A panel in Valletta laid out a working playbook for startup PR, from the friends-and-family headline test to the case for hiring an agency. Founders looking for media coverage at this year’s EU-Startups Summit in Valletta got a fairly direct briefing from the people who decide what gets published. The session, titled “The Startup Media […]
The digital marketplace with Polish origins, which has scaled to nearly $400m in annual GMV without external funding, brings in one of Central Europe’s most experienced private-equity operators to guide its next phase of M&A and global expansion. After 16 years of organic growth, G2A is letting an outsider into the room. The Polish-founded digital […]
The person who connected Jeff Bezos to one of the most ambitious electric vehicle startups in America has left its board. Melinda Lewison, who manages the Bezos family office and was listed as a director on Slate Auto’s corporate filings, has departed the company’s board months before its first truck is scheduled to roll […]
Tesla has filed a trademark for a bespoke Roadster badge that looks like it belongs on a Lamborghini. The car it will adorn was first promised nine years ago. A prototype debuted in November 2017 with a 200 kilowatt-hour battery, a claimed 620-mile range, a 1.9-second zero-to-60 time, and a starting price of 200,000 […]
The first invoices arrive in September. Meta wants the basis changed before they do. Meta has filed a judicial review against Ofcom over the way the regulator calculates fees and penalties under the UK’s Online Safety Act, the High Court was told on Thursday. The dispute is narrow on its surface and substantial underneath. Ofcom’s […]
Google spent 2.1 billion dollars buying Fitbit in 2021, three years dismantling the brand, and on Thursday launched a 100 dollar device with no screen, no buttons, and no independent functionality to bring it back. The Fitbit Air is a soft fabric band with a five-gram sensor pack underneath that tracks heart rate, steps, […]
The largest education data breach in history was not an attack on a school. It was an attack on a vendor. On 30 April, hackers exploited a vulnerability in the systems of Instructure, the company that makes Canvas, the learning management system used by 41 per cent of higher education institutions across North America. […]
The two conglomerates are funding separate R&D centres focused on next-generation battery chemistries and advanced EV systems. The investment is a hedge: both groups currently buy critical battery components from Chinese suppliers and want options when Beijing tightens export rules again. India’s two largest steel-and-everything-else conglomerates are putting close to $1bn behind a question that […]
Amazon Fresh and the local fulfilment network shut on 6 July. A small number of Singapore roles go with them. AWS, retail, and Global Selling stay; the bet is that Singaporean shoppers want US, Japanese, and German catalogues, not local replenishment. Amazon is closing Amazon Fresh in Singapore and shutting down its local fulfilment operations, […]
On 10–11 June, the Grand Duchy hosts the third edition of its flagship tech summit, weeks before the EU AI Act’s most consequential provisions enter into force. Here is what the event has become, and why it matters this year in particular. Luxembourg, with a population smaller than Manchester’s and an outsized role in European […]
