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 ...
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IT総合 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...
IT総合 Time spent online by adults in the UK jumped by nearly an hour in 2024 says Ofcom
Adults are spending an average of 4 hours and 20 minutes each day online across smartphones, tablets and computers in th...
IT総合 Cardless swipes up $30M to build a new generation of co-branded credit cards
More than a quarter of all U.S. residents use co-branded credit cards today to get discounts and other extras from brand...
IT総合 Say bye to freeform e-bike parking in London following new rules to reduce bike mess on streets
London is putting the brakes on the mess of electric bikes that litter the streets of the city. Today, the local transpo...
IT総合 Appcharge raises $26M to help gaming apps cut out Apple and Google from virtual goods revenues
As Apple and Google continue to battle with regulators and publishers over whether their app stores are monopolistic, a ...
IT総合 Appcharge raises $26M to help gaming apps cut out Apple and Google from virtual goods revenues
As Apple and Google continue to battle with regulators and publishers over whether their app stores are monopolistic, a ...
IT総合 Wiz acquires Dazz for $450M to expand its cybersecurity platform
Wiz, one of the most talked-about names in the world of cybersecurity, is making a significant acquisition to expand its...
IT総合 Lighthouse, an analytics provider for the hospitality sector, lights up with $370M at a $1B valuation
Here is yet one more sign of the travel industry’s noticeable boom: a major growth round for one of the B2B startups ser...
IT総合 H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications
H, the Paris startup founded by Google alums, made a big splash last summer when, out of the blue, it announced a seed r...
IT総合 Venture funding in Europe in 2024 fell to $45 billion, says Atomico
Funding for European tech appears to have stabilised in 2024 after dropping precipitously in 2023, but the signs continu...
IT総合 JobGet, a ‘LinkedIn’ for hourly workers, acquires rival Snagajob
If you’re an hourly worker, the number of go-to options you have for finding new jobs is shrinking a little. JobGe...
IT総合 BitSight buys dark web security specialist Cybersixgill for $115M
More consolidation is afoot in the world of cybersecurity. BitSight, a cybersecurity startup last valued at $2.4 billion...
IT総合 Tourlane, the German travel startup, raises $26M led by Sequoia
The travel industry continues to gain ground, expected to break $11 trillion in revenues this year, and consumers are ev...
IT総合 Meta slapped with a €798M fine in Europe, its biggest yet
Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been hit with yet another huge fine in Europe, this time over ...