TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

PayFit has been building a payroll and HR software-as-a-service platform. Given that it’s a software-as-a-service platform, everything remains up to date. The company is currently live in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the U.K. Eurazeo Growth and Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund are leading today’s round.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

Bukayo Saka, a player on England’s national football team said in an Instagram post Thursday that social media platforms did not do enough to prevent the racist abuse he and his teammates were subjected to after the team’s loss to Italy. “To View this post on Instagram. A post shared by God’s Child (@bukayosaka87).

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Based just outside of Florence, Italy, and coming just on the heels of the first rush of COVID-19 cases in Europe — where for a time Italy was the epicenter of the pandemic — it was an early sign not just of how startups were able to keep working, but how investors were willing to back the best of them, even in times of uncertainty.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

The company has been building a platform focused on improving temporary employment. 2,000 companies are using the platform in France and Italy. Jobandtalent tops up with $108M for its ‘workforce as a service’ platform. While it’s a relatively large funding round, the startup is quite young.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs, has been one of the emerging trends of the last couple of years, and today one of the leaders in the space out of Europe has closed a round of funding to expand its business. aggregation platform OpenWrks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The platform is designed to increase profits for hotel operators through automated business processes, intelligent pricing and higher occupancy rates. Germany-based NUMA Group expanded into Spain, Italy, Austria and the Czech Republic in 2021.

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The Verge

JANUARY 23, 2021

The Italian Data Protection Authority ordered TikTok to block unverified users in Italy until at least February 15th. The company told The Guardian it had not found content on its platform which would have encouraged the child to participate in the challenge, but said it was cooperating with the investigation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Thanks to recent regulatory changes, British investment platform Crowdcube plans to shake things up as it is officially launching on the French market. It makes sense as Finary is a wealth management platform and crowdfunding rounds also represent alternative investment opportunities. If you live in the U.K. or the U.S., million ($2.4

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

TrovaTrip , a travel planning and booking platform that lets creators host adventures with their communities, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Madrona. The platform includes bookable experiences like hiking in Patagonia, sourcing textiles in Morocco, practicing yoga in Bali and more. Image Credits: TrovaTrip.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It’s been a year since I covered ManoMano , the French e-commerce platform focused on DIY, home improvement and gardening products. There are 7 million active clients on the platform — that’s a 100% increase. In addition to France, ManoMano is operating in Spain, Italy, Germany, the U.K. billion ($1.45 billion at today’s rate).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Ever since the announcement Netflix was pursuing gaming content for its billion-dollar entertainment mega streaming platform, it was a matter of time before you could actually play games from the Netflix app. Netflix has been developing its mobile games feature for a while now, testing the service in Poland , Spain, and Italy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Payments made a huge shift to digital platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic — purchasing moved online for many consumers and businesses, and a large proportion of those continuing to buy and sell in-person went cash-free. Apple lowers commissions on in-app purchases for news publishers who participate in Apple News. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2020

With this investment round, Nutrium plans to double the team size in the next 24 months in order to focus on platform development and expand global sales in markets like Spain, France, Italy, the U.S. and the U.K., where the company already has a strong customer base.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

German electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) startup Volocopter conducted its first crewed public test flight in Italy Thursday morning. Italy’s aim for its first vertiport is to set an example for designing and building international vertiports.

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The Verge

JULY 12, 2021

Bukayo Saka of England in a penalty shoot out during the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship Final between Italy and England on Sunday. In an email to The Verge on Monday, a Twitter spokesperson said the “abhorrent, racist abuse directed at England players” had no place on the platform. Photo by Shaun Botterill / UEFA via Getty Images.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2009

Adding PayPal, the most popular online payment service, has been a frequent request from our users for some time, so we’re really pleased to have integrated it into our donation process and become the only online fundraising platform in the UK to do so." Could This Be Your All-in-One Social Network? "What do you think?

