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15
Feb
A regular feature of AlixPartners’ Annual Container Shipping Report is a section detailing trends to watch in the coming year. Each year, when we prepare our latest report, we review our selection from the prior cycle to learn how well our forecasts held up against real-world events.
In last year’s report, we named five trends to watch in 2023 and suggested how they might develop during the year. Read on to learn how they played out.
Trade flows in flux
We noted...
15
Feb
New York recently raised the minimum salary basis thresholds for executive and administrative employees in order to satisfy the exemption from overtime, not to be confused with the separate upcoming increases to salary threshold for the purposes of pay frequency.
Salary Thresholds for Overtime Exemptions
On December 27, 2023, the New York State Department of Labor (NYDOL) published a notice of adoption in the New York State Register increasing the minimum salary thresholds for exempt executive and administrative employees to $1,200 per week (approximately $62,400...
14
Feb
Emerging Technology Views provides entrepreneurs and early stage companies a forum to keep abreast of technology news, trends and strategies to help their business succeed. We cover a variety of topics from business formation to seeking investment, IP protection to labor and employment issues, hot spots of innovation to event highlights and anything in between.
5 Trends to Watch: 2024 Emerging Technology
Increased Adoption of Generative AI and Push to Minimize Algorithmic Biases – Generative AI took center stage in 2023...
12
Feb
As we look ahead to 2024, it is clear that both data protection and AI will continue to take center stage in the UK, as it will in many other countries.
In this article we look ahead to the developments that are expected to impact UK employers in the coming year.
EU Regulation of AI – the hotly anticipated EU AI Act has been hailed as “the world’s first comprehensive AI law.” The most recent development was in early December 2023,...
09
Feb
On 1 February 2024, Belgian Parliament adopted a new Book 6 to the civil code, holding new rules on tort liability. The core principles of Belgian tort liability remain largely unaltered: Parliament's primary aim was to codify and clarify the current rules, which were mostly judge-made over the many years since 1804. Nevertheless, there are notable innovations and important changes. In this publication we discuss one fundamental change: the abrogation of the so-called quasi-immunity of auxiliary agents.
What will change?
In...
09
Feb
The U.S. patent system is based upon a quid pro quo balance that incentivizes innovation via a time-limited patent exclusivity, while encouraging the dissemination of new ideas for public benefit and use upon expiration of the patented innovation. However, for some innovative technologies, such as personalized medicine, diagnostics, and artificial intelligence (AI), case law developed within the past decade has made obtaining patent protection increasingly difficult. This has led to a lack of clarity and incentive for some innovators...
08
Feb
EACCNY Member Ankaa Ventures and Hi Inov announce a strategic partnership to support European start-ups in their seed phase
Hi Inov, a Franco-German venture capitalist specialising in BtoB digital start-ups, has entrusted its seed capital program to Ankaa Ventures.
Ankaa’s sectors of expertise, including climate tech, human capital, data and AI, are among those targeted by the Hi Inov 3 fund.
Paris, 7 February 2024 – Hi Inov – Dentressangle, a Franco-German venture capital company with €350m in...
07
Feb
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) brought sweeping tax changes to businesses and individuals. Individual and some business tax rates were cut — some significantly — starting in 2018.
Built into the law was the sunset of certain important provisions on December 31, 2025. This means on January 1, 2026, tax law reverts to the tax law before the TCJA’s passage. Because the sunset is part of law, it would take an act of Congress to prevent it.
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