Germany’s antitrust chief wants to protect Bundeskartellamt from the DMA
Andreas Mundt, Germany's antitrust chief, is close to wrapping up the first of a new type of probe on big tech. However, impending rules enforced at the European Union level could threaten his pioneering work.
The year has seen competition authorities stirred up and seemingly determined to take ...
Merkel says Europe must work together to lead the high-tech front
Reuters report Angela Merkel saying that European countries must focus on next-generation chip manufacturing.
Angela Merkel has drawn upon her 15+ years of know-how to say that individual European countries cannot compete in advanced high-tech chip manufacturing.
German Chancellor shared her ...
Italy courts Intel over multibillion-euro chip plant
Rome is trying to convince the chipmaker to invest in Italy rather than France.
Rome is trying to convince Intel to invest billions of euros in an advanced chipmaking plant in Italy. This is according to reporting by Reuters last week. Italy is making their move as Germany seems set to land an e...
Intel will most likely build a new factory in Germany
Due to the large chip shortage, many chip manufacturers are expanding. The most significant expansions are taking place in Taiwan, South Korea and the United States. It is still unclear how many companies will build a chip factory in Europe. So far, Intel is the only one that has promised to build ...
Germany to invest €3 billion to bring semiconductor production back to the EU
Germany plans to invest several billion euros as part of a major European project, into bringing semiconductor production back to the bloc. The goal is to strengthen German and European tech sovereignty, which is not on stable ground yet.
Economy Minister Peter Altmaier of Germany held talks wit...
Google takes Germany to court over its hate-speech law (NetzDG)
Google said on Tuesday that it is planning legal action against Germany over the country's expanded version of hate speech laws that recently went into effect. Google says that the expansion of the laws violated the right to privacy of its users.
The Alphabet unit, which also runs YouTube, filed...
TSMC says it’s too early to tell if Germany factories will be build
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co told us that it's too early to say whether plans to build factories in Germany will go on. The company said that talks were in the early stages, as the EU seeks to alleviate the chip supply shortage and reduce imports.
The European Commission is said to be i...
German government pours 10 billion euros into funding tech startups
The "future fund" aims to prevent more German startups from seeking financing abroad
The German government has launched a 10 billion euro ($12 billion) equity fund to support the launch of technology startups in the country. The state-backed fund was first proposed in August 2020, and is intende...
Netherlands, Germany and France want to regulate tech acquisitions
Draft rules intended to govern companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon should be tightened to allow regulators to vet acquisitions of start-ups, according to Germany, France, and the Netherlands.
The assertion was made in a joint statement by German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier and ...
Amazon under the Federal Cartel Office’s microscope in Germany
Germany’s antitrust watchdog announced that it has opened an investigation into whether Amazon, the US retail giant, is leveraging its market dominance in unfair and illegal ways. The Federal Cartel Office said that the first step for the watchdog will be to look into whether Amazon is “of outs...
German union mounts strike against Amazon just ahead of Easter
The move aims to weaken Amazon's opposition to collective bargaining agreements.
This week Reuters reported that the German trade union Verdi has called for workers at six Amazon sites in Germany to go on strike. The industrial action will take place over four days in the run-up to Easter, a usu...
Nokia suffers a setback in German court over a patent with Lenovo
A German appeals court lifted the enforcement of an injunction won by Nokia in a patent disagreement with Lenovo. It blocked the world’s largest PC maker from selling its products in the largest European economy. The decision is a blow to Nokia, as it has been trying to make a comeback in other t...