TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Flush with Series E cash, it plans to “significantly” increase the size of its tech and sales team over the next two years, and also says it will add “key” exec roles — as it seeks to scale in the US and deepen its business in Europe. “ Jobandtalent is by far the largest job platform in Europe.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Plus, don’t miss our first investor surveys of 2021: one by Lucas Matney on social gaming , and another by Mike Butcher that gathered responses from Portugal-based investors on a wide variety of topics. Lisbon’s startup scene rises as Portugal gears up to be a European tech tiger. Alexandre Barbosa, partner, Faber.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

The company is launching its product in five new European countries — Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, Greece and Cyprus. If you want to go one step further and let Plum think about savings for you, the service can also automatically decide how much it should set aside based on your income and expenses. Originally from the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Cubyn says it will use the new funding to double its team of 85 to more than 170 employees by the end of 2021, and deploy its service more internationally. First up is Spain and Portugal (launching next month), followed by Italy, the U.K. and Germany. Huboo, the ‘full stack’ fulfilment provider, picks up £14M Series A.

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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

JULY 13, 2021

Remote , which provides tools to manage onboarding, payroll, benefits and other services for tech and other knowledge workers located in remote countries — be they contractors or full-time employees — has raised $150 million. “We are doubling down on our approach,” van der Voort said.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The eight teams hail from all over the world – including entrants from Montreal, Toronto, Portugal and Bulgaria – and have spent the last three months tirelessly working away on their hardware-based startup ideas for the Internet of Things in preparation for today.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This is SoftBank’s first property tech investment in Europe, although it’s no stranger to the iBuyer model. It’s already doing some work in Portugal, and we understand France is next on the list. Both it and Fifth Wall were big backers of Opendoor, one of the pioneers in the space.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

The startup says it’s been seeing growth rates hitting, on average, more than 30% month-on-month, as employer demand for its services accelerates. “With the funding, we want to accelerate our expansion in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal & Spain, besides our core market Germany.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Give yourself a pat on the back — and then go read the rest of this issue of Week in Review, TechCrunch’s newsletter summing up the past seven days in tech ( sign up here to get it directly in your inbox every Saturday). You’ve made it. Goodness knows I lack his wit, but I’ll try to make up for it in pith.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

And while its share price is being hammered at the moment in a wider downturn for tech stocks overall, it’s a strong enough concept that it’s inspired a number of others to follow in its footsteps. The newer service launched a year ago now accounts for more than 25% of transaction volume.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2020

The Instagram post has since disappeared, but SlashGear saved a copy of its text first: Mellow was launched in 2014 by 2 founders out of Lisbon, Portugal. Mellow is not the only smart home tech company to try asking for more money for things that were originally supposed to be free.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Fresh off the launch of a new product designed to measure engineering performance metrics, Lisbon-based Codacy has closed a $15 million Series B funding round led by Bright Pixel Capital, the corporate VC of one of Portugal’s biggest employers, the Sonae Group. To date, Codacy has raised $28 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

All of which is to say that the muscular sense of injustice that segments of Spanish society have willingly — and even viscerally — demonstrated when they feel unfair impacts flowing from shiny new tech tools should not be dismissed; rather it looks like people here have their finger on the pulse of what’s really important to them.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Formally announced at Web Summit in Portugal today, Mozilla Ventures builds on other recent investments the company has made as part of its Mozilla Builders startup incubator program, though in truth Mozilla has sporadically invested in nearly 20 companies over the past decade.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Video calls are coming to X CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed in her first TV interview that video calls will be a new feature coming to the service, as part of its transformation into an “everything app.” The service was recently renamed to XBlue during the Twitter rebrand to X. Lawsuit time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Clearbanc wants to replace friends and family money, a concept that D’Souza says is “quite elitist,” with its own version of an angel check, while also offering founder services such as supply chain analysis, introductions to networks and competitive landscape analysis. Mobility-as-a-service. Some personal news. Seen on TechCrunch.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

In early December, as media attention mounted and tech workers across the country came to her defense, Gebru waited to see how Google would respond. Some claimed to work in tech, using phrases like “pro-DEI minority,” “She/them,” and “LBGTQ Latinx” in their bios. What is this company capable of? she asked herself. When Emily M.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Find out more on this new service here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

As consumers around the world slowly start to get moving again — fingers crossed that new waves of COVID-19 cases do not set that back — one of the big players in on-demand mass transportation services is announcing a growth round to move with them. but mainly had to reduce or completely stop services in the last year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

These formed part of a broader series of surveys we’re doing regularly for TechCrunch+ , our subscription service that unpacks key issues for startups and investors. We’d like to know how your city’s startup scene is evolving, how the tech sector is being impacted by COVID-19 and generally how your city will grow. Lisbon/Portugal.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Alex gives a letter grade to each of the 18 most notable tech companies that have gone public this year, and observes that most them are continuing to stay in positive territory from their initial prices. Mike is also working on a Lisbon survey and we’d love to hear from any investors focused on the city and Portugal in general.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

ADA standards stipulate that public accommodations like stadiums and theaters must ensure that people with disabilities receive effective communication through auxiliary aids or services like braille, sign language interpreters, and assistive listening devices. In the U.S., The company is eyeing FIFA 2026 next.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 24, 2025

This is not a long-term solution, but it gives you plenty of time to stream the event before recovering your investment. What is the best VPN for streaming?

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Engadget

MARCH 27, 2025

Electronic Arts (EA) has signed a multi-year deal with Amazon Luna , the tech company's cloud gaming service. The cloud gaming service first launched in 2022 and has previously launched in the US, UK, Germany and Canada. Today it's also expanding its availability to Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg and Portugal.

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