Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

As the industry grapples with the larger questions of how to create viable solid-state batteries or commercialize robotaxi service , the companies listed here are focused on the incremental steps toward a fully autonomous future. In November, Nvidia replaced Intel on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Construction as an industry has evolved with civilization through the ages. But today, it’s one of the few industries that has one foot firmly planted in the past, even as the other tries to step into the future. For an industry that has historically been averse to tech, feeling this pain point was a real catalyst for adoption.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Google has published an open letter about a newly proposed government regulation that would compel it to pay media outlets for news content. Since then, the news and media industry have been hit hard by the pandemic. The initiatives in Brazil and Germany are reportedly not affected. Screenshot: Google. Screenshot: Google.com.au.

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TechNode

JUNE 18, 2024

The German Chamber of Commerce in China has called on Beijing and Brussels to seek a resolution through negotiation on EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports, which it says offer no protection to German carmakers and foster tariff escalations that can only hurt the industry. on Chinese EV imports last week.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

In a letter to VanMoof, the regulatory agency accused the Dutch brand of unfairly casting a negative light on the auto industry. The issue seems to stem mostly from the dire conditions of France’s auto industry. The government recently introduced an €8 billion plan to bail out the auto sector. But that was too much for the ARPP.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Germany and the UK came out first and second, respectively). Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? We are also interested in Germany and Austria as well as the Nordics. Which industries in your city and region seem well-positioned to thrive, or not, long term? More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

It still has to struggle its way through the bureaucracy (here’s a quick refresher ), but clearing the Senate is a huge and important step toward the American chip fabrication industry getting a serious chunk of cash. Personally, I’m psyched that this may be happening for a few reasons. into a chip-fab juggernaut overnight.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

“We also use data from analyzing systemic and market changes such as government incentives for companies to become ‘greener.’ though it has also partnered with education providers in Germany and Finland to provide its platform on a SaaS basis, with the institutions themselves organizing the funding.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The industrial biotech startup is working on bringing a novel protein to market — one it says will offer a nutritious, sustainable alternative to animal-derived proteins. But if this 2017-founded Finnish startup, Solar Foods , has its way fermentation could have a very special place in the future of human food too.

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TechNode

OCTOBER 8, 2023

On Friday, the US Commerce Department announced the addition of 42 Chinese companies to an export control list due to their support for Russia’s military and defense industries. This support includes the supply of integrated circuits of US origin, according to the statement.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Hurricane Katrina had just happened, and many experts viewed it primarily as a failure of the government to take care of its weakest citizens in the face of a natural disaster, not as climate change’s early shot. Governments are finally putting tough building codes in place. When I started getting involved in clean tech 1.0

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The transcription industry, which is estimated at around $30 billion, is very fragmented, with many small mom-and-pop companies. Verbit serves more than 2,000 customers across the media, education, corporate, legal and government sector. Verbit raises $31M Series B to expand its transcription and captioning service.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Organizations in Germany account for about 3.6% government services contracting giant Maximus became the largest victim of the MOVEit breach after confirming that hackers accessed the protected health information — including Social Security numbers — of as many as 11 million individuals. -based organizations account for 83.9%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Prime minister Pedro Sanchez took a turn on Web Summit’s stage in December to announce the introduction of the forthcoming Startup Act — and to trumpet a new role, a high commissioner, tasked with bringing off a nationwide entrepreneurial economic transformation by working with all the relevant government ministries.

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The Verge

MAY 15, 2020

Netflix is working to restore streaming quality in various European countries following government requests for the company to reduce bandwidth usage out of fear that it was putting too much stress on broadband connections. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. As conditions improve we will lift these limitations.”.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

At that time, it had become quite apparent that China had emerged as the front line in the battle for dominance of the 21st century automotive industry. By 1950, the United States produced over three quarters of all the cars in the world, and Detroit was the epicenter of the global automotive industry (see Figure 1).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Germany’s government created quite a buzz when it announced that recreational cannabis would be legalized during the current term. What are some of the biggest challenges facing Europe’s cannabis industry right now? Does this mean that we’ll see recreational use of cannabis for adults becoming a common policy in Europe?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

But Isar CEO Daniel Metzler told TechCrunch that European governments are waking up to the geopolitical and economic upsides to sovereign launch capabilities. “If If you take a look at the European Union, even Germany itself, there’s a strong focus on the automotive industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Or they can import pre-existing courses or quizzes constructed elsewhere and stored in the SCORM or AICC format , which can be useful for general industry-specific training for cybersecurity, or regulatory compliance. Germany, and Australia. “We A little more than half of LMS365 users are based in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

However, in June 2020, the Italian government sponsored a €1 billion investment program aimed at the native startup ecosystem, creating a new venture arm: CDP Venture Capital. And skeptical observers are concerned that some of the government-backed initiatives look like the government is trying to pick winners, which rarely ends well.

