Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, Aug 17-21, 2026

This week’s stories are about tech and AI, coming from the EU and the USA AI talent wars erode loyalty across top research labs Competition among the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies is fueling a growing retention challenge, as top researchers increasingly move between […]

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Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, Aug 10-14, 2026

This week’s stories are about tech, AI and sustainability, coming from the EU and the USA Europe launches €30B AI data center investment program The European Union officially launched a funding initiative to support the construction of seven large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) data centers across […]

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Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, Aug 3-7, 2026

This week’s stories are about tech, sustainability and AI, coming from the EU and the USA Chipmaking equipment drives majority of semiconductor plant costs The soaring cost of building semiconductor manufacturing plants is being driven less by construction and more by the sophisticated equipment required […]

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Turkish AI quality assurance startup ,kayIQ.ai, launches with $500,000 seed funding

KayIQ’s platform uses agentic AI architecture to automate testing workflows and reduce operational bottlenecks in digital product development kayIQ.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI)platform designed to automate digital product quality assurance, has launched with $500,000 in seed funding provided by its founders and technology investor Magis […]

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Paribu acquires CoinMENA, MENA’s largest local crypto exchange, for $240 million 

Paribu, Türkiye’s leading digital asset platform, acquired the largest digital asset platform of MENA. Türkiye’s leading digital asset platform Paribu announced that it acquired CoinMENA, the largest local crypto exchange in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), for USD 240 million. The deal represents Türkiye’s largest fintech transaction to date and the […]

Workup Entrepreneurship Program marks graduation of 13th Cohort

Sixteen startups graduated from the 13th cohort of the Workup Entrepreneurship Program Sixteen startups graduated from the 13th cohort of the Workup Entrepreneurship Program, an initiative supported by Türkiye İş Bankası and running since 2017, the bank announced. More than 75 Workup alumni have raised […]

Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, Dec 1-5, 2025

This week’s stories are about tech, AI and sustainabilityi coming from Europe and the USA Europe’s slow AI buildout may become a strategic strength Europe’s cautious pace in deploying artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure—often viewed as a disadvantage compared with the U.S. and China—could ultimately give […]

EasyCep raises $45 million to expand electronics refurbishment business

EasyCep Co-Founder said the funding will help the company deepen the transformation it has initiated in the used smartphone sector Turkish refurbished electronics platform EasyCep has raised $45 million in a new investment round with participation from Oleka Capital, RePie Portföy and Ziraat Portföy, the […]

Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, Nov 10-14, 2025

This week’s stories are about tech, chips and sustainability, coming from Norway, Taiwan and the USA 1-TSMC’s  1.4-nm chip factory TSMC started construction on a 1.4-nanometer chip facility in Taichung, Taiwan, moving ahead on what it calls its most advanced manufacturing node. The Angstrom-class plant […]

Turkcell brings hyperscale cloud to Turkey with Google Cloud, promising $1 billion investment

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 […]