It’s 1 a.m., and my Fanfix inbox has lit up with a notification from one of the influencers I follow. “hey babe, are you busy? do you have time for me? we can chit chat :).”
The sender, @kaylavoid—a 19-year-old Instagram and TikTok influencer who specializes in lip-sync videos and beach lifestyle (read: bikini) content, and who was suggested among the platform’s “on the rise” creators when I made my account—is clearly eager for my atte
Explore the change and impact of Google ads mixed with organic results on user experience and organic search results.
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Faircado, a trailblazing AI-powered second-hand shopping assistant, has successfully closed a €3 million pre-seed funding round. The investment was led by World Fund, Europe’s leading climate VC. The round also involves notable investment from Accel, General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA, and Northzone, via the Slush 100 Startup Prize, as well as Impact Shakers. With […]
Iris.ai, a provider of a world-leading and award-winning AI engine for scientific text understanding, has announced its latest funding round, with an investment of €7.64 million. This investment will support the company’s continued growth and innovation in the field of AI-assisted scientific research, and contribute to a dynamic European AI ecosystem. Silverline Capital, a pioneering […]
Product Fruits, a leading AI-driven digital adoption platform (DAP), has closed a second €1.47 million funding round in just under a year, bringing its total funding amount to €3.22 million. Reflex Capital joins the new round of fundraising, following additional commitments from Product Fruits’ seed-round investors Lighthouse Ventures, LVRG, and Venture to Future Fund. This […]
Learn all about the benefits of log analyzers in scaling your enterprise site’s rankings to new heights in the SERP.
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Concerns about bird flu continue to grow as a new deadly subtype spreads among wild animals and livestock, but researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have begun work on an experimental mRNA vaccine against the virus. And it’s already showing promising preclinical results.
The H5N1 subtype of avian flu has spread among both poultry and cattle and has already
Clarification of that Google data leak that may change your mind about what is known so far
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Leaked Google documents suggest user engagement metrics influence rankings, contradicting past statements. The leak has sparked controversy within the SEO industry over Google's transparency.
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A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday set a fast-track schedule to consider the legal challenges to a new law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. assets by January 19 or face a ban.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colu
Learn to navigate the biggest shopping ad changes and how to integrate them into your ecommerce business.
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Google to discontinue Business Profile chat feature by July 31, urging businesses to seek alternative solutions.
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Climate and fintech startup Cloover has announced a funding round of $114mn (€105mn) to further boost Europe’s switch to renewable energy. The Berlin-based startup was founded in 2022 by Peder Broms, Jodok Betschart, Tony Kirmo, and Valentin Gönczy. Their visi
Riddle me this: What exactly is a Chromebook?
Ask 20 people that question, and you’re bound to get 20 different answers. And for good reason: For the past decade and a half, Google has kept its ChromeOS platform in a near-constant state of evolution.
Since their debut in 2010, Chromebooks have been everything from
The operator of Japan’s destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant demonstrated Tuesday how a remote-controlled robot would retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from one of three damaged reactors later this year for the first time since the 2011 meltdown.
Fintech firm Klarna, one of the early adopters of generative AI (GenAI), said on Tuesday it is using AI for purposes such as running marketing campaigns and generating images, saving about $10 million in costs annually.
The company has cut its sales and marketin
Search engines are undergoing significant changes of late, with many users particularly worried that generative AI could introduce new biases into the results page.
But a new study by researchers at Northeastern and Stanford suggests search was far from perfect in the first place—at least, when it comes to image results.
A recent analysis explores the impact of AI Overviews on organic traffic, highlighting potential shifts in ranking strategies.
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The realm of cybersecurity is continuously evolving, driven by rapid technological advancements and the ever-increasing sophistication of cyber threats. The dynamic nature of the cyber threat landscape requires constant innovation and vigilance, making cybersecurity a top priority for governments, businesses, and individuals worldwide. Across Europe, innovative startups are leading this transformation, introducing cutting-edge solutions that […]
As the West strives to reduce its reliance on China, the EU and Australia have struck a deal to co-build a supply chain of critical minerals, which are an essential to both the green and digital transitions. The Memorandum of Understanding between the two will
Despite ample evidence to the contrary, about one-third of U.S. voters still believe the 2020 election was rigged in favor of President Joe Biden. That’s a troubling figure, particularly as the 2024 rematch between Biden and Donald Trump
While programming languages like JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and Python remain the most commonly used languages among developers, some interesting trends have emerged over the last few years. Stack Overflow’s 2023 Annual Developer Survey found that, although Rust is in
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What happens to your contacts if you lose your phone or switch SIM cards?
Ideally, the answer should be “nothing.” If you’re properly backing up your contacts, your phone’s SIM card shoul
Effective use of AI technologies is this decade’s golden opportunity for companies, large and small. But as every software vendor claims to be “powered by AI,” “AI-ready,” or simply just “AI” – how does one separate potentially game-changing AI innovations from AI fiction? We call the seemingly instant AI-ification of everything “AI washing,” and business leaders need to be aware of this growing trend as they consider which tools to bring into their organizations.
