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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

TechCrunch

As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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Hackers are targeting the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain, IBM finds

The Verge

A global phishing campaign has been targeting organizations associated with the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines since September 2020, IBM security researchers say. It’s not yet clear who’s behind this campaign, but the researchers suspect a nation-state actor rather than a private individual or group. Amelia Krales.

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This hypercar is China’s first Belt and Road electric vehicle project

The Verge

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 Hongqi S9 is the start of a new chapter in China’s automotive story

The Verge

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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#IFC2014 International Fundraising Congress: Inspire, Connect, Transform

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also keynoted the NGO track at the Internet Festival in Pisa, Italy (more about that in separate post later). I was honored to be invited to be one of the speakers during the opening plenary along with Keith Jenkins from National Geographic and Ben Rattray from Change.org. Marcelo Iniarra (@marceloiniarra) October 17, 2014.

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5 key innovations taking e-scooters to a half-billion rides in 2021

TechCrunch

Today, they’re on track to surpass half a billion rides globally by 2021, far outpacing early growth in the carbon-heavy ride-hailing industry founded by Uber in 2009. Adaptable, environmentally friendly solutions to car congestion and urban pollution were in high demand even before the global spread of the coronavirus in 2020.

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Amazon and WNBA strike multi-year streaming deal

The Verge

Amazon and the Women’s National Basketball Association have announced a multi-year deal that’ll see several games streamed live on Prime Video. Photo by Jeff Bottari/NBAE via Getty Images. Here’s the schedule of regular season games coming to Prime Video this year: Saturday, May 29 – Atlanta @ New York, 2 p.m.