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By Daniel van Heusden and Andrea Hak For centuries, Switzerland has been known as a serene peaceful paradise with beautiful mountains, lakes, glaciers… and chocolate. Switzerland has been named the most innovative country in the world for eight years in a row by the Global Innovation Index. And this makes sense.
When foreigners think of Switzerland, romantic images of beautiful snow peaked mountains, chocolate, watches, and cowbells come to mind. But startups and technology? Not so much.
As reported by Fast Company, Italian renewable energy company Greenrail and British tech firm Bankset Energy are also working on similar technologies, although the experiment in Switzerland is notable for two reasons. Read Entire Article
Switzerland has started requiring all its public organizations to use open-source software. The new measure, known as EMBAG or the Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Performance of Government Tasks, was approved in 2023 after years of debate. As highlighted by ZDNet, EMBAG is now forcing. Read Entire Article
European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland. Switzerland ended up ranking third out of 31 European nations, according to Nimblefins. Compared to other European countries, Switzerland has a low regulatory burden and a well-educated, highly qualified workforce. More than 50%?
The "decentralized" app was first announced on Monday, and it's now available to "several thousand" Swiss citizens. Contact tracing apps, for the unaware, function by allowing users to determine when they've been in close contact with a confirmed Covid-19 carrier.
WeRides self-driving taxis have also completed route mapping at Zurich Airport in preparation for additional applications in Switzerland, the company said in a statement. This marks the first commercial autonomous bus shuttle project within an airport in Europe. Each of WeRides robo-buses can accommodate up to nine passengers.
Wired UK writes that Switzerland's oldest and largest fruit farmer's organization, Fruit Union Suisse, has used a symbol of a red apple against a white cross for most of its 111-year history. But it might be forced to change that logo due to Apple's quest to trademark the fruit. Read Entire Article
Speaking during a panel about the VR technology at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday (via Insider), Cox said Meta believes that "one day that computing platform will be as important as the smartphone has become in our lifetimes."
A team of scientists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland developed a new kind of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC). Its vastly improved efficiency promises cheap, transparent, and ubiquitous energy-generating panels.
A team at the University of Exeter and other teams located in India, Switzerland, Singapore, and the US also helped with the discovery. A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge Graphene Centre discovered that through the use of graphene, HDD storage capacity can be multiplied by ten.
The letters claim to be from the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss), a legitimate organization that operates 88 weather stations across Switzerland. According to a recent alert from the Swiss National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), unknown threat actors are distributing fake letters to spread a malicious Android app.
Skyguide, the air navigation service provider in Switzerland, announced the closure at 6:30 a.m. Global flight tracking service Flightradar24 said inbound flights during the closure were diverted, and flights that normally go over Switzerland were forced to take a detour. local time.
The annual report comes from the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network (Glamos), which has been monitoring 176 of Switzerland's 1,400 glaciers – the most of any country in Europe – for years. Read Entire Article
Speaking during a panel titled "Technology in the World" at the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Anthropic's Dario Amoedi said, "If you think about what.
MORITZ, SWITZERLAND. I am sorry at the perceived confusion you may have receiving by this letter from me since we have not met previously, To be straight, I am a solicitor at law and the personal attorney to my client whom i will refer to as my client, who used to work with defunct singer cement company here in Switzerland.
According to a report from The Korea Herald, Gelsinger flew to Korea after attending the 2022 World Economic Forum in Switzerland to meet with Samsung Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, co-CEO Kyung Kye-hyun, mobile division leader Roh Tae-moon and others.
Along with tips for troubleshooting the issue before repair, the support page mentions that UK, Switzerland, and the European Economic Area users can now take advantage of the free repair offer regardless of warranty status. Previously, users could only get their controllers repaired gratis if they had a valid warranty, Read Entire Article
Barry Sherry of Virginia wanted to travel to Europe for what was probably the 68-year-old's last "epic" bike trip abroad, cycling through Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Finland, writes CNN. Read Entire Article
with seven, Norway with five, and Spain, Finland, and Switzerland with four each. The largest contingents were from the U.K. and France, with 13 and nine respondents respectively, followed by the U.S. About 40% of these firms were yet to foray beyond their home country and the rest had gone international.
to $24.47, before recovering slightly Friday after the Switzerland-headquartered firm, known for its eponymous caller ID app, reported lower than estimated revenue. Shares of Truecaller dropped as low as 35%, $35.95 Truecaller, listed in Stockholm, reported a revenue of SEK 399 million ($35.88
I'm en route to Switzerland for two conferences (or, a pre-conference and a conference). I very much enjoy blogging from Switzerland, and sharing my experiences. It's that time of year when social entrepreneurs get to hang out and carouse with the world's leaders. The first event is the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur Summit.
