Tag: digitalization
Biden Government Accelerates CBDC Research: Is Digitalization in Payments Coming?
With the latest developments, the Biden government has stepped up its digital central bank money (CBDC) research efforts. The Biden administration is bringing the US one step closer to producing…
Politics and business should invest in Africa now
African continent equals crisis continent. This equation has stuck in many minds and is unfortunately getting new evidence from the latest headlines. The Russian war of aggression in Ukraine has…
Pressure on Minister of Justice Buschmann is growing
Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) Buschmanns Haus checks whether personal data should continue to be freely accessible in the commercial register. (Photo: IMAGO/photothek) Berlin In the debate about…
Right to repair: No more paternalism
It was George Orwell’s novel 1984, of all things, that first raised awareness of the problem a few years ago. Amazon had deleted the story about a surveillance dystopia from…
Minister wants to radically restructure electronic patient records
doctor at computer The electronic patient file is intended to improve medical care. (Photo: DigitalVision/Getty Images) Berlin Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wants to make the electronic patient…
Karl Lauterbach: Federal Minister of Health in the promised Corona country
Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach at Hadassah Medical Centers Karl Lauterbach’s program, which will be on the road until Tuesday, also includes meetings with Israeli start-ups, researchers and health…
Judith Gerlach: Demanding instead of promoting: finally take start-ups seriously!
When the World Wide Web went online around 30 years ago, developed at the European nuclear research center Cern, it stood for a great idea: universal access to information for…
Why the oldest family-run print shop is not afraid of digitization
Lueneburg “History to experience and touch!” says a user of the hiking route app Komoot, happy about the sightseeing tip. Another writes of an “interesting highlight”. What is meant is…
Energy Industry’s Lehman Moment: The Editor-in-Chief’s Weekly Recap
Good morning dear readers, As I write these lines, I am on my way back from the Handelsblatt Bank Summit in Frankfurt. The summit, at which several hundred of the…
In these areas, start-ups are thriving despite the crisis
Google headquarters in Mountain View Silicon Valley was quiet during the pandemic. (Photo: imago images / xim.gs) san francisco It spawned tech companies like Airbnb, Stripe and Coinbase: The start-up…
EY dares the revolution – and that’s right despite all the risks
EY offices Examiners will have to earn the money they need to invest heavily in digital testing on their own. (Photo: imago images/Michael Gstettenbauer) After months of debate, the auditing…
These are the winners of the Health-i Awards
Award Winner Endo Health Prof. Dr. Nadine Rohloff, medical director of Endo-Health, presents the start-up at the Health-i event in Berlin. (Photo: Dominik Butzmann) Berlin There is no shortage of…
The German economy needs a pact for the future
The simultaneity of the multiple crises currently rocking Europe reached another peak this week. First Gazprom stopped gas deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, shortly afterwards the federal government…
Anybill fights against the flood of receipts with fresh capital
Dusseldorf The new thermos bottle that was bought for dad for his birthday is a bad buy? No problem! The bottle can simply be returned with the receipt. But where…
Start-up digitizes engineering knowledge for BMW, Airbus & Lego
founding trio Daniel Siegel, Moritz Maier, Sebastian Moeller (from left to right) want to shorten production processes in engineering. Your Elise software was designed for this. Dusseldorf The Bremen start-up…
Criticism of too little money for transport, climate & digital
Berlin On Tuesday, the Federal Ministry of Finance presented the budget for 2023 in the Bundestag. Parliamentary State Secretary Florian Toncar (FDP), who represented Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP), called…
China’s cyber regulator will control the export of data more strictly in the future
Beijing With its new rules on data transfer, China is increasing control over the companies operating there and, according to experts, is driving digital unbundling from other countries. For German…
Japan launches its first own model
Tokyo Quantum computers are considered to be the next big breakthrough: they can solve computing problems in seconds that traditional computers would take years to solve. Until now, it seemed…
Japan launches its first own model
Tokyo Quantum computers are considered to be the next big breakthrough: they can solve computing problems in seconds that traditional computers would take years to solve. Until now, it seemed…
What the economy misses in the digital strategy of the traffic light
Fiber optic expansion in Lower Saxony Goals of the previous government that were not implemented. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The federal government’s new digital strategy is worrying the economy. Start-up representatives…