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Alibaba's Accio AI Search Engine Hits 500,000 SME User Milestone
Miami Times - Florida
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January 6, 2025
Empowers SMEs worldwide to navigate global sourcing with ease NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Alibaba International proudly announces that its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered business-to-business (B2B) search engine for product...
Musk's big bet: Could Germans kick out their liberal elites?
Big News Network
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Berlin's political earthquake sends shockwaves across Europe Donald Trump will soon return to the White House, and Elon Musk - the tech billionaire and serial disruptor - regularly weighs in on European politics from across the Atlantic....
How one small CT business is bracing for tariff impact
WSHU Public Radio - Connecticut
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With tariff news swirling, one small business in Litchfield, Connecticut, is prepared to pivot to serve its community. WSHU’s Molly Ingram spoke with CT Mirror’s Jan Ellen Spiegel to discuss her article, “For CT small business, Trump’s tariffs...
Germany: Labor minister calls for higher minimum wage
Deutsche Welle
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September 9, 2024
Germany's Federal Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil said on Monday that a significant increase of the national minimum wage is necessary to keep up with the rising cost of living. A member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD), Heil...
EU tolerance of French air traffic control strikes is unacceptable
The Times
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Summer has landed. So what better time to spend hours at an airport, waiting to take off? Or, better still, find your holiday flight’s been cancelled — and all because of those French air traffic controllers, who are once again on strike. It’s...
Tariffs at 30 Percent Would Be a Tipping Point for European Furniture- and Lighting-makers
WWD - New York
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July 17, 2025
MILAN — Will a tariff-for-tariff battle play out on both sides of the Atlantic or will the EU be able to broker a deal and avert crisis? That is top of mind for Italian furniture and home industry leaders, as a 30 percent duty on exports as early...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining momentum in Germany
Famagusta Gazette
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December 22, 2024
Posted on December 22, 2024 The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining momentum in Germany, with 20 percent of companies now incorporating the technology — a notable increase from 12 percent in 2022 and 11 percent in 2021. Large companies...
CwA generates over 190 billion dollars for Africa’s economy
SABC News
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July 17, 2025
Finance Minister Enoch Godogwana says the Compact with Africa initiative, which was launched in 2017 under the chairmanship of South Africa, has grown into a dynamic initiative that has mobilised over 191 million US dollars in private capital....
Germany’s Far Right Is Exploiting a Broken Economic Model
Jacobin
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Germany, 2000s: a country in crisis, internationally known as the “sick man of Europe.” The economy was stagnating, while unemployment was climbing beyond 10 percent. Amid this situation, the government led by a coalition of Social Democrats (SPD)...
Dexit? Far-right AfD wants Germany to leave the EU
Deutsche Welle
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December 18, 2024
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has doubled down on its pledge to take Germany out of the European Union and the single currency, the Euro, if it gained power. In a draft election manifesto sent to its members ahead of a vote in the...
Germany Sees Record Number Of Foreign Work Qualification Recognitions
Forbes
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The banking district of Frankfurt am Main, October 4, 2023. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) ... [+] (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images The German statistics office has said the country saw a marked increase...
Floating Wind Turbine Market: Deep-Sea Energy Europe Dominate By Denmark, UK, Norway, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany
MENAFN
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December 23, 2024
(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) Global Floating Wind Turbine market projected to grow at a CAGR of 32.5% from 2020 to 2027. Surge in demand for renewable sources, high-capacity factor of floating wind turbines and substantial government policies promoting...
QUOTES-Economists on German parties’ election programmes
KFGO - North Dakota
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December 17, 2024
BERLIN (Reuters) -Germans are preparing to go to the polls on Feb. 23 after Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote, and their emphasis will be on the parties’ proposed solutions for the stuttering economy. The election catches Germany at a...
BEFuture launches €2.4m call to boost SME innovation in business events sector
Conference & Meetings World
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December 23, 2024
BEFuture, an initiative co-financed by the Single Market EU Programme (SMP), dedicated to shaping the future of Europe’s business event sector, has launched a €2.4m call for innovative SME-driven projects under its Acceleration Programme. The...
YMCA Launches Phase II of Youth Livelihood and Employment Project in Sierra Leone
Sierraloaded
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July 17, 2025
The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Sierra Leone on Wednesday officially launched Phase II of its Youth Livelihood and Employment Project at a high-level workshop held at the Council of Churches in Sierra Leone (CCSL) Hall, Kingharman...
Berlin-based CarOnSale raises €70 million to develop their used car platform
EU Startups
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July 7, 2025
German CarOnSale, a digital B2B marketplace for used car trading, has successfully closed a €70 million Series C round to expand across European markets, with the target to scale toward annual sales of 1 million used cars through their platform....
Keir Starmer refuses to say whether punishing rebel Labour MPs ‘makes him look weak’
GB News
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July 17, 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has defended his decision to suspend four Labour MPs for "persistent breaches of party discipline", dismissing suggestions the move makes him appear weak. The suspensions follow what has been described as the...
Banga: Africa will have the largest workforce in the world
CNBC Africa
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July 17, 2025
In a pivotal address at the G20 Compact with Africa side event held in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Ajay Banga, the President of the World Bank, painted a transformative picture of Africa’s potential to shape the future of the global economy....
Tuscaloosa Academy’s annual Christmas German Market promotes local shopping
WVUA 23 - Alabama
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December 16, 2024
By WVUA 23 News Reporter Madison Brainerd The community shopped local as over 40 vendors from across Tuscaloosa filled the halls and gym of Tuscaloosa Academy for the annual Christmas German Market. Shopper Gina Yoder said people who went to the...
From funeral home director to general store owner: Kim Manchego finds new career in Germania
Free Press Courier - Pennsylvania
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In rural Potter County, a newly-renovated general store is quickly becoming the heart of the community. What makes this store unique isn’t just the locally sourced products or grocery items lining the shelves, it’s the journey of its owner,...