European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has opened the Web Summit event by pledging to overhaul the way Brussels regulates the tech industry. Speaking on the first day of the influential…
Treasure8 Scales its Revolution Against Food Waste
Humans waste around 1.3 billion tonnes of food each year – that’s enough to fill around two-thirds of Lake Eerie. Agriculture contributes almost a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, and…
How Will Europe Hold off the Chinese Tech Spending Spree?
In 2017 Canyon Bridge, a Cayman Islands-registered investor, bought Imagination Technologies, one of the UK’s premier chipmakers. Surprisingly, the deal didn’t incur the wrath of British politicians. Just weeks previous US President…
In 2019, Tech Must Win Back Public Trust – Or Sink
From revelations that Twitter, Facebook and YouTube helped Russian intelligence manipulate western elections, to Google’s record $5 billion antitrust fine for misusing Android, 2018 has been a year of scandal for tech’s…
More than Ever, Tech Giants Must Beware China’s Human Rights Record
This week, a fortnight after he mysteriously vanished, Beijing confirmed that it has detained Meng Hongwei, the President of Interpol. The move, which Human Rights Watch says shows that “no one’s immune…
Confusion Reigns, As EU’s “Meme-Killing” Law Passes
This week the European Union voted in Articles 11 and 13, its new copyright directive some have dubbed the “war on memes”. It had already rejected one version of the laws in…
Nokia and Ericsson’s Baltic Battle a Barometer for the Future of 5G
This June, Finnish mobile giant Nokia’s shares plummeted almost 10% after missing profit predictions based on its 5G solutions. CEO Rajiv Suri claimed that the company’s fortunes would pick up in the…
Brussels Shows Up America’s Toothless Big Tech Reaction
Last month, as Mark Zuckerberg faced questions from US senators over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, took the microphone. “I’m a proud member of Facebook,” the…
US Tech Stocks Tumble – And Look Set to Continue Doing So
American Big Tech shares took one of their biggest hits of the year this week, as crises on multiple fronts threaten to topple the dominance of the sector’s big leaders. It leaves…
The Top Three Irish Startups to Watch Out For This St. Patrick’s Day
It’s been a topsy turvy year for Ireland’s tech sector. The island nation has enjoyed a tech boom, thanks in no small part to its wooing of several key Silicon Valley players…