Bosch opens a €1B chip plant in Germany to start making chips for power tools in July and automotive chips in Sep., as the auto industry battles a chip shortage
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GSMA says Mobile World Congress Barcelona will go ahead in June, with plans for up to 50,000 in-person attendees
Exceptional times call for exceptional safety measures. Christopher Baugh / iPhone in Canada Blog : MWC Barcelona Conference Planning for 50,000 Attendees, Reveals Health and Safety Plan Scott Bicheno...
Dealroom.co: UK startups had 33% of total EU investment in 2020, which has reached €39.7B; report says the amount is on track to beat 2019's high of €40.3B
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European Commission says Germany, Italy, Ireland, Denmark, and others are testing a platform to make individual contact tracing apps interoperate
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Wirecard collapses and files for insolvency facing an almost complete wipeout; source says creditors are owed nearly $4B
Douglas Busvine, Jörn Poltz, Arno Schuetze — BERLIN/MUNICH/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German payments company Wirecard collapsed on Thursday after disclosing …
Europe-focused Lakestar raises $735M with one third of the commitments allocated to early stage startups and two thirds to its growth stage fund
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Report: European regulators have imposed €114M in fines for data breaches since GDPR came into force in 2018; France's €50M fine against Google is the biggest
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IBM and German research institute Fraunhofer partner to explore the potential of quantum computing, as Germany plans to invest $717M over two years in the field
Douglas Busvine / Reuters : Tweets: @missmaga2016 , @ibmresearch , and @andreasateth Tweets: @missmaga2016 : Hmmm, so is IBM also going to help #China with this? How convenient that China just signed...
Study: spending on digital marketing grew by 44% last year in the US and Britain to $52B, with global spending on “martech” estimated to near $100B
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Facebook says it got 1,704 complaints and removed 262 posts in January-June under Germany's hate speech law, which warns of up to €50M fines for non-compliance
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