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TechNode

MARCH 7, 2024

Semiconductor giant TSMC has revealed that subsidies obtained from the Japanese and Chinese governments reached NT$47.545 billion ($1.51 With its ongoing expansion of overseas facilities, TSMC anticipates further subsidies from Japan this year, along with potential new subsidies from the US and Germany. billion) in 2023, marking a 5.74-fold

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The country’s capital Warsaw has an angel investment scene, but founders instead often look to Germany for smaller investments because “the distance from Wroc?aw We also see promise in food tech, robotics and industry 4.0 (we we have some companies from these industries, too). What are you most excited by?

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Belgium, France and Germany makes Amsterdam a natural gateway to those markets. In 2020, the venture industry continued to invest in startups, despite the COVID-19 crisis. During COVID-19, the Dutch government has also announced support packages such as tax deferrals, temporary employment bridging schemes and other initiatives.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We felt that Anomaly’s approach from day one to partner with payers and providers to pay the right amount the first time stood out from the industry standard.” . and 11 other high-income countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, Japan, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

The global supply chain was one of the major industrial casualties of the pandemic, so it perhaps goes without saying that companies tackling issues related to the global supply chain would remain an alluring proposition for otherwise hesitant venture capitalists.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Set to run from September 3rd–5th, it’ll mark the first major conference to take place in the technology industry. However, it’ll look very different than previous years due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has seen almost every other major technology conference canceled or moved online this year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Its customer base totals some 80,000 organizations, including educational and government institutions, media companies, IT services, and a variety of other large enterprises. “AnyDesk is a strong example of the agile, forward-thinking companies that are shaping Germany on a broad scale.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 24, 2012

The big R&D establishments from industrial companies, as far as I have seen at least, don’t appear to be represented here. It is partially fueled by government, who want to say, oh we started 20,000 companies or whatever, even if they were 20,000 one-man companies that aren’t really going anywhere. And it’s not obvious.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Selling vehicles in Europe was an explicit goal of Byton, which was also founded in China but fancied itself as a “global automaker,” with offices in Germany and the US. Byton’s demise was striking, given that it had backing from such a powerful government-owned automaker. Turning down money, in this economy?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Now tech companies across industries are poised for an even better year, according to more than a dozen investors we talked to in the country. Other investors felt that a broader range of industries, like fintech and biotech, would eventually produce the biggest companies in the country. Ittai Harel , partner, Pitango HealthTech.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

And the French government is taking advantage of this opportunity to make some progress on the tech startup policy front. The EIC is supposed to support breakthrough technologies across different strategic industries, such as healthcare, energy and green innovations. But first, let me rewind just a little bit.

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The Verge

APRIL 26, 2021

Tesla has drawn a lot of scrutiny lately, has run into delays with the refreshed Model S and Model X, and the auto industry is struggling through a global shortage of semiconductors. Tesla said it still plans to be able to start making vehicles at the factory it’s building in Berlin, Germany by the end of this year. Image: Tesla.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

However the government still hasn’t confirmed exactly when it expects to legislate to empower the Digital Markets Unit (DMU) — saying only that it will introduce legislation to put it on a statutory footing “in due course.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

and Germany mull legalizing recreational use of the flower by adults. government agencies are warning that state-backed hackers have developed custom malware that enables them to compromise and hijack commonly used industrial control system devices. 8 cannabis investors share their outlook on the European market in H1 2022.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

” The EC intervened after receiving requests from more than a dozen constituent EU countries, including France and Germany. communications industry regulator Ofcom is currently assessing whether to refer the local cloud infrastructure services market to the CMA, with AWS and Microsoft in its crosshairs. Elsewhere, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In that regard, revolving debt facilities are not unlike credit cards for consumers, and, similarly, they are a sign of how banks rate GetYourGuide, and perhaps the travel industry more generally, as strong candidates for paying back, and eventually bouncing back. “We

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