{"id":1234636,"date":"2025-02-24T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234636"},"modified":"2025-02-24T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T23:40:00","slug":"dutch-software-firm-bird-to-leave-europe-due-to-onerous-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234636","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Software Firm Bird To Leave Europe Due To Onerous Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Cloud communications software firm Bird, one of the Netherlands&#8217; most prominent tech startups, plans to move most of its operations out of Europe, its CEO said, citing restrictive regulations and difficulties hiring skilled technology workers. &#8220;We are mostly leaving Europe as it lacks the environment we need to innovate in an AI-first era of technology,&#8221; CEO Robert Vis told Reuters on Monday. &#8220;We foresee that regulations in Europe will block true innovation in a global economy moving extremely fast to AI,&#8221; he said in a text message response to Reuters queries.<\/p>\n<p>Bird&#8217;s operations in future will be mostly split between New York, Singapore and Dubai, he said. Vis first announced the move abroad in a LinkedIn post over the weekend. Bird, formerly known as Message Bird, was founded in Amsterdam in 2011. It is a competitor of U.S.-based Twilio in the market for helping companies manage their communications with consumers across digital mediums such as messaging, email and video apps. It says it has developed an AI-powered platform that automates and streamlines business operations across entire organizations including tech leaders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Dutch+Software+Firm+Bird+To+Leave+Europe+Due+To+Onerous+Regulations%3A+https%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F24%2F2149206%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/twitter_icon_large-268.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F24%2F2149206%2Fdutch-software-firm-bird-to-leave-europe-due-to-onerous-regulations%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/facebook_icon_large-183.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/02\/24\/2149206\/dutch-software-firm-bird-to-leave-europe-due-to-onerous-regulations?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23619561&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Cloud communications software firm Bird, one of the Netherlands&#8217; most prominent tech startups, plans to move most of its operations out of Europe, its CEO said, citing restrictive regulations and difficulties hiring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1234636\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1234636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}