Stories by Chris O'Brien
IOTA partners with Nova to launch seed fund for distributed ledger startups
Israel’s DriveNets raises $110 million to simplify telco service deployments
EU proposal targets digital platforms, including Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple
Malt raises $28 million to expand its European freelance platform
‘Ligue du LOL’ revealed to be 30 French male journalists using Facebook and Twitter to harass female counterparts
Ogury raised $21 million amid global expansion of mobile marketing cloud service
Spotify posts second consecutive quarterly profit, but projects big losses for 2019
Customer experiences are driving corporate digital transformation efforts
Delair launches AI-driven platform for drone data
Index Ventures leads $34 million round for France’s Lunchr
Brumbrum raises $23 million led by Accel for retail car platform
La French Tech faces its next challenge: How to go big
Intel Capital invests in Fortanix and Pliops to beef up cloud infrastructure and security
Mimiro raises $30 million for its financial crime-fighting platform
Belgian data governance startup Collibra raises $100 million and joins unicorn club
Cato Networks raises $55 million to protect cloud-based computing services
Cybersecurity study reveals ‘misperceptions’ leave consumers vulnerable
Google Cloud expands training programs to address cloud computing skills shortage
Essentium raises $22.2 million as more manufacturers adopt 3D printing
Zoov raises $6.8 million to expand its European electric bike-sharing service
Hyperloop passenger capsule arrives in Toulouse for testing on new track
SoundCloud cofounder stepping back from day-to-day operations to advisory role
Malwarebytes reports consumer cyberattacks dropped as hackers target businesses
Airbus wants to reinvent aircraft design with quantum computing challenge
Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is now blocking 1 million fake accounts every day
Tesla will cut 7% of employees while ramping up Model 3 production
Index Ventures leads $40 million investment in German HR startup Personio
Alphabet’s Loon adds industry advisory board to help commercialize internet balloon service
French broadcasters yanking content off Netflix to build their own streaming service
Seattle area now home to world’s 2 most valuable companies: Amazon and Microsoft
Consumer electronics spending projected to remain sluggish in 2019 despite annual gadget frenzy at CES
Swiss startup Sophia Genetics raises $77 million to expand its AI diagnostic platform in the U.S.
Apple’s China problems extend beyond Trump’s trade war and iPhone upgrades
New Evernote CEO vows to spend 2019 fixing note-taking app’s long list of problems
The strange case of Hush: French cryptocurrency banking startup disappears after failed ICO
Fear of a Netflix planet gripped entertainment world in 2018
Slack, Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Pinterest top list of companies that could make 2019 an explosive IPO year
Huawei sales soared 21% in 2018, even as threats of bans continued
