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SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up
Finom, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank for SMBs that claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million).
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As Skype shuts down, its legacy is end-to-end encryption for the masses
iMessage, Signal, and WhatsApp have made E2EE the default for messaging, but Skype paved the way decades ago.
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HackerPulse wants to help enterprises spot engineering bottlenecks
HackerPulse builds dashboards of information pulled from engineering tools to show how and where engineers spend their time.
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Jolla founders take the wraps off an AI assistant to power up their push for privacy-friendly GenAI
Jolla, the erstwhile mobile maker turned privacy-centric AI business — via sister startup, Venho.ai — has taken the wraps off an AI assistant that’s touted as a “fully private” alternative to letting data-mining cloud giants crawl all over your personal information. The AI assistant is designed to integrate with apps like email, calendar and […]
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Cloudsmith raises $23M to improve software supply chain security
The software supply chain is notoriously porous: a reported 81% of codebases contain high- or critical-risk open source vulnerabilities. A single vulnerability can have a far-reaching impact on the wider software supply chain, as evidenced by the likes of the Log4Shell exploit that saw millions of applications exposed to potential remote code execution hacks via […]
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Opera announces a new agentic feature for its browser
Norway-based browser company Opera announced a new agent feature called Browser Operator as a feature preview. The Browser Operator feature, when released, will complete tasks for you on different websites, the company claims. In a demo video, the company showed the agent finding a right pair of socks from Walmart, tickets for a football match […]
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Uber is piloting accounts for teenagers in India
Uber has started testing its teenagers-focused service, Uber for Teens, in India.
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Google’s Gemini now lets you ask questions using videos or what’s on your screen
Google is adding new features to its AI assistant, Gemini, that let users ask it questions using video or content on the screen in real time. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 in Barcelona, the company showed off a new “Screenshare” feature, which lets users share what’s on their phone’s screen with Gemini and […]
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Signal is the number-one downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why?
Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has been flying high in the Dutch app stores this past month, sitting many days as the most downloaded free app on iOS and Android for all categories, per data from multiple app-tracking platforms such as Sensor Tower. The app has experienced surges in popularity through the years, often in response […]
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Apple might not release a truly ‘modernized’ Siri until 2027
Apple is struggling to rebuild Siri for the age of generative AI, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who says the company might not release “a true modernized, conversational version of Siri” until iOS 20 comes out in 2027. That doesn’t mean there won’t be big Siri updates before then. A new version Siri will reportedly […]
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