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Spain will regulate influencers promoting cryptocurrency

The Verge

Spain has announced new rules for how social media influencers and others can advertise cryptocurrency assets, Reuters reports. Starting next month, the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) will require people and companies to notify it at least 10 days before running campaigns for crypto assets.

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Revel, the car subscription startup from Spain, raises $123M to take its business up a gear

TechCrunch

The market for car sales has been on rocky ground in the last several years as consumers, facing tougher economic conditions, get presented with an ever-larger range of alternatives, from ride-hailing apps and multimodal alternatives through to new propositions for private car use.

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Marketing automation startup Retail Rocket nabs $24M for expansion

TechCrunch

“The digital marketing world is growing very fast and the demand for highly-skilled professionals is constantly increasing,” CEO Khlebinsky said. “The complexity of digital marketing tools is booming too — just several years ago we couldn’t imagine the technologies we use today.”

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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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What we can learn from edtech startups’ expansion efforts in Europe

TechCrunch

Higher budgets also enable entry to several markets nearly simultaneously. The survey revealed a roughly even split of target customers across companies, institutions and consumers, as well as a good spread of home markets. with seven, Norway with five, and Spain, Finland, and Switzerland with four each.

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ManoMano raises $355 million for its home improvement e-commerce platform

TechCrunch

So why did the company raise given that it’s already in a strong position to replicate the same model in other European markets? In addition to France, the startup operates in Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany and the U.K. and Germany in particular — they are Europe’s two biggest markets for home improvement and gardening.

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Spain’s Wallapop raises $191M at an $840M valuation for its classifieds marketplace

TechCrunch

The company currently has 15 million users — about half of Spain’s internet population, CEO Rob Cassedy pointed out to us in an interview earlier today, and has maintained a decent No. 4 ranking among Spain’s shopping apps, according to figures from App Annie. market (with more capital in tow).

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