In its latest move to placate European competition regulators, Google has offered a set of commitments to France’s antitrust watchdog — in the hopes of settling a costly (for it) intervention over legally mandated payments for displaying snippets of news publishers’ content. Back in July, France’s Autorité de la Concurrence slapped the tech giant with a fine of half a billion euros over a series of suspected breaches in how it negotiated with news publishers to remunerate them… Source link
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Chronic absenteeism by school students is one of the many problems exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. EveryDay Labs is a startup looking to boost attendance rates by 10% to 15% districtwide. The company recently announced an $8 million Series A round of financing led by female-only venture capital fund Rethink Impact. “Even before the pandemic, 1 in 6 students missed 10% or more of school days,” EveryDay Labs CEO Emily Bailard told Yahoo Finance. “Now, since the pandemic, that’s… Source link
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