Hexagon AB, the Swedish industrial technology group ($29B market cap, €5.4B revenue), is acquiring Waygate Technologies from Baker Hughes for $1.45 billion in cash. Waygate is the world’s leading non-destructive testing (NDT) company, with ~$630M in re…
Tesla’s long-awaited Full Self-Driving launch in Europe is already running into the same reckoning that blew up in Australia last year: HW3 owners are realizing they paid for something Tesla has now admitted it can’t deliver, and they’re starting to or…
Europe has spent a decade watching American and Chinese companies capture every major technology wave, cloud, mobile, social, AI. Quantum computing may be the exception. A cluster of French startups, backed by €500 million in government funding and und…
Stegra, formerly H2 Green Steel, has agreed in principle on new financing led by a Wallenberg Investments consortium including Temasek and IMAS. Construction at its Boden plant had slowed during months of fundraising. The Wallenbergs will become the …
The Finnish deep tech company, which operates the world’s largest autonomous airship fleet, has closed a Series A led by the NATO Innovation Fund, the Fund’s first investment in a Finnish company. Its airships can cover 30,000 square kilometres from a …
The breach exposed names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and bank account details. No passwords or identity documents were accessed. The Dutch Data Protection Authority has been notified. Basic-Fit operates over 1,300 clubs …
On 19 November 2025, the European Commission published its Digital Omnibus package, a legislative proposal to amend the AI Act, the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, the Data Act, and several cybersecurity frameworks in a single stroke. The word “simplific…
In short: The Dutch vehicle authority RDW approved Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software on 10 April 2026, making the Netherlands the first European country to authorise the system under UN Regulation 171, the EU standard governing driver con…
As the tech conference circuit grows more crowded, one SaaS event is making the opposite pitch: fewer people, fewer sales decks, and a lot less noise. SaaS on the Beach, a curated event for SaaS founders, will return to Barcelona between May 20 and 21 …
In short: Estonia and Belgium are the only two EU member states to have declined the Jutland Declaration, an October 2025 pan-European commitment to restrict children’s access to social media. Estonia’s ministers argue that age-based bans are unenforce…