Green energy: Apple continues to expand projects in Europe

Green energy: Apple continues to expand projects in Europe

Apple has announced the expansion of several green electricity projects within the European Union. The group wants to acquire energy from Poland, Latvia, Spain, Italy, Romania and Greece from “large-scale solar and wind farms” that are currently under construction. A total of 650 megawatts of additional capacity is to be fed into European power grids. … Read more

WhatsApp competitor Signal threatens to withdraw from Europe

WhatsApp competitor Signal threatens to withdraw from Europe

The head of the signal app criticized plans in the EU that Messenger back doors should have to enable the automatic search for criminal content. “If we were given the choice of either the integrity of our encryption and our data protection guarantees or leaving Europe, we would unfortunately make the decision to leave the … Read more

Apple’s fight against the SIM slot: Europe is still left out of the iPhone 17

Apple's fight against the SIM slot: Europe is still left out of the iPhone 17

In the meantime, it saw the physical SIM card finally buried in its iPhones, as was previously carried out by the iPhone 16 in the USA. But then it turned out differently: Depending on the market, all three iPhone-17 models will stay the same as before, i.e. ESIM Plus SIM slot. Europe is one of … Read more

Fraud with Apple voucher cards: gangs from China in Northern Europe

Fraud with Apple voucher cards: gangs from China in Northern Europe

A According to the Norwegian broadcaster NRK were convicted in the country several Chinese citizens who have acquired numerous Apple voucher cards with stolen credit cards. These seem to be organized gangs that are equipped with lists of supermarkets in smaller and larger Norwegian locations. You move from business to shop and then acquire the … Read more

Japan: Regulator is targeting App Store – as in Europe

Japan: Regulator is targeting App Store - as in Europe

Maybe soon no longer “Big in Japan”: Apple’s App Store could now also lose market shares in competitive marketplaces in the country of the rising sun. The local authority Japan Fair Trade Commission, which is committed to free trade in the country, has decided, similar to the EU Commission (as part of its digital markets … Read more

Spotify allegedly plans price increases in summer – also in Europe

Spotify allegedly plans price increases in summer - also in Europe

Like the business newspaper Financial Times has learned to raise Spotify, to raise the subscription prices in many countries during the summer. In addition, the company is considering introducing a “super premium” tariff with new conditions and higher audio quality. Spotify: Price increases in Europe allegedly in June According to insiders, the group plans to … Read more

Vodafone and Auts want to dig up Starlink in Europe

Vodafone and Auts want to dig up Starlink in Europe

The British group Vodafone Group PLC and the Texas satellite operator AST Spacemobile want to found a common European satellite provider and offer its services of European mobile network operators (MNOS). European MNOs could then book satellite and network capacities from ASTS and Vodafone via the SATCO to supply their own customers by satellite, i.e. … Read more

Apple TV+: More content from Europe, including a hospital show from Berlin

Apple TV+: More content from Europe, including a hospital show from Berlin

Content from Germany and other world regions instead of just US content: Apple is increasingly relating to such series and films at its streaming service TV+. The reason is the demand from the customer: Netflix, even at Netflix, is not increasingly in demand from America. So should now A third of all views from the … Read more