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Starting small and flourishing: the digitalisation of SMEs | Josianne Cutajar The question remains: how can we make Europe fit for the Digital Decade? 2 May 2021, 9:30am Did you know that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) form 99% of all businesses in the European Union? Undeniably, Europe’s economy and societies depend heavily on SMEs. It is no different for Malta. Such enterprises not only integrate technological solutions but, time and over again, have proven to be fertile ground f...

Date: 29/04/2021 When the dust finally starts settling from the COVID-19 crisis, von der Leyen will have to refocus on her original agenda. Will she deliver? Fast-forward five months, Commission President von der Leyen will deliver her second State of the Union address. In effect, it will be her mid-mandate speech and chance to turn the corner from her disappointing management of the pandemic. New waves of the virus might still hit, but by then, vaccinations levels will likely offer European...

Seeking "driving seat" for EU, Breton to meet chipmaker execs By Michel Rose and Douglas Busvine Reuters PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) -European industry chief Thierry Breton will hold discussions with the chief executive of chipmaker Intel and a top executive of Taiwanese competitor TMSC on April 30, as the EU seeks to shield itself from shocks in the global supply chain. Breton will meet Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger in Brussels next Friday and will also hold a video conference with Maria Marced, Presiden...

Paul van Gerven 12:08 Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger will meet with European Union officials next week, Reuters reports. The meeting will likely be about Gelsinger’s announcement, last month, to build another fab in Europe. He implied that it will be a greenfield investment, ie not an expansion of existing fabs in Ireland and Israel. Credit: Intel A week before Intel’s announcement, the European Commission presented the Digital Compass, a set of avenues, visions and targets shaping the bloc’s am...

Why EU needs to be wary that AI will increase racial profiling Amnesty found that 78 percent of people on the UKs Gangs Matrix in 2017 were black, despite only 29 percent of gang-related crimes being committed by black people (Photo: Tony Gonzalez) Brussels/Cardiff, Today, 07:01 Whether it be predictive algorithmic systems used in the Netherlands to profile Eastern Europeans and Roma for pick-pocketing, or secretive lists of suspected criminals such as the UKs Gang Matrix, there is a growing re...

3 Min Read BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe’s ambition to make the most powerful computer chips risks wasting billions of euros, a German think tank said in a report on Thursday, urging policy makers to focus instead on rebuilding the region’s chip design industry. FILE PHOTO: Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age Margrethe Vestager and European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton give a news conference on 2030 Digital Compass followin...

Apple’s new German semiconductor design center signals further turn away from interconnected global supply chains Download Share Munich, Germany by late 2022, according to Bloomberg. In a statement, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the new facility, which is part of its plan to invest $1.2 billion to develop custom chips, will further develop 5G technology and explore a “new generation of technologies that bring power, speed, and connectivity to the world.” News of the design center comes as comp...

The European Commission has entered the ‘Digital Decade’ and presents a vision, targets and avenues for a successful digital transformation of Europe by

Europes Digital Decade: Commission sets the course towards a digitally empowered Europe by 2030

A steady supply of chips is essential for modern economies