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  • Cookie consent still a compliance trash fire in latest watchdog

    The latest confirmation of the online tracking industry’s continued flouting of EU privacy laws which — at least on paper — are supposed to protect citizens from consent-less digital surveillance comes by via Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC).The watchdog did a sweep survey of around 40 popular websites last year More

    Cookie consent still a compliance trash fire in latest watchdog peek
  • COVID-hit UK startups cry out for help, as UK gov

    The UK government is reportedly looking at a range of options to support the startup industry, possibly involving a co-investment model involving state-owned funds (via the British Business Bank) and private VC funds. Investors have been warning that typically loss-making, early-stage startups are at risk of collapse amid the More

    COVID-hit UK startups cry out for help, as UK gov trails Europe in its response
  • Germany’s Xpension pension platform raises 25M in a Series C

    The German pension and insurance industry was a laggard in the world of online a few years ago, but in recent times it has quickly caught up. There’s further evidence of this trend with the news that Xpension (trading as xbAV), an online platform for pensions and life insurance, has More

    Germanys Xpension pension platform raises 25M in a Series C growth round
  • Valispace raises $2.4M to become the ‘Github for hardware’, joins

    Hardware engineering is mostly document-based. A typical satellite might be described in several hundred thousand PDF documents, spreadsheets, simulation files and more; all potentially inconsistent between each other. This can lead to costly mistakes. NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because one engineering team used metric units while another More

    Valispace raises $2.4M to become the Github for hardware, joins fight against COVID-19
  • Addionics, a startup creating ‘next-gen’ batteries for electric cars and

    Addionics, an Israeli/U.K. startup that is developed next-generation rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles and other applications, has raised $6 million in funding. The round is led by Next Gear Ventures, and includes a $2.5 million grant as part of the European Union’s Horizon2020 innovation competition.Founded by former Imperial College London More

    Addionics, a startup creating next-gen batteries for electric cars and more, raises $6M
  • Monzo CEO won’t take salary for 12 months after limited

    Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank with over 4 million account holders, is taking a number of precautionary steps to help see it through the current coronavirus downturn, including voluntary furloughs and its CEO forgoing a salary, TechCrunch understands.In an internal company-wide memo issued by co-founder and CEO Tom Blomfield, he More

    Monzo CEO wont take salary for 12 months after limited number of staff offered voluntary furlough