TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

UK to set up ‘pro-competition’ regulator to put limits on big tech. “Tens of thousands of UK small and medium-size businesses will get a better deal from the big tech firms which they rely on to trade online. But the dominance of a few tech giants is crowding out competition and stifling innovation. “We

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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.” Dear Sophie: Any suggestions for recruiting international tech talent? More posts by this contributor. Although U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Second, there’s a lot of money floating around for the best performing tech companies. 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.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

tech giant has said the feature allows users to control their privacy but has drawn criticism from Meta Platforms, app developers and startups whose business models rely on advertising tracking. The case was triggered by complaints from associations representing publishers, broadcasters, advertisers, their agencies and ad tech firms.

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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.

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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 based tech founders are welcomed with open arms. NL seems well-positioned for fintech, deep tech.

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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

APRIL 14, 2022

Also, whether you love or loathe Amazon, you’ve got to give ‘em cred for having their supply chain tech sewn up tight. 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. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

She writes, “Yfood’s milestone should give the food tech community something substantial to chew on. Meanwhile, Canaan closed two new funds — its 12th flagship fund for early-stage tech and healthcare startups and an opportunity fund — that total $850 million. Big Tech Inc. Will the slowdown continue? You can sign up here.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

“The tech community likes us because of those things.” ” 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).

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Tech companies, private and public, have faced a reckoning in the past few months with their valuations taking a beating. This downsizing from the Dubai-based startup adds to the long list of global cross-stage layoffs in what has been a rough month for tech employees. Over 15,000 tech workers have lost their jobs in the U.S.

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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 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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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It has not been a happy time for researchers at big tech companies. For these reasons, it’s always of note when a tech platform takes one of those unflattering findings and publishes it for the world to see. There’s this law of unintended consequences to large systems,” said Williams, who previously worked at Google and Facebook. “It

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Chinese electric vehicle battery maker Gotion High-Tech announced on Sept. 16 that it has begun production at its first European plant in Gottingen, Germany, and expects to begin supplying local markets next month. Gotion also plans to build a $6.3 Construction of two US factories in Illinois and Michigan is also in the pipeline.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

CEO Michael Shangkuan said the funding will be used both to continue enhancing its tech platform — with more tools for teachers and asynchronous supplementary material — and to widen its footprint in markets further afield such as the U.S. The tech-powered wave of smart, not slow, tutoring sessions.

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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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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

It forecasts it will need more than 211 gigawatts of energy by 2030 as its economy grows, 40% more than its previous estimate and more than Germany’s current total capacity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

She holds a master’s degree in Political Sciences, Public Law and Contemporary History from University of Konstanz, Germany. In her spare time, she updates her Twitter and Facebook feeds and engages with her Kindle, iPod and other assorted tech toys.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Here’s a breakdown of Thousand Faces’ top 10 startups the Female Founder Accelerator: Company name: Kleiderly What it does: Recycle textile waste Founder: Alina Bassi Country: Germany The pitch: Kleiderly recycles unwanted textile waste and turns that into its patented plastic alternative in hopes of replacing the need for plastics.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Swedish startup PocketLaw — a contract automation software-as-a-service legal tech platform which is mainly focused on SMEs — has pocketed €10 million (~$11M) in Series A funding led by European VC firm, Atomico, to fuel expansion in Europe. LinkSquares benefits from the legal tech boom with a fresh $100M.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

Along those same lines, using a VPN to unblock streaming services like Netflix from a country where it's not available isn't technically against the law, but it is a violation of the company's terms of use — i.e., you may get slapped with a warning or error message if caught. Let's not get too brazen, here. Choosing a VPN can be tricky.

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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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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Numerous similar protests have taken place across Germany and other countries in recent years, as activists try to draw attention to the urgency of tackling climate change. The public and political response to such road blockades has been mixed. It’s not the first time, that Alt was convicted for his activism.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Banning Holocaust denial doesn’t make it go away — Germany does so by law, and far-right forces are still on the rise there ( and preaching the gospel of QAnon , to boot). This column was co-published with Platformer , a daily newsletter about big tech and democracy. I wish I’d seen that sooner. And I wish Facebook had, too.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Jeeves Pay is available now to all Jeeves customers “where permitted by applicable local laws and regulations,” the company says. Capchase expands to Germany, to close the funding gap for German SaaS companies. Brex sees startups as one of the key avenues to growth in the corporate card and spend management market.

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Media Cause

MAY 31, 2023

There are a few essential tools when auditing a website’s user privacy settings: #1 VPN Clients: You can visit the website from various countries to see if the cookie consent banner is updated to reflect the law of the land. What’s next? We don’t believe that “privacy-first marketing” is an oxymoron.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

What a surreal stretch for tech. The question remains: Will startups that have been screwed by a traditional bank now run the risk of turning to a private tech startup to hold their funds? history, a collapse that in just 48 hours dismantled the tech startup-focused Silicon Valley Bank.” Its remaining balance of $1.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

The question remains: Will startups that have been screwed by a traditional bank now run the risk of turning to a private tech startup to hold their funds? history, a collapse that in just 48 hours dismantled the tech startup-focused Silicon Valley Bank.” The move was confirmed today by London law firm Osborne Clarke.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2015

If you're doing any geo-targeting or bid adjustment, you'll want to separate campaigns accordingly (for example, a Germany campaign and an Ireland campaign), since AdWords only allows you to adjust geographic targeting and most other settings at the campaign level. Check out this post to read about our six laws of the landing page.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

The current economic reality can be even more disheartening for families: Based on a recent analysis by the National Womens Law Center, the average family would need to earn at least $180,000 annually in 2025 to comfortably afford the national cost of infant care. Australia France Italy Japan Mexico Spain Germany New Zealand

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

Hotter than a warming planet : “Climate tech” might not be new, but it’s definitely hot — which isn’t surprising in light of dire predictions about the climate crisis. Boring, but profitable : Let this be a lesson to HR tech naysayers: Investors still want a piece of the action. Big Tech Inc. Far from it.

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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.” It added that, unlike its competitors TikTok and Instagram, Twitter hasn’t struck a music licensing deal for the use of copyrighted music.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

. “I remember our last interview [in October 2019], I was super optimistic — I’m still very optimistic — sort of really looking forward to get all of our tech out to the world. Outside Germany, Inne also has some early users in Austria, Switzerland and the U.K.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

By now we are more or less used to the European Union taking the lead in regulating the big tech companies. This will help ensure that the coverage is nicely generic — “Congress yells at Big Tech” — and not “Congress yells at Jeff Bezos for some frankly pretty valid and specific reasons.). Germany launched its coronavirus tracing app.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 14, 2025

As a crucial climate lawsuit heads to trial in Germany next week, experts say the case brought by Peruvian farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya against German energy giant RWE could set a significant precedent in the fight to hold major polluters accountable for climate change.

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