitions. While Italy makes sense as a target market to make and sell a hypercar, it’s also a logical political partner for a project like this, as it was the first G7 nation to endorse the Belt and Road initiative.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

The S9 is meant to serve as a halo car above future fully electric vehicles that FAW will develop in China and in Italy as part of the joint venture with Silk EV — an effort that is backed by some of China’s biggest banks. FAW has said it wants to make Hongqi into China’s first global car brand.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

Mubadala Investment Company is leading the founding round with Abu Dhabi Growth Fund (ADG), Alpha Wave Global, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global also participating. The company covers 48 different cities for all other markets — the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal and the U.S. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

France, Italy and Spain. But with the SPAC market facing a lot of troubles, and the tech IPO market drying up at the end of 2021, Acorns scrapped its SPAC IPO plans in January of 2022. GoHenry will help it extend in that market segment. Second of all, it will add a number of new backers to Acorns’ cap table.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

The feature is gradually rolling out around the world; after initially launching in Brazil, fleets came to Italy last month. India is important for Twitter since it is one of our largest and fastest-growing audience markets globally,” Twitter’s India managing director Manish Maheshwari said in a statement. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

More posts by this contributor Edtech’s honeymoon might be over, but expect a second boom Despite creaky markets, European edtech is showing its resilience During the darkest days of the pandemic, money was no object in many developed markets. Italy was the only European market to see a hike in both funding and the number of deals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

It currently operates in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Tiger Global and TCV are leading today’s funding round. Existing investors Valar, Alven, DST Global and Tencent are putting more money on the table as well. This is a fragmented market as each country uses different accounting tools.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

German startup Wefox has raised a $650 million Series C funding round led by Target Global. We nailed how to disrupt it in our core market,” Teicke said. The company is currently live in five markets right now and is working on expanding to Italy soon. It’s much more than we wanted to raise initially.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

-based, Memmo was founded in Stockholm, and Lundberg Toresson said its strategy is both global and localized — the company is currently operating localized marketplaces for Sweden, Germany, Finland, Norway, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and Canada, as well as a general global market.

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Charity Village

JULY 8, 2021

The global employment nonprofit organisation Generation has published Meeting The World’s Midcareer Challenge, a research report based on a survey of 3,800 employed and unemployed people, and 1,404 hiring managers to reveal global employment trends.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

million, and, in the post-pandemic world where the population has become far more movable due to remote working, similar businesses are raising funds to attend to the needs of this global, nomadic workforce. Germany-based NUMA Group expanded into Spain, Italy, Austria and the Czech Republic in 2021. It’s raised $529.6 ”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Funding and activity were centered in a couple of markets and there were just a few growing companies gaining interest. Gone are the days when pitches to VCs would have to overcome skepticism on market size, and consumer readiness to adopt tech-enabled learning solutions. But that’s no longer the case. A year of records.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

VU is one of several startups applying technology to fraud and identity within a global digital identity market expected to reach over $33 billion by 2025, according to Adroit Market Research. In addition to New York, VU opened an office in Madrid and will open offices in Italy and France, and in the United Kingdom.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

It is hoping to start scaling up manufacturing in the local areas where the machines will be most needed, including Italy, India and Zimbabwe. Mosquitter currently has three different versions of its product on the market – the smallest, for home use, costs $950.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Co-founder and CEO Saar Yoskovitz said in an interview that the funding will be used to expand the services that it provides to customers, as well as to build out its global customer base, and the ecosystem of companies that it works with so that it can expand the kinds of customers it targets to include smaller businesses and scale-ups.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

The conversational commerce market is fairly substantial too, with China’s WeChat reportedly facilitating $250 billion in transactions in 2020 alone. This hints at how Charles is looking to differentiate — it wants to replicate the success of these other companies in markets closer to home.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Markets go up and down, but consumers love our service and convenience is here to stay. In May, Getir announced that it would cut 14% of its global staff — more than 4,000 were impacted by the downsizing. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal. TechCrunch has confirmed the news with Getir. and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Tiger Global is leading this round, with new backers Baleen Capital and Woodson Capital also participating, alongside Fasanara Capital and Ithaca Investments, which had backed Scalapay in its previous $48 million round earlier this year. The startup has raised $155 million at a $700 million valuation.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Key Insights from the 2010 Global State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on October 27th, 2010 Blackbaud has conducted its North American State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey annually for six of the past seven years.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

before the market closed. The company’s path to market is twofold. Most of the preorders for the vehicle have come from Europe, where the market launch will take place. The company is owned by the Chinese firm Evergrande, a company that has $88 billion in outstanding debt and is threatening a global financial crisis.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

