The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

The group said in a press release that it plans a fourth lawsuit in Portugal. “We The case grew out of the tech giant’s “Batterygate” controversy, when iPhone users discovered in 2017 that iOS limited processor speeds as iPhone batteries aged.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 17, 2008

My first day was hanging out at the Young Researchers seminar, which was organized by Professors Paul Blenkhorn (the UK's first professor of access tech) and the ICCHP host Klaus Miesenberger. The goal is to get more people working to make this happen: getting access tech to every person in the world who needs it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

And the French government is taking advantage of this opportunity to make some progress on the tech startup policy front. In an interview with TechCrunch, France’s digital minister Cédric O shared some news for the European tech ecosystem. It’s the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union right now.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The food tech industry is effectively now going into fast food. Both employ a lot of tech in their back-end to improve efficiencies. 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. Sweetgreen in the U.S. It’s raised $478.6

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Web Summit announced today that it will revive RISE , one of Asia’s largest tech conferences, in March 2022, moving it to Kuala Lumpur after five years in Hong Kong. Web Summit has already announced plans to hold its flagship event as an in-person conference in November 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

It also has operations in Portugal and the U.K. There have been dozens, probably hundreds, of tech companies built on the concept of arming the non-Amazons of this world with tools that help them compete with, and leverage, Amazon better. It has now raised more than $450 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Australia and Portugal — like Africa, home to other major, global agricultural economies — and operates in 18 countries across Africa, the Americas, Europe and Australia. . billion rand (~$100 million) fund for tech startups in South Africa. . It has offices in the U.S., Image Credits: Aerobotics.

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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. That strategy could turn Plum into a mainstream product with less tech-savvy people. Fintech startup Plum is doubling the number of countries where it operates. Originally from the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal and the U.S. But it’s not a surprise in the wider market context we are in at the moment, with tech companies big and small all seeing a downturn in their finances and valuations in the face of a wider cooling of the market. billion valuation just two months ago.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Gone are the days when pitches to VCs would have to overcome skepticism on market size, and consumer readiness to adopt tech-enabled learning solutions. Most of these markets are in Northern Europe, so we hope, and expect, to see some major players breaking out in Southern Europe in 2022 (particularly in Spain, Portugal and Italy).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

First up is Spain and Portugal (launching next month), followed by Italy, the U.K. 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. and Germany.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

This means that you can produce cannabis, for example, in Portugal, and sell to any EU country as long as you have export/import licenses. This means that you can produce cannabis, for example, in Portugal and sell to any EU country as long as you have export/import licenses.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This latest tranche of funding is being co-led by new investor Eurazeo Growth and Dawn Capital, with PayPal Ventures, HMI Capital, Heartcore, ABN AMRO Ventures, Poste Italiane and BNP Paribas’ venture arm, Opera Tech Ventures, also participating. n, co-founder and CEO of Tink, in a statement. It is live in Sweden, U.K.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Sources say Web Summit, the giant tech conference company that specialized in very large gatherings in cities like Lisbon, is poised to spin out its Hopin-like proprietary conference software as an independent startup. Web Summit says it will return to an in-person conference in November 2021, in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

From Asias tech hubs to Europes historic towns, these 10 destinations are leading the remote work revolution and offering a chance to truly engage, not just pass through. Portugals Digital Nomad Visa is an ideal solution for remote workers, freelancers, and entrepreneurs looking to live and work legally in Portugal.

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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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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 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 funding is coming in the form of a €100 million Series D and €300 million in debt to buy up and fix up properties.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We spoke to four food security organizations in Colombia, Portugal, South Africa, and the United States to better understand the challenges facing organizations working in food security and the ways the pandemic has shifted operations for them.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

But ironically, the world of employment has had another focus — as a problem for tech startups to tackle. The tech investment market, and the tech market overall, has undoubtedly been contracting this year. Factorial to date has picked up some 7,000 customers across Europe in countries like the U.K.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Interestingly, Fifth Wall is also an investor in Opendoor as well as Loft, a Latin American real estate tech unicorn. Today, it operates in Spain and Mexico, with plans to open in Portugal in January 2022 and expand across Europe over time. . Deutsche Bank provided the nearly $450 million in debt financing. Luxor has invested in U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In addition, Shield opened an R&D facility in Lisbon this year, Weitzman said, adding that the company chose Portugal because it is becoming a major European tech hub. The company said that it has also increased its customer base by 250% since its previous funding round back in January.

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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. Remote raises $35M to help orgs with global workforce payroll, benefits and more.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

The Series A funding will be used to capitalize on growing demand by expanding into new regions — with Localyze saying it will start by focusing on “major hubs” for international talent, in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and the UK, so it can target more high-growth companies with offices across Europe.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring.

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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

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 26, 2022

The package of support looks substantial — covering key areas like tax breaks for investors, talent incentives like stock options and a new digital nomad visa to attract international tech workers, among other measures aimed at cutting red tape and shrinking the time and cost of starting up in Spain. So this is also going to be a revolution.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Bounce also established a European HQ in Lisbon, Portugal, last year to prep for its regional growth push.). The new funding will go on fast scaling in Europe — where key markets it’s targeting include Italy, France, and the UK. The Series A money will also be put towards expanding the number of services it offers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office Court documents show that Twitter owes three months’ rent to its Boulder landlord, and a judge has signed off on evicting the tech giant from that office. In fact, it’s unclear whether anyone else can even see your check briefly reappear.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The Startup Act is the first piece of dedicated legislation meant to help create tech innovation within Spain. Other news this week: Lisbon’s startup scene rises as Portugal gears up to be a European tech tiger. Lisbon’s startup scene rises as Portugal gears up to be a European tech tiger. Some personal news.

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