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Creditors agree terms to disburse Greece’s 8.5bn bailout funds
EU and IMF thrash out deal following months of disagreements, with funds to be released in July once European parliaments ratify the deal. For the best part of a decade, Greece has wanted to become a normal country, and late on Thursday it appeared to begin that process, after creditors agreed to disburse 8.5bn (7.4bn) […]
Satellite Eye on Earth: May 2017 in pictures
Vesuvius in Italy and volcanoes in northern Tanzania, lights going out in Syria, and flooding in Sri Lanka are among images captured by Nasa and the ESA this month. A vertical view of Vesuvius in southern Italy, taken by the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet from the International Space Station. The Proxima mission […]
Election 2017: Pound falls sharply but UK shares rise – BBC News
Image copyright Reuters The pound has fallen sharply after the UK election resulted in a hung parliament. Sterling’s value had dropped overnight, and as trading began in London it slipped further, standing 2.3% lower at just below $1.27, with markets worried about heightened political uncertainty. Against the euro, the pound was down 2% at 1.1344. […]
Colombian grocery delivery app Mercadoni raises $6.2M
Mercadoni, a grocery delivery app and service operating in Colombia, Argentina and Mexico, has raised $6.2 million in Series A funding, one of the largest Series A rounds in the region. The startup lets you order groceries for delivery, in a promised turn-around of under an hour. It already claims 250,000 users and ready for […]
Rise of the machines: who is the Internet of things good for?
The long read: Interconnected technology is now an inescapable reality ordering our shopping, monitoring our cities and sucking up vast amounts of data along the way. The promise is that it will benefit us all but how can it? In San Francisco, a young engineer hopes to optimise his life through sensors that track his […]