Europe is terrified of semiconductor irrelevance. Now its tech champion is calling for a massive new alliance

Europe is at risk of drifting into global irrelevance unless urgent action is taken to build up its fading semiconductor industry, the region’s most valuable tech company warned. Leading chip equipmen...

Why Nissan is moving from the internal combustion engine in Europe

The chief operating officer of Nissan has spoken to CNBC about why his company has decided to move away from the development of new internal combustion engines in Europe once a tougher set of emission...

Cloud Expo Europe: UK’s Prominent Tech Development Event

Cloud Expo Europe is the UK’s leading cloud event, a must-attend for technologists and business leaders in the public and private sector involved in specifying, maintaining, or managing an organizatio...

Cargoes Of American ‘Freedom Gas’ Help Europe Stay Warm Amid Russian Cutbacks

Chilled to -260 degrees, liquefied natural gas is transported in insulated tankers. getty In recent months Russia’s Gazprom has cut its deliveries of natural gas to Europe by half, to 17% of supply. S...

BP Posts Bumper Profit and New Round of Buybacks

Text size BP Exploration Alaska headquarters Getty Images Surging oil and gas prices last year helped BP post its highest profit since 2012, allowing the company to reduce debt and announce more share...

Nvidia Calls Off Acquisition of Chip-Designer Arm. It’s Not a Surprise.

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of Nvidia fell in premarket trading Tuesday after the graphics chipmaker and Japan’s SoftBank agreed to call off Nvidia’s deal to buy microprocessor desig...

Meta Warns That Europe Could Lose Facebook, Instagram

Europe could be looking at a Facebook- and Instagram-free future, according to parent company Meta’s latest annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The tech giant took issue with Euro...

Meta is threatening to shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe?

European regulators are making it difficult for Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) to transfer user data back to the United States. Consequently, the American multinational warns, it might have to shut d...

Why is Meta threatening to shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe?

European regulators are making it difficult for Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) to transfer user data back to the United States. Consequently, the American multinational warns, it might have to shut d...

EuroSwap EDEX will take the lead from DOGE, ETH and even BTC in Europe

Greta Tunberg will be happy – the European Parliament is going to completely ban cryptocurrency mining in the EU. Energy consumption due to the increased activity of miners is already becoming a...

The Jobs Report Reveals a Booming Labor Market. Here’s Where Interest Rates Are Headed.

Text size President Joe Biden speaking about the January jobs report. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Good news for Main Street, not so good news for Wall Street. Once again, a booming labor market is like...

Will Inflation Led To Unrest?

The Execution of Louis XVI in the Place de la Revolution on 21 January 1793, 1790s. Found in the … [+] collection of Musée Carnavalet, Paris. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Imag...

Nokia Reinstates Dividend, Sets New, Long-Term Margins Target

Text size The logo of telecommunications giant Nokia before the company’s press conference in Espoo, Finland. Markku Ulander /Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images Nokia on Thursday reinstated its quar...

Europe’s New Ruling On Data Consent Pop-Ups Challenges Privacy Policies For Publishers And Advertisers

European regulators are cracking down on how companies request user consent for how personal data is … [+] collected, used and shared. Getty Images Officials in Belgium have found a top advertis...

VanEck Launches New Crypto Exchange-Traded Note (ETN) in Europe

VanEck’s European arm has announced the launch of a multi-token cryptocurrency fund that gives European investors the financial benefits attached to holding it as an asset. The company’s European arm ...

Why Readily Available Low-Cost Natural Gas Is Our Centerpiece Strategy To Fight Climate Change

DASHAVA, UKRAINE – SEPTEMBER 18: Hand wheels are seen fixed to valves at the Dashava natural gas … [+] facility on September 18, 2014 in Dashava, Ukraine. The Dashava facility, which is bo...

Europe could lead the crypto regulatory race with MiCA

While cryptocurrency regulation has been a hot topic for quite a while, it wasn’t until last year that governments around the world began taking a bigger interest in regulating the booming crypto mark...

