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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire says the bankruptcies of US banks Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank do not threaten French financial institutions. The German financial regulator BaFin issued a similar reassuring…
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The United States will become the world leader in the energy transition. US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm makes that promise. In her view, President Joe Biden's administration has created "the most attractive investment…
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Tech giant Microsoft is now making its personal information manager Outlook free to Mac users. Until now, the macOS version of the popular program required a paid Microsoft 365 subscription. Outlook combines an email program with…
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Apple will invest a billion euros in Munich's European chip design centre. It is already the second time it has done so since 2021. The chip centre is Apple's most important development site in Europe. It focuses on three themes:…
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Zoom Video Communications was one of the risers at the stock exchanges in New York on Tuesday. The video chat service became hugely popular during the Corona pandemic and performed better in the last quarter than investors and analysts had…
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Telecom companies in Europe continue to demand that internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Netflix pay for 5G and fibre optic networks. This is because they are responsible for enormous data flows on those networks, the reasoning…
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The American regulator FTC ultimately allows the acquisition of Within by Facebook's parent company, Meta Platforms. The watchdog had previously tried to stop the acquisition through a lawsuit. However, the FTC lost that one. So…
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The US judiciary has accused Twitter of turning a blind eye to online actions by the jihadist group IS during a hearing at the Supreme Court. That court must decide whether the company can be charged with conspiracy in terrorist acts.…
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