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Delivery Hero Eats Up Turkey's Yemeksepeti

by Ingrid Lunden
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    UK Election Gets Partisan Spin From Startups

    by Steve O'Hear

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    BlackBerry Is Buying WatchDox For Up To $150M

    by Ingrid Lunden

  • French Senate Asks To See Google's Algorithm

    by Natasha Lomas

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    Automile Scores $5M To Connect Your Car To The Cloud

    by Steve O'Hear

    Automile, which offers a device and platform that connects your car to the cloud so you can track various kinds of data, has closed a $5 million Series A round. The investment was led by Dawn Capital and Point Nine Capital — money that will be used by the Swedish startup to expand globally and continue developing new services for car owners. Read More

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    France Is One Step Closer To Adopting Extensive Surveillance Law

    by Romain Dillet

    Following Charlie Hebdo’s attacks, the French Government has been tirelessly working to draft and vote a new intelligence law that goes way too far. Today, the lower house of the French Parliament overwhelmingly voted for this new law, making it highly likely to be definitely implemented in a couple of months. In many ways, this law is even broader than the Patriot Act, and many… Read More

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    Recruit Acquires Majority Stake In European Hair And Beauty Marketplace Wahanda For $171M

    by Steve O'Hear

    Wahanda, the European hair and beauty marketplace, has seen an exit of sorts. Japan’s Recruit Holdings, which already owned 10 percent of the London-based startup, has acquired a further 70 percent share for £112.5 million (~$171m), in a deal that sees Wahanda’s other backers cash out. Read More

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    Relevancy Data Improves Ad Targeting By Analyzing The Content Of Online Videos

    by Anthony Ha

    I bet we’ve all had moments when we’ve stared at a random, irrelevant ad and wondered: “Why the heck am I being forced to watch this?” Well, a company called Relevancy Data is working to make those moments a thing of the past, and it’s taking the stage today as part of the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt NY. The mission, said founder and CEO Michal Hubschmann, is… Read More

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    This Pressure-Sensing Stool Wants You To Sit Better

    by Natasha Lomas

    Bootstrapping Dutch startup Zami Life is aiming to engineer posture problems out of the office worker’s life with an ergonomic stool that has a curved seat. The shape of the seat is designed to encourage the sitter’s spine to rest in what they claim is a healthier s-curve given there’s no option for slouching on this backless, convex surface. Read More

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    WeWork’s Adam Neumann On The Importance Of Community, Which Helped Build A $5 Billion Business

    by Matthew Lynley

    WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann said the word “community” at least a dozen times onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. It’s a mantra of the company that he kept hammering away over and over and over — and, unsurprisingly, that part of WeWork’s massive network of co-working spaces seems to be one of the driving forces of the company’s success. It turns out… Read More

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    Delivery Hero Eats Up Turkey’s Yemeksepeti For A Record $589M

    by Ingrid Lunden

    Delivery Hero, the billion-dollar takeout food service based in Berlin, is making another big acquisition as it continues to scale up its business worldwide. It’s buying Turkey’s Yemeksepeti for $589 million in a cash and shares deal that will also see investor General Atlantic becoming shareholders in Delivery Hero. Yemeksepeti — Turkish for “food cart”… Read More

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