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Advertising Tech, Antitrust, Collaborative Consumption, competition law, digital marketing, Europe, european commission, European Union, France, General Data Protection Regulation, Google, Google Ads, Online Advertising, search advertising, Search Engine, United Kingdom

France slaps Google with $166M antitrust fine for opaque and inconsistent ad rules – TechCrunch

France’s competition watchdog has slapped Google with a €150 million (~$166M) fine after finding the tech giant abused its dominant…

apps, artificial intelligence, Bitcoin, Collaborative Consumption, Cryptocurrency, Defamation, Europe, European Union, Facebook, fake ads, Instagram, John de Mol, Lawsuit, machine learning, Martin Lewis, Mireille Hildebrandt, Netherlands, Privacy, Scams, Social, Social Media, tort

Dutch court orders Facebook to ban celebrity crypto scam ads after another lawsuit – TechCrunch

A Dutch court has ruled that Facebook can be required to use filter technologies to identify and pre-emptively take down…

Collaborative Consumption, fountain, hiring, Personnel, Recent Funding, Startups, talent, TC

Fountain, a platform for recruiting gig and hourly workers, raises $23M – TechCrunch

Contract, self-employed and temporary jobs are on the rise in developed markets, with some 85% of the global workforce, 2.7…

aerospace, Autonomous Vehicles, Collaborative Consumption, Evtol, flying cars, Kitty Hawk, logistics, sebastian thrun, self-driving cars, Startups, TC, Transportation, Vtol

We’ll have self-flying cars before self-driving cars, Thrun says – TechCrunch

Once you get up high enough, you don’t have to worry about a lot of the obstacles like pedestrians and…

clutter, Collaborative Consumption, ecommerce, self-storage, Startups, Storage, Transportation

Clutter acquires The Storage Fox for $152M to add self-storage to its on-demand platform – TechCrunch

The world of on-demand storage has seen some ups and downs, with some of the biggest hopefuls pivoting into new areas,…

airbnb, BlaBlaCar, Collaborative Consumption, Drivy, ecommerce, Etsy, getaround, Sharing Economy, Startups, uber

What happened to the sharing economy? – TechCrunch

A few years ago, Silicon Valley couldn’t stop using a trendy buzzword — the sharing economy. The good old top-down…

99, africa, Asia, asia pacific, Automotive, Bolt, brazil, Careem, carsharing, China, Collaborative Consumption, CTO, didi, Europe, Grab, latin america, Middle East, russia, Southeast Asia, thuan pham, transport, uber

Uber CTO says competing with Didi is ‘very healthy’ despite their complicated relationship – TechCrunch

Competing with a company that counts you as an investor is hardly conventional — some might call it strange —…

Alibaba, alipay, ant financial, Asia, Automotive, Careem, carsharing, ceo, China, Collaborative Consumption, didi, funding, Fundings & Exits, Grab, Middle East, russia, Singapore, Southeast Asia, TC, transport, uber

Splyt wants to connect the world’s ride-hailing apps for easy international roaming – TechCrunch

The vision of a universal global ride-hailing service is over. Uber’s decision to exit markets like China, Southeast Asia and…

apps, Collaborative Consumption, Food, Mobile, Startups, TC, Transportation, uber, Uber Eats

Uber eats Uber Eats, embedding it in the main app – TechCrunch

Uber’s best hope to beat all its ride sharing and food delivery competitors is that it does both. Through cross-promotion,…

accommodation, altido, Collaborative Consumption, Enterprise, Europe, TC, tourism, Travel

In travel tech, 4 rivals merge in Europe to form Altido for property management of Airbnb-style homes – TechCrunch

The growth of Airbnb and other big travel startups has given a fillip to the wider travel industry, and today…