EU Commission launching support for women-led tech startups
The EU Commission has launched the second Women TechEU call. Up to 130 deep-tech start-ups led by women will qualify for funding and business acceleration services to grow into tomorrow’s
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Musk backing out of Twitter deal
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Elon Musk’s turbulent offer to buy Twitter for 44 billion USD has entered a new phase with Musk announcing that he is backing out of the deal arguing Twitter has
European countries launching “Netflix Tax” to support local production
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The European TV market is largely an American business. Worried that this will lead to even more limited national production of TV and films, an increasing number of European countries
Google paying USD 90 million to solve conflict with developers
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Google is paying USD 90 million to a fund supporting developers in the US. The background is a legal conflict with app developers over money they earned creating apps for
Inflation and political instability lead to steep fall in sale of PCs
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Worldwide sale of PC is on its way to fall 9.5% in 2022 partly explained by high inflation, geopolitical upheaval after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, marketing an research firm Gartner
Preventing terrorists from using cryptocurrencies
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Transfers of crypto-assets will be traced and identified to prevent money laundering, terrorist financing, and other crimes, according to new legislation agreed. The EU is making it more difficult for
Access to abortion pills a new headache for social media giants
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Abortion pills are approved in the U.S. to end pregnancies before the 10th week. The pill has now become a headache for social media after the U.S. Supreme Court in
Survey shows 94% of journalists use social media for their job
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94% of journalists in the U.S. use social media for their job. Twitter is the number one. Journalists’ use of social media sites varies by what they identify as the
Reuters News gets new President
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Paul Bascobert, former CEO of US publisher Gannet, has been appointed President of Reuters News – the news agency business in information company Thomson Reuters. He is succeeding Michael Friedenberg
Tech, media, telco dominate M&A first half of 2022
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Merger and acquisition activity has slowed from its record-setting 2021 pace, with economic headwinds stunting deals in the first half of 2022. However, M&A activity in the first half of