With
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The agency side of the client/agency relationship is one that can be made easier and smoother with 8 specific tips for success.
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Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, created a new WordPress plugin that solves a common site architecture problem and improves SEO
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Claimlane, a startup leading returns and claims management platform for brands and retailers that sell physical products, announced a €1.8 million seed round led by Vendep Capital to accelerate our growth in the UK and mainland Europe. The fundraising will enable them to accelerate their product vision to help furniture and lifestyle brands simplify and […]
Swiipr, a travel paytech company transforming the airline industry’s outdated and inefficient disruption payments systems, has secured €7 million in Series A funding, led by Octopus Ventures, to help drive the company’s next phase of growth. TX Ventures and Solano Partners supported Octopus on the funding round. The capital will be deployed to develop Swiipr’s […]
Copenhagen-based fintech ZTLment announced it has raised €2.4 million in total pre-seed funding from investors PreSeed Ventures, Upfin, Giant Ventures, and strong business angels. With the fresh capital, ZTLment aims to eliminate the need for outdated banking infrastructures once and for all and make it easy to make programmable and peer-to-peer payments. The Danish fintech […]
Lecce-based Zefi.ai, a startup on a mission to change the way software is built empowering product teams, announced it has raised €1.6 million in a pre-seed round led by 360 Capital, a leading Italian-French fund based in Paris and Milan, and 14Peaks Capital, an international Zurich-based fund that invests in B2B SaaS companies in Europe […]
Cloover, a Berlin-based startup, has secured €105 million seed round to fuel the growth of its operating system for the renewable energy industry. The company connects all relevant stakeholders of the energy transition – installers, prosumers, manufacturers, energy providers, and investors – through its software, finance, and energy solutions. The round is led by Lowercarbon […]
Next-generation communications security startup Q*Bird has raised a €2.5 million round to accelerate its growth in the emerging quantum security market. The funding was jointly led by QDNL Participations and Cottonwood Technology Fund, with participation from InnovationQuarter. Q*Bird has developed a unique quantum cryptography (QKD) product called Falqon, which is based on the fundamental laws […]
Temporal is an open-source project focused on durable execution and workflow orchestration. Cofounder and CTO Maxim Fateev tells Ben and Ryan about the challenges of building a cloud service based on an open-source project and how Temporal is helping teams simplify their code and build more features more quickly. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/28/an-open-source-development-paradigm/
NcodiN, a pioneering tech company in optical interposer technology, has successfully secured €3.5 million from top-tier European deep tech investors Elaia, Earlybird and OVNI Capital. NcodiN aims to revolutionize the semiconductor industry and meet demand for innovative technologies to keep up with the pace of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads. This funding […]
Google quietly started indexing EPUB files and can now be seen in the SERPs
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Data reveals Google AI overviews are disrupting ecommerce visibility, pulling product data from non-ranking sources.
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Google Analytics introduces direct export to Google Sheets, streamlining data analysis and collaboration.
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Nový metamateriál exceluje v tom, co mají metamateriály nejraději. Dělá si legraci ze selského rozumu. Téměř přes něj není vidět, ale přitom propustí ještě více světla, než obyčejné sklo. Jeho důmyslná mikrostruktura interpretuje fyzikální zákony vyloženě zlomyslným způsobem. http://www.osel.cz/13493-pres-dabelsky-metamaterial-neni-videt-a-presto-propusti-vic-svetla-nez-sklo.html
Google rolls out a new type of social profile that makes users' written reviews in Search publicly accessible.
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The European Space Agency has hired Airbus to build a space satellite. It will forecast solar storms like the one that caused the biggest northern lights display in over 20 years this May. The satellite, dubbed Vigil, will sit at
The EU’s Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) is set to enter into force by the end of June, following its final adoption today. The key regulation aims to ensure that homegrown clean tech can cover at least 40% of the bloc’s demands by 2030. “Demand is growi
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI raised $6 billion in series B funding, reaching a post-money valuation of $24 billion as investors bet big on challengers to companies like OpenAI in the intensifying AI race.
The funding round was backed by inv
The world of hard tech startups is filled with potential. However, compared to software businesses, their journey to success requires a different approach. This unique landscape demands a fresh perspective on how we navigate the critical inflexion point. In the context of startups, the inflexion point refers to a critical stage in a company’s growth […]
In a perfect world, we would start our day by going through a neatly ordered list of tasks. We’d have a few hours of deep work concentration to cross off half of them. Then we’d have a leisurely lunch with colleagues and go back to whittling down the list until t
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Most New Year’s resolutions are buried by now. April’s a great time for a fresh start. So today’s post focuses on simple, us
Energy tech startup Delta Green [formerly, Nano Green] announced the finalization of a significant investment totaling €2.2 million. The investment is backed by three VC funds — Tilia Impact Ventures as the lead, along with Credo Ventures and Purple Ventures. The funding is earmarked to fuel the company’s expansion into Western Europe and to scale […]
Six NATO members are planning to build a “drone wall” to protect Europe from Russian threats. Finland, Norway, Poland, and the three Baltic states will work together to set up the air defence system. The drones will monitor the thousands of kilomet
Excerpted from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, by Thomas S. Mullaney. Published by The MIT Press. Copyright © 2024 MIT. All rights reserved.
