Just Eat Takeaway orders grow again after 55 months of decline, Prosus says
Just Eat Takeaway orders grow again after 55 months of decline, Prosus says

Just Eat Takeaway’s orders grew year on year in September for the first time in 55 months, its owner Prosus said on Thursday. Chief executive Fabricio Bloisi gave the figure in a letter to shareholders that also covers iFood, Prosus’s food delivery bus…

Endeavor Catalyst closes $320M fund as Europe becomes its top growth market
Endeavor Catalyst closes $320M fund as Europe becomes its top growth market

Endeavor Catalyst has closed its fifth fund at $320M, and Europe is now its fastest-growing market. It made 12 investments through Endeavor’s European offices in the first half of 2026. That compares with 14 in all of 2025 and seven in 2024, the firm s…

Nubank’s owner is in talks to buy Monzo at up to £10bn
Nubank’s owner is in talks to buy Monzo at up to £10bn

Monzo is in talks about a sale to Brazil’s Nu Holdings, the owner of Nubank. A deal could value the British digital bank at between £8bn and £10bn, Mark Kleinman reported for Sky News on Saturday. The talks are at a relatively early stage, according to…

Revolut gets its Colombian banking licence, its sixth worldwide
Revolut gets its Colombian banking licence, its sixth worldwide

Revolut has received its licence to operate from Colombia’s financial regulator, the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia (SFC). The company said the licence is the last regulatory step it needs before it launches in the country. Revolut announced t…

Tech companies are scouting Argentine Patagonia for AI data centres, Reuters reports
Tech companies are scouting Argentine Patagonia for AI data centres, Reuters reports

A stretch of Argentina that mostly exports wind, gas and sheep is being pitched to the companies building AI infrastructure, and some of them are listening. Developers and energy firms are courting hyperscalers for data centre projects across Patagonia…

Brazil is defining what a deepfake is, five weeks before it votes
Brazil is defining what a deepfake is, five weeks before it votes

Brazil votes on October 4, and its electoral court spent Tuesday working through a question that many regulators are still struggling to answer: what exactly counts as a deepfake? The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral was expected to rule on broader restrict…

Brazil sues Discord for R$500M and wants an office in the country
Brazil sues Discord for R$500M and wants an office in the country

Brazil’s federal government has sued Discord for R$500M, about $97M, over what it describes as severe gaps in the platform’s age verification and user safety protections. It lands three days after Discord appealed against the data protection authority’…

Brazil is building two AI supercomputers, one Chinese and one American
Brazil is building two AI supercomputers, one Chinese and one American

Brazil is spending 2.3bn reais, about $444m, on two AI supercomputers. One will be built with Huawei, the other is expected to go to Nvidia, and that is the entire point. “The strategy is not to depend on a single company, technology or country,” the L…

Argentina’s AI-run companies plan still can’t do without humans
Argentina’s AI-run companies plan still can’t do without humans

Argentina’s government wants to let a company trade with no person in charge of it, and it has sent Congress a bill to make that legal. The proposal creates a new category called the non-human corporation, an entity run by AI agents or robots that can …

Google earthquake alerts warned 11.4M before Venezuela’s quakes
Google earthquake alerts warned 11.4M before Venezuela’s quakes

Venezuela has no national earthquake warning system. Yet moments before two huge quakes hit on Wednesday, millions of phones lit up. Google earthquake alerts reached 11.4 million people, the company says, buying some of them up to two minutes to act. T…