Thought Leadership
Malfunction
The investment app Trade Republic is struggling with significant outages for the second time in just a few days.
Israel protest
Microsoft has fired two employees after they disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebrations with protests against military cooperation with Israel.
20 years invested in China
Apple has lost the title of the most valuable company on the stock market because investors fear the consequences for the iPhone company of the China tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.
Efficiency strategy
The Canadian e-commerce specialist Shopify is taking an unusual approach to personnel planning under the leadership of CEO Tobi Lütke.
Purchase price: 2.5 billion dollars
The investment is primarily intended to strengthen the semiconductor company’s automotive business. And Infineon boss Hanebeck is enthusiastic about humanoid robots.
Non-compete clauses
Google is apparently taking unusual measures to keep top employees in the highly competitive AI market away from the competition. As Business Insider reports, the company is imposing “aggressive” non-compete clauses on selected employees from its AI division DeepMind.
Car rental company is being blackmailed
The Europcar Mobility Group has been the victim of a targeted cyber attack. Unknown persons gained access to the international car rental company’s GitLab repositories and captured both the source code of the mobile applications and customer data.
Threat defense
Google has unveiled an experimental AI model called Sec-Gemini v1, designed specifically to support incident response and threat analysis workflows from its Mandiant division.
First estimate
Samsung Electronics’ latest business figures have significantly exceeded market expectations. The South Korean electronics giant is forecasting an operating profit of 6.6 trillion won (approx. 4.1 billion euros) for the months of January to March.
For highly sensitive sensors
Navigation, medicine, mining: new sensors can measure the smallest magnetic fields. The technology group Bosch sees a potential worth billions in this area – and is joining forces with a partner.