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Final results of the European Data Market study measuring the size and trends of the EU data economy

Finance app encourages couples to talk about money and wealth

Honeyfi is a new service that aims to help couples budget and communicate well about money.

How much to share with a spouse or partner is a perennial relationship issue. Whether to have a joint account? How to align spending behaviors and savings goals? These issues are rich seams of potential strife between couples. Could a new finance app solve this problem and save relationships?

Instead of a joint account, Honeyfi enables the pooling of financial information from different bank accounts and credit cards.
Honeyfi also provides total transparency and budgeting tools for joint management of funds...

My Top Ten Tips for Entrepreneurs

In honor of small business Saturday I wanted to share my top 10 tips for budding entrepreneurs. This list was first published by CBC News and I often refer back to it when I’m meeting with new ventures or training our sales team at Herjavec Group. I hope it helps jump start your weekend—and put you on the right path to your own entrepreneurial success…

1. Believe in the business — and yourself

There are so many people that will say, ‘No — bad idea, it’s never going to work’. You have to have a senseless belief in your idea and yourself – almost to the point of being delusional...

Rocket Internet Capital Partners fund closes at $1 billion

Rocket Internet has announced the closing of its $1 billion fund Rocket Internet Capital Partners [RICP] for investing in early stage and growth startups. This makes it the largest fund of its kind from Europe.

Investments will focus on software, e-commerce, fintech, marketplaces, and travel, according to Rocket Internet. The fund has been backed by a “diverse group of global investors, including financial institutions, pension funds, asset managers, foundations, and high net-worth individuals,” said the company in a statement. Goldman Sachs International was placement agent for the fund.

“RICP having reached the hard cap of USD 1...

Alibaba founder Jack Ma has a brutal theory of how America went wrong over the past 30 years

DAVOS, Switzerland — Alibaba founder Jack Ma thinks America went wrong over the past 30 years by focusing too much on war and Wall Street. Speaking at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, Ma was asked about globalisation and the reaction to it represented by the election of Donald Trump as US president.

He responded that back when Thomas Friedman published “The World Is Flat” in 2005, globalisation looked like “a perfect strategy” for the US: “We just want the technology, and the IP, and the brand, and we’ll leave the other jobs” to other countries like Mexico and China, he said.

“American international companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalisation,” Ma said.

As an example ...

Google acquires Twitter’s Fabric mobile development platform

Over the past couple of years, Twitter has offered developers numerous services to help them build, test, deploy and maintain their apps as part of its modular Fabric platform. Now, the company is selling it off to Google.

The move is likely an attempt on Twitter’s part to slim down in troubling times. The good thing is that none of Fabric’s useful services – including Crashlytics for reporting crashes, Digits for user authentication, Answers app analytics and Nuance for speech recognition – are going away, as Google will continue to offer them to developers as they are.

The people behind Fabric will join Google’s Developer Products Group and work alongside the Firebase team...

EUR 4 MILLION IN FUNDING FOR SMES IN SMART MOBILITY

frontierCities has €4m in funding available for start ups, SMEs and web entrepreneurs to develop smart mobility applications.

Applicants should develop an application using FIWARE that targets the need of a European City in the area of smart mobility.

The applications open on November 20th and close on January 12th. The applications take place in a two-step process. Step one is a very simple 5 question application form and takes no more than 15 minutes to apply. If you are successful at step one, you will be invited to step two to submit a more details application around march.

For more information contact [email protected]

To apply go to www.f6s.com/fiware-frontiercities

This is an opportunity for you, as a BIC, to pr...

EBN – the innovation network – is running a half day workshop for universities, incubators, accelerators, and other intermediaries interested in learning more about EU fundingprogrammes and how to access opportunities.

Additionally, EBN will present its quality certification programme that helps intermediaries present their services to stakeholders, investors and clients.

International networking is a key part of any business in today’s globalised economy. Find out how to connect to over 250 trusted partners across Europe and beyond.

More information from Jenny Reynolds at [email protected]

Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2015 will be held in Milan in March 2015, immediately before the beginning of the EXPO 2015.

The GEC is an inter-disciplinary gathering of startup champions from all around the world. During the meeting, entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, thought leaders and policymakers work together to help bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare.

The 4-day events will bring to Italy thousands of entrepreneurs, investors and innovators from more than 140 countries worldwide, offering extraordinary opportunity for sharing ideas, networking and business and to understand what works and what does not work, to form a variety of options for mutually beneficial cooperation.

Who can participate? Entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, academics...

The second #ACESummit will be taking place in Milan in partnership with the Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2015 hosted by our partner META Group.

As in 2014, the ACE Summit will introduce the most innovative ICT SMEs and startups selected by ACE to investors, mentors and potential partners in other European markets. The Summit also aims at identifying opportunities for cross-border investment in Europe and provide investor readiness training and pitching sessions for the ACE startups.

Programme and registration will be available soon. Stay tuned and follow us at @EU_ACE for updates!

Check out last year’s ACE Summit picture gallery here.