Still far from gender equality in board rooms
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Bloomberg´s Gender Equality Index comprising 380 companies in 44 countries shows we are still far from equality in the board rooms. On average boards are comprised of 29% women. 61%
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ProGender: A Digital Hub on Gender, the COVID-19 crisis and its Aftermath
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ProGender aims to promote bilateral activities between Iceland, Greece and Norway by creating a digital hub devoted to gender perspectives of COVID-19 and its aftermath. The activities that will be
How remote working and schooling drive IT spending
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Worldwide IT spending is projected to total USD 3.9 trillion in 2021, an increase of 6.2% from 2020, according to a forecast by research and marketing firm Gartner. Worldwide IT spending
EU invited big IT CEOs to a hearing
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EU has invited the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google-owner Alphabet to a hearing in Brussels on February 1. The European Parliament will in the coming month discuss proposals
Was it right to ban Trump from Facebook?
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Facebook blocked Trump’s access to his Facebook and Instagram accounts over concerns of further violent unrest following the Jan. 6 storming of the US Capitol by the former president’s supporters.
Google threatens to stop search
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Can Google stop search? The company has threatened to remove its search engine from Australia protesting against a proposed law that would force IT giants to pay for using publishers´
Alliance supporting tech entrepreneurs
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Referring to International Monetary Fund´s (IMF) statement that women are more likely than men to run businesses affected by the pandemic, tech communities WomenTech Network and Founder Institute are joining
Reuters joining Google Showcase
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Google announced that Reuters news agency and close to 450 publications in a dozen countries have agreed to contribute content to the company´s recently announced service called Google News Showcase
Facebook stressing civil rights
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Roy L. Austin, Jr, civil rights attorney and advocate, has joined Facebook in Washington as VP of Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel to establish the company’s new civil rights
US and web guru siding with IT giants against Australia
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World wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and US government are siding with Facebook and Google against the proposed Australian law meant to make IT giants pay for using publishers´ news