Just in case you still think that the hundreds of TV channels available to you via your remote-control are basically here to inform or entertain you – think again! With a few exceptions, the tv-channels are designed primarily as a platform for advertisers and their tv-spots, interrupted by movies, news, documentations or silly shows overloaded by product-placement. Did you ever …

When it comes to the world’s richest people, I assume you’ve read or heard several times already, that Microsoft founder Bill Gates is on top of the list – and this for quite some time now. But I assume as well, that you’d have difficulties to name the richest people in Europe. That’s why I introduce to you the ‘fattest …

From Alipay to Bitcoin – even with growing digital possibilities around, today still almost 85% of all retail payment transactions worldwide are done with cash, representing about 60% of total retail transaction-value. But these global figures are changing quite a bit when we look at different countries. According to a report by ‘Mastercard’, presented at a recent conference called ‘the journey …

On Tuesday morning, Islamic State terrorists attacked Brussels airport and a metro train, killing around 35 people and wounding hundreds in the deadliest attacks ever seen in Brussels, the capital of the European Union. French President Francois Hollande: ‘The whole of Europe has been hit.’ And the financial markets? The USD gained little vs the EUR and stocks in Europe …

The future of Romania is not a question of money – it’s all about transparency, know-how and education! For once, Romania was the leader in a ranking provided by EU’s statistical office ‘Eurostat’ this month. However, it was a questionable merit, since Romania recorded the highest annual increase in hourly labor costs among the EU-states in the 4th quarter of …

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”  – Elon Musk Spirit Of Success Exactly 10 years ago to the day, shortly before 1 pm on March 21, 2006 in California, then 29-year-old software developer Jack Dorsey tapped out a simple message: “just setting up my twttr”. The message itself is not of importance, but …

The 10 most expensive cities in the world 2016 Singapore is the world’s most expensive city for expatriates according to the ‘2016 worldwide cost of living’- survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The study compared more than 400 individual prices across 160 products and services from food, drink, clothing, household supplies and personal care items to home rents, transport, utility …

Trump is more dangerous than terrorism Each month, The Economist Intelligence Unit publishes a report with top-events that could destabilize the global economy. The just released ‘April 2016’-report marks for the first time ever a potential election of an US- presidential candidate as a top global risk. Here is the complete list in order of impact and probability: China experiences …

Intellectual Property – The Key to Economic Success ‘WIPO’ stands for ‘World Intellectual Property Organization’ and is one of 17 specialized agencies of the United Nations. The main purpose of WIPO – founded is 1967 in the ‘Nobel prize’ town of Stockholm –  is to encourage creative activity and to promote the protection of ‘intellectual property’ worldwide. WIPO has 188 members-states …

With tonight’s games Barcelona vs Arsenal and Bayern vs Juventus, the UEFA-Champions League (CL) is once again the talk of the town all over Europe. A unified Europe – what the EU so terribly misses to achieve – the ‘beautiful game’ of football gathers millions of europeans from Sweden to Sicily to barock-composer Georg Frederic Handel’s CL-anthem “Die Meister, Die Besten, Les …