Altcoins set off to a great start in May, with Ethereum hitting a new record high above USD 3,400, extending its more than 300 % rally this year.

Since 1 July 2016, the eIDAS Regulation allows individuals, businesses and public administrations across the EU to carry out convenient, secure and legally valid electronic transactions across borders.

In the first to the point: technology & digitalisation newsletter in fall 2019 we reported about referrals to the CJEU

After the announcements this spring that Microsoft will be buying Activision Blizzard (World of Warcraft, Starcraft), Take-Two Interactive was buying the mobile studio Zynga (Farmville) and Sony...

Jüngste Cyberangriffe auf amerikanische Softwarefirmen oder den irischen Gesundheitsdienst sind nur zwei von vielen Beispielen für die steigende Anzahl an online Kriminalität.

Our friends at Calm/Storm ventures have published a new podcast under the title "Found/Her".

Companies which would like to provide virtual currency services in Austria (including exchange or transfer of virtual currencies or the storing of cryptographic keys)

In late April, the French Autorité de la concurrence (Adc) issued its opinion on risks to competition in the payments sector stemming from the strength of large digital platforms.

This currency would be offered in a digital form but not necessarily as a crypto coin and would complement but not replace the current offering of cash.

On 27 April 2021, the European Investment Bank (EIB) launched a digital bond issuance on a blockchain platform.

On 18 April 2023, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down measures to strengthen...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving at an ever-faster pace.

Selbstfahrende Autos, smart Cities, digitale Fabriken und präzisere Diagnosen in der Medizin – die Einsatzbereiche für Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) bzw Artificial Intelligence (AI) sind vielfältig.

Advocate General Juliane Kokott probably caused a few headaches in the technology world when she recently opined in a case referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union that national competition authorities should apply market dominance abuse rules to transactions.

Prompt engineering is a technique for getting better results from large language models, such as GPT-4, by providing clear and specific instructions, examples and reference texts.

In 2020, 278 tips were submitted via the whistleblower platform on the Austrian Financial Market Authorities (FMA) website.

For anyone who has so far given little or no thought to the taxation of their crypto assets, things could drastically change from autumn 2021. The EU Commission plans to monitor tax-payers who ...

The European Investment Fund recently signed the first six equity agreements with venture capital funds in Austria, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, ...

A surge of optimism has been sweeping through the crypto markets, driven by the belief that the US is on the verge of approving Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF).

October is Cybersecurity Month, a time to raise awareness about online security and promote best practices to safeguard our data. Despite the enormous increase in cybercrime...