Terror propaganda, data theft, fraud: tech companies like Facebook have been fighting for years with fake accounts. The German-American startup Passbase wants to solve the problem now – and gets first money from investors in Silicon Valley. 1.3 billion: Facebook biggest problem One of Facebook’s biggest problems can be summed…
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The self-driving Olli bus of the startup Local Motors has survived a simulated traffic accident at a speed of 40 km / h frontally against a wall. The manufacturer wants to show that even printed structures are stable enough for practical use. The glass on the sides of the shuttle…
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The American startup ripple offers smaller payment solutions to smaller, medium and large companies to handle cross-border transactions faster, cheaper and more efficiently. Currently, the CEO of social trading company eToro, Yoni Assia, is visiting Ripple to learn how xRapid can be used in practice. Ripple is one of the…
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Apple has just bought up a company that apparently needs it for its future and existing voice products. Behind it is PullString, also known as ToyTalk, after the company was acquired by Axios. From the startup come toys such as a talking Barbie and Thomas the locomotive – so they…
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Getnow is a startup that delivers groceries to your home. In vain, so for lukewarm, that is not. Only from an order value of 40 euros, the delivery fee is waived, including 3.99 or 6.99 euros, if the food should arrive at home within 90 minutes. Of course, you also…
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Boston-based Motif Ingredients, a food-tech startup and part of biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks, has received the largest Series A funding from Breakthrough Energy Ventures in the industry. Breakthrough Energy Ventures includes multi-billion dollar investors such as the founders of Virgin, Microsoft and Amazon and now provides Motif Ingredients with an…
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With artificial intelligence for fraud detection attacks the start-up from Paris in the insurance market. Investors are putting millions into expansion – even to Germany. The French-American start-up Shift Technology has collected the equivalent of around 53 million euros from investors. The fresh capital from the Series C round of…
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Niklas Zennström, founder of Skype, is investing more than two million euros with five other investors in Refurbed. Millions investor is Inventure Partners. The heavyweight based in the Cayman Islands is invested among others in the Uber competitor GETT. Four Austrian investors increase their shares. Barely two years after its…
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Los Angeles-based Japanese public relations consultant and bestselling author Marie Kondo is known to millions of audiences since the release of the Netflix series Clean Up with Marie Kondo. Her books have been sold millions of euros and translated into 27 languages. Clearance expert Marie Kondo, according to US media,…
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The Linz startup Butleroy has presented a completely reworked version of its app at the SXSW in Austin, Texas. In the past, personal butler “Roy” was still helping to find the perfect date within a group of people – now the focus is on increasing the productivity and scheduling of…
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