Controversial Silicon Valley tycoon Peter Thiel has secured his largest contract to date with the British government for his secretive data mining company Palantir, after building a team of hundreds in the capital. The most valuable public deal The Ministry of Defence has spent £26m on Palantir this year, marking…
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The Federal Government is on an exam and puts digitization at the top of its list of priorities. That’s important and right. With an interjection: “It’s Entrepreneurship, Stupid!” The Federal Government today launched its two-day retreat. In addition to the planned tax reform, digitization has also been communicated in advance…
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The Minister of Finance of the Government of Chile, Felipe Larraín, announced from the United States the sending to Congress of a bill to regulate Fintech and cryptocurrencies. This was reported by Ahora Noticias, on April 15. Minister Felipe Larraín explained: “Attending to the different forms taken by the business…
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Bitcoin in Mexico is developing fruitfully. However, there are conflicting views on whether the use of Bitcoin should be promoted or not. It seems that some regulators and financial institutions do not like the existence of Bitcoin very much, while the crypto community in Mexico is doing more and more…
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There is also uncertainty about the fate of the knowledge economy initiative, because legislative times would not be enough for approval The national government exhibits as one of those achievements during the administration of President Mauricio Macri to emerging companies, better known by their word in English: “startups”. The head…
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Social startups are often considered to be uninteresting in the startup scene. They neither collect the most venture capital nor earn the most money or have the most famous founders. Meanwhile, social startups account for 38 percent of the German founding landscape. And their work could be of high economic…
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The Bundestag has just published its new app, which was developed by a start-up, but not from Berlin or Hamburg, but from the Czech start-up company Ackee. Danyal Bayaz, start-up representative of the parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, does not find it reprehensible to award the contract to…
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After the new rejection of the British Parliament to the agreement on the Brexit, the ecommerce looks for the way to continue operating with relative calm before the uncertainty. Theresa May has suffered a new setback, the umpteenth. As the forecasts predicted, the House of Commons of the British Parliament…
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The government of Argentina, in collaboration with the Binance investment arm, Binance Labs and the exchange of cryptocurrencies in Latin America, Latamex committed to support blockchain startups that have the support of Binance Labs and Latamex. Binance is launching its second season of the Binance Labs Incubation Program and this…
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Charlotte Hogg, the head of the Visa business in Europe, is the quintessential British establishment. His grandfather, Viscount Hailsham, was first Lord of the Admiralty, his father, Douglas, served as Minister of Agriculture in the Government of John Major, and his mother, Sarah, who has the Baroness treatment, was the…
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