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Although they may be short on funding, they still choose the fastest growing startup in Europe. The latest beneficiary of the investor’s appetite is the five-year-old Amsterdam-based Challenger Bank, targeting small and medium-sized businesses across Europe. The company, which claims to double its revenue in 2024, has just shut down its 115 million euro Series C equity round (approximately $133 million), and TechCrunch has learned exclusively. This comes just weeks after landing $105 million in growth funds from General Catalyst, the first supporter since 2021. FINOM’s business model focuses on providing European SMBs with a financial platform that combines banks,…

This story by Ariana Figueroa and Ashley Murray was originally published on the Colorado Newsline. It’s shortened. A federal judge in Rhode Island blocked an order that had been yanking billions of federal dollars for state roads, bridges and airport projects that didn’t support Trump’s administration’s immigration crackdown. US District Judge John James McConnell Jr. granted a preliminary injunction late Thursday to 20 democratically-led states, which filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Transport and Dott Secretary Sean Duffy. McConnell’s orders apply only to the 20 plaintiffs’ states he wrote, as Duffy acted outside his authority when he placed…

New York City Metropolitan Transportation is set to resolve decades-old bottlenecks with its subway system, Gossa Mist’s Stephen Nessen reports. “It’s called Nostrand’s linkage, and everyone passing it is familiar with its rage. The linkage is on a stretch in central Brooklyn where two, three, four and five lines cross, and dozens of trains need to grind every hour.” As Nessen explains, this section causes significant delays. Now, the MTA aims to reconfigure services to reduce the number of competition at the interchanges by essentially replacing routes 3 and 5 east of Franklin Avenue. Instead of dropping Nostrand Avenue, the…

Singapore, Singapore, June 23, 2025, Chain Wire Polemos, the Web3 gaming infrastructure platform, has launched the official token generation event (TGE) for $PLMS Utility Token. TGE marks the next step in UTC on June 23, 2025 at 5am, marking the development of a platform for integrating blockchain technology within the gaming sector. Now available on MEXC and UNISWAP, $PLMS allows users to enter the Polemos GameFi ecosystem. Kommunitas’ exclusive $PLMS IKO is officially sold out and raises $250,000 more than the $PLMS list. The $PLMS token is designed to act as a utility and governance token for the Polemos ecosystem.…

This work was originally published in a city state. In metropolitan politics, housing does not fit properly along existing ideological lines. This dynamic was particularly vivid in the New York City mayoral race, culminating in tomorrow’s primary. I wrote about the mayoral candidate housing policy in a recent CityLab work. Among them, I recently noticed how much progressive has shifted towards development. It is a sign of the growing influence of the Immy (or perhaps now “rich”) movement, and the depth of the urban housing crisis. Empirically oriented progressives can no longer deny the housing shortage in New York, along…

Openai pulled a controversial video from its website and YouTube page that promotes friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (a $6.5 billion deal to win Openai’s Ive and Altman’s device startup IO). Does that suggest something is wrong about the acquisition or in the planning to lead the design work at Openai? According to Mark Garman of Bloomberg, “The deal is going well and hasn’t dissolved or something like that.” Instead, he said the judge issued an order suppressing the name of the IO and forced the company to pull out all material that used…

Bitcoin It fell to its lowest level from May on the weekend as tensions in the Middle East and updated fears of inflation have led to rapid sales across digital assets.Bitcoin fell below the $99,000 mark on Sunday as the crypto market became the first to respond to an escalation of geopolitical risk.Bitcoin has traded at around $99,380, compared to a decline of more than 2% in the last 24 hours. ether We reduced 5% to under $2,200. Solana, XRPand Dogecoin He also posted sharp losses, dragging the entire crypto complex deep into the red.The sale appears to be a…

Tesla began riding in the driverless model Y SUV in Austin 10 years after CEO Elon Musk began countless promises about his company’s ability to launch such services. Deployment will be the first major test of Musk’s belief that it is possible to safely deploy fully autonomous vehicles using cameras and end-to-end AI. This is a different approach to other players in spaces like Waymo. On Sunday, numerous videos shared on social media and sources around the city confirmed what Musk had been making fun of for months. Tesla sent early access invitations to customers who reviewed last week. Customers…

Director Danny Boyle became famous for filming the apocalyptic classic “28 Days After” on Canon’s digital camera, making it easier to capture the abandoned London creepy scenes, giving the film’s fast zombies awful immediacy. To create a sequel decades later, “The Weekend in 28 Years,” Boyle turned to another consumer technology: the iPhone. Boyle told Wired that by using a rig that can hold 20 iPhone Pro Max cameras, the film-making team created “basically poor man bullet time” and captured brutal action scenes from various angles. Even when he wasn’t using the rig, Boyle (who once directed the biopic of…

In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans thought cryptocurrency was at least a trend, Katie Havn found herself in the debate stage in Mexico City across the board from Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who dismissed digital assets as almost unworthy. When Krugman focused on the wild price movements of Bitcoin, Haun piloted the conversation towards something else, Stablecoins. She argued on the stage, explaining how digital tokens are pinned to the US dollar offer the benefits of blockchain technology without the ups and downs of traditional cryptocurrencies. Krugman completely dismissed the idea. It wasn’t…