A page from Xiaomi’s Polish website states that the Mi 5 and Mi 4s will soon go on sale in Europe. | Continue reading
The director of UK spy agency, GCHQ, has urged closer co-operation between governments and the tech sector to end what he dubbed the “abuse of encryption”, describing it as a “moral problem” which democratic societies must grapple with in order to strike a balance between securit … | Continue reading
A day after Finnish oline bank Holvi got acquired by BBVA, here comes yet more consolidation in Europe’s fintech landscape. Today, Atom Bank — a still stealth, online-only startup, coincidentally also backed by BBVA — announced its first acquisition: Grasp, a design and developme … | Continue reading
Veeqo, the Wales-headquartered company that offers e-commerce inventory software, has acquired London-based parcel delivery startup ParcelBright to bolster its shipping features. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, though I understand the acquisition includes ParcelBright’s tec … | Continue reading
A couple of years ago The Duke Of York in England launched his Pitch@Palace events which have become a regular, and respected fixture in the London startup scene. Today, for the first time ever, anyone will be able to watch their Startup Pitch event being broadcast live from St J … | Continue reading
Staff Finder, the European on-demand marketplace for temporary staffing, has closed a funding round led by One Peak Partners and Goldman Sachs Private Capital. Terms of the investment isn’t being disclosed, however sources tell TechCrunch that the round is in the region of €20 mi … | Continue reading
SoundCloud — the audio streaming startup approaching 200 million users whose catalogue is based around user-generated content — has struggled with mounting losses and label licensing, while it plans new monetizing features. Now, it has hired an exec to tackle those challenges hea … | Continue reading
In any conversation I have about London’s fintech space, property crowdfunding platform Property Parter is almost certain to come up. The startup which lets you invest from as little as £50 in residential property — or the so-called the ‘buy to let’ market, as it’s called here in … | Continue reading
Spanish banking giant BBVA has made another M&A play as it looks for a bigger role in the next generation of financial services: today the company has announced the acquisition of Holvi, an online-only bank for entrepreneurs and SMBs based out of Finland. (“Holvi” means “vault” i … | Continue reading
Spanish banking group BBVA has acquired much lauded European business banking startup Holvi, both companies have announced today. Holvi, which pitches itself as a next-gen bank for entrepreneurs, freelancers and small businesses, will continue to operate separately but BBVA says … | Continue reading
Lavabit, the former encrypted email provider that shut down its service in 2013 after the FBI demanded its encryption keys, has filed an amicus brief in support of Apple in its legal battle with the agency. Read More | Continue reading
Sky Atlantic has teamed up with snow artist Simon Beck to create a temporary mural celebrating the upcoming new series of Game of Thrones. | Continue reading
Here’s an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week. | Continue reading
When Google was ordered to start censoring its search results for users within Europe back in 2014, it meant that anyone who requested delisted information from any of the search giant’s European sites couldn’t access it. There was, however, one giant hole in that system – anyone … | Continue reading
It’s the first weekend of March, and spring is around the corner. But if the weather where you live is anything like here in Amsterdam, you’re likely stuck inside hiding from freezing rain, sleet, or some other bothersome, moist form of precipitation. A perfect time to play catch … | Continue reading
As promised, Google today announced that it is making a number of changes to how it handles links it has delisted under Europe’s ‘right to be forgotten‘ regulations. Instead of simply delisting links from the various regional versions of its search engine, it will now use geoloca … | Continue reading
If you thought that drones were just a bit of fun, or even if you think loads of novices flying them around is a bit dangerous, nothing is quite a scary as the UK and France’s new joint plan: the drone to end all drones. The £1.5 billion ($2.1 billion) Future Combat Air System wi … | Continue reading
Germany’s top securities regulator has published a report that explores blockchain tech, offering early hints at how it views the technology. | Continue reading
It’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot. If you search Google News for something like “new startup accelerator,” it will return hundreds of headlines from all over the world. At the moment … | Continue reading
Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is flexing its platform muscle by shutting down deeplinking to other social media services. Previously Instagram users were able to include ‘add me’/’follow me’ links on their profile page, directly linking out to any other profiles … | Continue reading
RNTS, the Netherlands-based parent company of Fyber (formerly known as SponsorPay) and Heyzap, continues its run of ad tech acquisitions. Today the company announced that it has acquired Inneractive, an Israeli-based real-time bidding and mobile ad exchange, for $46 million in ca … | Continue reading
Plane is a new social app from Tim Allison, who previously founded Cupple, the relationship app acquired by YC alumni Pair (which since re-branded to Couple and was sold to Life360). Read More | Continue reading
Robin and Saul Klein are the ‘father and son’ VCs behind the new LocalGlobe seed fund (website, twitter, Medium). Just recently they led a £1.1 million investment in online mortgage advisor Trussle. It’s likely to be among the first of many. Saul has been actively involved foundi … | Continue reading
Facebook has a very uneasy relationship with regulators in Germany and now the company is being investigated for abusing its power over user data, which may mean it’s breaking local data protection or monopoly laws. “For advertising-financed internet services such as Facebook, us … | Continue reading