While Tricount’s app is available globally, the company focuses specifically on users living in France, Spain, Germany, Belgium and Italy. Bunq also operates in these markets. “We It could act as the top of the funnel for Bunq products and services.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

These gatekeepers offer third-party companies access to a global market by providing their own infrastructure. In countries like Italy, the surcharges can reach up to 240%. The EU has recognized this and initiated the VAT reform, which primarily places responsibility on the marketplaces. Broad range of VAT rates across the EU.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Energy Dome today announced the close of its $11 million Series A fundraise, with the goal of deploying the first commercially viable CO 2 battery in a demonstration project in its native Sardinia, Italy. It points out that this is a fast-growing market segment, not well served by existing battery technologies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The last year — shaped by a global health pandemic — has been all about bringing more services online and into the cloud, so people and businesses that can no longer do things like banking or selling/shopping in person can still get things done. It has now raised €175 million in total. billion acquisition of Plaid.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

This downsizing from the Dubai-based startup adds to the long list of global cross-stage layoffs in what has been a rough month for tech employees. Others include developing its proprietary technology stack and growing its three models — where it makes $5 million in MRR — across existing and new markets, it said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

That market driver has now led to a significant growth round for a startup that is helping the larger of these businesses, including those targeting the B2B market, build out their digital sales operations with more agile, responsive e-commerce solutions. Previous backers One Peak and Project A Ventures also participated.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

According to the US Department of Justice and Europol , Operation Dark HunTor saw law enforcement make numerous arrests in the United States (65), Germany (47), the United Kingdom (24), Italy (4), the Netherlands (4), France, (3), Switzerland (2), and Bulgaria (1). More than $31.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

But only a few days before the initial listing the company pulled the plug with an eye on the developing Evergrande debt crisis that made the global stock markets very nervous. It has yet to announce a new date, but as Babbel CEO Arne Schepker told me, the company continues to monitor the markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the effectiveness of the public markets, with companies recapitalising quickly and efficiently,” said Anand Sambasivan, CEO of PrimaryBid, in a statement. and globally.”. and globally.”. s public companies by providing additional capital and liquidity.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Waze, the Google-owned navigation and mapping service, will lay off 5 percent of its global workforce, or about 30 people out of 555 total employees, the company’s CEO said in an email to employees. Waze will also close several of its offices in the Asia-Pacific and Latin America regions as it seeks to refocus its business on certain markets.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The watch comes in black, white, and blue and will be available starting September 7th in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain for €249.99. It will be available in more European markets later in the month. in the UK, France, Germany, and other European markets. Image: Honor. Image: Honor. They feature 10.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

It’s been really tough concentrating during the latter part of this week due to global events so forgive me if my tone is less upbeat than normal. In 2020, Deloitte reported that “in the world of startups, the global fintech founder community was still dominated by men, with women making up just 7% of the total pool.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 24, 2022

Despite a cooling market, corporate spend management startup Ramp reports that it has more than doubled its revenue run rate since the start of the year. How many neobanks could the market really support? Had some of these gone too niche in their work to segment the market more finely and tune their products? Weekly News.

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JUNE 3, 2020

For example, the UEFA Championship League match that occurred between Atalanta-Valencia in Milan has widely been seen as a “ biological bomb ” that set off the overwhelming coronavirus case numbers and death toll in Italy. Just because you have to stay local doesn’t mean you can’t put on a global event. Connecting Local Events.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Elsewhere in the world, there’s Aldi Talk — a MVNO powered by German supermarket giant Aldi — which leans on Telefónica’s network in a handful of markets, while the U.K. “We also have market-standard plans you would find on other carriers, which can simply be resold by our customers with an attractive margin.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

“The only competitors that we are focused on are the large supermarket chains who dominate a global $12 trillion industry,” Dija’s Menolascina tells me when I ask about competitors. He also co-founded Everli (formerly Supermercato24), the Instacart-styled grocery delivery company in Italy, and also worked at Just Eat.

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