{"id":21625,"date":"2018-11-08T10:23:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T10:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21625"},"modified":"2018-11-08T10:23:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T10:23:30","slug":"questions-on-funding-metoo-and-privacy-at-europes-web-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21625","title":{"rendered":"Questions on funding, #MeToo and privacy at Europe&#8217;s web summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Lisbon, Portugal (CNN Business)<\/cite>Europe&#8217;s Web Summit this week was buzzing with tiny startups hoping for the big break that would turn them into the rock stars of tech who crowded the conference&#8217;s main stage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But after a year many would like to forget, the big questions hanging over the future of the industry also loomed large at the conference. Facebook&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/30\/tech\/eu-fines-google\/index.html\">data scandal<\/a>, Europe&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/05\/24\/technology\/gdpr-eu-rollout\/index.html\">sweeping privacy rules<\/a>, waves of misinformation, slumping stock prices and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/30\/tech\/eu-fines-google\/index.html\">record antitrust fines<\/a> have left the industry feeling badly bruised.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">About 70,000 people attended the summit in Lisbon, Portugal, with a lot on their minds. The tech industry is facing more challenges than ever before \u2014 from regulation and hacking, to questions about funding and the trade war between the world&#8217;s two biggest economies. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisbon, Portugal (CNN Business)Europe&#8217;s Web Summit this week was buzzing with tiny startups hoping for the big break that would turn them into the rock stars of tech who crowded the conference&#8217;s main stage.But after a year many would like to forget, the big questions hanging over the future of the industry also loomed large&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}