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Borssele, The Netherlands-based VAM WaterTech, a company specialised in water treatment and recycling in the agrifood sector, is being acquired by Managing Director Hans Blaak together with Luxembourg-based ORAXYS and France’s SWEN Capital Partners. The acquisition is aimed at accelerating growth in Europe, North America, and Asia and developing new solutions to provide solutions for ... Read more
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images As part of Meta’s sweeping changes to content moderation announced today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the company will also be moving its content moderation teams from California to Texas to “help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content,” he wrote on Threads. “We’re going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and... Read more ›
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Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move. Read more ›
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Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation. Read more ›
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China EV sales projected to reach 12 million units in 2025, overtaking conventional vehicle sales. Government incentives and fierce domestic competition drive EV adoption. Sales of Chinese electric vehicles are on track to achieve a milestone in 2025, with EVs expected to outsell traditional combustion engine cars in the country for the first time. The... Read more » Read more ›
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Meta ends US fact-checking partnerships, sparking an emergency meeting by the International Fact-Checking Network. Read more ›
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Assassin's Creed Shadows features a rejig of the series' usual controls due to the addition of being able to go prone. Read more Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to the way that Meta moderates its social media sites. Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg announcea Meta's shift to community notes, replacing fact-checkers and easing content restrictions. Read more ›
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Meta says it’s seen the shift to Community Notes ‘work on X.’ | Image: The Verge Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program inspired by X, according to an announcement penned by Meta’s new Trump-friendly policy chief Joe Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas. “We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they... Read more ›
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League developer Rocksteady has quietly suffered another round of layoffs, this time just before the end of 2024. Read more Read more ›
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Former Annapurna Interactive staff - who departed the acclaimed video game publisher last September as part of a "mass exodus" - have reportedly established a new company and will be taking over indie label Private Division's portfolio, which was sold by Take-Two last year. Read more Read more ›
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Meta announced on Tuesday that it will no longer employ fact checkers to moderate content, and instead rely on an army of volunteer users. Read more ›
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Meta will be removing restrictions on topics like immigration and gender, which may make your feed look more controversial. Read more ›
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The long-lived, one-eyed wolf 907F died this Christmas after a fight with a rival wolf pack, Yellowstone researchers have confirmed. Read more ›
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London-based CUBE, a RegTech specialising in Automated Regulatory Intelligence (ARI), announced on Thursday that it has acquired Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence and Oden businesses. The acquisition was finalised on December 31, 2024. The definitive agreement was initially announced in May 2024, but the terms were not disclosed. The acquisition will enhance CUBE’s global customer base ... Read more Read more ›
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Ebusco, a Netherlands-based motor vehicle manufacturer, has submitted a request to the Netherlands Employees Insurance Agency (UWV) and informed trade unions about its plans to restructure, impacting 102 Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs), or nearly 16.5 per cent of its workforce as of September 30, 2024. The affected positions are primarily in the production, warehouse, and facility ... Read more Read more ›
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Berlin-based Apheris, a company specialising in federated computing for the life sciences sector, has completed its Series A funding round, raising its total funding to $20.8M (approximately €20.24M). The round was led by European DeepTech venture capital firms OTB Ventures and eCAPITAL, with participation from existing investors such as Octopus Ventures and Heal Capital. Hannes ... Read more Read more ›
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Bern-based Capt’n Greenfin, a Swiss clean fishing startup, has raised fresh funding led by Zürich’s MINUS2. The funding amount, however, remains undisclosed. The investment will support the development and scaling of Capt’n Greenfin’s 100 per cent biodegradable fishing products. MINUS2 is investing in the startup with a clear vision for sustainable fishing and a forward-looking ... Read more Read more ›
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Borssele, The Netherlands-based VAM WaterTech, a company specialised in water treatment and recycling in the agrifood sector, is being acquired by Managing Director Hans Blaak together with Luxembourg-based ORAXYS and France’s SWEN Capital Partners. The acquisition is aimed at accelerating growth in Europe, North America, and Asia and developing new solutions to provide solutions for ... Read more Read more ›
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Paris has been a leading player in the global startup ecosystem, and in 2024, the city continued to reinforce its position as a hub of innovation and entrepreneurship. The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2024 reveals that Paris is home to over 8,000 startups and boasts the world’s largest startup campus, Station F. This makes the ... Read more Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based Ver.iD, a SaaS platform specialising in digital identity verification, has secured €2M in an angel round of funding. The company plans to launch a €4M funding round to support its European expansion. The recent funding comes from a group of prominent angel investors. Ver.iD: Reinventing verification The introduction of eIDAS 2.0, the updated European ... Read more Read more ›
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London’s startup ecosystem is one of the most vibrant and successful in the world. According to the Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2024, the city is the leading startup hub in Europe and ranks #2 globally (tied with New York City). Janet Coyle, CBE, MD of Grow London at London & Partners, says, “We’re proud to ... Read more Read more ›
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Swave Photonics, a fabless semiconductor company based in Leuven, Belgium, has closed a €27M Series A funding round. The investment was co-led by imec.xpand and SFPIM Relaunch, with participation from new investors EIC Fund, IAG Capital Partners, and Murata Electronics North America, Inc., alongside existing investors Qbic Fund, PMV, imec, and Luminate. The company previously ... Read more Read more ›
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Can a port city reinvent itself as a hub for startups and innovation? While cities known for their industrial base often struggle to digitise and transform, Rotterdam showcases a successful model and competes with major technology hubs in Europe. At the driver seat of this transformation is Lars Crama, the Private Lead of Up!Rotterdam, who ... Read more Read more ›
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