As Gig Economy Companies Flee Europe, Getir Is Taking Over
[ad_1] Five years ago, investors wouldn’t return Nazim Salur’s calls. Now his company, Getir, is the biggest rapid grocery delivery company in Europe. After the Turkish startup acquired its German…
Europe’s Plan to Become the First Climate-Neutral Continent
[ad_1] The European Union is sick of talking about climate change; now it wants to act. The world’s second-largest economy is attempting to become the first climate neutral continent by…
The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun
[ad_1] Surveillance capitalism just got a kicking. In an ultimatum, the European Union has demanded that Meta reform its approach to personalized advertising—a seemingly unremarkable regulatory ruling that could have…
Encryption Faces an Existential Threat in Europe
[ad_1] That’s a lot of lawyers. They [Big Tech] are throwing literally hundreds of millions of euros at this problem. And as much as Ms. Vestager is committed to fighting…
A Tale of Two Nuclear Plants Reveals Europe’s Energy Divide
[ad_1] A forest of wind turbines rises out of the fields on both sides of the highway running east out of Vienna. But at the border with Slovakia, which stretches…
I Found the Perfect Replacement for Twitter. It’s LinkedIn
[ad_1] I am a millennial. That means the majority of my friends either have babies or jobs where they spend most of their day at a computer. These are not…
Layoffs Have Gutted Twitter’s Child Safety Team
[ad_1] Removing child exploitation is “priority #1”, Twitter’s new owner and CEO Elon Musk declared last week. But, at the same time, following widespread layoffs and resignations, just one staff…
Twitter Is on a Collision Course With Europe
[ad_1] From the outside, it might not look like much has changed in the repurposed 1970s office block that serves as Twitter’s European headquarters. But inside, the mood has soured.…
Clearview Stole My Face and the EU Can’t Do Anything About It
[ad_1] Pimeyes is technically different from Clearview because it does not store faces in a database, but instead searches the internet for faces when a user uploads a picture, according to…
Uber Squeezed Europe’s Taxi Drivers. Now It Wants to Hire Them
[ad_1] Drivers like Hubert might be skeptical of Uber’s deals, but within some unions there is real hostility toward the company. “We don’t expect anything from Uber. It is a…
Ukraine Enters a Dark New Era of Drone Warfare
[ad_1] While Ukraine has already had some success in intercepting these drones, the country is still scrambling to respond to Russia’s new strategy. The military was able to shoot down…
The Gig Law Causing Chaos in California Strip Clubs
[ad_1] Many clubs decided to restructure the way dancers are paid after AB 5 was introduced in 2019, taking larger cuts of the money workers earned through private dances. Dancers…
Biden’s Privacy Order Slaps a Band-Aid on the EU-US Data Crisis
[ad_1] At Workday, a California-based HR software provider with more than 2,000 customers headquartered in Europe, the mood is optimistic. Chandler Morse, vice president of corporate affairs, believes this is…
The Hottest Startups in Paris
[ad_1] It feels fitting that Paris’ largest startup campus is 300 meters long—the same size as the Eiffel Tower. Built in an old freight train station, Station F is home…
How A British Teen’s Death Changed Social Media
[ad_1] Instagram also hides search terms—but only if the term or phrase itself is promoting or encouraging self-harm, says Tara Hopkins, head of EMEA public policy at Instagram. “For other…
How Bots Corrupted Advertising | WIRED
[ad_1] When Aleksandr Zhukov went on trial last year, he stood accused of defrauding US companies, including The New York Times and pet care brand Purina, out of millions of…
The Quest to Find Twitter’s Elusive Bot Team
[ad_1] I turn my attention to Dublin, where I find Fabian (not his real name), a former moderator who, until earlier this year, worked for Twitter via the outsourcing company…
This Student’s Side Project Will Help Decide Musk vs. Twitter
[ad_1] August 5 was not a normal day for Kaicheng Yang. It was the day after a US court published Elon Musk’s argument on why he should no longer have…
A Danish City Built Google Into Its Schools—Then Banned It
[ad_1] Some children could adapt better without them than others. Throughout his career in education, Pederson has never heard a single parent complain about data protection. But after the Google…
Undocumented Workers Protest Uber Eats Crackdown
[ad_1] These deactivations have enraged French unions, which believe Uber Eats is deactivating accounts as growth stalls. “The decision took place without workers being notified,” says Fabian Tosolini, a delegate…
Spyware Scandals Are Ripping Through Europe
[ad_1] Last year in Hungary, six people discovered their phones had been hacked by NSO group’s Pegasus, after they were tipped off by the Pegasus Project, an investigation by 17…
Amazon Workers in the UK Walk Out in a Cost-of-Living Rebellion
[ad_1] Discontent started to ripple through Amazon’s largest UK warehouse as soon as details of a bump in hourly pay flashed onto screens around the facility on Wednesday. Rumors at…
How Siestas Might Help Europe Survive Deadly Heat Waves
[ad_1] For years, there have been concerns in Spain that this is not the best way to do business. In 2016, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy tried to abolish the long…
Gig Workers Are Losing Their Hard-Won Rights
[ad_1] Not all of Just Eat’s orange-clad couriers were switched to salaried contracts, and the company did continue to use self-employed gig workers hired via outsourcing companies to fulfill some…
Abortion Pill Demand Is Driving an Underground Network
[ad_1] The panic started as soon as Jayda took the test in early July. It came back positive, and a quick calculation suggested she was seven weeks pregnant. It was…