Mateusz Kaczmarek, Author at TechStock²

Microservices and Serverless Roundup: Key Developments in June–July 2025

AWS Aurora DSQL, a serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, became generally available in late May 2025. AWS open-sourced the AWS Serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, an AI-powered assistant to guide architects in building serverless apps. AWS API Gateway added support for dynamic routing rules on June 3, 2025, enabling more flexible versioning and traffic management for microservice APIs. AWS Lambda expanded SnapStart to more global regions and gained native Avro/Protobuf support in Kafka event triggers. Amazon Redshift Serverless introduced a new lower 4 RPU minimum to optimize costs for smaller workloads. At re:Inforce in late June,

9 July 2025

Cloud Computing

June–July 2025 Blockchain & DLT Developments: Major News, Trends, Regulation, and Adoption

Circle Internet Financial’s NYSE IPO on June 5 priced at $31 per share, opened at $69, surged about 800% to over $270 within two weeks, pushing Circle’s market cap above $60 billion and the deal was oversubscribed roughly 25×. Coinbase and Kraken secured MiCA licenses to operate across all 27 EU member states (Luxembourg for Coinbase, Ireland for Kraken), and Kraken launched the Krak mobile app enabling transfers across 110 countries in 300+ assets. Mastercard announced partnerships to integrate stablecoins—USDC, Paxos USDP, PayPal PYUSD, and FIUSD—across its payments network, while Fiserv launched FIUSD for institutional use and partnered with PayPal

8 July 2025

Blockchain

RegTech Roundup: Key Regulatory Compliance Tech Developments (June–July 2025)

On June 19, 2025 UK RegTech firm CUBE announced the acquisition of Acin, its fourth deal since 2023, folding Acin’s controls benchmarking network into CUBE’s platform to form an end-to-end link from regulations to risk controls for about 1,000 institutional clients in 20+ countries with 700 staff, backed by Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, J.P. Morgan, and Lloyds. In July 2025 Hong Kong ESG RegTech Diginex received government funding to scale its AI-driven sustainability platform, following its US$2 billion acquisition of Resulticks in early June 2025 and aiming to streamline ESG reporting aligned with ISSB and IFRS standards with a leading

8 July 2025

Technology

Flying a Drone in Vienna? 2025 Laws Reveal Strict Rules, No-Fly Zones & Big Penalties

Drone operator registration is mandatory in Austria via Austro Control’s Dronespace, with a typical fee of €30–32 and a registration valid for 3 years. The Drone License (Drohnenführerschein) includes an A1/A3 basic certificate and an A2 certificate; both are EU-wide and valid for 5 years after online training and exams. Drones under 250 g with no camera are exempt from licensing and registration, and since 12 August 2022, drones under 250 g flying below 30 m in Vienna’s restricted zones do not require an Austro Control permit. From 2024, EU rules require class labels (C0, C1, C2, etc.) and Remote

8 July 2025

Drones

June–July 2025 Global Green-Building Tech & PropTech Roundup

Rowan University opened the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park Museum in late June 2025, a mass-timber building that runs fossil-fuel-free with geothermal heating and planned solar to achieve net-zero energy, designed by Buro Happold and Ennead Architects. Brooklyn College began drilling a 500-foot geothermal well in early June 2025 to retrofit a 20,000-square-foot building with a 100% geothermal heating and cooling system in a $10 million decarbonization project. Practice Greenhealth recognized 496 hospitals in June 2025 for climate-smart leadership, with a Top 25 cohort highlighted for exemplary performance in renewable energy use and resilience. USGBC rolled out a sustainability

8 July 2025

Global Trends·Technology

Smart City Platforms & Urban Tech Update (June–July 2025)

In June 2025 Genoa, Italy was selected to host Project Hafnia, an AI-driven traffic management platform by Milestone Systems in partnership with NVIDIA, using a digital twin of the city via NVIDIA Omniverse to train vision AI models for real-time congestion mitigation. Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority signed a 42-month SaaS contract to deploy Iteris ClearGuide for citywide traffic monitoring, turning complex transportation data into actionable insights like bottleneck detection and congestion alerts. In Mumbai, India, JalVimana launched an initial fleet of 11 Candela P-12 electric hydrofoil ferries to form a new electric water transit network aimed at reducing road