Biden Will Send U.S. Troops To Eastern Europe Soon—But ‘Not A Lot’

Topline President Joe Biden said Friday the United States will send troops to NATO countries in Eastern Europe “in the near term,” after Russia’s deployment of over 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian b...

Europe Has Its First Politician to Accept Salary in Bitcoin, Report Says

Christophe De Beukelaer, a leader and lawmaker from Belgium’s Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH) at parliament, became the first European politician to convert his salary into Bitcoin using Europe’s pop...

Mutual Efforts with Europe, U.S. Key for CBDC Issuance: Bank of Japan Governor

Joining hands with the United States and Europe is fundamental when meeting technical issues needed in the issuance of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor...

The First Politician in Europe Converts His 2022 Salary into Bitcoin

Jan 28, 2022 at 12:00 // News A member of the Belgian Parliament, Christophe De Beukelaer, will convert his entire 2022 salary into Bitcoin. He will thus become the first European politician to suppor...

Swissquote Promotes Silvia Gajdosik to Head of Eastern Europe Desk

On January 27, Swissquote, Switzerland’s leading online bank, announced that it has promoted its Senior Business Development Manager, Silvia Gajdosik, to be the new Head of the Eastern Europe de...

Covid rules are being dropped in Europe despite high omicron spread

People have drinks at a bar along the Rembrandtplein as cafes and restaurants reopened following the relaxation of the Covid-19 measures, in Amsterdam on January 26, 2022. The Netherlands lifted some ...

US and Europe must help Afghanistan humanitarian crisis

Former U.K. prime minister and current U.N. special envoy for global education, Gordon Brown, told CNBC that the world must come together to find the $4.4 billion needed to address the humanitarian cr...

Cazoo is buying this Italian car retailer to expand in Europe

Shares of Cazoo Group Ltd (NYSE: CZOO) jumped nearly 5.0% this morning on news of an acquisition that will expand its footprint in the European used car market. Cazoo to buy brumbrum in a cash and sto...

Crude oil price prediction amid heightened fears in Eastern Europe

Crude oil price has been in the green for five consecutive weeks amid heightened demand optimism. The last time that the commodity recorded such a streak of gains was between early September and mid O...

Ocean Freight Shipper Maersk Continues to Expand. The Stock Could Sail to New Highs.

A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S is expanding its ocean freight business to include road, rail, and air services. Peter Boer/Bloomberg Text size The world’s largest shipping container company, A.P. Møller-Maers...

America’s Winningest Fracker Said To Be Near $2.4 Billion Shale Gas Sale

Trevor Rees-Jones in the “party barn” on his ranch, fall 2015. Matthew Mahon, for Forbes, 2015. If the rumors are true and Dallas billionaire Trevor Rees-Jones is set to sell his Chief Oil...

A Russian Invasion Of Ukraine Could Flood Europe With Millions Of Refugees

Joe Biden talking about his first year as President said Russia is likely to invade Ukraine. (Photo … [+] by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Getty Images President Biden warned in his year-end news co...

Proof-of-Work (PoW) crypto mining ban looms large on Europe

Proof-of-Work (PoW) mining of cryptocurrencies might face a ban according to EU securities regulator  Climate change goals will be seriously affected with the crypto’s risks  Decentralized nature of B...

London-Based VC Blossom Capital Raises $432 Million For New Crypto-Focused Fund

Alex Lim, Ophelia Brown and Imran Ghory have raised $432 million for a new fund to invest in early-stage European tech startups. www.annak-photo.com One of Europe’s few female-led venture capital fund...

Bitmex Acquiring German Bank to Create ‘Regulated Crypto Powerhouse’ in Europe – Exchanges Bitcoin News

Crypto exchange Bitmex is acquiring a German bank to create “a regulated crypto powerhouse.” The company plans to establish “a one-stop shop for regulated crypto products in Germany, Austria, and Swit...