According to two sources close to the matter at hand, telecom operators Orange Belgium and Proximus plan on replacing Huawei’s mobile equipment in Belgium and Luxembourg with Nokia equivalent. The development comes with growing recognition of U.S. accusations that Huawei’s telecom gear could be used for economic and military espionage purposes by Beijing. Both Nokia…
France has accused the United States of trying to undermine international negotiations on updating the cross-border taxation regime; Paris has urged the EU to prepare for an EU tax as a fallback option if negotiations fails. Nearly 140 countries are negotiating the first major rewrite of the international tax framework to account for the rise…
In a significant development, Estonia’s parliament has approved a new law – Electronics Communications Act – to ensure that proper security reviews are undertaken for the installation of telecom equipment for future communication networks. The law, which lawmakers dubbed the “Huawei law” in reference to the Chinese telecommunications company, leaves the details of implementation to…
The European Union has scrapped the likelihood of a ban on facial recognition technology in public spaces. In 2019, in a draft the European Commission had proposed the idea of a moratorium of up to five years to give the EU time to work on ways to prevent abuses of this technology. The pros and…
Data from the European Commission’s website shows that U.S. chipmaker Nvidia did not offer any concessions to EU antitrust regulators who are examining its $6.8 billion bid to acquire Mellanox Technologies. The European Commission is set to take a decision on Nvidia’s biggest-ever acquisition by December 19. It is to be seen whether the EC…
In a statement, the European Commission said, it is investigating how Facebook collects and monetizes its data. The development signals the opening of a second front, on top of an existing investigation, into Facebook’s marketplace. As part of preliminary investigations into both Facebook and Google, the EU executive said, it had sent out questionnaires to…
According to the results of a survey by a subsidiary of courier giant DHL, despite the U.S.-China trade war rolling onto its 16th month and continuing to disrupt well established supply chains, more than a quarter of multinational firms have yet to make contingency plans. The survey by DHL Resilience360, a supply chain risk management…
A British trade body has warned that the country’s annual car production is likely to drop by a third to 1 million by 2024 if Brexit leads to tariffs with the European Union; the output will be lost to other nations. Britons are staring at an elections in just over two weeks with Prime Minister…
In a statement, Chinese electric vehicle startup Byton said, it has received a distributor license from California which paves the way for the launch of its first electric SUV vehicle, Byton M-Byte, in the United States. Byton aims to launch its first electric SUV in China in 2020; it plans on launching its electric vehicles…
Servers of Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency (NRA) have been targeted. The Bulgarians realized it only after a purported hackers, claiming to be Russian, sent an e-mail to the local media, with the aim of selling the stolen data. On Tuesday, in a significant development, the Bulgarian government stated, hackers have managed to steal the personal…
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