Malmö is a city that sits in the south of Sweden. While many think of Sweden and the cities of Stockholm and Gothenburg come to mind, the country’s third largest city is one that shouldn’t be underestimated.

Innovation has been the main star of the European Digital Mindset Awards 2025, the awards that, within the framework of DES – Digital Enterprise Show 2025, recognise companies and administrations that are becoming benchmarks for increasing their competitiveness through digitisation.

Small-to-medium business (SMB) owners in the UK are under immense pressure. According to our research, a third say they’ve lost sleep over whether they’ll be able to pay staff – a clear sign of the financial strain many are experiencing. In a climate defined by rising costs, unstable cash flow and economic uncertainty, it’s no surprise that financial worries have become one of the biggest sources of stress for small business leaders. 

The UK’s gender pay gap deadline may only apply to large employers, but ignoring pay equity isn’t a luxury startups and SMEs can or should afford, says PayFit’s Marie-Alice Tantardini, Chief People and Fulfillment Officer.

The internet is undergoing a profound transformation, shifting from a human-centric interaction paradigm to one increasingly mediated by autonomous AI agents. This "agentic revolution" necessitates a radical rethinking of product design patterns and business models. Companies that fail to cater to a growing number of machine internet "users" risk not just a decline in usage, but complete invisibility in the AI economy.

Diraq and QM Technologies has announced the first-ever tight integration of GPUs and silicon quantum processors with the deployment of a system using the NVIDIA DGX Quantum architecture to achieve real-time communication speeds of 3.3 microseconds between quantum hardware and NVIDIA Grace-Hopper superchips, orchestrated through QM’s OPX1000 hybrid controller.

Work AI leader Glean has announced it raised $150 million in Series F financing, bringing its valuation to $7.2 billion.

Multiverse Computing has developed CompactifAI, a compression technology capable of reducing the size of LLMs (Large Language Models) by up to 95% while maintaining model performance. Having spent 2024 developing the technology and rolling it out to initial customers, the company has announced a €189 million ($215 million) investment round.

Against an ever-changing economic backdrop, UK companies have cited employee benefits costs as a pressing challenge, according to Gallagher’s Workforce Trends Report. The report also found that organisations are looking to adapt their benefit strategies to address economic pressures and the diverse needs and expectations of their workforce.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland will launch Finland’s first NATO DIANA accelerator programme at the beginning of 2026. The application period for next year’s accelerator is now open for companies from all NATO member countries.

Malt has released its annual Malt Tech Trends report, providing an in-depth analysis of the evolving tech landscape and jobs, focusing on 2023 vs. 2024.

OpenTrade has announced it raised an additional $7 million in strategic funding led by Notion Capital and Mercury Fund, with participation from existing investors AlbionVC, a16z crypto, and CMCC Global.

After three intense days marked by entrepreneurship, innovation, and high-level connections, South Summit Madrid 2025, co-organised by IE University, concluded its 14th edition with the announcement of the winners of the Startup Competition.

The tech job market experienced a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic, due to rapid digitisation and remote work, and has since travelled in a very different direction.

Mobito, a Brussels-based mobility data analytics platform, has secured €1 million in funding to enhance its technology infrastructure and expand its footprint across Europe.