8 July 2025

Innovation

Global Green Data Center Efficiency Developments (June–July 2025)

Deloitte forecasts global data center electricity use will nearly double from about 536 TWh in 2025 to over 1,000 TWh by 2030. S&P Global projects U.S. data center power demand rising about 12% annually through 2030, with roughly 60% of new demand potentially met by natural gas. Germany passed the Energy Efficiency Act (EnEFG) requiring 100% renewable energy by 2027 for all data centers, a PUE of 1.2 or better for facilities operational from July 2026, at least 10% energy reuse, and an energy or environmental management system by July 1, 2025. Effective July 1, 2025, any data center hosting

8 July 2025

Global Trends·Technology

Namibia’s Digital Frontier: How Internet Access and Starlink Are Rewiring the Nation’s Future

<li Namibia had about 1.6 million internet users by early 2024, roughly 62% of the population, up from 53% in early 2023. <li The 2012 landing of the West Africa Cable System (WACS) at Swakopmund dramatically expanded international capacity and reduced latency. <li Equiano landed in Namibia in 2022–2023, delivering up to 20 times more international bandwidth and adding redundancy beyond WACS. <li MTC launched the 081Every1 rural coverage project in 2017, helping mobile 4G reach roughly 88% of the population by 2024. <li Mobile subscriptions exceed the population at about 2.9 million, while fixed broadband subscriptions were only around

8 July 2025

Digital Transformation·Starlink

FoodTech Mid-2025 Report: Alternative Proteins and Cellular Agriculture Breakthroughs

In June 2025, Austrian startup Revo Foods partnered with Slovenia’s Juicy Marbles to debut a 3D-printed plant-based fish fillet called “Kinda Cod,” leveraging mycoprotein and high-throughput 3D printing, and it launched direct-to-consumer in the US via Juicy Marbles’ online store with UK and EU rollout planned. In April 2025, Bel Group teamed with Standing Ovation to upcycle acid whey into high-value casein proteins via precision fermentation for more sustainable cheese production. On July 17, 2025, GEA opened a 10,000 m² Food Application & Technology Center in Wisconsin, its second global pilot plant, housing 50–500 liter bioreactors to help startups scale

8 July 2025

Innovation

Global Data Center Infrastructure & Colocation Industry Update (June–July 2025)

In 2025, Amazon Web Services announced a $10 billion investment in North Carolina to build an AI-focused data center campus in Richmond County, creating 500 jobs. AWS plans new data centers in Chile, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, and Taiwan, with CEO Matt Garman calling the expansion pace “breakneck” to support AI workloads. Alibaba Cloud opened its second data center in South Korea in June 2025 and pledged $52.7 billion to build a unified global network, adding a new region in Mexico and a second site in Thailand this year. Equinix completed the acquisition of three Manila, Philippines data centers (MN1,

8 July 2025

Data Centers·Technology Trends

AgriTech and Precision Agriculture Update (June–July 2025)

Major News Developments in AgriTech (June–July 2025) Innovations and Technology Deployments (AI, Drones, IoT, Robotics) In mid-2025, numerous precision agriculture technologies moved from concept to field deployment. Automation and robotics saw significant strides: major manufacturers and startups alike introduced autonomous farm machinery to tackle labor shortages and improve accuracy. Kubota’s partnership with Agtonomy will outfit Kubota’s popular M5N narrow tractors with automation for tasks like spraying in vineyards and orchards, reducing labor needs and pesticide use Agtechnavigator. Similarly, Monarch Tractor reported growing interest in its driverless electric tractors – “our latest feature, autonomous feed pushing, has seen strong uptake, especially

8 July 2025

Innovation·Technology

June–July 2025 Update: Workflow Automation & RPA Industry Report

Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for RPA, released in late June 2025, again names Automation Anywhere, Microsoft, SS&C Blue Prism, and UiPath as Leaders for the seventh consecutive year. Gartner warned about ‘agent washing’ and projected that by 2027 more than 40% of agentic AI projects could be canceled due to unclear ROI. UiPath announced a mid-June 2025 launch of a next-generation Agentic Automation Platform in Australia, unifying AI agents, RPA bots, and human workflows and introducing UiPath Maestro as the orchestration layer with a Google Cloud Agent-to-Agent protocol for secure AI-agent communication. UiPath reported thousands of AI agents created and

