When the Portuguese electric power grid needs more electricity, a large multinational power company releases millions of gallons of water from a dammed reservoir.Stanley Reed and Matilde Viegas traveled to […]
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Back to news homeOn Portugal’s ‘Bitcoin Beach,’ Crypto Optimism Still Reigns
LAGOS, Portugal — The Bam Bam Beach Bitcoin bar, on an uncrowded beach in southwestern Portugal, is the meeting place.To get there, you drive past a boat harbor, oceanside hotels […]
Omio raises $80M as travel demand rebounds after years of COVID-19 crisis
It’s been a tough few years for Omio, the Berlin-based travel search and booking platform that saw 98% of its revenues evaporate overnight when COVID-19 hit Europe back in Spring […]
Paack pulls in a $225M Series D led by SoftBank to scale its E-commerce delivery platform
By now, many of us are familiar with the warehouse robots which populate those vast spaces occupied by the likes of Amazon and others. In particular, Amazon was very much […]
Spotify’s new Podcast Subscriptions expand to global markets
Just a few months after launching support for podcast subscriptions to U.S. creators, Spotify today is making the service available to creators in global markets. The company says the service, […]
Housing startup QuintoAndar to open first technology hub outside Brazil in Portugal
QuintoAndar is taking its first steps out of Brazil to open a technology hub in Lisbon, Portugal aimed at attracting technology talent across the pond. Co-founder and CEO Gabriel Braga made […]
Dear EU: It’s time to get a grip
The EU for all its lethargy, faults and fetishization of bureaucracy, is, ultimately, a good idea. It might be 64 years from the formation of the European Common Market, but […]
Portugal’s Bike Boom: How the Country Is Meeting the Demand
VOUZELA, Portugal — Inside a factory set among eucalyptus trees in the Portuguese countryside, workers carefully cut thin strips of sticky carbon fiber and press them into molds. It is […]