IT総合 Twitter and Elon Musk trial confirmed for October 17
Twitter’s bid to get Elon Musk to follow through with his multi-billion-dollar bid to buy the social network will ...
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IT総合 IT総合 Spotify forks out $295M for Findaway, Podsights, Chartable, and Sonantic, filing reveals
Spotify has quietly announced how much it’s paying for four of its recent acquisitions, revealing that it’s ...
IT総合 Datacenter electricity demands could curtail London housing development
Datacenters might be the lifeblood of the modern digital economy, but for housing developers in some parts of London the...
IT総合 Human Security merges with PerimeterX to thwart bots and automated fraud
Human Security, a bot mitigation and fraud detection platform for enterprises, is merging with PerimeterX, a company foc...
IT総合 U.K. antitrust authority sees no competition concerns in music-streaming industry
Some nine months after the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) revealed it was carrying out a market st...
IT総合 Corporate travel tech platform Spotnana nabs $75M
Spotnana, a self-proclaimed “travel-as-a-service” platform that targets corporations, travel management firm...
IT総合 Amazon hikes Prime subscription prices in Europe by up to 43%
Amazon has announced that it’s increasing the prices for its Prime subscription service in Europe, with fees risin...
IT総合 Twitter posts quarterly sales drop and says it spent $33M on pending Musk acquisition
Twitter has published its Q2 2022 results, with the social networking giant’s numbers falling short of analysts...
IT総合 Just Eat Takeaway scales back in France as market value drops 84% in 10 months
Just Eat Takeaway is cutting 390 jobs from its workforce in France, constituting part of a broader global restructuring ...
IT総合 Fonoa raises $60M to automate tax compliance for global companies like Uber and Zoom
Fonoa, a tax automation platform used by companies such as Uber and Zoom, has raised $60 million in a series B round of ...
IT総合 Cultivated meat company Meatable showcases its first product — synthetic sausages
Meatable, a Dutch biotech company developing cultivated “lab-grown” meat products, has revealed images of it...
IT総合 Charles raises $20M to bring conversational commerce to WhatsApp in Europe
Conversational commerce isn’t exactly a new phenomenon, with countless companies using live chats, messaging apps,...
IT総合 Google expands its photo and canvas printing service to Europe and Canada
Google is expanding its photo and canvas prints service to Europe and Canada.
Google has offered printed photo books in ...
IT総合 Push Security launches to make SaaS sprawl and shadow IT safer
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has emerged as a pan-industry force by just about every estimation. SaaS has been bucking m...
IT総合 Microsoft u-turns on policy that would’ve banned commercial open source apps
Microsoft has confirmed that it won’t be introducing a previously announced new policy that would effectively ban ...
IT総合 Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks
Denmark is effectively banning Google’s services in schools, after officials in the municipality of Helsingør were...
IT総合 Acast acquires podcast database Podchaser
Acast, the Swedish tech company that helps businesses and individuals publish and monetize podcasts, has announced plans...
IT総合 Dissecting Microsoft’s proposed policy to ban commercial open-source apps
Microsoft caused considerable consternation in the open source community over the past month, after unveiling a shake up...
IT総合 Richard Branson backs Lightyear as UK stock trading platform launches into Europe
Lightyear, a U.K. fintech startup that promises consumers commission-free trading on U.S. and European stocks, is offici...
IT総合 Cathay Innovation launches third multi-stage startup fund at $1B
Global venture capital firm Cathay Innovation has announced its third fund, targeting €1 billion ($1.05 billion) at a br...
IT総合 Wefox grabs $400M at $4.5B valuation to buck the insurtech downturn trend
European insurance tech startup Wefox has raised $400 million in a series D round of funding, giving the German company ...
IT総合 Google’s Gradient backs Penny to help UK workers merge and manage their pension pots
Pensions, by just about any estimation, are a good thing. Ever since the U.K. government introduced auto-enrolment to th...
IT総合 Klarna confirms $800M raise as valuation drops 85% to $6.7B
European fintech Klarna has confirmed that it has raised $800 million at a pretty hefty valuation drop.
Rumors have been...
IT総合 Kadmos, a salary payments platform for migrant workers, raises $29.5M
Companies from across the industrial spectrum often rely on a migrant workforce, with data from the International Labour...
IT総合 Kids’ finance startup GoHenry marches into Europe with Pixpay acquisition
GoHenry, the U.K.-based financial education app and pre-paid debit card provider for kids, has expanded into Europe for ...
IT総合 Celus, which uses AI to automate circuit board design, raises $25.6M
Just about every electronic contraption you care to think of contains at least one printed circuit board (PCB), which se...
IT総合 Meta sues Chinese company’s US subsidiary for scraping Facebook and Instagram data
Facebook’s parent company Meta has announced that it’s suing the U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese tech company, ...
IT総合 Baserow challenges Airtable with an open source no-code database platform
The burgeoning low-code and no-code movement is showing little sign of waning, with numerous startups continuing to rais...
IT総合 UK to combat Russia’s ‘hostile online warfare’ by forcing internet firms to remove disinformation
The U.K. government is pushing to make “foreign interference” such as disinformation a priority offence unde...
IT総合 Climentum Capital targets European startups with $157M fund to reduce CO2 emissions
Despite the economic downturn and perilous position many startups find themselves in, some industries are seeing continu...