co With voter verification, Brigade becomes a more legitimate platform for political debate By techcrunch.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 17:56:19 +0000 Kim-Mai Cutler Contributor Kim-Mai Cutler is an operating partner for Initialized Capital, an early-stage venture firm and was previously a journalist covering technology, finance and policy issues at TechCrunch -- best-known for her long-form work on the Bay Area. More posts by this contributor The outlook for Bay Area startup space in 2017 OpenVote launches […] Full Article Column TC brigade
co Always detached, UK has now forced a complete break from Brussels By www.ft.com Published On :: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:04:44 GMT Past prime ministers put head before heart on Europe. Not any more Full Article
co Coronavirus lays a political minefield By www.ft.com Published On :: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 05:00:33 GMT Hopefully, its defeat will show the worth of intelligent and honest government Full Article
co Johnson’s covert Brexit plan is self-isolation By www.ft.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 05:00:29 GMT The real story is that all traces of the EU are to be expunged from the public realm Full Article
co How coronavirus is remaking democratic politics By www.ft.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 11:46:08 GMT The superficial conclusion is that it will be a gift to populists and authoritarians Full Article
co The danger in the coronavirus recovery will be inertia By www.ft.com Published On :: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 04:00:36 GMT A make-do-and-mend approach will not be enough — we need a societal transformation Full Article
co How politics thwarted the UK’s Covid-19 response By www.ft.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:38:07 GMT Ministers failed to grasp the threat as Boris Johnson tried to swerve a tough response Full Article
co As private investment cools, enterprise startups may try tapping corporate dollars By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 18:07:11 +0000 Founders hunting down capital in the middle of this pandemic may feel like they’re on a fool’s errand, but some investors are still offering financing, even if the terms might not be as good as they once were. One avenue that appears to remain open: corporate venture capital. The corporate route offers its own set […] Full Article Enterprise Extra Crunch Fundings & Exits Market Analysis Startups TC Venture Capital corporate venture capital Datometry Dell Technologies Capital DocuSign enterprise software mirantis Nutanix Salesforce Ventures salesforce.com
co How will coronavirus change the world? — Parlia launches to help you find out By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 11:53:26 +0000 “Is Greta Thunberg a hypocrite?” Google that phrase and you will get thousands of results. It just goes to show that, to a large extent, the “Q&A” model is broken on the internet. Where once Yahoo Answers and Quora were considered the bright young things of Web 2.0’s “Read/Write Web,” today there is only the […] Full Article Europe Recent Funding Startups TC biology bloomberg beta coronavirus COVID-19 Demotix designer Google iraq journalist Lebanon linguistics messi quora unilever United Kingdom Yahoo
co SaaS stocks defy gravity amid pandemic, record job losses By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:11:51 +0000 Let's take a look at why the SaaS cohort is the apple of Wall Street's eye. Full Article Earnings Extra Crunch Fundings & Exits Market Analysis Startups TC alteryx cloud SaaS
co As funding slows in Boston, its early-stage market could shine By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 21:18:43 +0000 Chris Lynch, a founder and former general partner at Boston-based seed-stage fund Accomplice, remembers “VC Mountain in Waltham.” Back then, entrepreneurs on funding quests would visit a building overlooking the Waltham Reservoir near Boston where they pitched to a few investors: Matrix Partners, Charles River Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. “And if they didn’t invest in […] Full Article Extra Crunch Market Analysis Startups TC Venture Capital accomplice boston Charles River Ventures coronavirus COVID-19 Highland Capital Partners Matrix Partners Petri Pillar Venture Lane
co Italy’s corporate reopening stirs fears over more deaths By www.ft.com Published On :: Sat, 02 May 2020 10:00:36 GMT Conflicting pressures between health and preventing economic ruin divide country as it emerges from lockdown Full Article
co Judgment day for VW as pensioner’s Dieselgate fight goes to top court By www.ft.com Published On :: Sun, 03 May 2020 17:00:51 GMT German group’s battle to minimise financial damage from scandal hinges on test case Full Article
co Companies ramp up orders for kit to protect workers By www.ft.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 03:00:51 GMT Manufacturers say they will struggle to provide equipment sought by business Full Article
