It’s now safe to say that Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States. Even if Donald Trump makes the transition difficult or wants to keep thinking of himself as the real president after January 20th, it’s Biden who will be in the Oval Office along with his new administration, designing and […]

You’d imagine that when a founder hears that SoftBank has just backed one of their competitors, they might not feel super chirpy. You’d also think that their VCs wouldn’t be entirely chuffed, either. Yet the news that SoftBank has led a $250m investment round into scooter operator Tier has been met with interminable optimism. “We welcome Tier’s […]

Facebook VP of Play Jason Rubin discusses the company’s battles with Apple, the technical challenges of delivering cloud games, Microsoft’s deal to distribute its own xCloud games, and the importance of the new Player Name policy. Facebook on Monday revealed a broad new cloud gaming strategy aimed at upending the lucrative and fast-growing mobile games ecosystem. While […]

How startups are scaling communication The pandemic is making startups take a close look at ramping up their communication solutions. Learn how Microsoft Teams is continuing to ride the remote work and learning wave propelled by the coronavirus pandemic. During Microsoft’s Q1 2021 earnings call, CEO Satya Nadella shared that Microsoft Teams has passed 115 million daily […]

“France is one of the most attractive places in the world right now.” You’d expect Cedric O, the French junior minister for digital affairs, to cheer for France. After all, the man has a two-metre neon sculpture of a red rooster — the emblem of the French tech ecosystem — sitting just outside his office door, […]

The European venture ecosystem is robust and growing with strengths in fintech, health care, deep tech, data and analytics, and commerce and shopping. In the last 10 years, European venture has experienced growth year over year at between 16 percent and 55 percent–bar one year (2016) that was down 13 percent. (2014 and 2015 each […]

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a 12% decline in VC investment compared with 2019, a less severe impact than many had feared. But there has been a big difference in the fortunes of different cities.  Some, like Zurich and Helsinki, thrived despite the pandemic, with investment levels up significantly from last year, while cities […]

Cars and cyclists pass through the Silicon Roundabout area, a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in Shoreditch and St. Lukes in East London. Photo: Mike Kemp/Getty Images More than 1,000 of the UK’s high-growth businesses have filed for administration, liquidation or dissolution since lockdown began, according to new research released today by Plexal and […]

Microsoft employees will also be able to relocate By Tom Warren@tomwarren  Oct 9, 2020, 7:32am EDT Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is allowing more of its employees to work from home permanently, the company announced Friday. While the vast majority of Microsoft employees are still working from home during the ongoing pandemic, the software maker […]

Image Credits: Ron Miller/TechCrunch When Salesforce Ventures launched the first $50 million Impact Fund in 2017, it wanted to invest not only in promising cloud businesses, but startups with a socially positive mission. Today, the company launched the second Impact Fund, this time doubling its initial investment with a new $100 million fund. The latest fund is also designed to […]