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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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.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Berlin-based language learning service Babbel was supposed to IPO on the Frankfurt stock exchange in late September. One of the company’s fastest-growing businesses is its live classes, which augment the service’s app-based language learning tools. Image Credits: Babbel.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Buy now, pay later services — which let consumers finance the purchase of goods online by paying back the total in installments over time — have been growing in ubiquity this past year. It claims to be the biggest provider of BNPL services in its home country.

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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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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. transaction fee.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

And because we have a veritable wall of coverage on AI today: A path to un-banning in Italy : Natasha L covers how Italy gives OpenAI an initial to-do list for lifting the ChatGPT suspension order. Before the platform came along, Brian knew very few people who had ever read a comic on a phone or tablet.

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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." "What do you think? Would you like a dashboard like this?

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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. Cinemacraft: a videogram service that produces an “interactive pictorial summary of the video” (aka comic). Everbill: invoice and estimate service.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

And let’s not forget about New York-based Lightyear , a telecom service procurement service. 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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The company’s service is based around being tightly integrated with online retailers’ check-out process and offering users an interest-free, three-installment way to pay for anything they purchase. The growth of buy now, pay later services has been one of big hallmarks of the pandemic-era e-commerce market.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Back in March, CNN reported that medical misinformation was becoming a problem on the Facebook-owned messaging service. Facebook’s attempts to police misinformation on WhatsApp are complicated by the service’s end-to-end encryption, which prevent it from being able to see the contents of any messages sent on the service.

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The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

Cable news behemoth CNN said Monday it is joining the ever-crowded streaming marketplace, adding its CNN Plus service sometime in the first quarter, according to a press release. The new service “complements the core CNN linear networks and digital platforms to serve CNN superfans, news junkies and fans of quality non-fiction programming.”.

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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. While Google insists it’s still committed to Stadia, the writing is on the wall for how long the service survives in its current form.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Vivid Money , a challenger bank out of Berlin with 500,000 customers, has made a name for itself with a financial one-stop shop “super app” that, in addition to basic checking and money management services, also includes stock and cryptocurrency investing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

based savings and investing startup Acorns has acquired London-based GoHenry , a startup focused on providing money management and financial education services to 6- to18-year-olds in an all-equity deal, the two companies announced today. France, Italy and Spain. GoHenry will help it extend in that market segment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

More consolidation is apace in the world of payments: Nexi , the Italian fintech that scooped up rivals Danish-based Nets and then Italy’s SIA to create a $12.5 billion European payments giant, has made another acquisition, this time to dig deeper into financial services for small and medium businesses in the region.

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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. But today’s announcement sees a marked expansion of the service. Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Founded out of Berlin in 2019, Charles pitches itself as a full, end-to-end product spanning backend and interface, connecting the APIs from messaging services such as WhatsApp with popular ecommerce and CRM (customer relationship management) systems like Shopify and Salesforce. Charles’ platform in action. GDPR) firmly in mind.

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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. It remains unclear how the EU will go about banning Russian networks entirely, outside of blocking cable networks and satellite TV services from airing them.

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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. With its software-as-a-service strategy, medical workers pay a monthly subscription to use Doctolib’s tools and use them with their patients. Doctolib currently operates in France, Germany and Italy.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Numeral isn’t a banking-as-a-service provider either. We are a payment automation platform for tech companies,” co-founder and CEO Édouard Mandon told me. “We While retail banks are just starting to offer APIs, corporate banks opened their banking platform many years ago. Spain and Italy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

If you look at the total volume of the insurance premiums on the platform, it’s around €2 billion. Wefox currently operates in six European markets (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Poland and Netherlands). Essentially, Wefox wants to become the Amazon Web Services of insurance with this platform play.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

They should primarily focus on their businesses and services to serve their customers without spending too much resources on payment. According to Yang, today Alipay+ connects over 20 payment apps from Thailand to Italy, allowing consumers to use their familiar e-wallets wherever they go. Still, the demand is booming.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It says its platform then allows companies to reduce costs costs with tax-efficient benefits while giving employees more value and improving their financial literacy on compensation and benefits. The company plans to target that country aggressively in the future. Coverflex empowers companies and staff to deliver this ambition.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The startup sells a salary-advance service to employers to offer their staff — charging companies a commission for the tech rather than levying a fee on users to withdraw a portion of their salary early (as some other salary startups do). Currently, it has pilots running in Italy and Portugal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

More people working from home because of COVID-19 likely also temporarily reduced demand for third party package acceptance services — since more people were in to receive deliveries themselves. It’s now anticipating a demand boom for its services as travellers jet off again and offices reopen to regular staff.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Helbiz started out as a shared micromobility company but has since expanded to include ghost kitchens, media streaming and, most recently, a taxi service. During Q3 2021, Helbiz launched Helbiz Live, a sports streaming platform that is currently showing Italy’s Series B soccer, NCAA football and basketball, and MLB games.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

The WNBA says this “marks the first time Prime Video has exclusive global streaming rights to a women’s professional sports league,” but the rights don’t extend to every country — China, Japan, the UK, Italy, Spain, Finland, and Germany are all left out. Thursday, September 16 – Los Angeles @ Atlanta, 7 p.m.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Helbiz has tried to differentiate itself from other players like Lime and Bird by offering e-scooters, e-bicycles and e-mopeds all on one platform. Its subscription service allows users to take unlimited 30-minute trips on its e-bikes and e-scooters every month.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Berlin-based Mayd has spied an opportunity to build out a medicine delivery platform in Europe which partners with the small-scale pharmacies that tend to be the norm on the continent, capitializing on how the pandemic has generally accelerated demand for on-demand delivery. “Most of the US companies they are pharmacies. .

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