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Track Wero payment adoption across European banks. See which banks support P2P, online, and in-store payments.

A 130-million-user payment system backed by 16 major banks just launched to challenge Visa/mastercard

Fairphone sales jump 83% as the memory crunch makes longevity look better than ever.

Engineers are preparing the Ariane 64 rocket for its first launch. This powerful version of the Ariane 6 will carry 32 satellites for Amazon Leo’s broadband constellation on Thursday.

The United States exports more weapons than any other country. Data shows which regions buy the most US-made weapons — and experts discuss strategies for escaping dependence.

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Ember is a calm project management tool for individuals and small teams who want clarity, focus, and progress — without notifications, tracking, or bloat. Get more done with less stress.

Thank you US-americans for preferring Danish meds instead of just eating better and doing some sports :P

The European Union has launched its largest Chips Act pilot line, NanoIC, at IMEC Leuven, a major milestone for European semiconductor development and manufacturing. With a total investment of €2.5 billion, the facility has received €700 million in EU funding, €700 million from national and regional governments, and the remainder from ASML and other industry partners. NanoIC will accelerate the development of next-generation semiconductor technology, essential for the development of AI, autonomous vehicles, healthcare and 6G mobile technology.

Another major European company, InPost from Poland, has been acquired by a consortium including U.S.-based FedEx Corporation. This deal, valued at 15.60 EUR per share, marks a significant step in the expansion of e-commerce logistics across Europe. What are your thoughts on this growing trend of European companies being acquired by international investors?

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The Radicle forge is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git.

Estonia is the latest preparing to find a Microsoft alternative

I found out about CryptPad through a video, I think. I’ve been using it for a while for some docs, and I find it quite useful. It has bugs, if you tab out and tab back in you sometimes need to reload the page to continue editing, it takes a while to load, but overall works well, has a good privacy policy. Does anyone else use it? Are there other services like it?

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U.K. officials fear that planned industry act could lock British firms out of key European supply chains.

I’ve been sifting through my digital footprint for a while now and I’m getting to my old accounts that I’ve mostly forgotten about. I thought it would be fun if we shared what we delete, you just might jog someone else’s memory of an account they still have floating around.

The first pilot euro transfer from the Spanish payment system Bizum to a phone number enabled for receiving BLIK transfers at PKO Bank Polskihhas just been completed. This marks another step toward full interoperability between national mobile payment systems.

Swedish aerospace manufacturer Saab has proposed that a hypothetical Gripen production line in Canada would be large enough to also serve export customers besides making planes for the Canadian Air Force.

“They can leverage Trump’s America First policies, framing EU digital laws as foreign extortion, censorship or discrimination.”

The NDP says it wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to cancel contracts for U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets — including the 16 Canada has already committed to buying.

Europe’s two biggest carmakers have urged Brussels to tweak purchase subsidies and public procurement to favour domestic production over imported vehicles, calling for clear labelling and additional incentives for electric cars built in Europe.

We are slowly seeing a move away from the US giants - will be a huge boost to local businesses.

I closed my LinkedIn account and moved to the German Xing. It was the only EU solution I could found that resembled the US one.

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European search is improving. Ecosia and Qwant are compared to Google, plus privacy, ads, sustainability and the realism behind Staan.

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Dear Posteo customers,

As someone who left OneDrive behind, I am very happy with Drime. And new features are being added on a regular basis. (Just to be clear, I am not affliated in any way to Drime)

Avanza is one of the largest banks in Sweden, and in their monthly blogg, they’re noticing a big movement where Swedes are selling their American funds and shares, to buy Swedish/European instead.

This guide is by a Canadian author, but I find it very appropriate here as most of his solutions are European and he points to several alternatives, so all in all a great source of inspiration.

The first phase of the transition from iDEAL to Wero has begun. Dutch consumers are now seeing the new iDEAL | Wero logo replace the familiar iDEAL brand. Behind the scenes, work is underway to move iDEAL transactions to the Wero system, creating a modern European digital payment method that builds on what millions already use every day.

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Countries are growing uneasy about their dependence on U.S. technology firms.

Orqa is one of the few companies in the FPV market that does almost all of its engineering in house: mechanical engineering, electronics design, RF design, firmware development, optics design, prototyping, etc. All of our products are labelled as “Made in Europe” since everything, except micro-displays, is made in Osijek.

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