TechSpot

JANUARY 29, 2021

Right now, only Android users in the UK, Brazil, Ireland, and France can access real-money gambling apps on the Play Store. According to 9to5Google, this will change on March 1 when they’ll be permitted in 15 new locations: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Two: That’s the number of startups in YC’s latest batch with offices in Denmark, Norway or Sweden, according to data from the accelerator itself. And that’s actually interesting. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

In the latest example, reMarkable , the Oslo, Norway-based maker of a simple and slick $299 e-paper tablet of the same name, says that it has passed 1 million devices sold since 2017 and recently raised money at a $1 billion valuation after making revenues of $300 million and operating profits of $31 million in 2021. 42 million.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Uber will also spend $800 million of its own money to help “hundreds of thousands of drivers in the US, Canada, and Europe transition to battery EVs by 2025.”. For example, drivers won’t be required to drive electric or hybrid vehicles to make money on Uber’s app, even by the target date of 2030.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

Just as Square gave sellers new tools to make money, Dorsey says the company’s stake in Tidal will help artists find similar support in the new digital ecosystem. Tidal was founded in Norway in 2014 before being bought by a consortium of artists led by Jay-Z the following year for $56 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Oda , one of the bigger players in online grocery delivery in Europe with operations in its home market of Norway as well as Finland and Germany, today announced that it had raised 1.5 The investment gives Oda a post-money valuation of NOK3.5 billion, or $353 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The startup has raised €70 million ($77 million at today’s rates), at what I understand from a person close to the company to be a $2 billion post-money valuation. That number has now grown to 500,000 across a footprint that includes Denmark (its home base is in Copenhagen), Sweden and Norway.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. Participants will discuss establishing a “global financing instrument for biodiversity” intended to effectively distribute the money raised.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It’s particularly appealing during the pandemic, but he predicted that celebrities will still be excited about “making this much money from their living rooms” after the pandemic ends. He added that celebrities are embracing this as a new source of income.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Too much money” might explain the size of some of these bets, but it doesn’t explain their existence. For one thing, there’s a lot of money in the economy that’s waiting to be invested, and that might be pushing some funds into territory they hadn’t previously explored. So what changed? Let’s dig in. The macro changes.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The rush of money into EVs could help some finally prove their worth. Not all recipients of that money will survive. And when XPeng rolled its first exported electric vehicles off a boat in Norway last week , it accomplished something many of its peers have sought: expansion into new markets. and Nikola in the US.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

ACM relies entirely on public gatherings to make its money , posting a $2.2 AMC’s CEO said that attendance had been strong at the three theaters the company has re-opened in Norway recently. AMC operates over 1,000 theaters, and more than 11,000 screens, globally. billion net loss in the first quarter of the year.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

We now have more than 3,500 users in over 140 countries using Miradi for projects as varied as a coordinated national strategy for the preservation of the chimpanzees in Tanzania, to the development of management plans for two Marine National parks bordering Sweden and Norway.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Respondents were from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands and Nordic nations (Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland). Unsurprisingly, money issues rose to the top of the discussion almost every time. The continued flow of money into the nonprofit world is welcome news. First up is finances.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Tink , a startup out of Stockholm, Sweden that aggregates a number of banks and financial services by way of an API so that those can in turn be accessed via new channels, has raised €85 million (or $103 million at current rates), at a post-money valuation of €680 million (or around $825 million). It is live in Sweden, U.K.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me. “My If a bank is partly about corralling enough users on to your platform to pay money in and out, Klarna is well on its way. And it’s true: You can’t help but be suspicious of something that gives consumers the feeling that they can spend money they might not have.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The company got its start working with SMBs in 2011 but pivoted some years later to working with larger enterprises, which make up the majority of its business today.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Car subscription platforms, especially ones that offer electric vehicles like Onto in the UK and imove in Norway, are taking off as trends like usership over ownership, online shopping and EV usage rise. Finn only launched in the U.S. at the start of 2022, at which time its German fleet totaled 10,000 cars.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you’re an international Disney Plus customer who lives in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, or Canada — the regions that will get access to Star starting today — that’s great news.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Norwegian Olympic Curlers' Pants Raising Money for Charity: "The Norway men's curling team made a huge splash at the Olympics with their audacious and colourful pants, sporting blue, white and red diamonds. You either love or you hate em. One MSN site calls them distracting, ugly and unflattering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2015

