Through the $1 billion investment, Turkcell to handle sales and marketing of the services offered in the cloud region Turkish telecommunications and technology company Turkcell announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to form a new cloud region in Turkey. Under the agreement, Google Cloud […]
This week’s stories are about tech, AI and sustainability, coming from Korea and the USA AI dominates the headlines, ads are still the real growth engine for Big Tech Fresh quarterly results from Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft highlighted the ongoing strength in their digital […]
This is Uber’s fourth technology center outside of United States Uber plans to invest $200 million in Türkiye over the next five years to establish a new global technology development hub in Istanbul, the company announced. The site will become Uber’s fourth tech center outside […]
This week’s stories are about tech, AI and autonomous vehicles, coming from Switzerland and the USA Governments struggle to scale Gen AI adoption, study finds A growing number of governments are experimenting with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT and CoPilot, but most […]
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 […]
AI, data center and sustainability are this week’s stories 1-Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft plan to invest in ChatGPT maker’s OpenAI Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft are all in talks to join OpenAI’s funding round that would value the ChatGPT maker at more than $100 billion, according toThe […]
