31970 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.cnet.com/news/how-a-venture-capital-firm-almost-got-away-with-slave-labor/Fenox Venture Capital must pay back wages and damages of more than $331,000, according to the US Labor Department. David Hitch/Illustration Works/Corbis. At the end of 2014, a founding partner of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm seemed to make a generous donation, giving the proceeds of his....Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:41:00 +0100news-yahoo-6b05a72cebe2a5e2933e66a8a1ea8bed20160223154100http://reliefweb.int/report/fiji/asia-and-pacific-weekly-regional-humanitarian-snapshot-16-22-february-2016FIJI. On 20 and 21 February, Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Winston struck the islands of Fiji causing severe devastation. As of 22 February, 21 people were confirmed dead and 8,100 people remain in evacuation centres across the country. Initial aerial assessments indicate extensive damage in the east....Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:35:00 +0100reliefWeb-438ad5b50b6900bedb662c90f016766220160223153500http://www.cnet.com/news/how-a-venture-capital-firm-almost-got-away-with-slave-labor/#ftag=CAD590a51eThe US Department of Labor busted a venture capital firm for misclassifying 56 employees as unpaid interns. Now, the firm must pay them back for three years of work. David Hitch/Illustration Works/Corbis. At the end of 2014, a founding partner of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm seemed to make....Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:27:00 +0100cnet-3436c82853b447a09fcdfcf14c0fd9d020160223152700http://ultima-ora.zazoom.it/news/1211146/terremoti-nuove-prospettive-per-i-sistemi-di-allerta-tsunami(Di martedì 23 febbraio 2016) Secondo uno studio riportato sul sito “Airicerca”, l’associazione dei ricercatori italiani nel mondo, le metodologie già utilizzate per l’ allerta Terremoti possono fornire indicazioni sui tempi di arrivo ed ampiezza anche delle onde di tsunami .Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:34:00 +0100zazoom-839518b4dc733dffaec471bae83c6d2c20160223133400