co The real work of helping companies bounce back from coronavirus hasn’t even begun By www.ft.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 16:53:18 GMT Government loans a start but not the end; Pendragon takes a pop at Lookers; insurers and honey badgers Full Article
co EU industrial supply lines need strengthening, commissioner warns By www.ft.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 04:00:30 GMT Thierry Breton says coronavirus crisis shows vital supplies are vulnerable to disruption Full Article
co Pressure on aviation, Argentina’s debt, Silicon Valley ads By www.ft.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 04:01:00 GMT Industry takes another hit as GE cuts jobs, Mnuchin casts doubt on restart for US air travel Full Article
co VW warns of rising costs as car market faces deep recession By www.ft.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 11:55:43 GMT Carmaker says profits are under pressure as suppliers pass on increased expenses Full Article
co Defence industry in retreat as coronavirus attacks By www.ft.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 12:32:03 GMT The era of extravagant military purchases is surely over after the threat posed by the pandemic Full Article
co VW hails speed of car sales recovery in China By www.ft.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 11:21:23 GMT Demand in most profitable market nears 2019 level but brand expects slower revival in Europe Full Article
co UK construction activity collapses in April By www.ft.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 12:30:32 GMT Building industry hit harder than other sectors by Covid-19 lockdown measures Full Article
co Shine adds invoice insurance to its freelancer bank account By techcrunch.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 06:00:36 +0000 French startup Shine is adding a new option today. If you think there’s a chance that a client is not going to pay your next invoice, you can insure that invoice to avoid any bad surprise. Shine is building a challenger bank for freelancers and small companies. It lets you send and receive money in […] Full Article Apps Europe Finance Mobile Startups France Newsletter shine
co Smartphone shipments dropped 13% globally, and COVID-19 is to blame By techcrunch.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:40:41 +0000 We knew it was going to be bad — but not necessarily “lowest level since 2013” bad. As Apple was busy reporting its earnings, Canalys just dropped some of its own figures — and they’re not pretty. After two quarters of much-needed growing, the global smartphone market just took a big hit. And you no […] Full Article Hardware Mobile Apple canalys coronavirus COVID-19 Huawei Samsung smartphones
co An already struggling smartphone market takes a big hit from COVID-19 By techcrunch.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 19:56:46 +0000 Quarter after quarter, familiar stories have appeared. The smartphone market, once seemingly bulletproof, has suffered. The list of factors is long, and I’ve written about them ad nauseam here, but the CliffsNotes version is: costs are too high, innovation is too incremental and most people already own a device that will be plenty good for […] Full Article Extra Crunch Hardware Market Analysis Mobile Apple coronavirus COVID-19 iPhone LG Samsung smartphone
co Your iPhone will soon be able to tell 911 about your medical conditions and allergies By techcrunch.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 20:18:17 +0000 Got something in your medical history that first responders should know about if you call 911? Things like known drug allergies, or the medications you’re on? The iPhone and Apple Watch will soon be able to share this information with first responders automatically (if you opt to let it do so). When a user with […] Full Article Health Mobile TC Apple Apple Watch iPhone
co Potential new treatment for COVID-19 uncovered by BenevolentAI enters trials By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:05:51 +0000 BenevolentAI, a startup which has raised $292 million to apply AI to create drugs faster, today says it has uncovered an already approved drug as a potential treatment for COVID-19, after it applied its AI platform and team to the problem. The revelation, which has now appeared in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has entered clinical […] Full Article Europe Health TC artificial intelligence Asia BenevolentAI coronavirus COVID-19 updates Disease drug discovery Eli Lilly infection influenza London medicine Pharmaceutical rheumatoid arthritis United States Virus