The #BuyPens refugee tells us his story in this video posted on Facebook by Aljazeera sharing his pay it forward plan: “I want to use any money I get to help other Syrians. So, when this viral fundraising campaign – #BuyPens – to help Syrian refugee came across my radar, it immediately caught my attention. ” .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Twig , a London-based fintech targeting Gen Z and younger Millennial consumers with an e-money account that gives them instant cash-outs on fashion and electronics they want to sell, has closed a $35 million Series A round of funding. But it’s fair to say that getting money into accounts remains a key aim.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Our population churns out 181 patents per million inhabitants ranking us #8 in the world – ahead of the US, South Korea and Norway. Dutch culture hates pretentiousness, showing off, discussing money, or any behavior that doesn’t follow the “normal” cultural norms. It is a sober protestant version of “keeping it real.”.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

And esports competitions are offering ever-increasing amounts of prize money — in the thousands or even millions of dollars. It’s not easy to get to the level of earning that kind of money. Many of these rising players are only teenagers; the average age of a Fortnite World Cup competitor was 16, with some as young as 13.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The startup, based out of Oslo, Norway, initially made its name with an app called Timely , a tool for people to track time spent doing different tasks. Aimed not just at people who are quantified self geeks, but those who need to track time for practical reasons, such as consultants or others who work on the concept of billable hours.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We didn’t have a lot of money,” he tells me. “My If a bank is partly about corralling enough users on to your platform to pay money in and out, Klarna is well on its way. And it’s true: You can’t help but be suspicious of something that gives consumers the feeling that they can spend money they might not have.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But going into the next generation, Microsoft is making a big bet on people wanting to spend their money on games in monthly installments. All Access will be available in 12 countries this year: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, the UK, and the US.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

The startup said other investors, including SOSV and Equinor Ventures (the VC arm of the Norway-owned fossil fuel giant), also chipped in. The deal boosts Green Li-ion’s post-money valuation to $187 million after just three years, chief executive Leon Farrant told TechCrunch. This week, Green Li-ion announced a $20.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Canada, Bermuda, Ireland, and Norway, the firm says. For the time being, however, Push it is not making money. Currently, the Push It Instagram account has roughly 32,000 followers, for example. But Sensor Tower data indicates the app has already gone viral in five countries as of today. It’s No. 1 in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

According to Bird, this growth plan is already underway, with the shared micromobility company recently bringing its scooters to Bergen, Norway; Tarragona, Spain; and Palermo, Italy. You’ll hear first-hand how some of the most successful founders and VCs build their businesses, raise money and manage their portfolios.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 6, 2025

That's why Moia Volkswagen's AV division has begun testing its autonomous ID Buzzes around the streets of Oslo, Norway, this winter. And General Motors killed off Cruise AV , seeing no way to make back the large pile of money it had already spent trying to make robotaxis work in San Francisco. Read full article Comments

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

” Robotics Norways 1X Is Building a Humanoid Robot for the Home Brian Heater | TechCrunch “Norwegian robotics firm 1X unveiled its latest home robot, Neo Gamma, on Friday. . …And sometimes, the output of generative AI systems can be surprisingly good despite lacking any real knowledge. But can they do science?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Merz said the prospective German governments move should be the first step toward a new European defense community, which could include countries outside the European Union such as Britain and Norway. They are also set to be given more freedom to borrow money. A two-thirds majority will also be needed in the upper house.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Tesla sales also fell in France, Sweden, and Norway last month. At this tipping point, the core business that generates 90% of revenue could turn into a negative-margin business, which means that no matter how many sales they do, they lose money on every car. Some Tesla owners, both in Europe and the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. The country makes far too much money from oil, giving it one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds and a large system of socialized support. In Norway, sustainability-focused companies. 50% Norway, 50% Nordic/Baltic. More than 50%?

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Norway abandoned its contact-tracing app on Monday after it reached just 10 percent adoption.) That’s real money. It seems possible that the second phase of the Apple-Google plan, in which exposure notification becomes a system-level feature of iOS and Android, could give exposure notification new life. Taylor Lyles / The Verge ). ??

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Elon Musk may be " saving " money for the federal government, however questionably but it'll take a minor miracle for him to salvage his automaker's situation across the pond. In 2024, sales in the continent dropped by 13 percent , with even famously EV-eager nations like Norway, where 88.9 percent dip.

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