article thumbnail

COP16 talks on biodiversity resume in Rome. Here’s what’s at the top of the agenda

Fast Company Tech

And steps were taken to give Indigenous peoples and local communities a stronger voice in conservation matters. ” “They eventually lost a quorum because people simply went home,” said Linda Krueger of The Nature Conservancy, who is in Rome for the two days of talks.

article thumbnail

SVB contagion: UK arm shuts down, government scrambles and startups brace for the worst

TechCrunch

— Hussein Kanji (@hkanji) March 10, 2023 On Friday afternoon, Mark Tluszcz, CEO of Mangrove Capital Partners in Luxembourg (which has raised a total of $819.2M The law firms and other VCs caused the panic imho. There was no crisis before this.

article thumbnail

What Congress should ask at Wednesday’s tech antitrust hearing

The Verge

In keeping with Republican tradition, there will also be bad-faith questions about conservative bias.). Facebook says EU regulators have asked broad questions beyond the scope of two ongoing antitrust probes and has asked that the General Court in Luxembourg to intervene. Javier Espinoza / Financial Times ).

Tech 58