Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Germany.
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 ... Read more
2 years ago
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 ... Read more
2 years ago
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... Read more
2 years ago
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 ... Read more
3 years ago
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... Read more
3 years ago
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... Read more
3 years ago
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... Read more
3 years ago
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... Read more
3 years ago
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 ... Read more
3 years ago
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... Read more
3 years ago
