tech.eu Podcast #150: Russia's FAS investigates Booking.com, startups making roads better, Google abandons “Double Irish,” wannabe kidfluencers

tech.eu Podcast hosted by Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.

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Here are the extra reading links for this week’s topics.

🎧 Russia's FAS has opened an investigation into Booking.com's practices

• Russia starts antitrust investigation into Booking.com
• Russian competition watchdog opens investigation into Booking.com
• From 2015: The French, Italian and Swedish Competition Authorities Accept the Commitments Offered by Booking.com
• The Recent Booking.Com Judgment In Germany: Another Piece In The Price Parity Puzzle In Europe
• A statement from the FAS (in Russian)

🎧 Europe has the world’s safest roads, and startups are part of that

• Why the European Union’s roads are the safest in the world
• Vision Zero
• Startups mentioned by Natalie: AutoKAB, Ellis Car, Valerann

🎧 Google abandons “Double Irish”

• Google to end use of ‘double Irish’ as tax loophole set to close
• Google says it will no longer use 'Double Irish, Dutch sandwich' tax loophole

🎧 Reading recommendations

• We Learned to Write the Way We Talk
• Meet the wannabe kidfluencers struggling for stardom

Also, a bonus illustration for the first recommendation:

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