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Zartico secures $20M to help tourism offices promote local destinations

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Despite representing 10% of the world’s GDP, the tourism industry has been one of the last to embrace big data and analytics. Using it, customers can see where visitors to a location migrate and move at the street level and track the tourism effects on locally owned businesses. Image Credits: Zartico. social media posts and web pages).

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

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As Italy reinstates many COVID-19 restrictions, the country’s tech ecosystem is watching and waiting to see what the wider effects of the emergency will be. Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. The company is embedding AI into each level of the tech stack it sells to customers, he says. “We

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Nordic Companies Outsource Software Development in Barcelona

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Spain has become quite the hot spot for North European countries to branch out company-wise, especially in terms of software development. Many Nordic Companies outsource software development in Barcelona. Spain has a growing startup ecosystem , with Barcelona and Madrid emerging as major hubs for tech companies.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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Koop Technologies (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) — Presenter: Sergey Litvinenko, co-Founder and CEO. “Koop Technologies is an insurance platform for autonomous vehicles and robotics. This adds capacity into an area, allowing higher density and more profitable developments. Startups pitching on the main stage. Mar received her Ph.D.

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Joby Aviation partners with Japanese airline to launch air taxi service

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The auto giant led Joby’s $590 million Series C round in 2020 and has shared expertise with the startup on electrification technology, as well as manufacturing, quality and cost controls, according to a Joby spokesperson. Toyota represents not only a partner in this future service, but also one of Joby’s strategic investors.

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9 investors, execs and founders discuss Zagreb’s startup potential

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Indeed, the country is most popular as a tourist destination, and given that tourism accounted for about 20% of its GDP in 2018 , to an extent, its pre-pandemic focus was mostly on growing its share of the international tourism market. What are the tech investors like? Where do you see your city’s tech scene in five years?