European Tech Creators Issue Wake-Up Call on Digital Competitiveness
CEOs from several major European technology creators issued a wake-up call for stakeholders to collectively scale the continent’s technology, industry, and AI competitiveness.

CEOs from several major European technology creators issued a wake-up call for stakeholders to collectively scale the continent’s technology, industry, and AI competitiveness.
In its fiscal second quarter, Apple reported revenue of $111.1 billion, up 17% year over year, and above analyst expectations of $109.6 billion.
TV Operating Systems that did not exist in 2022 are forecast to control 30% of the European TV operating system market by 2030, up from 21% in 2025, according to Omdia.
OpenAI missed its revenue and user growth targets, according to media reports.
Only one out of every five data and analytics (D&A) or AI leaders is concerned that uncertain costs will limit AI value, according to Gartner.
Samsung’s semiconductor business was behind record quarterly revenue and profit in the opening three months.
Gartner predicts that by 2028, misconfigured AI in cyber-physical systems (CPS) will shut down national critical infrastructure in a G20 country.
Chinese tech companies, including ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba, are racing to secure AI chips from Huawei after a spike in demand driven by the release of DeepSeek’s latest V4 AI model.
A new study by Juniper Research has found that agentic commerce spending will reach $1.5 trillion in 2030.
Meta Platforms posted a milestone quarter, as revenue climbed 33% year-on-year to $56.3 billion in 1Q26.
Global traditional TV and online video revenues are projected to exceed $1 trillion by 2030, according to Omdia.
Märtha Rehnberg, futurist, entrepreneur, and policy advocate, argues that the technology sector is still asking the wrong opening question. Instead of focusing first on products, market fit, and operational efficiency, she believes innovation should begin with a far more fundamental debate: what kind of people we want to become, and what kind of society technology is meant to build. In her view, business transformation cannot be reduced to digital upgrades or smarter deployment of tools. It has to start with a deeper human, philosophical, and strategic reset.
The European Commission has found that Meta Platforms breached the Digital Services Act (DSA). The preliminary ruling claims that the company failed to prevent children aged under 13 years from accessing Instagram and Facebook.
Telefónica España has signed a collaboration agreement with Sateliot to apply 5G NR (New Radio) technology in the space domain.
Global wearable device shipments climbed past 200 million units in 2025, growing 6% year on year, according to Omdia.
IT giants, Meta Platforms and Microsoft, have both decided to cut their workforces.
Global trade can no longer be understood through the old formula in which the world simply became more integrated while cost remained the dominant organising principle.
More than 560 Google employees signed an open letter to CEO Sundar Pichai, urging him to reject classified military contracts for the company’s AI technology.
According to new research from Juniper Research, the value of B2B card payments will rise from $5.9 trillion in 2026 to $10.9 trillion in 2030.
The Chinese National Development and Reform Commission told Meta Platforms to cancel its $2 billion acquisition of agentic AI specialist Manus.