While there is a dramatic rise in the number of people who want to know about Locky virus, the majority of those users are coming from Malta, Germany and Luxembourg. Similar to wildfire in a Jungle, a new Ransomware by the name of “Locky” is spreading at an alarming rate. Similar to the ancient Ransomware who encrypted files before demanding a ransom to decrypt them, Locky is demanding Bitcoins from its users, as reported by nabzsoftware. MORE

One of the biggest names behind Luxembourg-based Mangrove is Michael Jackson. Like many top VC firms, Mangrove Capital has been increasing its focus on Berlin this past year. Last month, they put on a big party here in a venue consisting of old shipping containers – what could be more Berlin than that – as they continue their search for the next big thing. MORE

The drift was starting: I remember being part of designing and implemented a new type of tax-deductible tier I financing for Deutsche Bank using an obscure Luxembourg-issued quasi equity instrument. Want to buy some Luxembourg bank exposure coupled with a barrier option on a given foreign exchange pair ? I spent the first years of my career in derivatives. I made it Executive Director at Goldman Sachs before I decided to pack it in. MORE

Perhaps we’ll be looking to Bangkok, Rio de Janeiro, Luxembourg, Toronto, Auckland, Beirut or Lagos? This post originally appeared on the TransferWise blog. TransferWise is the clever new way to transfer money between countries, from the people the people who built Skype and PayPal. From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and Berlin’s hip coffee shops to East London’s Silicon Roundabout , the world is well versed in the global innovation boom towns. MORE

The first Code Club World communities will be in Luxembourg and Kiev and will be run by web developer Patrick Welfringer and TA Venture Director and IDCEE conference organizer Viktoriya Tigipko. Code Club UK, the network of volunteers that teach kids to program, is celebrating its first birthday today and is doing so in style by announcing the expansion of the initiative to the entire world. MORE

The exchange is based in Luxembourg, and it allows trading between the U.S. API stands for Application Data Interface. We use APIs on a daily bases, but we do not realize it. MORE

London, 18.08.2018. Transformify Recruitment CRM and Generate FS have joined forces to help employers hire top talent worldwide. As IT talent becomes scares in many technology hubs like London, New York, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Berlin and many other big cities, the employers are left with no other option than looking for talent elsewhere in the world. However, the ever changing regulatory framework tremendously increases the cost and the administrative burden. MORE

Global Fashion Group (Luxembourg): INSEAD, IIM Calcutta. As a second-year Harvard Business School student and NextView Ventures MBA Associate, constantly keeping up-to-date with the start-up world, I have heard some skepticism about the ability of MBAs to found top companies. Perhaps most famously, Guy Kawasaki quipped that the value of an MBA to an entrepreneur is “probably about a negative $250,000.”. MORE