IFA Kick-Off 2026: Strong Start to the Season
With the IFA Kick-Off event, IFA Berlin officially started the new trade fair season.

With the IFA Kick-Off event, IFA Berlin officially started the new trade fair season.
Siemens is investing €300 million to significantly expand the production of key technologies for the global energy transition and for AI data centers.
Starting from yesterday, July 1, the EU abolished the customs duty exemption for e-commerce packages worth less than €150.
Croatian drone specialist Orqa has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Canadian company Remote Robotic Systems (RRS).
Romanian operator group Digi Communications plans to float its Spanish business to fund network expansion while retaining control of the subsidiary.
Apple announced a 20% price hike on its MacBook and iPad lines, but it stopped short of any increases for the iPhone.
Anthropic accused Alibaba of gaining illicit access to its Claude AI model.
Huawei announced that its patent licensing royalty rate for Wi‑Fi 7 technologies would be set at $0.5 per unit for Wi‑Fi 7-compliant devices.
Samsung is planning to invest KRW100 trillion ($646 billion) in its home market of South Korea over the next decade.
The European Commission has informed Amazon and Microsoft of its preliminary view that they should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for their cloud computing services.
Orange is determined to drive the commercial growth of French startups.
The Five Eyes intelligence agency called for urgent action to respond to the evolving AI landscape.
Nokia and Lenovo agreed on another multi-year patent cross-licensing deal.
Infobip announced a partnership with Digitas, the Marketing Transformation arm of the Publicis Groupe.
Meta Platforms launched a set of lower-priced smart glasses models under its own brand name for the first time.
Infobip has been ranked in the top 25 of Fortune’s Europe’s Most Innovative Companies 2026, marking a strong rise on this year’s list.
Competition Appeal Tribunal in the UK has approved a £3 billion class action lawsuit against Apple over its iCloud service.
Leaders of AI companies, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, lobbied for a US-led coalition to shape global AI rules.
The European Union signed a digital partnership with Brazil to strengthen ties on shared technology priorities.
Less than three years after the initial rollout, Meta Platforms’ Threads has reached 500 million monthly active users.