Spotify forks out $295M for Findaway, Podsights, Chartable, and Sonantic, filing reveals

Spotify has quietly announced how much it’s paying for four of its recent acquisitions, revealing that it’s doling out a combined €291 million ($295 million) for Findaway, Podsights, Chartable,... Read more »

Datacenter electricity demands could curtail London housing development

Datacenters might be the lifeblood of the modern digital economy, but for housing developers in some parts of London they could curtail building plans for the next 13 years.... Read more »

Lot, the big-tech anti-patent-troll group, launches Adapt to tackle inclusion in the world of IP

Patent trolling, critics say, is guided by one principle alone: money. Yet tackling it remains a complex task with many angles. Today, a consortium called LOT — set up... Read more »

Spotify’s new personalized playlist will recommend tracks based on what your friends are listening to

Spotify is launching a new personalized playlist called “Friends Mix” to give users a way to discover new tracks based on the Blends they’ve created with with their friends.... Read more »

How to grow a SaaS company efficiently in a recession

Alex Zekoff Contributor Share on Twitter Alex Zekoff is the CEO and co-founder of Thoughtful Automation, an automation-as-a-service platform. With rising interest rates, there’s a new sheriff in town... Read more »

Jack Ma to give up control of fintech giant Ant Group: WSJ

China’s billionaire tech boss Jack Ma plans to cede control of Ant Group, the fintech powerhouse closely affiliated with Alibaba, the e-commerce giant he founded, The Wall Street Journal... Read more »

South African startup Qwili gets $1.2M to scale its app and low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone

Qwili, a startup that provides a hybrid sales product to micro and small merchants in South Africa, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding a year after closing an... Read more »

Gmail rolls out its latest Material You redesign and search improvements to all users

If you feel like you’ve seen a lot of “Gmail redesign roll out” posts in the last few months, it’s not just you: Google has been teasing and testing... Read more »

A gold-rush of NLP startups is about to arrive — here’s why

Remember Natural Language Processing? NLP arose several years ago but it was only in 2018 that AI researchers proved it was possible to train a neural network once on... Read more »

How did this tiny startup put live, moving, people into a full-blown 3D landscape, instantaneously?

Jumping into a flatpacked, chipboard room wasn’t my usual experience of the UK’s legendary Glastonbury Music Festival. But here I was, doing my best to dance around and test... Read more »
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