International

Early tech adopters are gobbling up smartglasses like Thanksgiving turkey – especially Meta’s new, retro-chic version with a visual display in the lens. But concerns about price, privacy, and the ...

Unprecedented numbers of Americans are expected to hit stores this Black Friday, but they are likely to curtail their spending as they find fewer bargains from tariff-hit retailers. Marking the ...

Spotify will raise its U.S. subscription prices in the first quarter of next year, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing three people familiar with the matter. The Swedish ...

The EIT Innovation Awards 2025 open today at the Budapest Congress Centre, marking the start of a full day dedicated to celebrating Europe’s brightest innovators. The event brings together leading ...

Snap said on Monday it will offer Australians the chance to verify their age with software owned by the country’s banks as the internet platform complies with a teenage ...

New car sales in Europe rose 4.9 per cent in October as electric cars outpaced petrol and diesel registrations, European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association data showed on Tuesday. The European car industry ...

Workers at Zara plan to protest outside stores in seven European countries on Black Friday, a key sales day, to demand a profit-sharing scheme be reinstated, the European Works Council ...

Shein’s move into the flagship BHV in Paris has added political heat to the troubles of department stores, which are facing an existential threat from shoppers’ shift to online ...

Seasonally adjusted production in construction decreased by 0.5 per cent in the euro area in September 2025 compared with August 2025, while it remained stable in the EU, according to Eurostat. In the ...

Researchers are developing reusable and environmentally friendly electronics for the healthcare, consumer and manufacturing sectors, replacing scarce materials with circular alternatives to build a sustainable future. By Michael Allen Europe’...

Market intelligence firm IDC unveiled its top technology predictions for 2026 to 2030 at the IDC FutureScape 2026 event in Singapore earlier this month, outlining how Asia Pacific is shifting from the AI ...

Big tech firms are now locked in what analysts call the next platform war, centred on AI agents and partner ecosystems, according to a piece of analysis from Omdia.  Hyperscalers ...

British house prices in September were 2.6 per cent higher than a year earlier, the smallest annual rise since May and down from an upwardly revised increase of 3.1 per cent in ...

Investors pulled roughly $523 million from BlackRock’s flagship iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT.O) on November 18, according to data from Farside Investors, marking the fund’s largest single-day withdrawal since its ...

Household final consumption expenditure in the EU, when corrected for inflation, grew by 1.5 per cent in 2024 compared with 2023, according to Eurostat. This increase was stronger than in 2023, when the growth ...

Spain’s parliament will investigate Meta for possible privacy violations of its Facebook and Instagram users, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said this week. “In Spain, the law is above ...

The European Commission proposed this week streamlining and easing a slew of tech regulations, including delaying some provisions of its AI Act, in an attempt to cut red tape, head ...

Adobe (ADBE.O) and Qualcomm (QCOM.O) have announced that they are partnering with Humain, the artificial intelligence firm backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, to help the ...

Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced its equities trade tape detailing pre- and post-trade data will be operational by 2027, as it launched a consultation on the design and ...

Inditex, the group behind Zara, Stradivarius, Oysho and Massimo Dutti, closed 136 stores in the first quarter of 2025 as it accelerates a shift towards larger, more technologically advanced outlets.   The move ...

Why the UK Is losing ground By George Ayiomamitis A profound transformation is reshaping the geography of global wealth. The international relocation of high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) — those with over $1 million ...

British manufacturers reported the sharpest fall in output since August 2020 during the three months to the end of November, due to uncertainty ahead of next week’s annual budget, and ...

Nine finalists have been selected for the EIT Awards and will advance to the EIT Innovation Awards event as some of the most promising innovators within the EIT Community, which ...

Russia’s parliament said on Thursday that any seizure of Russian assets by the European Union must be met by legal action against Belgium and securities house Euroclear, and Moscow ...