The Verge

JULY 30, 2021

That converts to about $887 million US, which would be the largest fine ever under Europe’s data protection law. EU commissioners announced in November 2020 that it was their belief Amazon’s retail business misused non-public data to compete with other sellers in France and Germany.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” citizen who has been living and working temporarily in Germany for the past year. Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

They can help you make sure you comply with the law and file paperwork for you. With today’s funding round, Matera plans to expand to Germany. By the end of 2021, Matera wants to manage 6,000 buildings including 40 in Germany. If something feels odd, you can contact a residential building expert on Matera.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

It helps organizations alleviate security concerns, according to the startup, and is compliant with all current privacy laws, including GDPR. and Germany. InfoSum’s data collaboration platform uses patented technology to connect customer records between and amongst companies, without moving or sharing data.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

The idea is for EU Member States to implement a set of “best practice” policies for startups (many of which already exist in parts of the EU), ranging from startup visas to better implementation of stock options in company law. or, now, the U.K.) Proactive CEOs should prioritize European expansion. Given the U.K.,

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Law enforcement agencies across Europe, the US, and Oceania revealed Anom’s origins earlier today, saying they had arrested 800 criminal suspects based on intercepted communications. But the network ultimately covered 90 countries, with Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Australia, and Serbia seeing the most users.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Other customers are located in Spain, Germany or the U.K. Spain and Germany. Labor laws vary from one country to another, which means that there could be different geographical leaders as there’s a natural barrier to entry. Germany and Spain. Germany and Spain. but they don’t operate in other markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” trillion in revenue in the fiscal year 2020, which is greater than the GDP of many countries, including Japan, Germany and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

“Then you have the IFPEs, or wallets, via the fintech law. Fintech laws say that IFPEs are not allowed to touch consumer deposits — they can’t lend with them or share returns. This is not Germany or the U.S. “ “We’re something in between,” explains Cordero. where you can offer BNPL at 0% interest.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

The complaints filed in France, Austria, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom say that the company’s method of documenting and collecting data — including images of faces it automatically extracts from public websites — violates European privacy laws.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

France and Germany. Anti-Uber (and anti-Cabify) strikes have, meanwhile, been a quasi-regular (and sometimes violent) feature of Spain’s streets — as the taxi industry has protested at a perceived lack of enforcement of the law against app-based rivals who are not competing fairly, as it sees it. And we have a rule of law.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The site boasted some 500,000 users and facilitated around 320,000 transactions, reports the EU’s law enforcement agency, Europol, with clientele buying and selling everything from malware and stolen credit card information, to weapons and drugs. DarkMarket was taken offline earlier this year as part of an international operation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Spain’s government is gearing up to pass the country’s first ever startup law. A draft law agreed by ministers was presented to the parliament last month. So — if all goes to plan — Spain will finally get a startup law before the end of this year. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Turo’s launch in New York follows the state legislature’s passing of SB 6715 in December 2021, a law that provides a regulatory framework for peer-to-peer car sharing operations in the state. NY was the only state in the country where such a service was unavailable, so the signing of the bill means Turo is now in all 50 states.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Spain’s homegrown on-demand delivery app, Glovo — which since the end of last year has been majority owned by Germany’s Delivery Hero — has been fined €79 million (~$79 million) for breaches of labor laws related to the employment classification of couriers, local press reported yesterday.

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2021

The law firm Volkswagen hired to perform the investigation covered more than 65 petabytes of data, including some 480 million documents. The law firm also performed 1,550 interviews and reviewed files from prosecutorial and judicial proceedings around the world that came as a result of the company’s actions.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

and Germany mull legalizing recreational use of the flower by adults. laws around cannabis use differ across EU member nations, leading companies to navigate a complex framework of laws. Europe is all set to take on the U.S. as the world’s biggest cannabis market as countries like the U.K.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

That’s much faster than VanMoof’s current e-bikes, which are capped at 25km/h in Europe and 20mph in the US, and well beyond what local laws currently allow. The VanMoof V will initially be sold in the Netherlands, Germany, France, the UK, the US, and Japan for $3,498/€3,498/£3,498.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

