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Revolut managed to break even in November, marking a strong rebound for the digital banking start-up from the coronavirus crisis.

A move into payment processing software would put Revolut up against U.S. firm Stripe, Dutch competitor Adyen and British peer Checkout.com.

Both sides remain divided over three issues: fisheries, competition rules and governance of their potential deal.

Tech start-ups in Europe are on track to raise a record $41 billion in 2020, according to a report from venture capital firm Atomico.

Demis Hassabis, the co-founder of AI lab DeepMind, has revealed that he talked about chess instead of his start-up idea when he first met Peter Thiel.

"We know it's been a hard year and people are tired, but in hospitals that are running at, or over, capacity; it's the hardest it can possibly be," WHO's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday.

Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, has become a strategic partner to a European venture capital fund.

European students that have enrolled in British universities could face a hit of $1,084 if they do not arrive in the U.K. before the end of the year. 

So-called micromobility firms in Europe are outperforming their U.S. counterparts when it comes to fundraising this year.

"My wife and I have agreed that for the coming years, her professional ambitions should take priority," Rubin Ritter, co-CEO of Zalando, said in a statement.

For four years, the Taihuttu family has only used bitcoin to pay for everything from groceries, to car repairs. Here's how they did it.

Fnatic has set up a "High Performance Unit" to assess how things like lack of sleep impact its gamers, who compete in esports competitions with big prize money.

The World Health Organization is holding a briefing Friday on the pandemic as countries prepare their distribution networks for a forthcoming Covid-19 vaccine.

The EU's competition chief has hinted that tech giants will have to change how they promote themselves as the bloc prepares to revise its competition rulebook. 

The European Union could implement its massive coronavirus stimulus plan without Hungary and Poland, which are vetoing its budget, top EU officials have said.

Trade negotiations continue after the UK said that chances of a breakthrough are receding.

OPEC and its oil-producing allies agreed to increase production by 500,000 barrels per day beginning in January.

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the adoption of online food delivery apps by two to three years, according to Deliveroo CEO Will Shu.

While it's crucial to the global economy, the agriculture sector can affect the environment too.

Simon Segars, the chief executive of Arm, said he expects regulators to "take a good look" at the company's deal with U.S. chipmaker Nvidia.