European Commission is introducing EU Inc. To make building and growing a business across the EU faster, simpler, and smarter.

Key Points:

• Start a company in less than 48 hours
• No minimum capital requirement
• Fully online and borderless

Innovators and founders won’t have to navigate 27 different rulebooks anymore. No more delays that slow down innovation. Just one set of rules designed for startups, scaleups, and global investors.

EU Inc. is the Commission's proposal for an optional "28th regime" EU-wide company form: fully online setup in <48h for <€100, no minimum capital, one harmonized rulebook (instead of 27 national ones), borderless Single Market access, digital ops/lifecycle, flexible shares, simplified insolvency.

Main features of EU inc. include:

• Faster registration: Entrepreneurs, founders, and companies will be able to found an EU Inc. company within 48 hours, for less than €100 and with no minimum share capital requirements.
• Simpler procedures: EU Inc. companies will only need to submit their company information once, via an EU-level interface connecting national business registers together. In a second step, the Commission will establish a new central EU register. EU Inc. companies will obtain their tax identification and VAT numbers without having to resubmit paperwork.
• Fully digital operations: Corporate processes will be digital by default throughout a company's lifecycle.
• Helping founders restart faster and cheaper: EU Inc. companies will have access to fully digital liquidation procedures. Innovative startups will have access to simplified insolvency procedures to facilitate the winding down of operations. This enables founders to try and test innovative ideas and start again if needed.
• Better conditions to attract investment: Today's proposal will remove in-person formalities, provide digital procedures for financing operations, and simplify the transfer of shares. There will be no more mandatory involvement of intermediaries for share transfers, and liquidation procedures.The proposal will also allow Member States to give EU Inc. companies access to the stock exchange.
• Better means to attract talents: EU Inc. companies will be able to set up EU-wide employee stock option plans. The stock option will only be taxed on the income generated once it is sold. This is a crucial factor in ensuring attractiveness, particularly for innovative startups.
• Full access to the Single Market: EU Inc. companies will be free to choose the Member State in which they incorporate. The proposal includes a blacklist of prohibited practices to ensure that EU Inc. companies are treated the same way as any other national companies.
• Strong safeguards against abuse: National employment and social laws are not affected by the proposal. They will apply to EU Inc. the same way they apply to any other business under national company law. The applicable safeguards of the Member State of registration will apply in full to the EU Inc. company, including when it comes to rules regarding co-determination.
• Flexibility of shares: EU Inc. companies will have the flexibility to create different classes of shares with varying economic or voting rights. This can, for example, help founders protect their business against hostile takeovers.

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X is testing a "dislike" or downvote button, likely styled as a broken heart icon, specifically for replies to improve conversation ranking.

Recent code discoveries in the X iOS app suggest this feature is designed to demote low-quality or irrelevant replies, acting as a private sentiment tool rather than a public dislike count.

Key Details on the X Downvote Button:

• Targeting Replies: Unlike previous tests that considered broad downvoting, current development focuses on ranking replies to posts.
• Broken Heart Icon: Evidence spotted in the iOS app points to a broken heart icon next to the "Like" button, allowing users to express disapproval.
• Private Functionality: Similar to the previously tested "dislike" mechanism in 2021, the new downvotes are expected to be used to improve content ranking behind the scenes rather than displaying a public tally, according to Storyboard18.
• Previous Testing: This initiative follows tests from 2021 and 2022 and aligns with current efforts to manage spam and improve reply visibility, notes

Grapevine the Indian platform for anonymous salary and career discussions has launched TAL - a job finder app aka AI Talent Agent.

The AI agent leverages data from 3 years and 1M users on Grapevine to find suitable roles, salaries and other details by scanning jobs online and sending you curated jobs.

Source: X

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Meta's planning these cuts (per Reuters) to offset exploding AI infrastructure costs, such as billions in data centers, GPUs, and training for their Llama models and AGI push, while betting AI tools will supercharge productivity so fewer employees can handle the load.

No date has been set for the cuts and the magnitude has not been finalized, the people said.

If Meta settles on the 20% figure, the layoffs will be the company's most ​significant since a restructuring in late 2022 and early 2023 that it dubbed the "year of efficiency." It employed nearly 79,000 people as ​of December 31, according to its latest filing.

The company laid off 11,000 staffers in November 2022, or around 13% of its workforce at the time. Around four months later, it announced it was cutting another 10,000 jobs.

Source: Reuters

Y Combinator's first-ever startup school India. A one-day, in-person gathering of the most ambitious builders across India. 18 April 2026 @ Bengaluru

YC is hosting their first-ever Startup School India in Bangalore on April 18th 2026.

