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I am late for the interview. I had almost arrived at Lisbon’s Católica School of Business and Economics to interview its dean, only to discover I had forgotten my questions and had to return with [...]

Mortgage demand expected to fall 20-25% Restrictions on mortgages will create more difficulties for Portuguese families who will continue to seek homes outside large cities with poverty [...]

The Non-Fungible Token start-up RealFevr has netted €10 million in financing. The startup that specialises in commercialising football NFTs in a video format is to accelerate its international [...]

Lisbon’s Nova, Porto University and Católica are the three universities in Portugal that turn out the most entrepreneurs. According to a report in ECO published today (Monday, 31 October), the [...]

The founder of Web Summit, Paddy Cosgrave, has deflected rumours that the world’s largest technology fair is leaving Lisbon. The Irish entrepreneur said over the weekend that the fair, which has [...]

Lisbon’s Mayor Carlos Moedas has unveiled the Lisbon unicorn factory project as the city welcomes Web Summit 2022 which opens tomorrow. The project, which was one of his key election pledges in [...]

In October the American cloud-based big data technology hub Reltio was the latest international company to choose Lisbon as its springboard for European expansion. Chris Graeme speaks to Anshuman [...]

To drum up business in Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking world, 280 Brazilian startups will be flying to Lisbon over the next few days on a mission of internationalisation and to attend Web [...]

The CEO of Novobanco has informed staff that they should be prepared for the bank to be offered for sale through an Initial Public Offer. (IPO) Mark Bourke said his mission was now to prepare the [...]

The Portuguese State registered a surplus of €5.2Bn in its public accounts to September, 2022. The information, which was released by the Ministry of Finances, was an improvement of €9.9Bn on the [...]