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  10 hours ago

  Google gets antitrust attention in Spain over news licensing

  TechCrunch - Natasha Lomas

  Google can add another antitrust investigation to its stack. This one has been opened by Spain’s competition authority, the CNMC, which said today it’s concerned about possible anti-competitive practices related to the licensing of news content by local publishers. In a press release it said it is …

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  13 hours ago

  Germany probes Microsoft’s market power

  TechCrunch - Natasha Lomas

  Microsoft is the latest tech giant to be caught in the cross-hairs of Germany’s antitrust authority. The Federal Cartel Office (FCO), aka the Bundeskartellamt, has announced it’s opened a proceeding to determine whether special abuse measures can be applied to the company’s business in Germany — …

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  18 hours ago

  Cabify, the Madrid-based Uber rival, says it’s raised $110M in new funding

  TechCrunch - Ingrid Lunden

  It’s 2023, and we’re years past the peak of monster fundraising for on-demand transportation and delivery startups locked in highly competitive races with each other to dominate urban consumer mobility. But with many of the biggest and most tenacious players still in the market, those rounds have …

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  21 hours ago

  When life gives you carbon, make Carbonaide

  TechCrunch - Haje Jan Kamps

  Concrete. Ubiquitous. A mainstay of the construction industry — over 10 billion cubic meters of concrete are used every year. And also responsible for up to 8% of CO2 emissions — one ton of ordinary Portland cement creates somewhere between 800 and 900 kilograms of CO2 emissions. Finnish startup …

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  1 day ago

  France bans recreational apps like TikTok on government devices

  TechCrunch - Romain Dillet

  France is the latest country that is taking steps to ban TikTok from government-managed devices. Stanislas Guerini, the Minister of Public Transformation and Service, and his services issued a succinct statement announcing the move and the reasoning behind this change. But there’s a twist. Instead …

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  4 days ago

  UK narrows antitrust probe of Microsoft-Activision

  TechCrunch - Natasha Lomas

  The UK’s antitrust watchdog has narrowed its probe of Microsoft’s $68.7 billion bid for video game giant, Activision Blizzard, the regulator said today. In February, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally concluded the merger “could harm U.K. gamers” through higher prices, fewer …