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Re:Lidl’s parent company launches cloud unit to offer ‘Made ... by est31 on Saturday June 04, 2022 @09:52AM (#31620332)
> Nothing with worldwide relevance in the software, AI nor cloud space came out of Germany / the EU within in the last decades.

Let me list some:

* Teamviewer: used to be more famous in the past but it is still a known brand to people world wide

* Cherry: more of a hardware thing, but they are known world-wide for their MX switches

* Deepl: a xoogler founded startup that is better than Google translate

* Soundcloud: well known all over the world, was founded in Berlin

* Suse: founded in the 90s and had steady growth since

* SAP: world leader in ERP software. Seriously people underestimate how well entrenched they are.

In the last two years, three of these companies had IPOs, two of them as unicorns. Sure, its is dwarfed by the US tech Cloud/AI/software sector but there are certainly world wide players from germany in the digital industry.

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Re:Lidl’s parent company launches cloud unit to offer ‘Made ... by karmakaze on Saturday June 04, 2022 @01:42PM (#31623152)
I'm afraid that though I've heard of most of these, this short list reinforces rather than refutes the claim by covering such wide ranges of area and time period.
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Re:Lidl’s parent company launches cloud unit to offer ‘Made ... by ushakov on Saturday June 04, 2022 @11:50AM (#31621785)
these are exceptions

US produces more unicorns per year that Germany managed in 20 years

https://news.crunchbase.com/unicorn-company-list/

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Re:Lidl’s parent company launches cloud unit to offer ‘Made ... by est31 on Saturday June 04, 2022 @01:37PM (#31623092)
Germany is #5 on your provided link if you click on "Countries with most current unicorns". But yes, the USA has 20 times the number of unicorns, and I've said that the german tech industry is dwarved by the US one. More than half the unicorns on that website are in the USA (665 in the USA, 1328 - 665 = 663 outside). My point was that Germany definitely had some world known brands in software, it's more than zero.
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Re:Lidl’s parent company launches cloud unit to offer ‘Made ... by fomine3 on Sunday June 05, 2022 @09:33PM (#31636527)
The US is exceptional.
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Re:Lidl’s parent company launches cloud unit to offer ‘Made ... by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @06:12AM (#31652053)
To be fair, apart from SAP, none of those are hugely profitable or hiring like crazy.
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