co Data dashboard startup Count raises $2.4M from LocalGlobe, with Global Founders Capital By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 13:01:43 +0000 Early-stage companies often have trouble dealing with the amount of data that can run through the organization, especially as it grows. Large sums are spent on data software, dislocated data, dealing with data pipelines. All of which involve data warehousing, cleaning tools and a visualization platform. Count is a startup that is an attempt to […] Full Article Europe TC big data business intelligence computing CTO data management data warehouse global founders capital information Information technology Looker Microsoft solutions tiney
co The ‘Wikipedia of COVID-19’ has launched a crowdfunding drive to keep going By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:24:54 +0000 At the end of March, a coalition of grassroots UK tech initiatives came together to coordinate the key groups of tech industry people supporting the UK’s response to the coronavirus. The Code4Covid.org initiative came out of a milieu of other projects such as Covidmutualaid.org and Covid Tech Support, but it was the CoronavirusTechHandbook (CTH), an initiative […] Full Article Europe TC
co JetBrains Academy for learning code launches for free during COVID-19 pandemic By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 13:17:52 +0000 During this pandemic, many organizations are offering free or drastically cheaper courses to help people skill-up for when we eventually get out of lock-down. There are numerous outlets if you want to learn to code from, for instance, Freecodecamp or the Free Fridays scheme from General Assembly. And for gamers, Gamedev.tv has taken 80% off […] Full Article Education Europe TC Android c computing coronavirus COVID-19 development tools General Assembly Google Java Javascript JetBrains Academy Kotlin online learning programming languages Python Scala teacher
co NEAR Protocol raises $21.6M from A16Z and launches its MainNet, beating Ethereum 2.0 By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 15:06:55 +0000 It was only the other week that Andreesen Horowitz announced their second blockchain-focused fund of $515 million. In the announcement, they said: “We are still early in this Web 3 build-out. High-performance programmable blockchains will make decentralized network development much more accessible. After years of R&D, we are excited that a number of next-gen programmable […] Full Article Europe TC blockchains cofounder computing cryptocurrencies decentralization decentralized network distributed computing engineer ethereum Google joseph lubin Microsoft United States vitalik buterin
co As Europe slowly unlocks, e-scooter startups, like Helbiz, are wooing with offers By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 15:46:33 +0000 At the start of the year, it looked like Europe would be in for a “Summer E-Scooters / E-Bike War,” as both regional startups and U.S.-backed unicorns vied for the pockets of city commuters. Consolidation came when German startup Circ was taken over by U.S. competitor Bird at the start of the year. Still on […] Full Article Europe Startups TC Transportation coronavirus COVID-19 electric scooters Helbiz
co UK investors band together to survey Angels on their strategy during COVID-19 By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 10:40:02 +0000 A number of UK entrepreneurs have banded together to survey Angels about their investment strategy. The initiative comes in the wake of the UK government’s “Future Fund” for startups, which has been criticized as being inadequate for the needs of Angel and Seed-stage startups. The group hopes the survey will give the UK early-stage investment […] Full Article Europe TC Angel Investor Bindi Karia British Business Bank business incubators economy entrepreneurship forward partners Private Equity songs Startup company TechCrunch UK government United Kingdom
co Runa Capital closes Fund III at $157M, with an added focus on quantum computing By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 17:02:20 +0000 VC fund Runa Capital was launched with $135 million in 2010, and is perhaps best known for its investment into NGINX, which powers many web sites today. In more recent years it has participated or led investments into startups such as Zipdrug ($10.8 million); Rollbar this year ($11 million); and Monedo (for €20 million). HQ’d […] Full Article Europe Funding TC Venture Capital artificial intelligence cloud infrastructure Companies finance healthcare Kreditech machine learning Nginx open source software palo alto rollbar Runa Capital San Francisco schoolmint sequoia capital Zipdrug
co How will coronavirus change the world? — Parlia launches to help you find out By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 11:53:26 +0000 “Is Greta Thunberg a hypocrite?” Google that phrase and you will get thousands of results. It just goes to show that, to a large extent, the “Q&A” model is broken on the internet. Where once Yahoo Answers and Quora were considered the bright young things of Web 2.0’s “Read/Write Web,” today there is only the […] Full Article Europe Recent Funding Startups TC biology bloomberg beta coronavirus COVID-19 Demotix designer Google iraq journalist Lebanon linguistics messi quora unilever United Kingdom Yahoo