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Lightyear’s expansion includes the following markets: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. And less than a year after first launching to early U.K.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The new show will be available when its streaming platform launches in 2022. The new show will be available when its streaming platform launches in 2022, serving as just one example of the type of original content that CNN plans on debuting.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

“I spoke to the PM of Italy and Minister of Culture. “ Everything done will pay respect to the past and present of Italy.” Livestream will be on this platform and Meta. I spoke to the PM of Italy and Minister of Culture. They have agreed on an epic location,” Musk wrote.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Into this area has come European startup Poke House , which is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms. It uses tech and data to optimize the production and delivery of its product via all the major food delivery platforms such as Uber Eats, etc.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is just the latest measure that WhatsApp has introduced to try and stop the spread of misinformation on its platform. The new search feature is rolling out now on iOS, Android, and Web in Brazil, Italy, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, UK, and US. Back in April it placed new limits on the forwarding of viral messages.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. UniPay: mobile payment platform in Brazil. accelerator and brought on two venture partners to help oversee its India investments.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Among others, it competes with ShippyPro , which runs out of Italy and has raised $5 million to date. The Outvio team has understood exactly what the gap in the market is and has done a tremendous job of finding product-market fit with their modern fulfillment SaaS platform.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Charles’ platform in action. On top of that, retailers can use the Charles platform to create automated opt-in flows (e.g. One point worth noting is that Charles has specifically built its platform with Europe’s data privacy laws (i.e. Then, businesses can sell products, send newsletters, and offer follow-on support.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Osofsky says to ensure that ads are only shown with brand-friendly content, creators will have to adhere to an Instagram monetization policy , which differs from the usual content policies on the platform. Osofsky says, for example, people can swear in videos on the platform, but they won’t be allowed to if thzy want to monetize.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Several EU countries, including Germany, Spain, France, Denmark, and Italy already blocked Russia out of their airspace ahead of this announcement. YouTube has banned Russian state-backed channels from monetizing their content on the platform, but has only restricted access to their videos in Ukraine.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The free Stadia Premier Edition offer will run in the US, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Austria, and Switzerland. Google’s free offer will run until 11:59PM PT on October 10th, and codes will be distributed by October 20th.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

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. By analyzing their actions — for example, the links they click on — the platform attempts to figure out their wants and preferences.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The plan is to integrate more Kahoot features into Drops’ apps, and to bring some of Drops’ content into the main Kahoot platform. Kahoot picks up $215M from SoftBank for its user-generated, gamified e-learning platform. Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. million (€6.3

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

It has closed a Series D of $220 million at a valuation of over $1 billion, money that the startup will be using both to build in more products to extend its touch points with customers beyond annual use around tax time; and to expand to new markets beyond its current footprint of Germany, Spain and Italy.

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TechNode

AUGUST 8, 2023

Currently, with an operation center in Shenzhen and a technology center in Hangzhou, it collaborates with US e-commerce giant Amazon, a local e-commerce platform in the Middle East called Noon, fast-fashion brand Shein, and Alibabas logistics arm Cainiao. In 2022, iMile expanded its operations to Brazil and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Today, Scalapay , one of the companies that’s building a platform to enable buy now, pay later (BNPL) and related features, has raised a round to boost its position in the race for customers against competitors like Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm. It claims to be the biggest provider of BNPL services in its home country.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Google is expanding the VPN service that it provides as part of its Google One subscription to seven new countries: Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy, as spotted by 9to5Google. The newly expanded Google One VPN is still only available on Android devices, however.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In a blog post , analysts Claire Zaboeva and Melissa Frydrych of IBM X-Force IRIS announced that the phishing campaign spans six regions: Germany, Italy, South Korea, Czech Republic, greater Europe, and Taiwan. The attacks focused on groups associated with Gavi, an international organization that promotes vaccine access and distribution.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Doctolib started as a booking platform for doctors and has expanded to other services for doctors and medical workers in general. 2021 has been a pivotal year for the company as the platform has reached a critical mass in France. Vaccination places can use other platforms , but in reality most of them use Doctolib to handle bookings.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Now, as it gears up to add more services to its platform and expand across all of Europe, the startup has raised €100 million ($114 million), in a round of funding led by Greenoaks Capital, with Ribbit Capital and new backer SoftBank Vision Fund 2 also participating. Maybe neobanks will break even after all. ”

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