2026-01-28
France is developing Viso, a 100% French videoconferencing solution developed by the Direction Interministérielle du Numérique (DINUM), the French government's interministerial digital directorate, as an alternative to US tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet. There will
Euronews
France plans to replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with French-made and Outscale-hosted Visio by 2027, as part of a push to drop US software vendors in government
France announced that it will roll out the Visio platform across all government departments by 2027.
2025-04-10
What deal?
CNBC
President Trump pauses tariffs on most countries for 90 days, setting a 10% “lowered Reciprocal Tariff”, and sets 125% tariffs on China “effective immediately”
- President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on the full effect of his new tariffs for at least some countries.
2021-12-07
Britain leads the investment boom in European tech industry, with more than $100 billion of venture capital invested this year, 3 times 2020. UK top of capital invested + no. of unicorns created. Cambridge designated unicorn capital of Europe.
CNBC
Atomico: European tech startups will raise a record $121B in 2021, up from $41B in 2020, with <1% going to early-stage; 98 unicorns were created in 2021
- Start-ups in Europe are on track to haul in a record $121 billion in funding this year, according to a report from venture capital firm Atomico. Source: State of European Tech 20...
2020-10-08
Strangely, the conclusions of this official report are not getting quite the same traction or prominence as the reports in so many media outlets several years ago that Cambridge Analytica had essentially swung it for Leave. I'm shocked. https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
UK ICO publishes three-year investigation into Cambridge Analytica, finding no evidence that CA or associate company SCL misused data to influence Brexit vote
and even within the company, staff worried that Nix & Co. were exaggerating CA's “impact and influence.” This jibes with reporting by @nytimes, @BuzzFeed, and others in 2017. Bened...
2020-08-18
Boris Johnson four days ago: “Let's be in no doubt about it, the exam results that we've got today are robust, they're good, they're dependable for employers.” Not a single claim in that sentence was true, was it Prime Minister?
The Verge
UK government reverses course after using an algorithm to calculate high school exam results, using teacher estimates instead, following claims of serious bias
Jon Porter / The Verge :