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Apple’s App Store hosted kiddie games with secret gambling dens inside

The Verge

like the fact that Jungle Runner uses a Pastebin for its privacy policies: It’s not necessarily clear to me that they’d be violating very many of Apple’s App Store policies, either.

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Italy’s ban on cultivated meat could set the industry back

TechCrunch

” The bill will now go in front of parliament, and if passed, any violation of the law in the future could result in fines of up to €60,000, or about $65,000.

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SWVL plans to lay off 32% of its team two months after going public

TechCrunch

SWVL is present in 13 markets globally: the UAE, Egypt, Kenya, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan. No interview policy for Rejoiners. According to a source, the majority of the layoffs will come from the company’s Dubai and Pakistan offices.

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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable Tech

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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“We are going to create the best environment for startups in Europe”

TechCrunch

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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Research Friday: Transforming the mindset from charitable giving to the social economy

ASU Lodestar Center

Increasingly, policy and social change has been studied through the lens of the social economy, and there is now a developed scholarly literature in this field (much of it through the European Research Network ). The Blueprint returns to the need for the laws and regulations to catch up to the new paradigm. Like this article?

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As EU’s VAT reform ramps up, marketplaces must focus on compliance to avoid tax risk

TechCrunch

On July 1, 2021 there was a big change in the European Union’s Value Added Tax (VAT) law, impacting online retailers, marketplaces and their e-commerce businesses across the EU. But EU member states realized a few years ago that EU VAT law was no longer on track with the developments taking place in the e-commerce ecosystem.

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