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London-based Hometree, a residential energy services company, announced on Thursday that it has raised a £50M (approximately €60M) mezzanine facility backed by CPPIB Credit Investments., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The announcement comes four months after raising £250M (approximately €300M) asset-backed debt facility from Barclays. The UK company will use the ... Read more
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Kristen Radtke / The Verge Bluesky feels like the big winner right now. I’ve been covering Bluesky ever since I got my invite in April 2023. I’ve felt the platform has always had promise, especially with features like feeds with custom algorithms and the ability to let users pick their own moderation filters. But for a long while, it didn’t have the critical mass of users that I could follow... Read more ›
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7-Eleven stores are at the center of a three-way bidding war between the company's management, its founders, and a Canadian convenience store company. Read more ›
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Police in Florida arrested a man on grand theft charges for a fake Elon Musk Facebook scam that duped an elderly woman out of $250,000. Read more ›
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has stopped offering updates to Windows 11 version 24H2 on PCs that have certain Ubisoft games installed, Bleeping Computer reports. The company made the move after complaints that Star Wars Outlaws and games in the Assassin’s Creed series were crashing after installing the new Windows update. Microsoft confirmed the “compatibility hold” in a status update yesterday evening, and says it’s working with... Read more ›
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1969's "The War Games" serial is getting colorized and coming with new sights and sounds for newer Doctor Who fans. Read more ›
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Action, Henry Cavill, and romance await in Lionsgate's eventual reboot of the beloved Highlander series. Read more ›
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The Times sued OpenAI in December, arguing that the company used its articles without permission to train ChatGPT. Read more ›
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Musk made a similar comment on social media years before he acquired X (then Twitter) in 2022. Read more ›
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While the action comedy film "Wolfs" recently became the most-viewed movie in Apple TV+ history, plans for a sequel have been canceled. In an interview shared by Deadline today, Wolfs director Jon Watts said he canceled the sequel because he "no longer trusted" Apple as a creative partner. He told the publication that Apple made a last-minute decision to pivot away from widely releasing the movie in theaters without discussing... Read more ›
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After making $19.2 million in advance screenings, the movie is reportedly heading for a domestic debut of $120 million. Read more ›
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Cher discusses how growing up impoverished shaped her habits, her struggles with overspending, and the risks of not understanding finances in her book. Read more ›
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Microsoft’s new Game Assist browser overlay can automatically surface tips and tricks for you. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Edge Game Assist, a new Edge-powered in-game browser overlay, is available for beta testing in Windows 11. The “game-aware” overlay lives in the Microsoft Game Bar and is designed to automatically find and show you links to tips and guides for the game you’re playing, using the Edge... Read more ›
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Riot Games has pulled a promotional poster after fans pointed out it seemed to have been made using AI. Read more Read more ›
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LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman raised concerns about Elon Musk's conflict of interest in guiding Trump on AI laws since the Tesla CEO also owns xAI. Read more ›
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Stockholm-based Candela, a company specialising in hydrofoiling electric boats and ferries, has finalised its Series C funding round, raising an additional $14M (approximately €13.34M) to surpass $40M in total funding for 2024. The capital will support scaling production to meet growing demand for its electric watercraft, including the Candela P-12. The P-12 has been sold ... Read more Read more ›
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London-based Lighthouse, a commercial intelligence platform for the travel and hospitality industry, has secured nearly $370M (approximately €351.83M) in Series C growth funding. The company has achieved “unicorn” status with this round. The investment, led by global investment firm KKR, is backed by its Next Generation Technology III Fund. Existing investors, including Spectrum Equity, F-Prime ... Read more Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based Celebratix, a blockchain ticketing startup, announced on Tuesday that has secured €1.1M in investments from numerous Dutch serial entrepreneurs, the Swedish VC uBIT, and the UK business angel Justin Rees. The Dutch company backed by Solana will use the funds to expand internationally, particularly in Sweden and the United Kingdom. “We are beyond excited ... Read more Read more ›
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Bochum-based GEMESYS, a German AI hardware startup, has secured €8.6M in a pre-seed funding round. The investment was led by the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund together with Atlantic Labs, with additional contributions from NRW.BANK, Sony Innovation Fund, and Silicon Valley’s Plug and Play Tech Center. The round was also supported by grant funding from the ... Read more Read more ›
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Overijssel, the Netherlands-based Qredits, a microfinance institution, has signed a new credit facility of €15M with ING Nederland. Elwin Groenevelt, CEO of Qredits, made the official announcement on LinkedIn through a post. “After a three-year absence, ING is fortunately part of the financiers of Qredits again,” says Groenevelt. “ING Bank was one of the founding ... Read more Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based Mews, a company specialised in hospitality technology, on Thursday, announced that it has acquired Gothenburg,-based Atomize, the Revenue Management Software (RMS) provider. “We couldn’t be more excited about being part of the Mews family,” says Alexander Edström, CEO of Atomize. “With Atomise now part of Mews, it marks an exciting new chapter for the ... Read more Read more ›
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Paris-based Twenty, the company behind open-source CRM, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $5M (approximately €4.7M) in a seed funding round led by Runa Capital. Other participating investors include the founders of HubSpot, Front, Cal.com, Sentry, and Photoroom, among others. The company will use the funds to further grow its open-source community, enhance its ... Read more Read more ›
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Lyon, France-based Eden AI, an AI integration platform, announced on Thursday that it has secured €3M in a seed round led by Galion.exe. Other investors, including 50 Partners and several prominent business angels, including Olivier Pomel (Co-Founder of Datadog), Sébastien Pahl (Co-Founder of Docker), and Alix de Sagazan (Co-Founder of ABTasty), also participated. The French ... Read more Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based Treety, an ESG reporting, monitoring & compliance solution for alternative asset managers, has secured fresh funding from venture capital firm Arket Ventures. With this funding, Treety plans to expand its capabilities, furthering its mission to empower businesses and investors to integrate sustainability into their decision-making processes. Resolving ESG data challenges Founded in 2020 by ... Read more Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based LearnWise, an AI-driven platform enhancing the student experience, has secured €2M in a seed round of funding led by London-based VC firm Emerge. The platform, which has reduced support queries by 50 per cent for over 720,000 students worldwide, aims to use the funding to enhance its product and expand its team. The move ... Read more Read more ›
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