Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s head of digital and competition policy, has rejected the idea that its forthcoming Digital Markets Act (DMA) will only target American tech companies. She spoke after the White House warned Brussels that the tone around its flagship new tech policy sent a negative message and suggested that the EU “is not…
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Armageddon beckons. Planet Earth is running low on water and high on carbon emissions. Superpowers are at loggerheads. Modernity has added one more worry to the panic list: information overload. Some 500 hours’ worth of video is uploaded every minute to Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube. Every year, tweets, social media posts, online banking and…
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Today, on Juneteenth, we recognize the efforts this nation still needs to put toward addressing structural racism and disparities, including in the world of tech. This week, HBCUvc, a nonprofit that aims to diversify the world of venture capital, launched a million-dollar fund. Founder Hadiyah Mujhid told me that the capital would provide nondilutive financing…
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President Joe Biden took a cautious victory lap Friday in his quest to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, announcing that 300 million vaccine shots have been administered in the 150 days since he took office. Biden credited scientists, companies, the American people and his whole-of-government effort. The president noted that the widespread vaccination campaign…
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Barbara and Christine Colucci long to remove their masks and kiss their 102-year-old mother, who has dementia and is in a nursing home in Rochester, New York. They would love to have more than two people in her room at a time so that relatives can be there too. “We don’t know how much longer…
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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…
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Emma Walmsley, GlaxoSmithKline chief executive, faces a struggle to win over key shareholders after Elliott Management attracted converts for radical change at the pharma group, according to leading investors. Ahead of GSK’s investor day next week, activist investor Elliott has sown doubt about whether Walmsley should stay to push through the transformation planned for the…
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Eindhoven might not immediately spring to mind as a high-tech hub, but the Netherlands city is keen to position itself as a center for deep tech in Europe. The Technical University of Eindhoven, High Tech Campus Eindhoven, and locally based corporates like ASML and Philips have been eyeing initiatives across Europe and applying what they’ve…
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For Baylor Scott & White Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Alex Arroliga and Chief Nursing Officer Janice Walker, having a close working relationship built on mutual respect, constant communication and shared goals and accountability before COVID-19 hit meant the system was better prepared to save lives and protect front-line nurses and doctors as the pandemic…
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To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Welcome back to the Daily Crunch for Friday, June 18. Congratulations! You’ve made it to the end of the week without Alexander, who will return bright-eyed on Monday. TechCrunch has the day…
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