Google Pay and Apple Pay: Pay with the smartphone contactless. (Photo: Shutterstock) Only five percent of Germans paid with their smartphones last year. A study shows that there are reservations not only in Germany. In Germany, according to a new consumer study, there are particularly great reservations about paying by mobile phone. According to the survey of […]

News Article. In the long term, airlines have been using e-planes or synthetic kerosene to become more sustainable. The Greens welcome that and an aviation expert sees opportunities Battery and hybrid drives as well as renewable fuels should make flying more climate-friendly. In the current climate debate, there are many content-related points of interest, the pricing of […]

Insight. The Christchurch and Halle attacks have parallels: the assassins streamed their deeds live – and the platforms failed to stop the video. The assassin of Halle filmed his attack – and all could watch live. Again, an assassin uses livestreaming to make his madness act public at the moment, again filter mechanisms fail the major Internet companies . In the […]

By systematically distorting the images we see and create, A.I. is shifting perceptions and ultimately changing our relationship with the physical world Credit: The Washington Post/Getty Images Earlier this year, I hiked with my family to Claigan Coral Beach on the outer edge of the Isle of Skye in Scotland. We wanted to see the […]

Price range values TeamViewer at up to 5.5 billion euros TeamViewer’s stock is set to start trading on Sept. 25 Germany will finally get another major listed tech company when software maker TeamViewer AG completes a 2.3 billion-euro ($2.5 billion) initial public offering this month — the biggest in the industry in almost two decades. […]

Hikvision, the world’s leading supplier of innovative video surveillance products and solutions, signed a deal with the protective intelligence company, Scylla Technologies Inc., to explore opportunities for AI technology collaborations. Scylla is an AI technology provider in the security and surveillance industry who specializes in preventive threat detection (PTD), vehicle identification and tracking (VIT), and […]

Technical paper. China offers German companies access to a mass market. But there are more reasons why the country is exciting for startups. Shanghai is a longing goal of many, including some German founders. A guest post by Jelte Ansgar Wingender, he works for the incubator Innoway in Beijing and manages the China program of the startup […]

N26, Smava, Auto1: These are the 50 biggest tech startups from Germany Many young tech startups rely on Artificial Intelligence.Matt Cardy / Getty Images As emerges from the current report of the consulting firm Ernst & Young (EY) “Fast growth beyond borders: Tech start-ups reshaping the economy”, the tech start-up scene in Germany is booming. The young […]

Scandals on Facebook, Google, Uber & Co. are increasingly ensuring that people have less confidence in the big information technology companies. Banker as a swear word, hedge fund manager as a grasshopper: banks and financial groups have a notoriously bad image ever since the financial crisis of 2008 – and were in the media and […]

On September 14, the PSD2 comes into force. What fintechs need to know about the new payment services policy in order to benefit sustainably. Was it the supremacy of the banks? In September 2019, a new era in the banking business begins: The second Payment Service Directive, PSD2 for short , comes into force and thus sets in motion […]