The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly €100 million, would have given a …

Brussels plans to ringfence two-thirds of EU mobile-satellite spectrum for European firms
Brussels plans to ringfence two-thirds of EU mobile-satellite spectrum for European firms

The proposal expected to be announced on Wednesday would leave Starlink and Amazon’s Kuiper able to bid only for the remaining third of the bloc’s 2 GHz mobile-satellite band. The European Commission is preparing to reserve two-thirds of the bloc’s fut…

Spain blocks Polymarket and Kalshi over missing gambling licences
Spain blocks Polymarket and Kalshi over missing gambling licences

A three-to-four month suspension while Madrid’s gambling watchdog investigates makes Spain the latest European jurisdiction to treat prediction markets as unlicensed betting. Spain has temporarily blocked the US-based prediction markets Polymarket and …

Brussels prepares biggest-ever DMA penalty for Google
Brussels prepares biggest-ever DMA penalty for Google

The European Commission is preparing to fine Google a sum running into the high hundreds of millions of euros for breaching the Digital Markets Act, according to a Handelsblatt report on Monday, in what would be the largest penalty ever issued under th…

Why EU business AI adoption is rising and still not catching up
Why EU business AI adoption is rising and still not catching up

Eurostat published  last December a release that, on a different continent, would have been front-page news. They were saying that 20% of European Union enterprises with at least ten employees now used artificial intelligence in some part of their busi…

Ericsson is leaving Kista for central Stockholm, in the largest office lease in Swedish history
Ericsson is leaving Kista for central Stockholm, in the largest office lease in Swedish history

The 71,000-square-metre Hagastaden campus, signed with Atrium Ljungberg and Castellum, ends more than two decades in the suburb once branded Sweden’s Silicon Valley. Ericsson is moving its global headquarters out of Kista. The Swedish telecoms-equipmen…

Wingtech sues Nexperia in Chinese court over Dutch government’s semiconductor seizure
Wingtech sues Nexperia in Chinese court over Dutch government’s semiconductor seizure

Wingtech Technology has filed a lawsuit against its own subsidiary, Nexperia, in a Chinese court. The case, lodged at the Dongguan Intermediate People’s Court, seeks at least 8 billion yuan, roughly $1.1 billion, in damages. It is the first major legal…

Norway’s $2.3 trillion wealth fund objects to John Elkann’s reappointment to Meta’s board
Norway’s $2.3 trillion wealth fund objects to John Elkann’s reappointment to Meta’s board

Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, has withheld its vote on the reappointment of John Elkann to Meta’s board of directors. The fund said it believes the Stellantis chairman and Exor CEO does not have eno…

Italian police seize a piracy app that streamed Sky, DAZN, and Netflix through hijacked real accounts
Italian police seize a piracy app that streamed Sky, DAZN, and Netflix through hijacked real accounts

Operazione Tutto Chiaro hit more than 100 sites across Italy, France, and Germany, targeting a system that rebroadcast legitimate subscription codes every three minutes. Italy’s Guardia di Finanza said on Friday it had dismantled an audiovisual piracy …

Europe’s go-to-market accelerator for AI Startups launches
Europe’s go-to-market accelerator for AI Startups launches

AcceleratorX, a new breed of startup accelerator purpose-built for AI founders opens Cohort 1 applications – offering startups unprecedented access to a pan-European network of 2,000+ marketing and communications professionals across 30 countries as re…