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Europe

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  • Iceland
    • Software

Atlanta’s Aptos Buys Iceland-based Retail Software Firm

Atlanta-based retail technology provider Aptos has acquired Icelandic software firm LS Retail for an undisclosed sum.  LS Retail develops software for retail, hospitality, food service and other sectors, offering inventory planning, point of sale and enterprise resource planning in on solution. Based in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik, the company’s software is installed through channel partners […]

  • United Kingdom
    • Diplomacy

British Ambassador Sees Common Goals in Biden’s Plans to Reconnect with the World

Even serving in the United States four times, British Ambassador Karen Pierce has never attended a presidential inauguration.   When it became clear that diplomats would be cleared to join the much-anticipated Jan. 20 installment of President-elect Joe Biden as the next U.S. leader, she jumped at the chance.   “I couldn’t get my acceptance in fast enough,” […]

  • Africa
    • Art
    • Education

2020 in Review: Global Atlanta Founder Honored by Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College for Africa Series

It all started with a chance conversation in 2011 that stemmed from a transatlantic trip. Global Atlanta founder and publisher emeritus Phil Bolton was reporting from Belgium when he found out that the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren would be packing up items from its vast trove of African art and sending them on tour […]

  • United Kingdom
    • Business
    • Software
    • Technology

With $100M Raise, Atlanta’s Newest Unicorn Eyes International Expansion 

SalesLoft may be born and bred in Atlanta, but the nine-year-old sales engagement software provider that just became the city’s newest unicorn is looking beyond U.S. borders to bolster its already impressive growth.  SalesLoft announced Thursday it had raised a $100 million Series E round led by Owl Rock Capital, bringing its total private funding […]

  • United Kingdom
    • Culture
    • Diplomacy
    • Sports

StationSoccer Founder Awarded Order of the British Empire

Atlanta’s Sanjay Patel was among the few overseas Britons who woke up to the new year with a new honor from his country of origin.  Mr. Patel, director of strategic projects with Soccer in the Streets, this week was awarded the Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his “services to […]

  • Austria
    • Diplomacy

Diplomatic Digest: Turnover in Atlanta’s Consular Corps During 2020

As 2021 begins, Atlanta welcomes a modified consular corps bolstered by new diplomats who arrived here during the strangest of times and stocked with those likely kept in the city a bit longer by the pandemic.   In normal times, diplomats taking up new postings here are welcomed with events — dinners, receptions and the […]

  • United Kingdom
    • Books
    • History

Books 2020: The Deeper, More Riveting Story of Paul Revere’s Ride and the American Revolution

Book: The British Are Coming  Author: Rick Atkinson  Review by: Jim Reed, President, YKK Corp. of America  “The regulars are coming out!” is what Paul Revere is actually reported to have cried when warning militia of the advance of a fast-moving British force coming to confiscate weapons in Concord.   This is only one of hundreds […]

  • Angola
    • Books

Books 2020: The Individualistic Human Condition

Book: Frost  Author: Thomas Bernhard Review by: Oliver Gorf, executive director, Goethe-Zentrum Atlanta It required a pandemic to encourage enough soul searching to finally make me read this novel by the great Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. For decades I had kept my distance from his work, shying away from it for fear it could affect […]

  • Brazil
    • Books
    • Politics

Books 2020: How to Understand Global Populism

Book: Populism: A Very Short Introduction Authors: Cas Mudde and Crístobal Rovira Kaltwasser Review by: Kirk Bowman, Rise Up & Care Professor of Global Development and Identity, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech; Founder and Director, Rise Up & Care “Populism” tends to pop up in political conversations these days, yet the concept […]

  • China
  • United States
    • Agriculture
    • Books

Books 2020: How the History of Bees Affects the Future of Humanity

Book: The History of Bees   Author: Maja Lunde  Review by: Martin Richenhagen, chairman, president and CEO of AGCO Corporation  As someone who has spent the better part of his professional career in the agricultural industry, I have long understood the vital connection between honey bees and crop production. Honey bees pollinate much of the food […]

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