speculating a merger was on the cards or begin to kind of go their own separate ways and that would raise rather large questions for the actual future strategy of each three of these companies so plenty more to watch in the weeks ahead under a spicer in london many thanks thank you. think of high tech startups and you might think of silicon alley in the u.s. or china where the tech scene is flush with cash but you're also both success stories like spotify or skype the market there is fragmented however and member states vary in terms of digital investment so can the e.u. create a single digital market computer programming begins at a very early age in a stone in the small baltic states is regarded as a pioneer of digitalisation it's where skype was founded and became a global player digital conditions differ widely in the european union global