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Uber Buys Glovo's Owner for €13 Billion but Carves Portugal Out of the Deal

Uber agreed on 16 July to buy Glovo's owner Delivery Hero for about €13 billion, but deliberately excluded 14 markets where the brands compete — including Portugal. Glovo's Portuguese operation will pass to US fund SSW Partners, keeping it separate from Uber Eats.

The Portugal Brief 20 Jul 2026

A young managed forest of pine and eucalyptus trees in central Portugal, slender trunks and green undergrowth typical of the country's fire-prone woodland

A New Free Platform Tracks the Iberian Peninsula's Living Forest Moisture to Sharpen Wildfire Warnings

A free new platform, ForestDrought, maps the live moisture of forests across the Iberian Peninsula every day — bringing the water in living plants, not just dead tinder, into wildfire-risk models as Portugal endures its worst fire year since 2017.

The Portugal Brief 19 Jul 2026

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Portugal's Responsible-AI Consortium Aims for €150 Million in Sales as Sword Health Takes Over From Unbabel

Portugal's Center for Responsible AI, the PRR-funded consortium once led by the now-collapsed Unbabel, expects around €150 million in business by the end of 2026, mostly from exports. Now led by Sword Health, it groups 21 partners and some 18 products spanning health, law and inclusion.

The Portugal Brief 19 Jul 2026

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A Lisbon Tech Team Will Modernise Eurocontrol's DEMETER Navigation Tool as Satellite Jamming Spreads

GMV's Portuguese operation will migrate and maintain DEMETER, a Eurocontrol tool that helps aircraft navigate using ground-based beacons when satellite signals fail, under a contract running to 2030 — work that matters more as GPS jamming rises across Europe.

The Portugal Brief 18 Jul 2026

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Barcelos Backs Two New Tech-Training Centres With €3.2 Million for Industry and IT

Barcelos has inaugurated two Specialised Technology Centres backed by a €3.2 million PRR-funded investment, one for industry and one for IT, teaching programming, cybersecurity, AI, automation and robotics. The northern city is betting on locally grown skills to keep its dense industrial base suppli

The Portugal Brief 17 Jul 2026

CGD, BCP and Unicre Are Picked for the ECB's Digital Euro Pilot Starting in 2027

CGD, BCP and Unicre Are Picked for the ECB's Digital Euro Pilot Starting in 2027

Three Portuguese financial names have been chosen to help build the future of European money. Caixa Geral de Depósitos (the state-owned bank, or CGD), Banco Comercial Português (Millennium bcp, or BCP) and the card specialist Unicre have been...

The Portugal Brief 14 Jul 2026

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Torres Vedras Platform Bizay Raises €48.75 Million to Push Into the United States

Bizay, the Torres Vedras custom-products platform known locally as 360imprimir.pt, has closed a €48.75 million Series D led by Índico Capital Partners to fund AI infrastructure and US expansion, after crossing €100 million in revenue and turning its first profit.

The Portugal Brief 14 Jul 2026

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