The parent company of Facebook, which has been called Meta since last month, has to sell poison platform Giphy again. That is the opinion of the British competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The acquisition worth EUR 352 million could have too many consequences for fair competition. The tech company does not agree…
Month: November 2021
Roadburn presents 21 new artists including Lingua Ignota, 40 Watt Sun and HEALTH | News on Festival info
Through RobZ on November 30, 2021 – 3:40 PM Today, Roadburn announces 21 new names for the festival in 2022. This includes names that would also be on the canceled 2020 edition, as well as new artists. Roadburn will take place from 21 to 24 April 2022 in 013 and the Spoorzone in Tilburg. The…
New Twitter CEO is ‘one of the guys’ and continues on the chosen path
Parag Agrawal, the new Twitter director.Statue Ellian Raffoul/AP Agrawal may be a stranger to many, but he does have a Twitter account. In the email he posted there on Monday afternoon, he addressed – after first thanking his former boss extensively – to his colleagues: ‘I must admit that some of you know me well,…
Prices keep rising, should we be concerned?
Inflation rose to 5.6 percent in November, the highest level since the European statistical office Eurostat was first measured 24 years ago. The price increases have been going on for months and are getting faster and faster, but not everyone feels them equally. “I understand that there is fear: for things of the same value…
Saving tips for the expensive December month
Celebrating Sinterklaas, Christmas and New Year’s Eve together is very pleasant, but if we are not careful, we will lose much more money in December than we had envisioned. Fortunately, there are a few simple tricks to avoid that. Many readers say they won’t wait until December with their Christmas shopping. Mieke Both has been…
Twitter continues without co-founder Jack Dorsey
Under his leadership, Twitter was not always easy. Dorsey became CEO in October 2015. Even then, he faced major challenges: the medium had to become attractive to the masses again. In the following year, there were rumors that the company wanted to sell itself. Media conglomeriate Disney was close to a takeover, but CEO Bob…
Left-wing resistance leader becomes Honduras’ first female president
The Honduran Xiomara Castro (62) is a reluctant politician. She sees her being elected as the first female president this weekend as an act of defiance, not the fulfillment of a girl’s dream. ‘From now on, the course of the people will apply.’ Joost de VriesNovember 29, 2021, 21:18 ‘Today they really go!’ With that…
First car that reaches 500 kilometers per hour delivered to customer
The American Hennessey Performance launched the Lotus Exige-based Hennessey Venom GT about six years ago, which has a top speed of 435 kilometers per hour. After that, the brand started developing a car that would eventually be called the F5 and which should be able to reach a top speed of 500 kilometers per hour….
Entrepreneurs culture and creative sector ask for adjustment of support rules
Self-employed workers and flex workers in the creative and cultural sector want the cabinet to adjust the corona support measures. This is necessary, they write in a letter to the House of Representatives, because previous support measures did not reach them well. The millions would stay too much with the institutions. The Creative Coalition, which…
At this age people already develop a sense of humor
Psychologists at the University of Bristol have conducted a study on babies and humor. For their study, they analyzed the behavior of 671 children between the ages of 0 and 47 months. The study shows that we humans can appreciate humor from a very young age. The psychologists presented their research results in the scientific…