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London’s Octopus Energy gets backing from two new investors; valuation surges by 15% since Dec '23 funding round

London-based Octopus Energy, a clean energy tech company, announced on Wednesday the onboarding of two new investors: Galvanize Climate Solutions and Lightrock. However, the exact figures were not ...
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Croatia’s Rimac Group raises €500M from SoftBank, Goldman Sachs, others; now valued at €2B+

Croatia-based Rimac Group, a company that brings together advanced hypercars and high-performance electrification technologies for the world’s largest OEMs, announced on Wednesday that it has raised ...
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The Grosvenor family started building Grosvenor Square in the 1720s but leased the houses instead of selling — 99 years at a time — so London's priciest homes quietly ...

How the Grosvenor family used a 300-year-old leasehold trick to keep the ground beneath London's most expensive addresses — and got the houses back, one 99-year lease at a time. Sir Richard Grosvenor ...
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Amsterdam's unicorn Mews acquires Gothenburg-based Atomize: Know more

Amsterdam-based Mews, a company specialised in hospitality technology, on Thursday, announced that it has acquired Gothenburg,-based Atomize, the Revenue Management Software (RMS) provider. “We couldn ...
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World’s largest AI-for-good hackathon: Norrsken partners with Spotify, Lovable, Google, NVIDIA, others to launch ‘Fixathon’

Stockholm-based Norrsken VC, which pledged €300M to startups using AI earlier this year, is launching Fixathon, an AI-for-good hackathon in collaboration with Spotify, Lovable, Google, NVIDIA, Advania ...
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How does a single company in a Dutch town of roughly 48,000 people build the only machines able to print the world’s most advanced chips, with its newest model costing about ...

The company is ASML , headquartered in Veldhoven , a Dutch town of roughly 45,000 people about ten minutes' drive from Eindhoven. ASML’s extreme ultraviolet lithography systems use light to project ...
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The most agreeable person in the group can still feel unknown, and the research suggests the problem is not too little conflict but too little information

We consistently underestimate how much people like us when we first meet them, a miscalculation that can linger for months and reshape how we relate to one another. The most agreeable person in a ...
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Across 355 cities in 40 countries, researchers handed in 17,303 supposedly lost wallets — and adding cash raised the share of recipients who contacted the owner from 40% to ...

A 17,303-wallet field experiment found that adding cash increased owner-contact rates. The study measured emails and explored the role of self-image and concern for others. Illustrative wallet ...
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Why rewatching a familiar movie can feel comforting

In a world designed to constantly demand your attention, rewatching the same beloved film becomes an act of psychological resistance—a space where you know exactly what happens next. There is a film I ...
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Meet the 2024 Dutch tech billionaires, according to Quote 500

Entrepreneurs drive innovation, pushing boundaries and transforming industries with their ideas. They often face risks and challenges, in an attempt to achieve their vision/mission, that goes beyond ...
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Most people assume Dubai became rich from oil, but oil now accounts for less than 1% of the emirate's GDP — down from 50% in the 1980s — with tourism, trade, and aviation ...

Traditional trading boats and modern offices beside Dubai Creek. Photo by Walid Ahmad via Pexels. Dubai is routinely treated as an oil city because it is wealthy, Gulf-based and visually associated ...
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Psychology says the trait we most admire as "confidence" in leaders overlaps disturbingly often with narcissism, which helps explain why the wrong people so often rise to the top.

The charisma we mistake for leadership capability may be indistinguishable from the grandiosity that derails organizations from within. Watch how people are chosen for leadership positions and a ...