Paul Sawers

Spotify has quietly announced how much it’s paying for four of its recent acquisitions, revealing that it’s doling out a combined €291 million ($295 million) for Findaway, Podsights, Chartable, and Sonantic. In an updated SEC document filed after its official earnings report yesterday, the audio-streaming giant confirmed that it...

Datacenters might be the lifeblood of the modern digital economy, but for housing developers in some parts of London they could curtail building plans for the next 13 years. According to a report in today’s Financial Times, developers on the western side of the U.K. capital may be prevented...

Spotnana, a self-proclaimed “travel-as-a-service” platform that targets corporations, travel management firms, and other technology companies with a cloud-based toolset for booking and managing travel, has raised $75 million in a series B round of funding. The raise comes less than a year after Spotnana exited stealth with $41 million...

Amazon has announced that it’s increasing the prices for its Prime subscription service in Europe, with fees rising by as much as 43% in some markets. The announcement comes some six months after the ecommerce giant announced a similar price increase in the U.S., where the annual price jumped...

Twitter has published its Q2 2022 results, with the social networking giant’s numbers falling short of analysts’ estimates across user growth and revenues. Perhaps more interestingly, Twitter also revealed that it spent $33 million in Q2 on Elon Musk’s pending acquisition. Twitter vs. Musk Today’s results represent Twitter’s second earnings since...

Just Eat Takeaway is cutting 390 jobs from its workforce in France, constituting part of a broader global restructuring effort as the food delivery giant looks to reverse its recent downturn. Just Eat Takeaway is the result of a $7.6 billion merger between the U.K.’s Just East and Dutch...

Fonoa, a tax automation platform used by companies such as Uber and Zoom, has raised $60 million in a series B round of funding. Founded out of Dublin, Ireland, in 2019, Fonoa targets digital services companies that operate globally, automating many of the processes involved in managing sales tax,...

Google is expanding its photo and canvas prints service to Europe and Canada. Google has offered printed photo books in the U.S. since 2017, a service that started rolling out in Europe the following year. And then in 2019, Google started offering photo prints and canvas prints in the...

Conversational commerce isn’t exactly a new phenomenon, with countless companies using live chats, messaging apps, chatbots, voice assistants and more to encourage consumers to part with their cash. As part of that broader movement, the mighty WhatsApp, a dominant force in the messaging world, has been pushing deeper...

Microsoft has confirmed that it won’t be introducing a previously announced new policy that would effectively ban developers from selling open source software on the Windows app store. Section 10.8.7 of its Microsoft Store Policies document, which was updated in mid-June and had been due to come into effect...