Within the top 100 of the biggest online stores in the Netherlands in 2023, 63 percent was custom-built. A year earlier, the amount of these kinds of stores was still 55 percent. Compared to 2020, this is a growth of 50 percent.
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Dutch watchdog seeks Big Tech input for platform guidelines
The Dutch competition authority today issued guidelines to help online platforms in their compliance with the EU’s platform regulation and asks companies for their input. ADVERTISEMENT The Dutch Competition Authority has asked platforms and other online service providers to give feedback to draft guidelines that will help companies comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA)....
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‘Locatiegegevens Nederlandse telefoons online te koop’
BNR kreeg van datahandelaren meer dan 80 gigabyte aan locatiegegevens. In dit databestand zaten de coördinaten van miljoenen telefoons. Telefoonnummers zaten hier niet bij. Toch is het mogelijk om meer te weten te komen over de eigenaren van de telefoons. Bijvoorbeeld door verplaatsingen te volgen: zo kun je erachter komen waar een persoon werkt en...
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Dutch online supermarket Picnic bags €355mn after international expansion
Dutch online supermarket Picnic has bagged a cool €355mn in funding after a year of international expansion, the company announced today. The grocery delivery service launched in the Netherlands back in 2015, before later entering France and Germany. Picnic said that the expansion across Europe helped the business grow by 40% in 2023. Turnover for the...
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Is your Dutch home too small to store stuff? Here’s the solution – DutchNews.nl
If finding a new apartment presents a challenge in the Netherlands, furnishing it is likely to be even harder, a new study reveals. From tiny rooms to sloping ceilings, elbow-grazingly narrow corridors to vertiginously steep staircases, research reveals that Dutch homes are so unique in their architecture, residents are often unable to find furniture that...
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Pro-Gaza activists stage protest in Amsterdam department store
Pro-Gaza activists staged a protest and appeared to take over an Amsterdam department store tannoy system. Campaign group Workers for Palestine urged shoppers at De Bijenkorf to shun brands with alleged links to Israel. The protest came as demonstrators disrupted Christmas shopping in Oxford Street in London calling for the boycott of what they claimed...