Cut us some slack, German travel startups tell Google


The letter – signed by eight CEOs including the bosses of Dreamlines, Flixbus, Homelike, HomeToGo, Omio, Tourlane and Trivago – won support from the German government amid concern that taxpayer money invested by a new state fund to prop up struggling startups could end up flowing to the world's top search engine. — Reuters

BERLIN: A group of leading German travel startups appealed to US tech giant Google on April 30 to offer them easier terms on paying for advertising to help them ride out the coronavirus pandemic that has devastated their business.

The letter, signed by eight CEOs, won support from the German government amid concern that taxpayer money invested by a new state fund to prop up struggling startups could end up flowing to the world's top search engine.

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