The Next Web

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In recent years we’ve been continually impressed with the small Baltic country of Estonia, which has been a frontrunner in many areas within digital solutions and tech innovation, such as e-residency, digital policies, and national cryptocurrencies. What’s going on in Latvia?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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. As the name suggests, this new instrument is in charge of establishing a standard for startup policies around Europe.

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DataRobot

JANUARY 10, 2022

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest Rube Goldberg consists of 412 steps and was achieved by Scandiweb in Riga, Latvia, on December 2, 2016. There are even fun contests to build fantastically complicated machines, complete with official rules. Some use cases, such as recruitment, have legal and regulatory restrictions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Twitter faces a $250 million lawsuit filed by major music publishers The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), representing 17 publishers, listed 1,700 songs for which it sent multiple copyright violation notices to Twitter. It’s not clear if the company is applying the same policy to personal accounts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

This Friday at its annual Digital Day , the European Commission will be launching a “legislative instrument” called the EU Startup Nations Standard (SNS). Member States which become signatories of the Standard will be expected to deliver on a number of policy areas. Therefore, its significance is not to be underestimated.

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