Microsoft to Buy AI & Speech Technology Company Nuance for $16 billion
Microsoft Corp. is in advanced talks to buy artificial intelligence and speech technology company Nuance Communications Inc., according to several sources. Microsoft first approached Nuance in December and is reportedly willing to pay about $56 per share for Nuance. Nuance derives revenue
UK’s top female entrepreneurs backed by government to help boost economy post-COVID
The UK government is to back top female entrepreneurs across the country as part of the recovery path to rebuilding the economy post COVID. Forty leading female innovators are set to receive funds through Innovate UK’s Women in Innovation scheme to
Gemini Report Reveal 2 in 5 Crypto Investors are Women
Conducted in early Q4 2020, Gemini’s research represented “a nationally representative survey of 2,000 U.K. respondents,” per the report and some of the findings were surprising. The report by Gemini has revealed that 2 in 5 crypto investors are women,
Tesla & Waymo: Same goals, different approaches
Recently Tesla and Waymo have been passing jabs over who has the best approach when it comes to autonomous driving. Waymo CEO John Kraficik, head of Alphabet’s autonomous car subsidiary, has claimed that Tesla will never be able to reach
Personio has Reached €103.5M Series D funding and 1.4 Billion Valuation
Personio, a Munich based company that digitises and simplifies time-consuming HR processes and improves workflow, has reached €103.5 million Series D funding. This brings the total investment to over €206 million - giving the company a valuation at around €1.4
Stockholm’s vegan razor startup Estrid raises $18m
The Stockholm based startup company, Estrid, whose aim is to build a DCT operation, announced that it has successfully raised a funding round of $18m. The money was raised from a range of local Swedish investors, including Camsten, Mattias Miksche, Josefin
The start-up developing an alternative to emails
"The way we manage work, principally through email, needs to change. We allow really complicated parts of the global economy to be run over email and it’s not fit for purpose.” says Bill Dobie, who has founded a new workplace
The tech startup tackling Rome’s rubbish problem
Italy’s capital, Rome, is utterly ridden with rubbish. There is so much of it that wild boars now come in from the countryside to pick through it. There used to be a landfill called Malagrotta, run by a local tycoon
Dutch brewery becomes first in the world to burn iron as a clean recyclable fuel
A green fuel alternative is emerging in the form of metal powder, which hopes to reduce the need for burning fossil fuels. Cheap iron powder, when ground very fine, burns readily at high temperatures, releasing energy as it oxidises. This
EU fintech startup Payer develops revolutionary e-commerce registration product
Swedish B2B payments startup, Payer, is revolutionising how customer relationships are made between companies online, with their newly developed registration product. The product enables e-commerce merchants to verify new customers as trustworthy so purchases can be made with ease. Today,