Skype, Booking.com, SoundCloud, SAP, Autodesk, Nokia in the past :)

Autodesk is an American company based and founded in California

Autodesk is an American company, you're right.

We can also expand the previous list of companies with HelloFresh, TrustPilot, Bolt, Brainly, Shazam

Shazam was founded by an American living in California. It releases first in the UK under a UK business though. I don’t see that as counting

Replace Autodesk with Solidworks

Or Blender.

In the sector of computer chips manufacturing, ASML [0] is a pretty big European tech company.

Also, if we think in term of people instead of companies, many big tech companies have offices in Europe or buy European companies. They employ European people with tech skills and productivity that seem good enough for those tech companies. So we can say that European people also make products that the average person uses often, even though their company is not labeled as European.

Mostly I think that scientific education level is an important factor for jobs in tech companies, and Europe seems to be ok in this area.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding

Bluetooth is an invention of Ericcson a Swedish company. Most of the RFID tokens in use are based on Mifare technology by Phillips (now NXP) a Dutch company. ARM is British. When you pay with Apple / Google Pay you use an European standard: EMV.

If you buy a Western-designed device with microcontrollers in it, they are often made by STMicroelectronics, NXP or Infineon, all European Silicon companies. They are all in the pockets of random people in smartphone form or in their laptops and PCs.

Klarna and Wise are widely used European payment processors. Your car's entertainment system is probably built with Qt which is Finnish. If you used Miro for Kanban stuff you used Dutch software.

Solidworks probably was used to draw most of the devices you use daily, it is French. Your electric car is probably designed in Siemens NX and they made the plug charger for it as well.

One nit to pick — Solidworks is owned by Dassault, a French company, but got its start at MIT and was developed in Massachusetts for many years. I’m not sure where they’re based now, though.

Catia, another Dassault 3D CAD platform that predates Solidworks, is French.

* Logitech (Swiss) devices.

* Ericsson (Swedish) communications, including 5G equipment.

* ARM (UK) processors.

OK these are used by non-so-average people:

* Python (Dutch) programming language. DuckDB (Dutch). Polars (Dutch).

Mobile networks? Nokia and Ericsson are big players. Huawei is being ostracised...

Seems to get quite a lot use each day.

Many products from Europe are not as visible or in face, but they are there.

The article is not about "European tech companies", but working in Europe vs working in America.

In this light, how do you classify the products of companies like Google, Amazon or even Intel that have significant number of people working in Europe?

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