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Wages: Companies face a pay bubble
IT, sales, accounting In the pandemic, wages have risen sharply in many areas among specialists. (Photo: gettyimages) Dusseldorf Acute staff shortages, frequent job changes and rapidly growing inflation rates are…
Why companies should fear Russian hackers
Russian hackers Cyber attacks with devastating damage have so far failed to materialize during the Ukraine war. (Photo: imago images/NurPhoto) Dusseldorf, Berlin, San Francisco The incident raised the worst of…
How Habeck wants to break the supremacy of the USA
Huge amounts of data In projects such as autonomous driving, an enormous amount of data has to be processed in real time. This requires a new infrastructure. (Photo: obs) The…
How Habeck wants to break the supremacy of the USA
Huge amounts of data In projects such as autonomous driving, an enormous amount of data has to be processed in real time. This requires a new infrastructure. (Photo: obs) The…
EU and USA agree on rules for data flow
Ursula von der Leyen and Joe Biden in Brussels Agreement on data streams across the Atlantic. (Photo: REUTERS) Brussels The data of European citizens should again be allowed to be…
When the AI tells the baker how many rolls to bake
Cologne It works well with buns. But how many cakes will be sold tomorrow? That’s where it gets trickier. Jan Philipp Gresens has learned this about his artificial intelligence in…
Federal Transport Minister has more problems than solutions
Berlin If you look around for statements by Volker Wissing these days, you will mainly find some about the refugee situation. The Federal Minister of Transport sees the states as…
Amazon, Microsoft and Google invest billions in cloud business
San Francisco, Dusseldorf The global cloud business is growing faster than ever. Last year, the providers invested around 180 billion dollars in the expansion of their infrastructure, the analysis house…
Traffic light politicians call for a ban on spy software
Berlin Traffic light coalition politicians have spoken out in favor of banning the use of Pegasus spy software in the EU. In doing so, they joined a request by the…
Many companies find themselves heavily burdened by data protection
EU data protection rules In Germany, many of the data protection regulations already applied before the GDPR. In essence, it is about better protecting consumers in particular. (Photo: dpa) Berlin…
More than 25,000 specialists wanted
Specialists wanted Most DAX companies give jobs for experts, among others medical staff, IT specialists and engineers are in demand. (Photo: Imago (2), dpa) Dusseldorf The number of job advertisements…
BMW Head of Human Resources Horstmeier: Job offensive for more growth
Ilka Horstmeier The personnel director BMWs prepares the Dax group for higher growth. (Photo: BMW) Munich, Dusseldorf Record sales last year make the BMW group bolder again. “In Germany we…
Devolo files for insolvency in protective shield proceedings
Heiko Harbers The head of the home network manufacturer wants to restructure his company. (Photo: Devolo/Ronald Koehler) Dusseldorf Energy transition, climate protection and working from home: there are many reasons…
The skills gap is bigger than ever
Employment in the IT professions has grown more than in almost any other professional group But the demand for qualified workers is growing even faster than the supply. (Photo: imago…
Five lucrative opportunities for career changers
Applicants are financially courted Rarely have the chances for a career change, including a whopping salary increase, been as good as they are now. Dusseldorf Cawa Younosi is urgently looking…
“Right to repair”: traffic light plans meet with rejection
In business, however, the project is met with rejection. At EU level, there are already guidelines for the repairability of certain products. The managing director of the German Retail Association…
Traffic light: Start-up representative wants to change financing methods
Start-up representative Anna Christmann Her parents ran an IT company. Christmann studied mathematics, politics and economics. (Photo: imago images/Arnulf Hettrich) Berlin If the position of a new start-up officer had…
The voice as fraud: Deepfakes endanger companies
Deep fake scam Audio recordings can be faked with various AI software. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf It was an unusual WhatsApp message that reached Telekom managers in South America a few…
Chaos around responsibilities of the ministries
The digital summit is considered the high office of the federal government, science and business for everything to do with digitization. Throughout the year, experts from all disciplines get involved…
Dax: 24,000 jobs to be filled: whom Dax companies are currently looking for
BMW, Fresenius and Deutsche Post Many Dax companies are looking for new employees. Dusseldorf The Fresenius healthcare group is currently looking for almost 900 doctors – from Nordenham on the…