‘Europe Online Payment Methods: Full Year 2016,’ a new report from yStats.com, a secondary market research firm from Hamburg, Germany, includes important information regarding European online and mobile payments. According to this report, debit and credit cards as well as PayPal are the most utilized online payment methods in Europe, but differences in preferences of shoppers in various countries persist.
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Recent Publication from yStats.com Provides Projected Updates to Online Payment Methods in Europe
‘Europe Online Payment Methods: Full Year 2016,’ a new report from yStats.com, a secondary market research firm from Hamburg, Germany, includes important information regarding European online and mobile payments. According to this report, debit and credit cards as well as PayPal are the most utilized online payment methods in Europe, but differences in preferences of shoppers in various countries persist.
FBI investigating source of WikiLeaks’ purported CIA document dump
The last time something similar happened was when NSA contractor Edward Snowden had revealed that the agency was secretly collecting call metadata from United States citizens. “That’s today”, tweeted Edward Snowden, who leaked classified government information four years ago and claimed that yesterday’s WikiLeaks revelations “look authentic” and are “genuinely a big deal”.
Wikileaks docs allege CIA can hack smartphones, and expose Frankfurt listening post
Wikileaks released Tuesday what the whistleblower group claimed were thousands of secret CIA files showing how U.S. spies hack smartphones, as well as exposing a major secret listening post in Germany. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment, while the CIA in a statement would not say whether the files were real or not.
Erdogan’s Nazi Comparison Draws Fire From Merkel Chief of Staff
A senior aide to Chancellor Angela Merkel hit back at Turkey’s government, saying Germany doesn’t need lessons in democracy after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan likened the cancellation of rallies by two of his cabinet ministers to Nazi practices. Peter Altmaier, Merkel’s chief of staff, called the comment “absolutely unacceptable” as tension escalates in a relationship already strained over Turkey’s human rights record after a failed coup to topple Erdogan in July.
An Investor’s Guide to the Collapse of the European Union
While Trump’s tweets grab the headlines, Europe’s perils are becoming harder to ignore. Greece’s fiscal follies have surfaced once again , but that’s not the EU’s biggest threat at the moment.
Is Russian Interference the greatest Threat to Western Democracy?
With important national elections scheduled this year in the Netherlands, France and Germany, European officials on edge about possible Russian interference are pursuing various measures to counter it. But with a daily onslaught of fake and misleading news , repeated attempts to hack computer systems of “anti-Moscow” politicians and political parties, their task is immense.
BASF Supports Student Experiment to Analyze Growth Behavior of Plant Cuttings in Zero Gravity
The first school experiment to test if plant cuttings build roots in zero gravity has been sent to the International Space Station . The trial, designed by Maria Koch, Raphael Schilling and David Geray – three students from an agricultural high school in Ravensburg, Germany – left Kennedy Space Center on board the SpaceX rocket that launched yesterday.
These Fearsome Robots Will Bring Mining to the Deep Ocean
In 1974, an enormous ship sailed into the waters northeast of Hawaii. The vessel, built by billionaire Howard Hughes, was set to begin mining mineral deposits in the deep sea – or so the world believed.
Chervon acquires SKIL Power Tool Brands from Bosch
Chervon, one of the world’s top 10 manufacturers of power tools, outdoor power equipment and related products, has completed the purchase of the SKIL and SKILSAW brands from Robert Bosch Tool. The acquisition gives Chervon complete control over the SKIL and SKILSAW businesses in the North American market.
Individual Control of Magnetic Micromachines Within The Body
Magnetic micromachines can be delivered into the body and then controlled externally using a magnetic field. Such micromachines could be used to deliver a therapeutic agent to a specific location in a minimally invasive manner or control adaptive implants.
Primitive plants survive almost two years in outer space
Primitive plants are the latest forms of Earth life to show they can survive in the harshness of space, and for many months. Cold-loving algae from the Arctic Circle have joined the space-travelling club, alongside bacteria , lichens and even simple animals called tardigrades .
Adjustable flaps for wind turbines
Researchers at the University of Oldenburg have developed a flap for wind turbine generators which is mounted parallel to the main rotor blade and is considerably smaller in its size and mass than the main blade. The core piece of the invention is the adjustable pitch of the flap.
Siemens chairman to nominate Snabe as successor: Manager Magazin
Siemens logo is pictured on a CT scan in the manufacturing plant of Siemens Healthineers in Forchheim near Nuremberg, Germany, October 7, 2016. Siemens’ chairman plans to put forward ex-SAP co-Chief Executive Jim Hagemann Snabe as his successor at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, German business monthly Manager Magazin reported.
Astronaut to return to space with the help of Oxfordshire scientists
British ESA astronaut Tim Peake speaks during his first public appearance after returning to Earth from the International Space Station, ISS, at the European Astronaut Center, the home base of all ESA astronauts in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday, June 21, 2016 Major Peake has confirmed he will be visiting the International Space Station for a second time following his successful six-month Principia Mission last year. This will be the 44-year-old’s second mission with the European Space Agency , based at Harwell Campus.
German Utilities Face Tough Year as Power Rally Set to Stall
German utilities from RWE AG to EON SE may struggle to convince investors they can adapt to the renewable energy revolution even after the industry’s unprecedented shakeup in 2016. Headwinds range from a power price rally that’s forecast to fade this year to a multi billion-euro nuclear clean-up bill.
Evotec and Eternygen to Develop Novel Metabolic Disease Therapy
Evotec AG announced today that it will extend its existing relationship with Eternygen GmbH by becoming an investor in addition to being a pre-clinical drug discovery partner. Within a consortium of investors including VC Fonds Technologie Berlin, managed by IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, and two renowned family offices, Epidarex and Evotec together will participate in Eternygen’s latest funding round of EUR 8 m .
Analysts’ Updated EPS Estimates for December, 28th (ACFC, ADVOF,…
According to Zacks, “Atlantic Coast Financial Corporation, formerly known as Atlantic Coast Federal Corporation, operates as a savings bank through its subsidiary Atlantic Coast Bank, a federally chartered and insured savings bank serving northeastern Florida and southeastern Georgia markets. The products offered by the bank includes checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, demand deposit accounts, time deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, family residential first and second mortgage loans, home-equity loans, commercial real estate loans, commercial and residential construction loans, land and multi-family real estate loans, commercial business loans, and automobile and other consumer loans.
Carrie Fisher’s Ex Husband Paul Simon Responds to Her Passing; She’ll Appear in “Family Guy”
Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old convicted of killing nine black parishioners at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, told a judge Wednesday he has “no pl… — German authorities have detained a 40-year-old Tunisian man who “could have been involved in the attack” on a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany’s federal prosecu… Wheat buyers, millers and processors in South Asia have a better understanding of the quality of this year’s hard red winter wheat crop, thanks to U.S. Wheat Associates’ … UNDATED _ The Minnesota Golden Gophers have capped a tumultuous football season with a very satisfying victory.