8 July 2025

Tech Trends

Vertical Farming and CEA Global Developments – June–July 2025 News Roundup

Eeki, the Indian agtech startup, secured $7 million in funding led by Sixth Sense Ventures to expand its IoT-powered aeroponic network across India. The investment supports scaling after Eeki already built 100 acres of climate‑controlled farms in arid Rajasthan and rolling out third-generation growing chambers and R&D. Planet Farms (Italy) is investing £25+ million to construct a 20,000 m² vertical farm in the UK with production planned by 2027, mirroring its Milan flagship of 10,000+ m² that supplies over 25% of Italian retail leafy greens. Plenty Unlimited emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late May 2025, refocusing on its Los

7 July 2025

Global Trends·Innovation

DevOps, DevSecOps & Developer Tooling – Notable News (June–July 2025)

In June 2025, GitLab released version 18 with AI-native features called GitLab Duo, adding AI-assisted code suggestions, test generation, chat-based help, a Maven virtual registry, modular CI/CD pipelines, and built-in security templates (SOC 2 and ISO 27001). In mid-2025, Atlassian unveiled AI agents named “Rovo” for Jira and Bitbucket to auto-generate tests and code, review PRs, and assist deployments using the Teamwork Graph data layer. In late June 2025, Harness reached GA for Harness AI Test Automation, delivering AI-driven test generation and execution across CI/CD to reduce manual QA bottlenecks. In June 2025, Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Containers Public Beta, enabling

7 July 2025

Stock Market

Global Wearable Health Tech News – June and July 2025

Biobeat’s cuffless vital-sign patch received FDA clearance and CE marking for hospital-grade remote monitoring, enabling cuffless measurement of blood pressure, heart rate, SpO2, and respiratory rate via PPG and AI. On June 19, PharmaSens and SiBionics announced niia™ signature, an all-in-one patch that combines a continuous glucose monitor with an insulin pump, unveiled at ADA 2025. LifePlus’s LifeLeaf non-invasive monitor (June 24) is a cuffless device for continuous glucose and blood pressure tracking, validated in Mayo Clinic trials with readings within about 10.8% of glucometers and BP error around 0.03 mmHg. Wearable Devices Ltd.’s Large-Motion AI Platform expansion on June

7 July 2025

Technology

Internet Access in Qatar: A Comprehensive Report

Qatar’s fixed internet is dominated by fiber-optic FTTH, with the Qatar National Broadband Network (QNBN) delivering fiber coverage to over 95% of the country and DSL largely obsolete. Ooredoo Qatar launched the world’s first live 5G network in May 2018 and both Ooredoo and Vodafone now offer nationwide 5G coverage with gigabit peak speeds. Mobile broadband penetration is around 150% of the population, reflecting widespread smartphone data use. Starlink was licensed in September 2022, and as of 2024 Starlink is active in Qatar on Starlink Business plans only, mainly for enterprise and offshore connectivity. In 2024, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund

7 July 2025

Internet

Drone Laws in Abu Dhabi: What You Must Know in 2025

The UAE launched the UAE Drone One-Stop Platform, drones.gov.ae, in late 2024 to centralize pilot and drone registration, flight approvals, training information, and incident reporting, with full cross-emirate rollout by mid-2025. Abu Dhabi’s Department of Municipalities and Transport issued Administrative Decision No. 48 of 2024 on April 5, 2024, regulating civil drone use in the emirate and designating DMT as the local authority issuing permits and flight rules. On January 7, 2025, the GCAA, coordinated with MOI, lifted the recreational drone ban for individuals, allowing hobbyists to fly in Abu Dhabi if trained and issued a permit, while Dubai maintained

7 July 2025

Technology

Hydrogen Revolution Heats Up: Global Breakthroughs, Big Investments & Bold Policies (June–July 2025)