During the early rise of consumer PCs in the 1980s, no Western-designed CPU, printer, monitor, operating system, or programming language was capable of handling Chinese character input or output—not “out of the box,” at least. For the better part of the history of computing, computing techn
Find out why emotional intelligence is a valuable asset. Discover how EQ can help manage conflicts, negotiate goals, and build strong relationships across diverse teams.
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In the fast-paced world of tech startups, scaling quickly and efficiently is often the name of the game. However, with the abundance of venture capital (VC) funding available, when the tides turn as they have in the past 24 months, there’s a risk of becoming overly reliant on external investment to fuel growth. As such, […]
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Smartphone cameras have significantly improved in recent years. Computational photography and AI allow these devices to capture stunning images that can surpass what we see with the naked eye. Photos of the northern lights, or aurora borealis, provide one particularly striking example.
Spectrum.Life, a startup delivering clinically backed digital health, mental health and wellbeing solutions to organisations and their people, has announced a €17 million investment round. The round was led by Act Venture Capital with participation from existing investors. With this investment, Spectrum.Life will continue to drive its vision to change and save as many lives […]
Google's new AI search overviews stumble with inaccurate, bizarre responses, prompting mainstream media attention.
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Pozorování supermasivních černých děr odhalilo asi u třetiny z nich nesrovnalosti mezi směrem jejich výtrysků a polohou stop po jejich předchozí aktivitě. Zdá se, že některé supermasivní černé díry jsou jako Hvězdy smrti a mohou změnit směr paprsků smrti, jimiž žhaví okolní vesmír. http://www.osel.cz/13492-astronomove-vystopovali-supermasivni-cerne-diry-co-si-hraji-na-hvezdy-smrti.html
DeepL, a leading Language AI company, announced €277 million of investment at a $2 billion valuation. Led by Index Ventures, the heavily oversubscribed round attracted strong support from new investors, who will bring their extensive expertise, connections, and resources to support DeepL’s growth and long-term vision to transform the way companies communicate around the world. […]
Nory, an AI powered operating system for hospitality businesses, has secured €14.7 million in Series A funding round led by Accel, taking its total raised to $25 million, following 400% revenue growth in 2023. Existing investors Cavalry, Playfair, Samaipata and Triplepoint also participated in the round. This investment will be used to accelerate product development […]
Espoo-based mycoprotein company Enifer has announced the completion of a funding package that enables it to start constructing a unique food-grade mycoprotein factory in Kirkkonummi, Finland. The factory, which is set for completion by the end of 2025 and projected to cost €33 million, will convert food industry side streams into Enifer’s sustainable PEKILO® fungi-based […]
Viable, an intelligent finance startup that helps consumer brands improve growth, profit and cash flow outcomes, announced the closing of its €2.8 million seed funding round with participation from Episode 1, Haatch, Portfolio Ventures and a group of angel investors led by Martin Brailsford, former founder & CEO of e-commerce group Internet Fusion. This round […]
Unlockit, a Portuguese real-estate transaction management platform, has wrapped its pre-seed funding round for an amount of €1.4 million. This investment was led by the Eaglestone Group, an international financial services platform, through the Group’s venture capital company, Eaglestone Capital Partners, accompanied by Portugal Ventures and also has the participation of current investors Reorganiza and […]
Oxfordshire-based Grey Wolf Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company leveraging first-of-its-kind antigen modulation therapies to address the source of immune dysfunction in oncology and autoimmunity, announced the closing of an oversubscribed €46 million Series B financing expansion, bringing the total amount of Series B funds raised to $99 million. The Series B expansion round was led by ICG’s […]
In this episode, Shirley Romig, Chief Accelerator Investment Officer at Techstars, discusses the future of accelerator programs and the importance of ecosystem development. She highlights the need to tap into talent globally and create partnerships that fuel growth for Techstars’ portfolio companies. Shirley also shares valuable lessons she has learned from scaling companies like Lyft […]
Rows, a collaborative cloud platform-based spreadsheet app, has just raised €8 million in a funding round led by Indico Capital Partners and with participation from existing investors Cherry Ventures, Accel, Lakestar, Armilar Venture Partners and others. The company will use these funds to make data integrations even faster and easier, continue to enhance AI features, […]
In the world of entrepreneurship, a great idea alone isn’t enough. To convince investors, partners, or customers of the value of your startup, you must effectively communicate your vision and passion. While the content of your pitch is crucial, the non-verbal cues you give off – your body language – can significantly impact your audience’s […]
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OpenAI’s chatbots scored a big new data source following the company’s deal with News Corp. on Wednesday. With the stroke of a pen, ChatGPT and the company’s other services added the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, MarketWatch, Barron’s, and other publications to its database.
The deal, which did not include Fox News content, was the latest in a growing ser
When journalists sounded alarm bells in early May 2024 that more than 100 extremist militia groups had been organizing and communicating on Facebook, it wasn’t the first time militias had garnered attention for their online
