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Businesses spend $1.5 million on global data protection
January 31st, 2018
Nearly half of global companies are struggling with data protection and privacy issues. Global businesses are having difficulty keeping up with the deluge of new data privacy regulations taking effect around the globe. Nearly one in two organisations (47 ...
Taxation highs and low identified in EU report on policy
January 16th, 2018
The report shows that Ireland is not a high tax country with total tax receipts as a percentage of GDP the lowest in the EU and the Effective Marginal Tax Rates lowest 1/3 in the EU Even with a ...
Facebook has a giant, Europe-sized legal problem
December 28th, 2017
Europe continues to be a giant pain in Facebook’s app. Germany and France this week both hammered Facebook for its data practices, though in different ways. Germany’s competition regulator declared on Monday that Facebook is using its dominance in ...
1 in 6 EU businesses sold on the web in 2016
December 15th, 2017
Last year, 16% of enterprises located in the European Union (EU) and employing at least 10 persons had received orders via a website or via apps. Web sales include both sales to individual consumers and to other enterprises.The share ...
Gas prices rise in freezing Europe
December 13th, 2017
Energy markets were shocked Tuesday by the closure of a pipeline in the North Sea and a major explosion at a facility in Austria that helps move natural gas from Russia. The price of both crude oil and natural ...
Australian Dollar Jumped, Euro Was Steady; Key Financial Events In The Coming Days
December 5th, 2017
The Australian dollar jumped on stronger-than-expected retail sales data and comments on inflation from the central bank. Stocks in Asia traded mixed as investors assessed gains spurred by the passage of the U.S. tax cuts in the Senate that ...
This Is The Most Popular Transport Mode For EU Tourists
November 28th, 2017
Young Europeans are active holidaymakers: 66% of EU residents in the age group 15-34 participated in tourism for personal purposes (excluding business travel) in 2015, compared to 60% of those aged over 35. On average, every young European went ...
Warning Signs About Another Giant Bitcoin Exchange
November 22nd, 2017
As the price of Bitcoin has soared, the virtual currency has edged toward the mainstream. Square, the fast-growing payments company run by the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has begun selling Bitcoins to ordinary consumers, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ...
EU commission wants ‘credible’ tax haven blacklist
November 8th, 2017
The European Commission is demanding that member states reach an agreement on an EU tax haven blacklist, in the wake of media revelations of widespread tax avoidance schemes by the wealthy elite known as the Paradise Papers. Pierre Moscovici, ...
Wall Street’s three major indexes ticked up; Asian shares hit 10-year high
November 1st, 2017
Asian shares hit a 10-year high on Wednesday on the back of solid economic growth globally, while oil prices extended a bull run on hopes that major oil producers will maintain their output cuts. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific ...
