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Category: Digital

Now it is official: Wirecard, Germany’s digital showpiece company, had to file for insolvency after an unprecedented share price rally. The trigger was 1.9 billion euros, which could not be confirmed in the Philippine accounts. This is why the audit report by KPMG, which Wirecard CEO Markus Braun actually intended as a liberating blow, had …

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Category: Digital, Foresight Thinking

A number of talks and workshops took me the entire May to Europe. I even “had to” travel to France and Majorca. While I normally use trains, and for longer distance planes, this time I needed to rent cars, and that even three times. Twice I got a Nissan Qashquai SUV, and once a luxurious …

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Category: Behavioral Economics, Digital, Foresight Thinking, Innovation

About seven thousand pages tightly scribbled with notes and drawings of Leonardo da Vinci have survived into modern times. Experts estimate that they count for a quarter of his total work, covering all known disciplines in science and the arts. His thirst for knowledge was so big, that he repeatedly got lost into new questions that came …

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Category: Digital, Innovation

A German technology magazine recently asked tech celebrities about the devices that they carry on business trips. The digital evangelist of one German car company mentioned his iPhone 6. What? iPhone 6 in 2018? Since then the iPhone 7, 8, X and Xs came out, with the latter ones including facial recognition. That European tech …

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Category: Digital, Startup

The hysteria around Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and private user data is reaching its firs climax, and one might believe that we all had agreed to hand over our first borns to Mark Zuckerberg. But let;’s start from the beginning: Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm with an admittedly doubtful reputation, has – as have done …

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Category: Digital, Silicon Valley

Once Germany got obsessed with the digital revolution, one can get easily the impression that an insurmountable force is pounding at European companies. Some industries are already hit more than others. The media industry has been in the middle of an ongoing disruption for years. Other industries are at the crossroads, but may not want …

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