These include legal obligations, for example Germany recently passed a new supply chain due diligence law that makes it the responsibility of large companies to track human rights violations and environmental risks through their supply chain. A similar directive is currently being proposed for the broader European Union (EU) too.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Apple’s measures had created an artificial opacity in its ecosystem that led to less choice, higher costs for apps, and less protection against ad fraud, all while boosting Apple’s revenues from services,” said Thomas Hppner, partner at law firm Hausfeld, which represents the complainants.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission has filed an amended antitrust complaint against Facebook , alleging that the company violated federal antitrust laws with its acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. That effort appears to have been unsuccessful. “As

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Some entrepreneurs’ strength may lie in conceptualization, while others may be great at execution, and if you’re the latter sort, copying a successful idea may well seem like a great opportunity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

” He also noted that in cases where data has to, by law, reside in a single country, AnyDesk can be used as a way for people in remote locations to work with it, without having to resort to using VPNs (which have their own latency and other reliability issues). “Manufacturing pipelines cannot move to cloud.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Verbit was founded in 2017 by Livne, who previously had a career in law. and Australia, plans to expand further into Europe, including Germany, France, Spain and others, Livne said. Verbit is a step closer to its planned IPO in the near future after closing the Series E, Livne said when asked regarding its listing plan.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

It also currently offers a service in a number of cities in Germany, such as Munich — where instant grocery rivals include the likes of Gorillas and Flink. But that may no longer be on the cards if it’s set on prioritizing the UK market. The latter has attracted investment from GoPuff US rival, DoorDash, among others.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Belgium, France and Germany makes Amsterdam a natural gateway to those markets. And Brexit is helping: The Dutch are highly proficient in English and Dutch law is similar to English law, which means U.K.-based The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

The WEEE Directive is the set of laws that governs the proper collection and disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in the 27 countries of the European Union. The latest update of the law is expected to be formally approved in 2014. has a patchwork of laws in half of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

That, my friends, is what you call exposure : Law firm Proskauer is mopping up after exposing clients’ confidential M&A data. Meanwhile, over at Twitter : Germany could fine Twitter over illegal hate speech , Natasha L reports. Carly has more.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Numerous European countries already have laws in place that regulate the sale of gas-powered vehicles and lay out incentives to increase the number of electric and zero-emission ones. In Norway, Europe’s leading electric market ahead of Germany, one out of every three cars purchased is an electric vehicle.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Further, differences in the law in some countries can result in you spending significant money for little gain. Each of these inventions may need its own patent application, which can quickly multiply the cost to your business and make filing for patent protection prohibitively expensive.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

16 that it has begun production at its first European plant in Gottingen, Germany, and expects to begin supplying local markets next month. Rival CATL initiated efforts to build its first European plant in Thuringia, Germany in 2018 and kicked off production last December. Gotion also plans to build a $6.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

More of that buzz, you know, it’s just a matter of when one of these bills becomes law. Do you talk to people who make laws, whether it’s in Congress or in the White House or anywhere about this? So Fidelity offering it at the consumer level and investing in the issuer is a big deal. What are their views?

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

SWVL is present in 13 markets globally: the UAE, Egypt, Kenya, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan. Others include developing its proprietary technology stack and growing its three models — where it makes $5 million in MRR — across existing and new markets, it said in a statement.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

The first thing any American notices when coming to Amsterdam is that unlike Germany and France, everyone speaks English. The Swedes have the law of Jante , the Anglo-sphere has Tall poppy syndrome , but us Dutch have a saying that epitomizes our exaggerated egalitarian desires: “Act normal, that is strange enough.” Serious talent.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“Over the past months we’ve had a number of cases in Germany of our riders being stopped by police for simply having the ability to exceed the 25km/h limit EU default setting by switching to the US country setting in our app,” says VanMoof co-founder Ties Carlier in a blog post. “We GIF: VanMoof.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

” Going forward, it will focus instead on its home market of Germany, as well as France, the Netherlands, the UK and the US, which it says collectively account for 90% of its revenues currently.The announcement came on the heels of a report in the German press last night about the layoffs.

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