The oil company Shell continues its commitment in the field of renewable energy. Now the company buys a competitor for Tesla’s Powerwalls from the Allgäu. The Dutch-British energy company Royal Dutch Shell has completely taken over the German home battery manufacturer Sonnen. After Shell had already entered Sun as an…
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BP Ventures has invested in PowerShare, a leading provider of integrated hardware and software solutions for charging electric vehicles in China. The investment is part of PowerShare’s A-Series Series, led by BP Ventures and backed by DETONG Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm in China. The Chinese start-up offers…
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Now the crypto winter has also arrived in Zug. A well-known trading platform has to dismiss every third employee there. Shapeshift founder Erik Voorhees is one of the luminaries of Zug’s “Crypto Valley”. Since 2014, he has been demonstrating a breathtaking growth story with the Shapeshift trading platform, which is…
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A different way of approaching our strategy and growth, a different way of looking for solutions, a new dynamic within our startup; we look for that and we believe that incorporating a female co-founder brings all that to the table. Men, we are sorry, we are complete. When we founded…
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Hans Peter Haselsteiner is the new majority owner of the Viennese startup Digital Hero, founded by Eveline Steinberger-Kern with her Blue Minds. The Energy Hero product offers a simple electricity provider change service. As announced, the investment company ZMH GmbH has taken over the majority of the Viennese startup Digital…
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In the past year 2018, German financial startups have collected as much risk capital as in any year before, according to a report in the Handelsblatt on 7 January. This presents figures of the German consulting firm Barkow Consulting based in Dusseldorf A total of around 1.1 billion euros were…
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Google Fi, launched in 2015 as Project Fi, is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), which offers data, voice and text messaging services at a flat rate, and has a robust network in much of the United States. Although it only operated with Nexus and Pixel phones, in addition to…
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What started as a project led by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University, is now one of the most influential companies on the World Wide Web: Google. Initially, the students’ goal was to create an efficient search engine that would provide users with relevant links in…
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The young smart speaker market saw an upturn in 2018 thanks in large part to Chinese manufacturers and American companies such as Amazon and Google. During 2018, 78 million smart speakers were sold worldwide, with Amazon in the lead, Google following in its footsteps and the Chinese Alibaba, Xiaomi and…
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Vehicle manufacturer Ford today officially announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to cooperate with Mobility Startup what3words in the future. Thanks to this cooperation with their vehicles, Ford drivers in parts of Europe and North America can now be guided more safely and precisely to their destination. What…
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