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Intel has highlighted plans to build two chip manufacturing facilities outside of Columbus, Ohio.

The announcement is still early stages involving the eventual allotment of $20 billion to

construct the factories designed to tackle the ongoing global chip shortage,

or at least address potential future issues.

And Europe's top privacy regulator is calling for a ban on political micro-targeting.

The Commission proposal to regulate political ads last fall fell very far short of that,

offering what has been characterized by some at the time as a very tepid set of political ads transparency rules riddled with loopholes that are all too easy to exploit.

Now let's see what's going on in the world of startups.

Berlin-based startup Moss offers corporate credit cards for small and medium companies so that they

can more easily spend and track their spending.

It announced earlier this week that it has closed a new 86 million dollar series B funding round and Dublin-based

exergen an industrial-grade clean tech company has now raised 35 million dollars

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