The number of requests for coverage we receive at The Next Web is, unsurprisingly, enormous. As a result, many, if not most, go completely overlooked due to overflowing inboxes and crowded Twitter feeds. Anyone who runs a company can attest to how often their attempts to gain cov … | Continue reading
Jobbatical, the Estonia-headquartered job matching site for tech gigs abroad, has raised a $2 million funding round led by Union Square Ventures, and Saul Klein and Robin Klein’s LocalGlobe. Previous investor Smartcap also participated. Read More | Continue reading
Facebook’s data harvesting practices are facing yet another probe in Europe. This time the German federal competition authority is initiating proceedings — rather than it being a European Member State’s national data protection watchdog. Read More | Continue reading
Pouring petrol on the bonfire of news tech, Google announced that it has invested more than $30m into projects spanning the European news tech scene. The fund’s goal is to ‘help stimulate innovation in digital journalism’ over the next three years, Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO sai … | Continue reading
Despite a trio of parliamentary committees criticizing the UK government’s draft surveillance legislation — and some committee members even calling for a complete rethink — the government is rushing ahead anyway… Read More | Continue reading
An lo, in Merrie Olde England, even The Duke Of York of has been bitten by the Startup Bug these past few years, and his Pitch@Palace events have not only become a fixture in the London startup scene, but have also hosted some very decent companies. In fact, his team has expanded … | Continue reading
Samsung enlisted the band Years & Years to showcase its new Samsung Galaxy S7 tech via a virtual reality (VR) performance on Sunday (28 February). | Continue reading
Another despatch from the ‘mobile messaging is eating the world’ file: blue collar recruitment app and European startup Corner Job has closed a $10 million Series A funding round. Read More | Continue reading
The humble Happy Meal box will see perhaps its largest ever innovation go live this week – it can now be folded in seconds into a pair of VR ‘Happy Goggles.’ Don’t all rush at once, though, because they’re only available in a pretty limited pilot across seven McDonald’s stores in … | Continue reading
The draft text of an agreement between the EU and the US to establish a new self-certification framework governing transatlantic data flows aimed at ensuring data protection and privacy compliance when Europeans’ data is taken to the US for processing has now been published. But … | Continue reading
Nominations are now open for The Europas Awards 2016, the European Tech Startup Awards. The Europas will be held on June 14, 2016, in London. You can nominate an individual (founder, investor etc) or startup that you think in the last year deserves to be recognized RIGHT HERE. Th … | Continue reading
Seedcamp-backed travel startup, Much Better Adventures, which lets you book ‘active holidays’ with independent providers, has raised £400,000 in seed funding to expand its ski offering and launch a second vertical in the form of road cycling holidays. Read More | Continue reading
Another transportation startup has run out of gas while larger companies continue refuelling to tap into economies of scale. Tripda — a carpooling startup operating in 13 countries including the U.S. and backed by the Berlin-based incubator Rocket Internet — has announced that it … | Continue reading
Amazon has signed a wholesale supply deal with Morrisons, one of Britain’s largest supermarket chains, to deliver fresh and frozen groceries to Amazon Prime Now and Amazon Pantry customers. Read More | Continue reading
A major new Raspberry Pi microprocessor has been announced today: the Pi 3 Model B board becomes the new top-of-the-line Pi, with a 64bit 1.2GHz quad-core chipset and 1GB RAM it’s being slated to offer a 50 per cent power bump over the Pi 2. But is still priced at just $35… Read … | Continue reading
With another work week coming to a close, the weekend is a good time to catch up with the fast-paced tech scene. At Index we gather tech coverage into one platform for tech enthusiasts to keep up with the news and access that data. In this series, we fill you in every week on wha … | Continue reading
Happy Friday! Here’s an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items this week from Tech.eu: 1) Done deal, one of the larger exits in European tech history: Activision Blizzard closes $5.9 billion acquisition of King, makers of Candy Crush 2) Two exits in Israel, over $1.3 … | Continue reading
This week, we went to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2016. We covered a panel about mobile ad blocking, Mark Zuckerberg talked about Free Basics and encryption, Samsung announced the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, we went hands on with the modular LG G5, and oh, by the way, tablets … | Continue reading
Spark, the email program that is set to replace the ever-popular but defunct Mailbox, has landed on the iPad and iPad Pro, a move that should please email power users. The app features a number of popular features including read later and mailbox organization. However, the system … | Continue reading
After months of rumor, Opera finally confirmed two weeks ago that its board had accepted a takeover offer from a consortium of Chinese firms for the price of $1.2 billion. I had a chance to sit down this week at MWC with Lars Boilesen, the CEO of Opera, and Håkon Wium Lie, the co … | Continue reading
A new European Parliament draft report on digital currencies calls for the creation of a task force specifically devoted to the technology. | Continue reading
Number26 is trying to reinvent your bank account. One by one, the company is looking at the traditional bank features and using more modern options to recreate a complete bank. Now, you can make international transfers in foreign currencies directly from the app. And the best par … | Continue reading
As this year’s TNW Conference Europe draws near, our Tech5 tournament is also back with its latest edition. The online competition, co-hosted by payments technology company Adyen, is once again looking to celebrate Europe’s fastest-growing tech startups. Over the past two years, … | Continue reading
Samsung is to showcase its Galaxy S7 and Gear VR products with a live and interactive experience featuring the band Years & Years. | Continue reading