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| 14.11.2025 | Zilch nets $175M, Backed VC closes $100M Fund III, and nd Ukraine’s LIFT99 emerges even stronger after a missile attack | This week, we tracked more than 60 tech funding deals worth over €736 million and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. In addition to this week's top financials, we've also indexed the most i... |
| 09.11.2024 | The New Era of AI Regulation: Trump’s Presidency and the Future of Generative AI | The political landscape in the United States is shifting. With Donald Trump set to take office as the 47th president, the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) is on the brink of transformation. The Republican control of Congress sugge... |
| 05.11.2024 | The security challenges posed by increasing use of generative AI | The rapid rise of generative AI (GenAI) tools is transforming productivity, enhancing capabilities across computer code generation, data analysis, and corporate writing. Yet, with this transformation comes a new set of security and governan... |
| 22.10.2021 | 16 Intriguing Elements That Convinced Communications Pros To Open Cold Emails | The words “cold email” alone are enough to send shivers down the spines of marketers and consumers alike. Marketers know that cold calls and cold emails have earned a reputation for being bothersome and less than useful. The stereotype is n... |
| 25.06.2020 | Purple enables seamless and secure, contactless collection of customer details for the UK hospitality sector | Using existing guest WiFi functionality, already used by more than 5,000 hospitality providers in the UK, venues can contactlessly collect contact details of their patrons and manage the data centrally in adherence to privacy and GDPR regul... |
| 05.05.2020 | Retail footfall surges as lockdown restrictions are eased: analysis based on more than 50,000 venues across 120 countries | As different regions and countries across the world begin to ease lockdown restrictions, Purple’s Global Footfall Trends tool is allowing us to see what impact these measures are having on the footfall across industries.
Early results sugge... |
| 20.03.2020 | Live data shows industries footfall down by 78% across North America due to Coronavirus outbreak | Purple has access to billions of presence footfall data points, 155 million users in over 185 countries and their expert data scientist team has constructed visual models of the impact that Coronavirus has had in North America.
Due to the o... |
| 01.07.2019 | How smart WiFi can improve your TripAdvisor reviews | How smart WiFi can improve your TripAdvisor reviews
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Want your customers to leave positive reviews after a good experience? A good place to start is with strong and smart WiFi.
Novahub writes:
How important is Wi-Fi access to the ... |
| 01.08.2017 | UK WiFi Company Uses Overlong TOS To Trick Hotspot Users Into Cleaning Toilets, Hugging Stray Cats | So we’ve talked for years about how overlong terms of service contracts that nobody reads are used to eliminate your rights in numerous ways. That includes stripping away your legal rights and forcing you to engage in binding arbitration, w... |
| 18.07.2017 | Not reading the conditions on free WiFi, 22,000 people agree to hugging cats and cleaning toilets | Thousands of people accidentally signed up to cleaning public toilets, hugging stray cats and scrubbing chewing gums off the street after not reading the Terms and Conditions when signing up for public WiFi networks.
In a public experiment... |
| 27.06.2017 | Bond location shakes up its WiFi offering by partnering with Purple and Unico Data AG | Purple, the intelligent spaces company, today announced its collaboration with Unico Data AG as part of a guest WiFi and analytics deployment at various locations on the cableway and mountaintop of Schilthorn, Switzerland.
The famous Swiss ... |
| 06.03.2017 | Purple and Smarter WiFi reach new heights at renowned ski and climbing centres | Purple, the intelligent spaces company, has revealed that the Ice Factor, Snow Factor and Bar Varia are collecting four times more CRM data following the installation of its solution by Smarter WiFi.
The Scottish attractions draw visitors f... |
| 27.02.2017 | Purple and Smarter WiFi stir up business for Wok&Go | Purple, the intelligent spaces company, Smarter WiFi and TP-Link have today announced their collaboration with Wok&Go, serving its thousands of diners across the UK with a seamless WiFi connection.
Wok&Go, the popular noodle bar fra... |
| 19.01.2017 | The top 9 angel and VC investments in Northern tech companies in 2016 | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
It’s no secret that tech and digital businesses in the North of England find it more difficult to access capital than their London-based counterparts. We hear it from the startu... |
| 16.01.2017 | Purple connects PizzaExpress in UAE | January 16, 2017: Purple, the intelligent spaces company, and CDW, the international IT solutions provider, today announced its partnership with PizzaExpress UAE.
PizzaExpress UAE selected Purple and CDW to offer fast, free and secure guest... |
| 21.11.2016 | Real life is not enough: New Purple survey reveals how majority of people are online when out in bars and restaurants | November 21, 2016: Intelligent spaces company Purple surveyed over 1,000 people about how they use WiFi in bars and restaurants. The results show that, for the majority, using WiFi is an essential part of their social experiences. If it’s a... |
| 19.10.2016 | Purple and Ruckus Wireless team up to deliver NBA's Indiana Pacers with guest WiFi and fanalytics | October 19, 2016: Purple, the intelligent spaces company, today announced the signing of a three-year contract to supply the Bankers Life Fieldhouse with Ruckus Wireless and Purple’s guest WiFi solution.
Together, the companies will combine... |
| 19.09.2016 | Purple completes $7 million investment to boost global team | September 19th, 2016: Purple, the intelligent spaces company, today announced a $7 million investment. This comprises a growth loan secured from Boost&Co, which totals $3.9 million, and additional funds contributed by existing investors... |
| 19.09.2016 | Purple Raises $7M in Debt and Equity Finacing | Purple, a Manchester, United Kingdom-based intelligent spaces company, raised $7m in debt and equity finacing.
The package includes a growth loan secured from Boost&Co, which totals $3.9m, and additional funds contributed by existing in... |
| 22.08.2016 | Purple WiFi Receives £3M Loan from Boost&Co | Purple WiFi, an Ashton Under Lyne near Manchester, UK-based provider of a service for businesses to provide WiFi to their customers on a free to use basis, raised a £3M growth loan.
BOOST&Co provided the debt financing.
The company inte... |
| 29.06.2016 | Purple to present at Cisco Live, July 10-14, Las Vegas | Visit Purple on stand 1446
June 29, 2016: Purple, the intelligent spaces company, today announced its speaker slot at Cisco Live, Las Vegas, July 10-14.
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Purple’s Kerry Wright, Director of Alliances for Purple, will be addressing... |
| 28.03.2016 | Using the 'physical web' to boost in-store sales | Bricks and mortar businesses have been in the dark. They were blinkered to what was happening within their locations, and how customers were interacting with the space. There was huge potential to fail to engage with customers effectively, ... |
| 14.03.2016 | Purple expands further into Europe with Madrid office | Gonzalo Sánchez appointed Regional Sales Manager
March 14, 2016: Purple, the intelligent spaces company, today announced the opening of a new office in Madrid, Spain.
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Gonzalo Sánchez has been appointed to the role of Regional Sa... |
| 07.03.2016 | Purple Appoint Petah Green VP, Asia Pacific | March 7th, 2016 Purple, the intelligent spaces software company, today announced the appointment of Petah Green, as the new VP for Asia Pacific. Petah joins Purple from Microsoft.
Prior to joining Purple, Petah was the Head of Microsoft’s E... |
| 14.01.2015 | UK’s Purple WiFi Raises $5M To Push Its Free Social WiFi Service Abroad | Free public WiFi has become one of the more popular ways that cafes, shops and other public places attract users and then use the connections to serve ads and collect other kinds of anonymised analytics. Now, a startup out of the UK called ... |
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