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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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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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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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 6, 2022

But, in the future, the aim is for the DMU to proactively prevent a giant like Meta from buying a smaller rival in the first place if/when it identifies key competition concern attached to a proposed merger. Meta faces years of tougher antitrust oversight in Germany.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The chat is enriched with interactive proposal cards to improve the experience and allow faster decision making on part of our customers,” Hermann said. and Germany as of today, only has a “couple dozen” early access users. “We do what’s important, not what’s urgent.” That was a lot to juggle.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

On the regulation point, Spain’s first startup law — which was adopted in draft and presented to parliament in December — has been well received by the local tech community. . So we are going to take this as a base scenario and try to propose different improvements,” says Szpilka. All the tax incentives.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Germany, France, Sweden, Mexico and Colombia); while 750+ employers are signed up to “recurrently manage a large part of their workforce”, as it puts it, including XPO, Ocado, Saint Gobain, Santander, Bayer, eBay, Huawei, Ceva Logistics and Carrefour.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

The lawsuit alleged that the social network “fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical ‘compositions, violating Publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under copyright law.” That means the blue checkmark will be used with legacy verified accounts and folks who buy the company’s proposed $8 per month paid plan.

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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.) Lisbon’s startup scene rises as Portugal gears up to be a European tech tiger.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Trending sideways : Facebook rejected a proposal to share ad revenue with news organizations, saying there would “not be significant” impacts on its business if it stopped sharing news altogether. Lawmakers in New York proposed a new law that would prohibit police from using geofence warrants as protests continue to grow.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

One of the most alarming incidents uncovered by the papers was that Mark Zuckerberg personally intervened to ensure Facebook would comply with a repressive law instituted in Vietnam, agreeing to moderate more aggressively against “anti-state” content on the platform. The Civic Integrity team was often directly blocked by Zuckerberg.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Numerous European countries have already imposed laws 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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The Verge

AUGUST 7, 2020

China is not a democracy; the American president has proposed to unconstitutionally delay this year’s election. China brutally represses its political dissidents; in America, law enforcement in military camouflage have grabbed protesters off the streets and shoved them into unmarked vans. It should be part of our national brand.”.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

has with Germany and 40 other countries. I’m telling you my perspective as someone who is not a citizen: I’ve never broken the law, I’m an academic, I have a good job, yet when I enter the U.S., In response to Trump’s proposed tariffs against Canada, Canadians have seemingly begun boycotting travel to the U.S.,

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Facebook’s proposed solution to this is the Oversight Board , an independent group that will serve as a kind of Supreme Court for content moderation. He said the ban seeks to regulate the exchange of “informational materials” — something that’s expressly exempted from the law laying out the emergency powers Trump invoked.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

“That’s the irony of all this,” said Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford University law professor who studies technology and democracy. An executive order like this had first been proposed last August , after the White House invited ordinary Americans to share stories about times when they felt they had been unfairly censored by social networks.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

” Germany’s Scholz says tariffs are an ‘attack’ on global trade German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the tariffs are an “attack” on a trading system that brought global prosperity and that America itself helped design. “I will do so at a most appropriate time and method without hesitation.”

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