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Ireland refuses to pay ransom demand in attack on its national health service

The Verge

Ireland’s health service, the HSE, shut down all of its IT systems on Friday following a “significant” ransomware attack which has disrupted COVID-19 testing and other patient services, the BBC reports. A government official tells news station RTE that an international cyber criminal group is responsible for the attack.

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Amazon’s $300 million tax bill rejected by EU judges

The Verge

The most notable of these was a 2016 case in which Apple was ordered to pay Ireland €13 billion ($14.9 Internally, Amazon referred to this as Project Goldcrest , named after Luxembourg’s national bird. In other words, Amazon was allowed to pay four times less tax than other local companies subject to the same national tax rules.”.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

Though companies like his can recruit recent graduates and exiled Atlantic Canadians eager to return, Bird mentioned that Q1 Labs opened a parallel engineering office in Belfast, Ireland, to scale-up hiring. Atlantic Canada’s recent success is owed in part to proactive government.

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Ireland’s Fonoa raises $20.5M to help digital-first businesses stay tax compliant as they scale globally

TechCrunch

Enter Dublin, Ireland-based Fonoa. It also allows for automatic reporting of transactions in real time to a country’s government, where needed. With governments around the world more concerned than ever about compliance, now is the perfect time for Fonoa to build a globally relevant platform.”. Image Credits: Fonoa.

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Luminate aims to make hair loss from chemotherapy a thing of the past

TechCrunch

Luminate’s solution, developed in partnership with the National University of Ireland Galway, is to prevent the blood from reaching those cells in the first place. This has a variety of side effects, like weakness and nausea, and on a longer time scale hair loss occurs as the substances affect the follicles.

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France’s strategy for EU startup policies: Talent and money

TechCrunch

And the French government is taking advantage of this opportunity to make some progress on the tech startup policy front. Last year, the European Commission and Member States launched the Startup Nations Standard. It’s a new entity that is in charge of the Startup Nations Standard. But first, let me rewind just a little bit.

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Your Cause Camp 2018 Lineup is Here

NonProfit Hub

Prior to joining the Eagles in 2000, Julie worked in the television and business affairs department at the National Hockey League in New York. She is a nationally-recognized master storyteller and fundraising culture change expert helping nonprofit organizations raise nearly $300 million dollars from individual donors. And counting.

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