This week’s stories are about tech, startup and sustainability, coming from the Japan and the USA Opposition against data centers in US goes higher, data center project halted in Virginia A large-scale data center project in Virginia has been abandoned after sustained opposition from local […]
This week’s stories are about tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, coming from the EU and the USA Palantir signs $300M USDA deal to bolster food supply oversight Palantir signed a $300 million agreement with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to deploy […]
This week’s stories are about tech, AI and sustainability, coming from the EU, UK and Uzbekistan UK backs AI startups with £500M Sovereign AI fund The British government said it will invest £500 million to support domestic artificial intelligence (AI) startups, aiming to accelerate growth, […]
Turkish fiber internet subscribers reached nearly 10 million Türkiye’s fiber internet subscriber doubled over the past five years, reaching nearly 10 million, according to a report by the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK). The “Quarterly Market Data Report on the Electronic Communications Sector” showed […]
Domestic quantum computing shouldn’t be overlooked in the days protectionism Developing domestic quantum computing technology is crucial for Türkiye and should not be overlooked, especially as protectionist barriers rise globally, said Abdurrahman Keklik, head of Istanbul-based tech company ComPro. During Teknofest, Türkiye’s leading tech event […]
EU exported €5 billion of high-tech to Turkey, led with aerospace category The EU’s high-tech imports reached €478 billion ($527.1 billion), marking a slight 1% decrease from 2022, according to data released by Eurostat. China and the US together made up more than half of […]
This week’s stories come from Europe and the USA, two on startups one on AI 1–Atomico raised the largest fund for European startups Atomico, one of Europe’s leading VC firms, raised $1.24 billion to back startups in Europe This has been the largest its largest […]
This week’s stories come from Europe, two of them on sustainability and one on startups 1-Europe owns global 30 VC cities among 104 ones PitchBook, a financial data company, announced top global venture capital (VC) cities. The list covers 104 cities, with 30 of them […]
Importance of grid capacity and battery storage to sustain the industry’s growth The solar industry is poised to expand by nearly a third in 2024, exceeding predictions by adding 593 gigawatts of new capacity, with China leading the way, according to a report by Ember, […]
The program offers three-year work permit and various incentives Turkey introduced a new visa scheme designed to ease the process of obtaining work permits for foreign professionals and entrepreneurs with specialized skills, aiming to draw in high-value tech startups. Being launched last week, The Türkiye […]
Riverwood Capital leads investment in Picus, reaching a total investment of $80m Picus Security, the security validation company, announced it raised a $45 million growth investment round led by Riverwood Capital with the participation of existing investor Early Bird Digital East Fund . The new […]
This week’s three stories come from Europe and Saudi Arabia 1-Amazon’s $10B UK investment to build cloud and AI infrastructure Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud business, announced to invest £8 billion ($10.45 billion) over the next five years to establish and operate data centers […]
This week’s stories cover two semiconductor and one sustainability issues 1-Qualcomm in search of acquiring Intel’s chip-design arm Qualcomm looks to acquire portions of Intel’s design arm to boost the company’s product portfolio, according to two sources familiar with the matter. I saw this scoop […]
One AI, one startup and one sustainability subjects make up this week’s stories 1-Ex-OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s new startup, SSI, raised $1 billion Safe Superintelligence (SSI), recently co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, raised $1 billion, according to Reuters. Here’s what we know so […]
