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Tesla Competitor Reveals Electric Car That Can Charge in Five Minutes

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In just one day, BYD's valuation surpassed Ford, General Motors, and Volkswagen combined a first for the company, and a major boon for the Chinese automotive industry. While Tesla currently boasts some 65,000 proprietary Superchargers worldwide, BYD drivers can access 800,000 universal charging points throughout Europe alone.

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A cold winter is awaiting mobile networks and phones in Europe

TechSpot

A conjunction of power cuts and energy rationing plans could make mobile Internet unreliable and unavailable in Europe. Winter is coming and according to sources from within the industry, everybody knows the market will face a lot of issues. As a consequence of Russia's decision to stop gas supplies via.

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As war escalates in Europe, it’s ‘shields up’ for the cybersecurity industry

TechCrunch

The blanket warning is for all industries to take notice. Indeed, it’s a juxtaposition of sorts to think the cybersecurity industry is vulnerable to cyberattack, but for many nation state groups, this is their first port of call. If addressing digital perimeter exposures is the foundation, zoning-in on problem areas is the framing.

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Europe will invest €43 billion to make its own microchips

TechSpot

After spending some months negotiating between the European Council and the European Parliament, the European Union has now officially approved a plentiful subsidy plan for its semiconductor industry. Read Entire Article

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Amazon paid no corporate tax in Europe last year despite record sales income

TechSpot

It's a financial image that is in stark contrast to that of many other businesses and industries, which have suffered or even succumbed under the pressure of. Last month, Amazon reported more than $8 billion in profit for the first three months of 2021, tripling its profits year over year.

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Czech on-demand grocery delivery startup Rohlik bags $230M to expand across Europe

TechCrunch

Founded in 2014, Rohlik’s funding comes at an interesting and key moment in the online grocery business, in Europe and beyond. Even with some (very much not all) countries in Europe relaxing parts of their orders, grocery has remained a very-much used online category in markets where it is available.

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Taktile makes it easier to leverage machine learning in the financial industry

TechCrunch

A few years ago, when you could read ‘machine learning’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ in every single pitch deck, some startups chose to focus on the financial industry in particular. But what about legacy players in the financial industry? They could use that data to train new models and roll out machine learning applications.

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