co St. Louis-based Summersalt raises $17.3 million for its direct-to-consumer clothing line By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 12:00:10 +0000 The Midwest may not be known as the fashion capital of the world (or even the U.S.), but its place in the consumer retail firmament is secure through L Brands and its Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works subsidiaries. Now, venture investors are investing $17.3 million to establish another tent-pole clothing brand in the […] Full Article Recent Funding Startups TC AOL Clothing Founders Fund mercato partners seed fund steve case Summersalt swimsuit United States utah venture capital victoria's secret victress capital
co Utah tech magnates create new Silicon Slopes Venture Fund to boost startups in the state By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:29:58 +0000 Those looking outside of Silicon Valley as a potential hub for their startup might want to take a gander at Utah, at least that’s the kind of trend the new Silicon Slopes Venture Fund hopes to create. The newly formed fund, put together by Qualtrics co-founder Ryan Smith, Omniture and Domo founder Josh James and […] Full Article Funding Fundings & Exits Recent Funding Startups TC Venture Capital AOL business Co-founder Domo economy energy entrepreneurship Josh James Mark Zuckerberg Omniture Pelion Venture Partners Pluralsight Private Equity Qualtrics ryan smith sap sequoia capital Silicon Slopes Silicon Valley steve case TechCrunch utah
co Debt relief: which countries are most vulnerable? By www.ft.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 04:00:44 GMT Emerging economies that have long tested investors’ patience say they need fresh help Full Article
co Warburg to raise stake in Chinese car rental company By www.ft.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 22:00:09 GMT US private equity firm plans further share in group shaken by fallout from Luckin Coffee scandal Full Article
co LCF compensation decision looms By www.ft.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 12:09:21 GMT FSCS could compensate some investors in collapsed mini-bond issuer London Capital Finance Full Article
co Private-equity backed companies dominate lowest depths of junk By www.ft.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 13:00:50 GMT Two-thirds of companies with lowly ratings from Moody’s were bought by PE groups Full Article
co Can companies still afford to care about sustainability? By www.ft.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 00:52:59 GMT Will environmental and social initiatives survive Covid-19? Our specialists answered your questions Full Article
co Asian governments boost dollar borrowing to fight coronavirus By www.ft.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 07:56:41 GMT Countries in region issue debt at close to fastest rate in a decade due to pandemic Full Article
co Schneider Electric warns of €300m hit from coronavirus By www.ft.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:22:42 GMT French group braced for revenue losses this quarter despite reopening most of its China factories Full Article
co Porsche chief warns battery costs will hit carmaker profits By www.ft.com Published On :: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 18:16:58 GMT Blume says industry faces supply constraints because of production ‘bottleneck’ Full Article
co Companies’ supply chains vulnerable to coronavirus shocks By www.ft.com Published On :: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 03:00:26 GMT Shortages of components likely to be far worse than expected, warn experts Full Article
co Coronavirus puts electric carmakers on alert over lithium supplies By www.ft.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 04:00:27 GMT Battery maker Livent says industry is looking to diversify away from China Full Article
co 1m car workers in Europe hit by coronavirus shutdowns By www.ft.com Published On :: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:59:43 GMT Heavy toll on jobs through lay-offs and cuts in pay and hours as one of region’s key industries comes to ‘abrupt halt’ Full Article
co Continental auto profit margins fall to zero By www.ft.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 16:56:55 GMT German supplier scraps outlook and warns smaller contractors could go out of business Full Article
co Ventilator standards set out for UK makers ‘of no use’ to Covid patients By www.ft.com Published On :: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 03:00:53 GMT Ministers’ challenge to manufacturers sets basic specifications that are not suitable to task, say experts Full Article
co Co-founder of Chinese carmaker Qoros sells half his stake By www.ft.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:59:26 GMT Idan Ofer’s Kenon offloads shares to majority owner Baoneng in $237m deal Full Article