Consumers in Europe know of Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when many businesses offer deals. However there is a new trend emerging in the region that may soon surpass it, known as Travel Tuesday. The phenomenon, which The New York Times credited to online-booking platform Hopper for popularizing, is a day on which shoppers can find deals ... Read more ›
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Having experienced intense interest from the alternative-investment community of users both in the US an in Europe, wealth tracking app Claritus.io’s recent launch out of beta will allow users to balance their investment portfolio across a suite of new and familiar investment vehicles including securities, real estate, cryptocurrencies, private equity, VC, and employee stock ownership ... Read more ›
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The last decade has seen a fast track to digitization, significantly raising the value of data in enterprises. According to McKinsey Global Institute, data-driven organizations are not only 23 times more likely to acquire customers, but they’re also 19 times more likely to be profitable. While this has seen businesses expand their artillery of data ... Read more ›
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Digital transformation continues at a blistering pace. For example, it was found that 70% of European organizations now say that migrating more workloads to the cloud is the most important cloud initiative for their business. This is closely followed by 59% saying that optimizing current cloud use to cut down on costs is their next ... Read more ›
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Although cryptocurrencies have been around since 2009, when the famously elusive developer Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, they have grown significantly in both breadth and diversity in the course of a little over a decade. What was once just #trending “street talk” in the tech scene, is now quickly becoming a prominent transactional currency in 2022—with ... Read more ›
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The noise of the past ten years has left many Europeans with tinnitus. Brexit, The Syrian Refugee Crisis. Putin’s unprovoked attacks on Crimea, Georgia, and Ukraine. The rise of right-wing populism fueled by unfettered social media advances into our daily lives. Heatwaves. The pandemic. Inflation. The question of NATO itself. To call the complexity of ... Read more ›
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It’s no secret pet ownership soared during the pandemic, as people turned to four-legged friends to cope with lockdowns and loneliness. In the UK alone, 3.2 million households welcomed a new pet. But with the boom, came the realization that pet care needs modernization and to follow in the footsteps of our own rapidly-evolving health ... Read more ›
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In a bid to win an economic war, the Ukrainian fintech startup FuelFinance is fighting tirelessly to provide resources to the country’s small businesses amid an economic catastrophe brought on by the invasion. According to the World Bank, Ukraine’s economy is expected to shrink by 45.1% this year, “although the magnitude of the contraction will ... Read more ›
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Earlier this year, Spotify introduced clickable cards for its digital audio ads, enabling users to take action after hearing promotional content. Considering that audio has long been a one-way street, where people can only listen without being able to participate, this is a considerable step toward more interactive audio. Currently, the average person consumes 97 ... Read more ›
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It’s increasingly clear that more innovative digital integrations are needed across all types of technology as the majority of commerce is routed to a screen. This has resulted in many industries employing some form of a cloud ecosystem, with the worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services forecasted to grow another 20.4% in 2022, totaling ... Read more ›
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When the pandemic hit, rates of loneliness soared on account of a variety of factors but mainly thanks to social distancing. In addition, the level of physical activity was significantly reduced. According to one study, 69% of participants who were once classified as very active before the pandemic (83% male and 46% female) then dropped ... Read more ›
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Venture capital firm Samaipata has granted €26 million in pre-seed funding to Vivla, a Madrid-based prop-tech startup offering fractional home ownership programs — something the company sees as a necessary response to post-pandemic lifestyles. “Samaipata is one of the top investors in terms of startups: it makes us really proud to think that they are ... Read more ›
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When Europe birthed the first industrial revolution, new methods of steam and water-driven milling resulted in the capability of economies to produce massive amounts of refined agricultural goods for the first time in history, and the resulting population explosion led subsequently to the first iteration of globalization. Now, The Fourth Industrial Revolution promises to unearth ... Read more ›
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Accelerator Open Web Collective’s new combined $650,000 USD funding offer is great news for European startups looking to create new blockchain-enabled decentralized apps (dApps) for the Web3 era. Their new funding package is designed to pair leading investors, mentors, and corporate partners, with promising pre-seed and seed-stage startup founders through OWC’s competitive three-month accelerator program. ... Read more ›
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Ukraine has begun using controversial facial recognition technology in hopes of identifying fallen Russian soldiers. The partnership with U.S.-based startup Clearview AI was formed after the company’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That, sent a letter directly to Kyiv offering assistance. In a statement from Ton-That, he said, “I’m pleased to confirm that Clearview AI has provided ... Read more ›
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The Next Frontier of Content Creation: Audio-As-A-Service Growth in audio content has accelerated in the past few years, with the average time spent listening per person hitting 16 hours and 14 minutes weekly. The more we adapt to the digital world, the more these numbers are predicted to increase as well. Still, audio has long ... Read more ›
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As the EU joins the global crypto regulation stage, the U.K. and other crypto powerhouses have begun designing their own regulatory processes. Read more ›
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The idea that data visualization requires a high degree of technical expertise across a company’s entire tech stack means that the process of understanding key performance indicators (KPIs) in real-time can be messy and complicated unless you or members of your team are steeped in data and analytics background. Demand is so high for big ... Read more ›
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By: Yan Ketelers, CMO at Venly, an NFT strategy and product company Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have exploded in popularity and entrenched themselves into many different industries over the past year. There’s no wonder that media companies are rolling up their sleeves and experimenting with NFTs too. The good news is that media companies are sitting on a ... Read more ›
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In light of Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine, countries around the world, particularly in the EU, must begin an uncomfortable discussion about how developing nations or at-risk nations often look for aid from wealthier nations, but only after the developed nations have made their own high demands of the country in need. The timeliness of ... Read more ›
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Following large-scale cyber attacks, Ukraine moved to increase its cyber warfare capabilities on Feb. 26 with its announcement of a new volunteer “IT Army” — a move experts fear could escalate the Russo-Ukrainian War. Ukraine’s deputy prime minister and minister for digital transformation, Fedorov Mykhailo, made the announcement on his official Telegram channel. He later ... Read more ›
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