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Amsterdam’s Factris, a FinTech specialising in financing solutions for SMEs using invoices as collateral, announced a €100 million funding facility from Brand New Day Bank. The funding is dedicated to financing SME factoring across Europe, enabling Factris to support sellers in nine countries and manage receivables from debtors in 27 – primarily EU markets. Brian ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and more. The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 […] Read more ›
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A huge AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage has taken out multiple internet services including Alexa, Ring, Snapchat and more –here's what we know so far. Read more ›
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Roblox, Fortnite, and a number of the world's other biggest games have gone offline as a huge outage affects the internet this morning. Read more Read more ›
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GameHub has no shortage of trackers, analytics, and heavy-handed permissions, but GameHub Lite is to the rescue. Read more ›
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Amazon is tracking a massive AWS outage that has crippled large parts of the internet. Read more ›
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"Thinking Week" at 1440 is designed to boost innovation and employee satisfaction. Workers cancel meetings, and the CEO encourages walks in the woods. Read more ›
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Organizers say the “No Kings” protests drew more than seven million people across 2,700 cities. The crowds included high-profile politicians, A-list celebrities, and more than a few creative inflatables. Read more ›
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Services of Snapchat, Canva, Signal, Perplexity, Duolingo, and Open AI —used by millions every day across the world— are down across the world. The disruption appears to be linked to an outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read more ›
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A massive internet outage occurred Monday morning, impacting Amazon, Snapchat, Roblox, and more. Read more ›
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UK-based CoMind secures €87.8M to develop technology to monitor and treat the brain without invasive procedures. London-based CoMind, a company transforming brain healthcare with its non-invasive technology, has secured $102.5M (nearly €87.88M) in funding. The company plans to complete clinical trials, pursue regulatory approval in the US, and expand its team. The funding round was ... Read more Read more ›
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Elon Musk has proposed a public coding contest between xAI’s Grok 5 and former OpenAI research lead Andrej Karpathy, comparing it to the 1997 showdown between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue. Read more ›
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One of the perks of his job, McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski says, is that he gets to eat at the fast food chain "a lot." Read more ›
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Photos have emerged from the landing site that show the plane's body in pieces, with the tail section separated from the fuselage. Read more ›
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If you want to cut heating costs, learn when using a space heater is more efficient than central heat. Read more ›
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On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date. The milestone was reached on board the 132nd Falcon 9 launch of 2025, tying the previous annual launch record with more than two full months to go in the year. Of […] Read more ›
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A sweeping review of over 200 studies finds that aerobic exercises like walking and cycling offer the best pain relief and mobility gains for knee osteoarthritis. Compared to other types of exercise, aerobic training showed the strongest evidence across short- and long-term outcomes. All forms of exercise were found to be safe, but experts recommend making aerobic activity the foundation of treatment. Read more ›
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The platform's immune system kicked in when a large number of accounts associated with Donald Trump sought attention there. Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based energy scale-up Return has entered a long-term partnership with APG, on behalf of pension fund ABP – the former of which is investing €300 million in new growth equity for a minority stake to support the platform. “Partnering with APG marks an important step toward a more connected and resilient European energy system,” said ... Read more ›
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Arbio, a startup out of Berlin applying AI to the service-heavy property rental sector, is announcing its €31 million Series A funding round – bringing total funding to over €38 million. The round was led by Eurazeo, with investors including AI-focused VC OpenOcean and previous investors Atlantic Labs and leading angels Philipp Freise and Justin ... Read more ›
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Munich, a city known for its role in technology and innovation, recently hosted Photonica 2025 – the final event of the PhotonHub Europe project. Taking place on 25 June at automatica’s Start-up Arena, happening alongside Laser World of Photonics at Messe München, the half-day gathering served as an important platform to connect promising startups with ... Read more ›
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Venture capital is a critical driver of innovation, and in recent years, Malta has carved out a place for itself on the European map of startup investment. Its strategic location, international business links, and government-backed initiatives have made the island an increasingly attractive base for both founders and investors. The country welcomes several events throughout ... Read more ›
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Afori, a new AI platform purpose-built for insurance brokers out of Berlin, today announced its official launch out of stealth alongside the closing of a €4 million pre-Seed funding round. The round was led by General Catalyst with participation from Yellow, Booom, insurance industry leaders including Christopher Lohmann (Founder the Mulberry Ventures, ex-CEO HDI and ... Read more ›
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London-based cybersecurity startup CybaVerse has secured €5.9 million in Series A funding to accelerate its growth and product development. The round was co-led by Pembroke VCT and Airbridge Equity Partners, with participation from Haatch, and legal support provided by boutique firm Culbert Ellis. Founded in 2018, CybaVerse has evolved from a boutique consultancy into a ... Read more ›
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SLNG.ai, a speech infrastructure startup out of Barcelona building the first radically global platform for voice AI, today announced it has raised €3.3 million in pre-Seed funding to challenge the US-centric voice technology ecosystem that “has left billions of users worldwide in digital silence.“ The round, led by Earlybird VC, will accelerate SLNG’s plan to ... Read more ›
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Amid record funding and growth, Britain is shaping itself as one of the world’s top innovation powerhouses – and it’s doing so by reinvesting in an age-old advantage: its universities. This time, however, it’s not just academia leading the charge. A three-pronged alliance between researchers, investors, and AI infrastructure is shaping a new wave of ... Read more ›
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As enterprise businesses expand across borders, one quiet challenge can stall growth: payments. From managing multiple acquirers to navigating PSD2, local payment methods, and high decline rates, scaling transactions is rarely simple. That’s where payment orchestration — and players like Akurateco — step in. The European-founded white-label payment software company has built a Payment Orchestration ... Read more ›
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With its sunny climate, vibrant culture, and strong support for the startup ecosystem, Valencia has become a launchpad for innovative ideas that span diverse sectors, from cutting-edge technologies in health and sustainability to transformative advancements in mobility and digital platforms. The city is Spain’s 3rd biggest startup hub, and is slowly but surely glimbing the ... Read more ›
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