Spotify plans to raise its Premium subscription by $1 to $12.99/month in the US, its first US price hike since July 2024, and increase it in Estonia and Latvia
Spotify plans to raise its Premium subscription by $1 to $12.99/month in the US, its first US price hike since July 2024, and increase it in Estonia and Latvia
Spotify Technology SA is raising the price of its premium subscription service by 8% in an effort to achieve sustained profitability.
Stellantis partners with Estonia-based ride-hailing service Bolt, which serves 200M+ riders in 50+ countries, to test Level 4 driverless vans in Europe in 2026
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Europe's startup ecosystem, which had 35,000 early-stage companies in the EU and the UK in 2024, per Atomico, is hindered by complex and varying regulations
Start-ups are booming in the European Union, but experts say bureaucracy keeps them from expanding across borders. Bluesky: @cyrilpedia Bluesky: Thiago Carvalho / @cyrilpedia : ‘More start-ups have fo...
Estonia-based Blackwall, formerly BotGuard, raised a €45M Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic, after a €12M Series A in March 2024
A huge chunk of online traffic now comes from bots, both good and bad — but AI is boosting the latter.
Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing … Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbes : Microsoft Kills ...
Estonia partners with OpenAI and Anthropic to launch an AI skills drive in schools for 20,000 students aged 16 and 17, aiming to help develop critical thinking
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Google proposes Search tweaks in the EU to comply with the DMA, including removing the map showing hotel locations and results in Germany, Belgium, and Estonia
Google has proposed more changes to its search results in Europe after some smaller rivals complained about lower traffic …
The US and allies reveal that hacker group Cadet Blizzard is part of Russia's GRU Unit 29155, which is responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and more
There has been a lot of talk this week about Putin paying “useful idiots” to spread his propaganda. … X: @dojnatsec : Five Russian GRU Officers and One Civilian Charged for Conspiring to Hack Ukrainia...
Helsing, which makes AI tools for defense, raised a €450M Series C led by General Catalyst, a source says at a €4.95B valuation, taking its funding to €769M
- Company formed in 2021 has now raised nearly €770 million — Helsing will open entity in Estonia as part of Baltic push