Valour, a Zug, Switzerland-based issuer of investment products, brought in Biggs, the former Private Banking Global Head of Innovation for HSBC, as CEO after recently launching Bitcoin Zero , a fee-free, digital asset ETP product that trades on the NGM stock exchange.
Shawn Ahmed, Free Agent and founder of the Uncultured Project, has been invited to next week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he will meet with business leaders and heads of state. This year, Shawn’s video was selected from over 100 covering a wide range of topics and debates. A big congrats to Shawn!
His direct concern was about corrupt elites that stash their ill-gotten gains in Switzerland. Uli was protesting against the Swiss banks taking five times more money in from the developing world than it puts back out. We had quite a pleasant chat. Of course, not all of the interactions were pleasant.
with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •
They went on to participate in the Nestlé R&D Accelerator in Switzerland where they were able to test their formula for the plant-based wings. This included a co-branded product with Nestlé’s plant-based food brand Garden Gourmet and test launch in more than 40 retail outlets across Switzerland.
It will also be available in Chile, Indonesia, and the United Arab Emirates soon. To be able to take an EKG or blood pressure measurement, you’ll need to have the Samsung Health Monitor app installed on your Galaxy smartphone and on a Galaxy Watch 3 or Galaxy Active 2.
Microsoft has revealed the next major additions coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator later this year, including the Volocopter VoloCity air taxi; updated maps for the Germany, Austria, and Switzerland regions; and a competitive online multiplayer racing mode.
In other survey news, Mike Butcher continues his (sadly virtual) tour across European startup hubs for EC, this week checking in with investors in Zurich, Switzerland. Switzerland has always been at the forefront of technological innovation in areas such as precision engineering or life sciences.
Marquart expects to have QOA’s first product on the market in 2022, and the new funding will go toward building out its first pilot production facility in Munich to complement one it has in Switzerland and hiring. After that, we will go after our Series A so we can build out larger production lines,” he added.
The new markets include Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Switzerland, bringing the total number of countries the cloud gaming service supports from 14 to 22. Google Stadia is expanding internationally, adding eight more countries in Europe today.
I can't begin to list the fistfuls of great conversations I had in my week in Switzerland. The interactions are at a peer level, without the normal screening that typically protects these leaders.
Alongside the funding, the company is also formally announcing its name-change from VRM Switzerland. Loft Dynamics , a Swiss startup creating virtual reality (VR) simulation technology for helicopter pilots, has raised $20 million in funding from U.S.
Pamela's job is to find top social entrepreneurs around the world and bring them together at two annual events: the Schwab Foundation's Global Social Entrepreneurship Summit and the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. This is my one chance a year to get Pamela one on one, since the events are so busy for her.
when the Schwab Foundation allowed me to bring him along to their Social Entrepreneur Summit in Switzerland. Long term readers of the Beneblog might remember Jimmy's post from Davos last year, (the most popular Beneblog post I ever or never wrote!)
The update, which brings Android 11-specific feature changes and some small visual and interface tweaks to Samsung smartphones, is only arriving on last year’s Note 10 devices in Germany, Spain, and Switzerland for now, but a wider release is expected at some point early next year if not in just a few weeks.
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The company was founded by the former German national team basketball player Fedotov and Dr Konstantin Karuzin, a neurosurgeon who previously developed a system to improve the cognitive and physical functions of professional athletes in Switzerland.
To date, Wefox said it has built a network of around 3,000 independent brokers in its native Germany, while in other markets such as Switzerland, Germany and Austria, it has trained its own brokers. “Our model is unique in the insurtech space, since all others go direct to consumer.” ” Customer acquisition.
Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and China. Buildots went after new funding once it was able to show product market fit and was expanding into other countries. The platform is being utilized on major building projects in countries like the U.S.,
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