Attrecto - About a year ago here are Attrecto we introduced chatbots to our portfolio and basically started a brand new software product line. Now that we have had several successful projects and have running pilots with this technology we ask ourselves, will bots ever be more popular than apps or websites? If you work on chatbots on your own, you’ll find several answers to this question. However what we believe is that the chatbot first mentality could become the winning approach in the coming years,...

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About The Republic of Slovenia: The Republic of Slovenia lies at the heart of Europe, where the Alps and the Mediterranean meet the Pannonian plains and the mysterious Karst. In Slovenia, the sun shines approximately 2,000 hours per year. And there is plenty of snow in winter. Green is the dominant color with many woods and forests covering more than half of the country – and numerous preserved and protected plant and animal species. Slovenia makes a great tourist destination. The country...

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By: Andrew Chrismer, European American Chamber of Commerce Founders barely have time to sleep, leave alone navigating a set of 28 distinctly complex regulatory credit and capital frameworks in every single EU member state. This is why many founders agree that scalability in the EU leaves much to be desired. For a tech startup, scaling and marketability in the first one to three years is make or, in most cases, break.  For a great and innovative company, scaling in the...

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Bannockburn Global Forex - President Trump has announced a 25% tariff on steel imports and a 10% tariff on aluminum imports. While these are not yet official, and a fuller announcement is expected soon, the markets are already reacting to the news. So far, the effect has been to weaken the USD and weaken the equity markets. This suggests the market expects retaliation to the tariffs from US trading partners. Otherwise, theory suggests that the unilateral imposition of tariffs would...

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GDLSK - President Trump has indicated that he intends to proceed with imposing increased tariffs on certain imported steel and aluminum products, which could take effect as early as 15 days after the President makes a formal decision.  The new tariffs will be based upon the recommendations contained in the Department of Commerce’s (“DOC”) reports on the impact of steel and aluminum imports on national security pursuant to the DOC’s self-initiated investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act...

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Carnelutti & Altieri Esposito Minoli - A new whistleblowing law – law no. 179/2017 – was enacted by the Italian Parliament on November 15, 2017 (“the law”). Although its impulse to whistleblowing reports in Italy remains to be evaluated in the next years, the law certainly represents a first step of the Italian legislator toward the protection of whistleblowers. The law aims at i) strengthening the existing protection of public employees reporting misconducts that they discover within the work place...

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Pirelli -Almost by definition, cities have always been hubs for innovation. Keeping large numbers of citizens alive, healthy and commercially prosperous inevitably requires a certain level of technological advancement. From the Romans’ highly innovative water infrastructure to the earthquake-proof buildings of Tokyo and the urban mass-transit systems of London and New York, new technology has made the growth and development of very large cities possible. And as the wealth-creating engines of the global economy move relentlessly towards our urban...

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Loyens & Loeff - February brought the following interesting data protection developments: Update home market: The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg Update on data transfers outside of the EEA (Privacy Shield, Model clauses) 1. Update home market  Please find a brief summary of the relevant developments in three of our home markets these being The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. 1.1. Netherlands Education Executive Agency permitted to obtain travel data of students On February 5, 2018, the Dutch Central Board of Appeal (Centrale Raad van Beroep, CRB) ruled that travel data indeed...

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