Startup School India will bring together two thousand of the top founders, engineers, and builders across India to hear from leading startup founders and investors.

This is a 100% free event and every attendee is hand-picked. Speakers include the founders of Mesho, Razorpay, Groww, and Emergent, top investors from Nexus and Peak XV, and YC Partners Jared Friedman, Ankit Gupta, and Jon Xu.

Hear from founders like Harshil Mathur of Razorpay, Vidit Aatrey of Meesho, Lalit Keshre of Groww, Mukund Jha of Emergent and more.

Who should attend: This conference is for engineers and builders who are excited about startups. Undergraduate and graduate students in computer science and professional working in industry are all welcome. You don’t need to have or be working on a startup - YC is especially excited to meet great builders who might be interested in starting or joining a startup in the future.

Source: Y Combinator

my.WordPress.net gives you a complete, private WordPress environment with no sign-up and no hosting plan needed.

Everything stays on your device. You can use it to write, learn, experiment, or build with pre-configured apps like a personal CRM or RSS reader.

Built on WordPress Playground, my.WordPress.net takes the same technology that powers instant WordPress demos and turns it into something permanent and personal. As you don’t need to choose a hosting provider, your WordPress belongs entirely to you. In a publishing environment, you’d briefly interact with WordPress as you prepare your next post. In a personal setting, it becomes a place you shape and return to.

Because sites on my.WordPress.net are private by default and not accessible from the public internet, they don’t behave like traditional websites. They aren’t optimized for traffic, discovery, or presentation, and they don’t need to be. Instead, WordPress becomes a personal environment where ideas can exist before they are ready to be shared, or where they may never be shared at all.

my.WordPress.net includes an App Catalog with pre-configured experiences designed specifically for personal use, built with WordPress plugins. Contacts can be grouped, enriched with personal details, and paired with reminders to reconnect.

What you should know:

• Storage starts at roughly 100 MB
• The first launch takes a little longer while WordPress downloads and initializes
• All data stays in your browser and is not uploaded anywhere
• Each device has its own separate installation
• Backups should be downloaded regularly

Source: WordPress

The relocation comes more than a decade after Flipkart moved its headquarters overseas. The company is targeting a stock market debut in India in the financial year ending March 2027, people familiar with the company told TechCrunch.

Walmart-owned Flipkart’s IPO plans come as the country’s e-commerce market expands rapidly, thanks to a growing internet user base that’s already crossed a billion subscribers. The relocation mirrors a broader trend of Indian startups, including Zepto and Groww, relocating their overseas holding structures back home in recent years as they seek to go public. Groww went public last year, while Zepto filed confidentially for an IPO in December.

Flipkart’s gross merchandise value reached about $30 billion in 2025, sources told TechCrunch, up from roughly $23 billion in 2021. The platform has more than 500 million customers and 1.6 million sellers across the country, while its logistics arm Ekart delivers to more than 22,000 PIN (Postal Index Number) codes nationwide.

Founded in 2007 in Bengaluru, Flipkart was one of several Indian startups to set up overseas holding structures as they sought to attract foreign investment, benefit from tax advantages, and better navigate India’s regulatory environment at the time. In 2018, Walmart acquired a majority stake in Flipkart for $16 billion.

India has been encouraging more technology companies to list domestically as companies seek greater regulatory clarity and simpler tax structures by moving their headquarters back home.

Flipkart announced plans to move its headquarters back to India in April 2025. By September, the restructuring had received in-principle approval from a Singapore court, while hearings related to the shift were also held before India’s National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch at the time.

“Flipkart has received Government of India approval for its internal restructuring, pursuant to which Flipkart Internet Private Limited is now the holding entity of the Flipkart group. This completes the redomiciliation of the Flipkart group to India, a significant milestone that reflects our deep and long-term commitment to India,” a company spokesperson said.

Source: TechCrunch

As per a forbes report, cost remains an ever present challenge which does not seem to pass over to the user yet.

Cursor’s larger rivals are willing to subsidize aggressively. According to a person familiar with the company’s internal analysis, Cursor estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today, that subsidization appears to be even more aggressive, with that $200 plan able to consume about $5,000 in compute, according to a different person who has seen analyses on the company’s compute spend patterns.

Cursor also subsidizes some users, though it appears it doesn’t do so as much as Anthropic. Cursor has negative margins for consumer subscriptions, but its business plans operate on positive margins, according to a person familiar with its finances. Businesses that use Cursor can use the Teams plan, which is targeted at startups and is easy to cancel, or negotiate an enterprise contract, which is targeted at larger organizations.

Source: Forbes