South Korea’s Hanyang University researchers developed a boron-doped cobalt phosphide catalyst that halves hydrogen fuel cost, remains stable for over 100 hours, and outperforms platinum and iridium electrodes. Sweden’s Linköping University created a triple-layer photoelectrode (cubic silicon carbide, cobalt oxide, nickel hydroxide) that produced eight times more hydrogen than silicon carbide alone and aims for 10% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency within 5–10 years. A Chinese team from Tianjin University demonstrated PEM electrolyzers that can use ordinary impure water with a Brønsted-acid MoO3-x additive to create an acidic microenvironment, maintaining performance over 3,000 hours. Australia’s CSIRO unveiled a beam-down solar thermal reactor that

7 July 2025

Space Tech’s Summer Surge – Record Launches, Orbital Innovations & Earth Observation Revolution (June–July 2025)

SpaceX achieved its 500th Falcon 9 mission in early July 2025, with an overnight Starlink launch featuring a booster on its 29th reuse. By July 2, 2025, SpaceX had conducted 83 Falcon 9 missions in 2025, including 61 Starlink deployments. In June 2025, the United States saw 21 commercial launches across four providers, with SpaceX accounting for 15, and 12 of those were Starlink missions. On June 28, 2025, four orbital launches occurred within 13 hours, including two SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink missions, a Rocket Lab Electron, and Japan’s H-2A. Japan’s H-2A rocket completed its final mission on June 28,

7 July 2025

Space

Global Satellite Communications Boom: Major Launches, Mergers & Breakthroughs (June–July 2025)

SpaceX’s Starlink network surpassed 7,000 satellites in orbit by June 2025 after a record double launch on June 28, deploying dozens of new satellites from Florida and California within 13 hours. Starlink generated $11.8 billion in revenue in 2024, overtaking its launch business for the first time. In June 2025 India granted Starlink a license to operate, signaling a major entry into a market projected at $1.9 billion by 2030. In May 2025 South Korea approved Starlink and OneWeb for service, with regulators clearing both to start selling LEO internet plans once final certifications are completed. France invested €1.35 billion

7 July 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

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Why Tencent stock fell: an OpenClaw AI warning, chip shortages — and what’s next for 0700.HK

7 February 2026

HONG KONG, Feb 7, 2026, 23:42 (HKT) — Market closed. Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) shares fell 2% to HK$547.50 on Friday, as investors headed into the weekend weighing fresh signals on AI security and tight supplies of data-centre chips. (Investing.com) The stock is one of the biggest weights in Hong Kong tech and often trades as a proxy for sentiment on China’s internet sector. Small shifts in regulation or the cost of computing capacity can move assumptions on Tencent’s cloud and advertising growth. Risk appetite has been fraying across Asian tech after U.S. tech volatility this week, adding pressure to

Walmart stock jumps 3% to $131 as Dow clears 50,000 — what to watch before Monday

7 February 2026

Walmart shares climbed 3.34% to $131.18 Friday, pushing its market value to about $1.05 trillion as the Dow closed above 50,000 for the first time. Retail stocks mostly gained, with Target up 4.24% and Costco up 1.20%, while Amazon dropped 5.55%. Investors await Walmart’s fiscal Q4 results on Feb. 19 and key U.S. economic data next week.

Visa stock price closes higher as $100 million small-business push hits tape — what to watch next week

7 February 2026

Visa shares closed up 0.74% at $331.58 Friday, trading between $327.10 and $335.13. The company launched “Visa & Main,” a small-business platform with a $100 million working-capital facility through Lendistry. Mastercard fell 0.6%, while American Express and PayPal each rose about 1.3%. Investors await next week’s U.S. jobs and inflation data.

Samsung Electronics stock price slips to 158,600 won as tech selloff bites; Monday in focus

7 February 2026

Samsung Electronics shares closed down 0.44% at 158,600 won Friday, with 36 million shares traded as the Kospi fell 1.4%. Investors are watching chip demand and AI-related trades after Samsung gained 32% year-to-date. Samsung secured partial occupancy for its Taylor, Texas chip plant. Next trading is Monday, ahead of a Feb. 10 investor event.

Mateusz Kaczmarek

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