The Swedish startup has announced the German automaker will invest heavily in two new battery plants. The factories, located in Sweden and Germany, are intended to compete with Tesla and Asian suppliers. Northvolt, a Swedish...
The American aircraft maker has launched its Ampaire 337, the largest hybrid-electric aircraft ever flown. With commercial use beckoning for 2021, it’s a step in the direction of reducing carbon footprints in the sky. Los...
Female business founders are still the exception to the rule in Europe’s business landscape. Only 15.6% of the continent’s startup founders are women. But there are enough examples that things are changing. It was a...
E-commerce giant Jumia is expected to raise millions in its IPO as it becomes Africa’s first tech startup to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Will its Wall Street debut mark a new...
A floating photovoltaic power plant at the Kruonis hydroelectric facility in Lithuania is the first of its kind in the Baltic region. The market is growing worldwide, and smaller countries like Lithuania can benefit. The Lithuanian Business...
The German car giant has signed a multiyear agreement with Amazon Web Services to build the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud. DW takes a look at what VW’s cloud-based digital production platform aims to achieve. When Volkswagen...
For anyone who relies heavily on a car to get around, the idea of parking up for good might sound like an impossibility. But Andreas Knie, a researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, firmly believes digitization will...
Huawei’s new foldable phone is 5G-compatible and comes with an even heftier price tag than Samsung’s flexible device. So the question is whether or not there’s anything worthwhile beneath the fold. Kate Ferguson reports....
Although it’s a topic of debate in the business world today, there’s still no clear consensus on whether “Blockchain” is just a buzz word which will soon fizzle away or is it something that has...
The founder of Huawei has dismissed claims his company spies for the Chinese government and said that the world cannot do without his company’s “more advanced” technology. The founder of Huawei on Monday claimed there...
CEO Elon Musk said that the electric car maker plans to cut roughly 3,000 jobs, prompting another sharp dip in share prices. Tesla is struggling in the US as the government rolls back a tax...
Space in Copenhagen is limited, so the Danish government wants to reclaim land from the sea around the capital city. The head of the country’s employers’ association says it could help create a “European Silicon...
