A two-day taxi driver strike in Barcelona this week, called to protest against the number of ride-hailing vehicles on the streets and failure to enforce national regulations that are supposed to cap private hire vehicle numbers, turned violent yesterday with protestors attacking cars and local media reporting attacks on drivers too. The violence has led […]
View More Uber and Cabify pause services in Barcelona after taxi strike turns violentCategory: Spain
Xiaomi goes after global markets with two new Android One phones
Xiaomi gave Google’s well-intentioned but somewhat-stalled Android One project a major boost last year when it unveiled its first device under the program, Mi A1. That’s now joined by not one but two sequel devices, after the Chinese phone maker unveiled the Mi A2 and Mi A2 Lite at an event in Spain today. Xiaomi […]
View More Xiaomi goes after global markets with two new Android One phonesLa Liga spies on fútbol fans through its app
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The unthinkable has happened: an app maker is actually admitting it’s secretly listening to us!
The official streaming app of Spain’s La Liga soccer division has been listening to its users, according to Spanish newspaper El Diario. The app activates the microphone when GPS detects that users are in a bar, all in order to discover whether venues are playing illegal streams. Yikes!
La Liga is one of the top soccer leagues in the world, with superstar Lionel Messi as a player on the team FC Barcelona. The app has over 10 million installs in the Google Play store. Read more…
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Kry bags $66M to launch its video-call-a-doctor service in more European markets
Swedish telehealth startup Kry has closed a $66 million Series B funding round led by Index Ventures, with participation from existing investors Accel, Creandum, and Project A. It raised a $22.8M Series A round just over a year ago, bringing its total raised since being founded back in 2014 to around $92M. The new funding will be put towards market expansion, […]
View More Kry bags $66M to launch its video-call-a-doctor service in more European marketsSpain’s new female-dominated government has just made history
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Spain’s new government has only just been sworn in, but it’s already made history. That’s because the women in this cabinet outnumber the men.
King Felipe VI of Spain swore in the new government on Thursday, with women occupying 11 of the 17 cabinet posts.
That equates to 61.1 percent women—the highest proportion of women in government since the country became a democracy in 1978.
Carmen Monton is sworn in as Spanish Health Minister, next to Spain’s King Felipe VI at La Zarzuela Palace, in Madrid.
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View More Spain’s new female-dominated government has just made historyReal Vision, a media platform for finance and business, raises $10 million
Real Vision is entering the crowded business and financial new space with a bang. The company, which recently raised a $10 million Series B after a $5 million A, is working on a number of new initiatives including distribution on Apple TV, a content distribution partnership with Thomson Reuters and an upcoming documentary on PBS. […]
View More Real Vision, a media platform for finance and business, raises $10 millionUber to pop up a service in Spain’s Costa del Sol in time for summer
Uber is expanding its presence in Spain by launching a licensed service on the country’s southern Costa del Sol coastline — ahead of the summer season when the region draws in millions of international tourists. Last year the tourist hotspot pulled in some 12.5M visitors. Clearly Uber wants to cut itself a chunk of that […]
View More Uber to pop up a service in Spain’s Costa del Sol in time for summerEventbrite acquires Spanish ticketing platform Ticketea
Eventbrite has been shopping again in Europe — announcing today that it’s picked up Spanish ticketing firm, Ticketea. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The Madrid-based events discovery and ticketing platform lets people find and book tickets for a variety of live experiences — including festivals, concerts and performing arts shows. It focuses on […]
View More Eventbrite acquires Spanish ticketing platform TicketeaStudioBricks is a Barcelona-based startup that sends you a studio in a box
My friend Rick is a voiceover artist and works in Ohio – right along the flight path for jets taking off and landing at the Columbus airport. As a result, he said, he had to record late at night when the airport closed, a limitation that he found exasperating. Enter StudioBricks, a cool startup from […]
View More StudioBricks is a Barcelona-based startup that sends you a studio in a boxWoman gets email rejecting her for a job because she’s not a man
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Finding out you didn’t meet the requirements for a job you wanted is always tough to hear.
But, a company in Spain is facing an almighty backlash after it sent a candidate an email telling her she didn’t get hired because she isn’t a man.
Carla Forcada, who lives in Barcelona, Spain, applied for the role of account executive at PR agency Impulsa Comunicación. After sending her CV, she received an email from the PR firm telling her that they were looking for a man because the role would require work with Coca-Cola and Carglass accounts. She tweeted a screenshot of the email she received, which is written in Spanish, alongside the comment: “Unbelievable to think that some companies still don’t support gender equality in the workplace.” Read more…
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View More Woman gets email rejecting her for a job because she’s not a manMan jumps from emergency exit on airplane, stands on wing
A passenger on a Ryanair plane was arrested after he opened the emergency exit and climbed onto the wing of the aircraft.
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A Ryanair spokesperson confirmed the “security …