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Billions for Europe's chip industry

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

The chip industry in Germany and Europe is apparently facing a wave of investment worth billions. After bottlenecks in the supply of memory and control components to the automotive industry became so severe that customers such as Volkswagen had great difficulty sourcingparts of their production, numerous semiconductor manufacturers are now upgrading in this country as well. In the process, they hope for massive aid from the state. German Economics Minister Peter Altmaier was quoted on Wednesday...

German Pandemic response creates record public debt

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

The poor financial handling of the pandemic has caused German public debt to reach record levels, with the highest absolute increase at the state level in North Rhine-Westphalia. The claim is that public debt in Germany has risen to record levels due to Corona costs. The federal government, states, municipalities and social security, including all extra budgets, were 2195.1 billion euros in debt at the end of September, according to the Federal Statistical Office. That is 15.6 percent, or...

Alemania necesita ingenieros

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

Las perspectivas del mercado laboral hacen de Alemania un lugar muy atractivo. En la actualidad, la inmigración a Alemania sigue incrementándose. Para determinados sectores es de especial importante reclutar a personas que posean una cualificación profesional específica. Sobre todo en las profesiones del sector de la salud, la ingeniería, las IT, así como también en muchas otras profesiones de tipo técnico-industrial, las oportunidades que ofrece el mercado laboral alemán siguen...

Guard Your Eyes Jealously

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

In August 2017, it happened that I met my pre-primary school teacher deep down in my cradle village in central Uganda. Unfortunately, my teacher has a very big problem with his eyes that he can no longer notice me at a distance. Upon a lengthy conversation the debate ensued on which is more important between the 'eyes' and the 'ears'. I tried to convince him that both are important, but he told me with a passion that the eyes are a meaning of life! He cited many things that the eyes can see but...

Accelerate your goals for 2018

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

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You may have noticed that certain people appear to be motivated and engaged in achieving an aspirational purpose or personal goal. It's a very common observation that successful businesses have as a foundation not only a master plan and clear objectives, but also, they have behind curtains leaders with a higher purpose vision. These are people driven by...

SEO Tips 2018

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

Ranking high is very important in digital marketing. It allows you can stay relevant and gain competitive advantage. SEO has become increasingly essential for businesses and bloggers in an attempt to drive more traffic towards their sites. Most websites are using aggressive SEO strategies. Here are SEO tips that can help you to rank higher in 2018. Optimize for voice search
More people are now using voice search meaning that you must dedicate yourself to optimizing your sites for voice search....

German Engineering Skill Shortage Hits Hard

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

Currently the situation on the German labor market is eminently good. The unemployment rate is dropping and the number of employed people is more than 44 Million and at a record level. But the latest study presented by the German federal government shows that this situation is likely to change significantly within the next 10 - 20 years. By 2030 almost 3 Million skilled workers could be missing in different branches according to the estimations the Swiss research institute Prognos has...

Gennadiy Butkevych's ATB Discount Store Competes with Eastern European Retailers

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

European Ambitions of Ukrainian Business: "ATB" Discount Store of Gennadiy Butkevych Will Compete with Eastern European Retailers? The largest Ukrainian discount store--the retail network ATB-market--will have more than 1000 supermarkets in Ukraine by 2020 and will be able to challenge the largest players of national retail by annual turnover. This announcement was made this year by the management of the ATB corporation headed by Gennadiy Butkevych. Based on the results the company has been...

Who Needs Engineers? Germany Does!

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

Germany enjoys one of the highest standards of living in the world, with its cities consistently ranking highly in various related indices such as the Mercer Quality of Living City Rankings. But all is not as it seems. With a declining population and stiff economic competition from China, Russia and the BRIC countries, Germany needs to stay ahead of the pack if its citizens wish to continue enjoying the high quality of life they have grown accustomed to.

One relevant area which the country has...

Will Brexit's Impact on the UK Casino Industry Affect Europe

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

On 29 March 2017, British Prime Minister Theresa May, invoked an article of the Treaty on the European Union in the process formally beginning the much dreaded UK divorce from the European Union. This, as you can imagine, is a huge step and the repercussions of such will no doubt be huge. There are already many changes that have occurred in the iGaming world as a result of Brexit in the UK, though most of them at this time, is a result of damage limitations by companies as the true effects are...

Apple Hopes to Address Missteps With New iPhone

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

The fall of 2017 is going to be a big season in in the world of smartphones. Both of the major companies have new devices set to hit the market, but most eyes are glued to the forthcoming Apple product. The iPhone 8 will boast some of the biggest changes to Apple's flagship mobile device in some time. It will mark the 10th anniversary of the iPhone and the company is expected to pull out all the stops to honor the occasion.

The iPhone 7 seemed to offer only incremental improvements over its...

English Garden Reunited

April 22, 2025 • 09:00 AM

Munich's city council has unanimously approved the concept for a tunnel which is to reunite the southern and northern part of English garden.

Since the 1960's the park has been divided into two parts by the Isarring, which is considered by some to be one of Munich's worst sins in urban planning to this very day. Therefore the tunnel construction would hit two birds with one stone: the park would be reunited, and at the same time a considerable traffic problem would be solved

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