The digital transformation fuelled by the COVID-19 has speeded up the growth of the world’s largest internet companies. Today, these tech giants employ more people than ever and generate revenue counted in tens and hundreds of billions of dollars. According to data presented by Buy Shares, Amazon, Alibaba, Alphabet, Facebook, and eBay, as the world’s largest […]
The amount of 350 million euros was raised by the venture capitalist Lakestar, which created the startup fund Lakestar II in order to invest at European startups in their early stages, having Round A as a priority. Klaus Hommels, who leads the fund, has invested in a series of companies such as Facebook, Airbnb, Skype and […]
The European car makers Audi, BMW and Mercedes bought for an amount of €2,8 billion HERE, Nokia’s mapping business. The three German car makers emerged successful over Baidu, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook and Apple, which also expressed their interest in buying HERE, which customers include Microsoft, Samsung and SAP and its technology underpins apps used by […]
In order to… pump-in some new blood in its Blu-Ray segment, Sony bought Optical Archive, a Facebook spin-off. Recently, Facebook fashioned a system that could transform Blu-Ray optical discs into a means of preserving the hundreds of millions of photos uploaded to the social network every day. Sony and Optical Archive are working closely in […]
The Berlin startup Jobspotting has received a seed investment from Horizons Ventures, a venture capital firm from the Hong Kong. Horizons Ventures has invested in companies such as Facebook, Skype, Spotify and Slack.
