Tag: Europe
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union finance ministers will discuss this week a plan to attract more financial-technology companies, in a bid to bridge the gap with global competitors and offset the loss of Europe’s main fintech market after Britain leaves the bloc. The EU fintech market is dwarfed by those in China and the United […]
BERLIN (Reuters) – Europe’s aviation safety authorities have proposed rules for operating small drones that include requirements for geo-fencing technology to prevent them from straying into banned areas and a “dos and don’ts” leaflet to be inserted in retail packaging. With demand booming, both for hobby and commercial use, European regulators have been looking for […]
Europe lacks a “global mentality” when it comes to innovation in the digital technology sector, Director of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT Digital) Willem Jonker told EURACTIV Spain. Jonker, in Madrid to attend the opening of EIT Digital’s Spanish HQ, said that “although there are many good ideas, we still think too […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s digital chief has said that failure to solve the last remaining barrier to abolishing mobile roaming charges across the bloc in June would lead people to question its ability to deliver on promises. EU lawmakers and member states hold a third and probably final round of talks on Tuesday […]
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. website domain name provider GoDaddy is in exclusive talks to buy peer Host Europe Group (HEG) as it seeks to expand in higher-margin businesses beyond the initial set-up of websites, people close to the matter said. Arizona-based GoDaddy, the world’s largest website address registrar, has branched into hosting websites itself […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The United States has set out limits to its use of data collected in bulk about European citizens after a new information-sharing pact was agreed this month, according to documents seen by Reuters. A clear explanation of what information could be used for – preventing its ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary’ use – was […]
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Twitter said on Tuesday its social network was suffering outages in some parts of the world and it was working to resolve the issues, which appear to be concentrated in Europe, according to external monitoring sources. Both Twitter web and mobile services were suffering outages, with smartphone users receiving the warning: “Tweets […]
Since a top European court ruled people have a right to be forgotten online, Google has received 348,085 requests for tidbits to vanish from search results. Silicon Valley-based Google, a subsidiary of newly-created parent company Alphabet, complied with less than half of the demands, basing decisions on criteria intended to balance privacy with the public’s […]
Data protection officials are assuming increasing prominence following Tuesday’s (6 October) ECJ decision to outlaw Safe Harbour called them to take on a bigger role in Europe’s privacy debacles. National data protection authorities from member states will convene on Thursday (8 October) in Brussels, in order to coordinate a response to the ECJ decision. The […]
There is much discussion about the EU telecoms package “Connected Continent: a single telecom market for growth and jobs”, and EU leaders are proud to have introduced rules on roaming and net neutrality. These so-called consumerist policies have largely been the focus of the media while the proposal’s 7 pillars and over 100 sub-items have […]
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