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London’s Sencillo, a new FinTech venture launching a finance platform that helps parents plan, fund and manage their children’s education with confidence, control, and clarity, has secured over €397k (£350k) pre-Seed funding. The round was led by Fuel Ventures. Adam Amos, CEO and founder of Sencillo: “Education is one of the biggest investments any parent will make. ...
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Warren Buffett is retiring as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at age 95, ending a 55-year run that reshaped how generations of Americans think about investing. "The 95-year-old, often referred to as the 'Oracle of Omaha' and the 'billionaire next door,' will relinquish the title after a career that saw him turn a failing textile firm into one of the most successful asset managers in the world," reports NBC News. From... Read more ›
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Amazon allows India-based employees affected by H-1B visa delays to work remotely until March, with strict restrictions on coding. Read more ›
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Pibroch(CiH) writes: According to the obituary linked, Stewart Cheifet of Computer Chronicles fame has died. The obituary states he passed Dec 28, 2025. Cheifet and Digital Research founder Gary Kildall hosted the public television show The Computer Chronicles starting in 1984, and Stewart continued to host the show well into the 1990s. He was well-known for his affable presence and adeptness at interviewing guests and finding out the straight dope... Read more ›
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Instagram boss Adam Mosseri is closing out 2025 with a 20-images-deep dive into what a new era of "infinite synthetic content" means as it all becomes harder and harder to distinguish from reality, and the old, more personal Instagram feed that he says has been "dead" for years. Last year, The Verge's Sarah Jeong wrote […] Read more ›
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As the calendar flips to 2026, we’re hitting refresh once again. The new year is ushering in a familiar mix of anticipation, curiosity, and excitement for what’s next in mobile tech. 2025 kept the industry moving at full speed. From ever-more capable smartphones, tablets and wearables to Agentic AI going mainstream, it was another year where innovation didn’t slow down for a moment. Behind the scenes at GSMArena HQ, it... Read more ›
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The Trump phone was originally set to be released in August, but won't be shipped until the end of January, Trump Mobile's customer service said. Read more ›
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After some confusion about when Trump's gold phone will make an appearance, it appears to be delayed until 2026. Read more ›
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"Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary said his character Milton Rockwell in "Marty Supreme" was almost made into an actual vampire. Read more ›
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The invitation to Mayor-elect Mamdani's inauguration lists Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero as prohibited items but does not provide a reason. Read more ›
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An abandoned New York City subway station will briefly return to public life when mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is sworn in there on January 1. Read more ›
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Zohran Mamdani, currently a state assemblyman, is set to get a large raise when he takes office as mayor of New York City. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: France intends to follow Australia and ban social media platforms for children from the start of the 2026 academic year. A draft bill preventing under-15s from using social media will be submitted for legal checks and is expected to be debated in parliament early in the new year. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has made it clear in recent weeks that... Read more ›
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The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing number of tech startups are stocking offices with free nicotine pouches as founders and employees chase sharper focus and stamina in hyper-competitive AI-era work environments. The Wall Street Journal reports: Earlier this year, two nicotine startups -- Lucy Nicotine and Sesh -- made branded vending machines filled with flavored products for analytics company Palantir Technologies. Both machines are in the company's Washington,... Read more ›
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What happened in the Abyss—and how are Hawkins' heroes and villains faring in the aftermath of their greatest battle? Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg famously dropped out of college to focus on Facebook. The cofounder of Manus says he took the same path — and now they have merged. Read more ›
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From a billionaire gathering in St. Barts to Antigua, here is where the wealthiest people's superyachts, were spotted before New Year's Eve. Read more ›
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Nonstick pans are great at a variety of foods but they fail at the high heat needed for searing meats. If you plan on searing steak, a different pan is the way to go. Read more ›
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European food retail remains one of the most dynamic and strategic sectors within the continental economy, with grocery sales in Europe growing by around 2.4% in 2024 and food sales volumes staying broadly stable following the post-pandemic recovery. At the same time, the sector is being reshaped by digitalisation, sustainability requirements, and changing consumer expectations around ... Read more ›
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Octopus Energy Group has raised €850 million ($1 billion) for its technology company, Kraken. The round is the first standalone investment into Kraken and values the business at €7.3 billion ($8.65 billion). This transaction establishes Kraken’s formal independence and demerger from Octopus. The round was led by D1 Capital Partners, with participation from Fidelity International, ... Read more ›
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Raising a funding round does not start when you share your deck. It starts long before that moment, with the reputation, presence, and profile you build in the months leading up to it. Investors form early impressions well before a formal process begins, and those impressions are shaped by how clearly you communicate your vision, ... Read more ›
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NanoXplore, a French fabless company, has secured €20 million in funding to speed up its diversification into the defence sector by developing security-focused products and to back its strategic external growth plans in Europe. The funding was raised from European defence company MBDA and the Defence Innovation Fund managed by Bpifrance. “As an independent French ... Read more ›
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Kyiv-based Reface, a startup that develops AI tools to empower content creation, has secured €15.2 million ($18 million) in non-dilutive user acquisition funding from Singapore’s PvX Partners. PvX Partners is a financial services and data intelligence platform for consumer apps. It co-invests in a company’s sales and marketing budget, and in return, receives a share ... Read more ›
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Europe’s decarbonisation journey is often told through the lens of renewable generation, smart grids and electric passenger cars. Yet one of the biggest and least transformed sectors is only now shifting gears: heavy-duty road freight. Trucks are the backbone of European logistics and the arteries of modern trade. They are also among the hardest segments ... Read more ›
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Oulu-based CleanTech company Filtrabit has secured a €2 million funding commitment from Ajanta Innovations 2 Ky for its coming financing round. The Finnish startup plans to use the capital to expand the deployment of its modular dust extraction technology into new markets outside Finland, primarily, but not exclusively, in the Nordics, Central Europe, and India. ... Read more ›
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The main thing AI has done for business is fundamentally change competition. When AI is in skilled hands, it has effectively reduced the cost of feedback, which is essential for building better products, to almost zero. The rise of AI closely resembles the famous “Pottery Experiment”, an anecdote illustrating the power of quantity over perfection, ... Read more ›
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There is no denying that European tech sovereignty is in vogue. After years of voices from the sidelines warning of the risks of Europe being invisible in the echelons of big tech, such warnings have gone mainstream. But what does it mean to be a European company? For every homegrown champion startup built in and ... Read more ›
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