Lyft acquires Hamburg-based taxi app FreeNow from BMW and Mercedes-Benz for €175M and says the combined operations will serve 50M+ riders annually
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times :
A look at LAION, a free AI training data set with 5B+ images used in Google's Imagen and Stable Diffusion, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann
In front of a suburban house on the outskirts of the northern Germany city of Hamburg, a single word — “LAION” — is scrawled in pencil across a mailbox. Tweets: @marissalnew , @aggichristiane , and @o...
Hamburg-based Fashion Cloud, whose B2B data and content exchange portal is used by ~20K fashion retailers, raised €25M led by Verdane
Callum Cyrus / Tech.eu :
Hamburg-based Localyze, which offers a B2B SaaS for employee immigration and relocation support, raised a $35M Series B led by General Catalyst
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Berlin-based Vay, which wants to launch a service in Hamburg in 2022 that uses remote operators to drive rental cars to and from users, raises a $95M Series B
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
Hamburg-based Taxdoo, which offers API-based tools for e-commerce tax and accounting, raises a $64M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing total funding to $84M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Profile of Johannes Caspar, who was Hamburg's data protection commissioner for over a decade and investigated Facebook, WhatsApp, Clearview, PimEyes, and Amazon
Cathrin Schaer / Wired UK : Tweets: @robertjbateman , @wolfiechristl , @andrejonker , and @samuelstolton Tweets: Robert Bateman / @robertjbateman : Great piece on Hamburg DPA and Johannes Casper. “We...
Hamburg-based Sport Alliance, which offers tools for the fitness industry, including for payments and bookings, raises €60M from PSG
Dan Taylor / Tech.eu :
Facebook ordered to stop collecting German users' WhatsApp data by regulator, starting with a three-month emergency ban on the data collection
- Hamburg regulator issues a three-month emergency order — Watchdog calls new terms intransparent and overly broad
Lightspeed POS, a Montreal-based payments software company, has agreed to buy German POS systems developer Gastrofix for ~$61M in cash and ~$40M in shares
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