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.
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AI-native startups are rewriting the rules of company building, according to AWS Startups' independent global study of more than 3,400 startup founders and senior leaders across 20 countries in four continents.
Anthropic resumed the rollout of its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models that fell under export controls imposed earlier this month over cybersecurity concerns.
Croatian drone specialist Orqa has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Canadian company Remote Robotic Systems (RRS).
Beyond Now, a fast-growing AI-first ecosystem orchestration and digital platform provider, announced the next phase of its work with Hrvatski Telekom.
Starting from yesterday, July 1, the EU abolished the customs duty exemption for e-commerce packages worth less than €150.
Siemens is investing €300 million to significantly expand the production of key technologies for the global energy transition and for AI data centers.
Romanian operator group Digi Communications plans to float its Spanish business to fund network expansion while retaining control of the subsidiary.
The global Foundry 2.0 market revenue climbed 23% YoY in 1Q26 to reach $86 billion, according to Counterpoint Research.
WhatsApp is preparing to strengthen user privacy by allowing users to connect without sharing their phone numbers.
A new study from Juniper Research has found that the value of person-to-person (P2P) stablecoin remittances is expected to grow from $860 million in 2026 to $155 billion by 2035.
Anthropic accused Alibaba of gaining illicit access to its Claude AI model.
As geopolitical tensions mount and AI reshapes the digital landscape, governments worldwide face an urgent new reality: true national sovereignty now depends as much on controlling digital infrastructure as it does on physical borders, according to GlobalData.
Apple announced a 20% price hike on its MacBook and iPad lines, but it stopped short of any increases for the iPhone.
Global online video subscriptions reached 2.24 billion at the end of 2025, up 17.6% year on year from 1.9 billion in 2024, according to Omdia.
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.
Infobip has partnered with Floward, the online flower and gifting company covering the Middle East and the UK, to transform customer service using AI agents on Infobip’s AgentOS platform.
Samsung is planning to invest KRW100 trillion ($646 billion) in its home market of South Korea over the next decade.
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.