2025-11-15
Merz pledges to exclude Chinese vendors in 10 years when he is probably no longer in charge and no one remember this statement. And Germany will have 10 years to go back and forth on decision until then. What a non-event. The ball is still in play on rumoured rip/replace.
Politico
Germany approves legislation granting Interior Ministry new powers to ban Chinese tech suppliers from critical infrastructure sectors like energy and transport
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2025-11-07
Another example of Europeans escalating without understanding the consequences.
Bloomberg
Sources: the Netherlands is prepared to drop the ministerial order that gave it control of Nexperia if China allows exports of its critical chips again
The Netherlands is prepared to suspend its powers over Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in a move that would de-escalate a fight …
2023-05-17
China considers all components and software (not just the data) relating to geospatial information to be sensitive. Not even foreign hardware (GPS modules and 4/5G modems) are allowed to be used. An ever green trade complaint, though it may seem China watchers found it yet. https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: Volkswagen held talks to use Huawei software in its cars in China, after its software unit Cariad missed its development goals and exceeded its budget
Turmoil at German carmaker's in-house software arm threatens to affect market share — Volkswagen has held talks …
2022-08-30
Rather excessive takedown by FT on Rakuten's mobile business. Poster child for Japanese gov promotion of #OpenRan “.. has blown up the company and now they're being forced to sell off the good bits to feed this giant sinkhole of debt”. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Rakuten founder Hiroshi Mikitani, whose mobile business is bleeding cash, defends his reputation with investors ahead of a planned IPO of Rakuten's online bank
Financial Times : Tweets: @leemakiyama , @gearoidreidy , @ugalani , @sugiuraeri , @leemakiyama , and @gearoidreidy Tweets: Hosuk Lee-Makiyama / @leemakiyama : Rather excessive tak...
Fwiw, if you trawl the Japanese internets for the infamous video of Rakuten CEO with the Ukrainian women, it is even more harmless than the Finnish PM video: No one is calling for cocaine. The only social media influencers with clouded judgement is himself.
Financial Times
Rakuten founder Hiroshi Mikitani, whose mobile business is bleeding cash, defends his reputation with investors ahead of a planned IPO of Rakuten's online bank
Financial Times : Tweets: @leemakiyama , @gearoidreidy , @ugalani , @sugiuraeri , @leemakiyama , and @gearoidreidy Tweets: Hosuk Lee-Makiyama / @leemakiyama : Rather excessive tak...
2022-03-23
US Supreme Court upholds state secret privileges in surveillance investigations. I have always maintained privacy shield is a conflict of ECJ expanding its powers against other EU institutions - and now it's a dispute between two courts. https://twitter.com/...
The Hill
A SCOTUS ruling making it harder for people to pursue surveillance cases will undercut Biden's US-EU Privacy Shield negotiations, unless Congress steps in now
@PatrickCToomey & I explain: https://thehill.com/...
2021-08-20
Biden admin chooses to pursue antitrust cases rather than over-regulating the digital space. There is room for a small reflection here for Europe I think, on the primacy of antitrust for addressing market failures. https://www.wsj.com/...
The Verge
FTC's new suit says Facebook has a monopoly in “US personal social networking services”, distinguishing it from TikTok, and Lina Khan will not recuse herself
Biden admin chooses to pursue antitrust cases rather than over-regulating the digital space. There is room for a small reflection here for Europe I think, on the primacy of antitrust for addressing market failures. https://www.wsj.com/...
CNBC
FTC files a new antitrust complaint against Facebook, after a judge dismissed the first complaint in June; Facebook has until October 4 to respond
This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Tweets: @fbnewsroom : We are reviewing the FTC's amended complaint and will have more to say soon. Lina Khan / @linak...
2019-10-10
As I've always warned: The losers on a digital tax reform are not Silicon Valley, the US or China. It's countries like Sweden, Estonia, Indonesia, Ireland or Japan. Great piece by @ChrisGiles_ https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
OECD countries unveil proposals to tax giant multinationals, especially tech giants, after months of negotiations, cracking down on the use of tax havens
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