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Germany wants a global ‘minimum tax’ for tech giants’ revenue
Tensions between the EU and US tech giants are increasing as the union tries to find ways to regulate…
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New ‘Dark Ads’ pro-Brexit Facebook campaign may have reached over 10M people, say researchers
A major new campaign of disinformation around Brexit, designed to stir up U.K. ‘Leave’ voters, and distributed via Facebook, may…
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Microsoft’s $7.5BN GitHub buy gets green-lit by EU regulators
Microsoft’s planned acquisition of Git-based code sharing and collaboration service, GitHub, has been given an unconditional greenlight from European Union…
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Funderbeam CEO to talk about disrupting startup funding at Disrupt Berlin
Startup funding hasn’t changed much in the past decade. Funderbeam is an interesting company trying to turn everything upside down…
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Amazon says it will add 1,000 more employees in the UK, bringing the total to 28,500, bucking the Brexit chill
A lot of uncertainty hangs over the U.K. as it continues its slow march out of the European Union, but…
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Banksy’s rigged art frame was supposed to shred the whole thing
In the connected future will anyone truly own any thing? Banksy’s artworld shocker performance piece, earlier this month, when a…
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Bill Gates and the EU announce a €100M investment fund to combat climate change
Bill Gates and the EU announced that the union and Breakthrough Energy — an investor group led by Gates — will…
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Emma, the money management app, rolls out cryptocurrency support
Emma, the U.K. money management app (or self-described “financial advocate”), is launching a cryptocurrency feature by integrating with a plethora…
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Applied gets $2M to make hiring fairer — using algorithms, not AI
London-based startup Applied has bagged £1.5M (~$2M) in seed funding for a fresh, diversity-sensitive approach to recruitment that deconstructs and…
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