Life in some European cities may soon look like this: Staggered electricity outages to save energy. Temporary cuts in mobile phone and internet service. Schools closed for a lack of […]
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Back to news homeHuman Impact Capital is a new $50M fund investing in social impact startups
Redstone and EnjoyVenture have combined forces to create Human Impact Capital (HIC), Germany’s first dedicated scial impact VC fund. The fund will deploy cash into digital business models focusing on […]
Can This Man Solve Europe’s Energy Conundrum?
Marco Alverà has big plans to produce a “green gas” from hydrogen that uses existing infrastructure. Read More
Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door
When the police pounded the door before dawn at a home in northwest Germany, a bleary-eyed young man in his boxer shorts answered. The officers asked for his father, who […]
Shock Waves Hit the Global Economy, Posing Grave Risk to Europe
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the continuing effects of the pandemic have hobbled countries around the globe, but the relentless series of crises has hit Europe the hardest, causing the […]
How Russian Natural Gas Exports to Europe Have Changed Since the War
Since fighting broke out in Ukraine nearly seven months ago, Russia and Europe have been waging an economic war over energy, one that could have dire consequences for millions of […]
Russia Says the Gas Pipeline to Germany Will Remain Closed
Gazprom said on Friday that it would postpone restarting the flow of natural gas through a closely watched pipeline that connects Russia and Germany, an unexpected delay that appeared to […]
How German Companies Are Staring Down Putin’s Threat to Cut Off Gas
In the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, German lawmakers cautiously proposed ways to cut their country’s ties to Russian natural gas. The heads of some of Germany’s leading industrial companies, […]
Drop’s DCX keycaps give your old keyboard a new lease on life
Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the keycaps on their keyboards. Chances are, they are white with black text or black with white text and that’s […]
Moderna Sues Pfizer and BioNTech Over Covid Vaccine
The vaccine manufacturer Moderna sued Pfizer and BioNTech on Friday, claiming that its rivals’ Covid-19 shot violates its patents protecting its groundbreaking technology.Moderna said in a statement that Pfizer and […]