IT総合 UK to unveil ‘Humphrey’ assistant for civil servants with other AI plans to cut bureaucracy
A week after the U.K. government announced a sweeping plan to make big investments into AI, it’s laying out more details...
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IT総合 IT総合 AI vision startup Metropolis is buying Oosto (formerly known as AnyVision) for just $125M, sources say
The general hype around all things AI is not lifting all boats: Certain startups continue to struggle and are looking fo...
IT総合 Ken Howery: the tech mogul at the center of Trump’s Greenland ambition
Surprise! Donald Trump’s big, audacious ambition to buy Greenland from Denmark has a tech angle. Ken Howery, named by U....
IT総合 LinkedIn adds free AI tools for job hunters and recruiters
If you’ve ever applied or thought of applying for a job via LinkedIn, you’ll know that the experience can be immediately...
IT総合 Synthesia snaps up $180M at a $2.1B valuation for its B2B AI video platform
As the world continues to work through how to handle the explosion of deepfake content online, it seems that not all AI-...
IT総合 UK’s CMA slaps Google Search and its 90%+ market share with an antitrust investigation
The Competition and Markets Authority — the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog — is wasting no time in lodging its first official...
IT総合 More money comes to AI healthcare: Qventus nabs $105M at a $400M+ valuation
Healthcare is proving to be one of the more lucrative industries when it comes to building AI solutions to speed up how ...
IT総合 UK throws its hat into the AI fire
In 2023, the U.K. made a big song and dance about the need to consider the harms of AI, giving itself a leading role in ...
IT総合 PrettyDamnQuick snaps up $25M to speed up online checkout
A startup hoping to provide a credible alternative to Amazon has picked up funding to double down on the gap in the mark...
IT総合 Grand Games, the Turkish gaming startup behind pouring game Magic Sort, drinks up $30M
Gaming startups — specifically those building casual mobile games — are very hot in Turkey right now, and today another ...
IT総合 Nomupay raises $37M on a $200M valuation to build payment rails in underserved markets across Asia
Wirecard, a German fintech that raised hundreds of millions of dollars only to collapse in 2020 in a sea of scandal and ...
IT総合 Just Eat Takeaway completes Grubhub sale to Wonder for a modest $650M
After looking for a buyer for more than two years, Just Eat Takeaway.com has finally closed the menu on Grubhub. On Tues...
IT総合 Prosus buys Despegar for $1.7B, taking a bite out of Latin America’s travel sector
Yet another major investment is going down in the travel sector, underscoring its ongoing rebound after the Covid-19 pan...
IT総合 Boon raises $20.5M to build agentic AI tools for fleets
Logistics is the name of the game during the holiday season: Companies that can seal the deal and get people and things ...
IT総合 Decart nabs $32M at $500M+ valuation to build AI tech and ‘open world’ apps
A young startup that emerged from stealth less than two months ago with big-name backers and bigger ambitions is returni...
IT総合 Travel is back: Hostaway raises $365M at a $925M valuation
The tourism and travel industries — after several tough years that included not just a global health pandemic but econom...
IT総合 Agave, the startup behind Find the Cat, finds $18M
A startup out of Turkey that has built a hit casual mobile game where you have to find cats in Where’s Wally-style drawi...
IT総合 Founder who built Snap’s AI launches a snappy new take on video chatbots
A deep learning scientist whose last startup was acquired by Snap to build its My AI chatbot has raised seed funding for...
IT総合 Mynt raises a cool $23M on a $210M valuation to build a smarter expense card for SMEs
Small and medium businesses are getting more love in the world of fintech these days, and one example of that is the gro...
IT総合 OpenAI-backed Speak raises $78M at $1B valuation to help users learn languages by talking out loud
Languages are typically taught by first exposing you to reading and writing, but native speakers always start learning l...
IT総合 From Liam Payne to Coastal Granddaughters, here are the top trending searches for 2024, according to Google
Interest in Donald Trump surged higher than interest in Kamala Harris. People ate up content on Dubai chocolate bars. An...
IT総合 Zopa, the UK neobank, snaps up $85M at a $1B+ valuation, eschewing the IPO route
Some believe Klarna’s planned IPO in 2025 could set the stage for other fintech startups to go public. But with the tech...
IT総合 UK tribunal green-lights $2.7B Facebook collective action antitrust lawsuit
As Meta faces off with antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Europe, a £2.1 billion+ Facebook U.K. class action-style com...
IT総合 Cyber Monday: $49.7B spent online globally, Cyber ‘Week’ totalled $314.9B
The figures are now in for spend on Cyber Monday, the third big online spending day — alongside Thanksgiving and Black F...
IT総合 Confirmed: cloud security specialist Upwind raises $100M on a $900M valuation
In November, we broke the news on how cybersecurity startup Upwind was getting a lot of inbound interest to raise money ...
IT総合 Musk busts through the UK political china shop
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly known as Twitter) may detest the current Kier Starmer government du...
IT総合 Black Friday hits a record $74.4B in sales online, up 5% on last year
The momentum of Thanksgiving — which saw consumers spend a record $33.6 billion spent globally online on the day — looks...
IT総合 Thanksgiving 2024: $33.6B spent online, 72% of that on mobile, says Salesforce
Thanksgiving weekend has long been seen as the traditional start of the most important sales period for retailers, and s...
IT総合 Meta plans to build a $10B subsea cable spanning the world, sources say
Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is the second-biggest driver of internet usage globally. Its prop...
IT総合 Early Thanksgiving online sales numbers are up 7% YoY to $15.6B, on par with pre-pandemic trends
Thanksgiving weekend has long been seen as the traditional start to the most important sales period for retailers, and s...