Trump triggers a market shock wave
Donald Trump’s announcement impose customs duties up to 49 % on imports sparked a shock wave on the markets, dropping Apple by more than 6 % in trade after scholarships. Strongly exposed to China for its production, the Californian giant led to its decrease Nvidia (-4 %), Tesla (-4.5 %), as well as Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft, all in decline. The S&P 500 lost 2.8 %, the Nasdaq 100 more than 3 %. If Apple’s drop is confirmed on Thursday, it will mark its strongest correction since September 2020.
👋 Price shock: what the increase in customs duties reveals on global online trade
Amazon launched its first major mission for its STARLINK competitor satellite network
Amazon is about to launch Ka-01, the first operational mission of its Kuiper project, with 27 satellites intended to provide a rapid and global internet connection. The launch, scheduled for the earliest April 9, since the Cape Canaveral base, marks the start of a massive deployment of more than 3,200 satellites in low orbit.
Meta under Pressure: Zuckerberg tries to avoid a federal antitral trial
Less than two weeks before a historic trial brought by the FTC, Mark Zuckerberg would have multiplied meetings with Donald Trump and his relatives to obtain an amicable settlement. The stake: to avoid a trial aimed at the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, accused of having smothered the competition. Despite a first cancellation of the file in 2021, the case was relaunched, and Meta is preparing for a major legal battle. The file could become a political test as much as judicial for the future of tech regulation in the United States.
Google faced with a GPU shortage, turns to Coreweave
Google is in advanced discussions to rent Nvidia Blackwell fleas from Coreweave, a cloud supplier in full ascent, in order to overcome the lack of capacity of its own data centers. This approach illustrates the persistent tension on the GPU market, including for historical players like Google, faced with the dazzling boom in AI demand. Coreweave, supported by Nvidia and already a partner of Openai and Microsoft, is thus a strategic relay for intensive calculation accommodation.
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The next AI battlefield: memory
+ Hard Reset:
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+ Special edition we innovate 500
Phacet, the startup which deploys an AI agent in 6 weeks, makes a strategic entry into the we innovate 500
+ Zero Trust Zone
Cybersecurity: HORNETSECURITY takes hold of French Altospam to strengthen its presence in Europe
During the Incomyber forum in Lille, Hornetsecurity announced the acquisition of Altospam, Bordeaux Safety of Email Safety, subject to the approval of the Ministry of the Economy. This acquisition marks a new stage in the pan -European strategy of the German group, already the owner of Vade Secure, aimed at building a sovereign actor against the American giants. Supported by PSG Equity, your Associates and Verdane, Hornetsecurity continues its ambition to consolidate a portfolio of cloud solutions combining security, conformity and sovereignty of the data.
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+ Fundraising
Parallel raises 3.2 million euros to relieve the hospital from his bureaucracy
- Fairly Made raises 15 million euros to accelerate the digital transformation of responsible fashion
- Fairmat raises 51.5 million euros to industrialize the circularity of composite materials
- Weefin lifts 25 million euros to tackle the European ESG Data Market
- Feedae raises 1.6 million euros to analyze 100 % of customer conversations
- Tomorro raises 25 million euros to industrialize contractual management by AI
- Underdog refreshs its shareholding and prepares its industrial deployment with a lifting of 7 million euros
Lumai raises € 9.2 million to revolutionize the IA calculation thanks to the optics
The Oxfordian startup Lumai, resulting from research from the University of Oxford, raised more 9.2 million euros To develop its optical AI accelerators, capable of surpassing traditional GPUs while reducing energy consumption by 90 %. Supported by Constructor Capital,, IP Group,, Photonventures And other DeepTech funds, Lumai promises a performance 50 times higher than current solutions.
Unravel lifts € 6.38 million to transform travel videos into instant reservations thanks to AI
The London startup Unravel, which converts video content into travel reservations via artificial intelligence, has just raised 6.38 million euros in series A from Nauta Capital, Active Partners, Slingshot Ventures and Olivier Bisserier, ex-CFO of Booking.com. Deployed in Asia and the Middle East, the platform allows banks, airlines or fintechs to transform creators’ videos into reserved experiences. Funds will be used to strengthen AI capacities and accelerate European expansion.
Klipy raises € 1.2 million to monetize the GIFs and short content thanks to the AI
The American startup Klipy, founded by two Georgian entrepreneurs, raised 1.2 million euros in Seed from Sturgeon Capital, the ex-basketball player Zaza Pachulia and the co-founder of Gfycat, Dan McEleney. Klipy aims to transform gifs, even and stickers into monetization relay via advertising technology, integrated into platforms like Slack, Canva or Figma.
+ Decode VC
Revaia completed a second fund at 250 million euros, almost half of which has already been deployed
The Parisian Revaia fund, piloted exclusively by women, announces the final closing of Revaia Growth II has 250 million euroscarrying his outstanding € 600 million. Based on institutional investors such as Bpifrance, FEI, BNP Paribas Cardif or JP Morgan Chase, the European Scale-Ups Target Fund in the energy transition, AI or cybersecurity.
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📅 April 8 and 9: Big SEO 6th edition, the event of SEO and content marketing
🥐 previous edition of the Good Morning Frenchweb:
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- The future of Google is incompatible with its economic / Greentech model: 2.2 billion € raised, but a still fragile / YouTube model cuts the revenues of…
- Zebank, Bernard Arnault’s online bank / After real estate, the new Martingale by Xavier Niel…. / Google tests the prompt
- The GPUs of Openai found under requests / Parcoursup poses bad questions / clay you clone
- Alexis Renard and Laura Pallier are launching a new startup / Omaj recovery / Facebook is trying to become again… Facebook
🚀 To read on Frenchweb.fr:
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- Zestmeup and Supermood unite to build a European player in employee engagement
- Will European technological independence go through the HPC RHEA HPC microprocessor of Sipearl?
- Towards increased resilience of critical infrastructure: France wants to strengthen its cybersecurity
- Does Mirakl really be worth $ 3.5 billion?
- Trapped by its own economic model, mention is put into receivership.
