Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Re:Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession by mtgx on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:39AM (#10490714)

> By many measures, the UK is ahead of the others in terms of its digital foundations and sophistication; for example, the proportion of retail in the U.K. penetrated by B2C e-commerce is nearly twice the European average and higher than even in the U.S.

UK has been doing well compared to others mainly because it's a fully English speaking country and the US already has a history with UK (sort of speak).

It's natural for US companies to establish headquarters in "Europe" in UK first, before any other country. Personally, I do hope US companies consider countries where leadership doesn't favor so strongly mass surveillance and censorship, but either way it has little to do with policies and laws. The language barrier is a huge problem for an "EU single market". As the young generations grow-up with the English-speaking Internet, it will be less of a problem, but right now the language barrier is very much real.

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Re:Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession by dublinclontarf on Monday November 02, 2015 @04:51AM (#10490916)

Ireland?

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Re:Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession by kuschku on Monday November 02, 2015 @04:33AM (#10490867)

And even in Germany, for the first time ever, the IT business is the largest business. Car manufacturing is down to #2.

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Re:Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession by _up on Monday November 02, 2015 @04:52AM (#10490918)

How do they get the numbers. Are Banks that offer online Banking IT businesses? And everyone with a commercial website too?

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Re:Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession by kuschku on Monday November 02, 2015 @05:07AM (#10490954)

No, they especially do not count stuff like online banking, but companies that directly sell or provide IT solutions, including software vendors, SaaS companies, Hosters, Internet Exchanges, etc.

This includes T-Systems, SAP, Hetzner, DE-CIX, etc.

I do not know if they counted smaller startups like Soundcloud.

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Re:Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession by germanier on Monday November 02, 2015 @05:09AM (#10490961)

Could you provide a link (German is fine)? I couldn't find something like that in the few minutes I searched.

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Re:Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession by kuschku on Monday November 02, 2015 @07:13AM (#10491429)

It was something one of my professors showed in a lecture, and I can't find it right now on mobile (especially as I am busy printing a letter, buying stamps, etc to send the livecoding guys a C&D), but you might find some numbers on the BitKom site.

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