At the end of May, StubHub, a subsidiary of Ebay, bought the Spanish online ticket resale startup –founded in 2009 by Jon Uriarte and Ander Michelena– for 165 million dollars.
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Experts stress that Spanish startups are experiencing a good phase and conquering the international market.
Spanish startups received a total investment volume of 659.4 million euros in 1,527 investments in 2015, up 83% from 2014.
Trust has always been one of banking’s biggest values, but in the 21st century where digital is the prevailing theme, trust has become even more central to the conversation, BBVA Global Head of Security Architecture Juan Francisco Losa said in an address at American Banker’s Cybersec conference in New York City this week.
Artificial intelligence is present in the life of anyone with a smartphone. Thanks to voice recognition systems, it is possible to say, “Hi, Siri” or “Okay, Google” and the cellphone will translate the words. This technology hopes to be incorporated in our homes to make our lives easier.
The Fintech startup Anfix provides cloud-based financial services to the self-employed and SMEs to help them manage their business finances.
The Mexican Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), better known as Tec de Monterrey, heads the Forbes ranking of most innovative business schools in Latin America.
Large retailers around the world such as Amazon opted for cloud computing right from the outset. Now, as highlighted in the study eSpain - The digital transformation in the retail sector by the Orange Foundation, almost all processes of updating IT (Information Technology) systems of retailers introduce cloud solutions.
In the world of programmers there is a new much talked-about language: Python. This is a type of programming language (a set of symbols and syntactic and semantic rules needed to develop programs that control a machine's physical and logical behavior) that aims for simplicity, versatility and swift development, whose name is inspired by the group of English comics “Monty Python”.
The European Parliament wants to establish regulatory measures in robotics. A draft report recommends standards given their impact on society, the economy and employment.