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New Research: European Small Businesses Benefit from Digital Safety Net

Brussels, March 24 — A new report shows European small businesses that adopted digital technologies sooner and more aggressively during COVID-19 reported 80% better sales and hired more people than digitally skeptical businesses. Digitally Driven: Europe, a study commissioned by the Connected Commerce Council (3C) in conjunction with Google and Greenberg, of more than 5,000…

Brussels launches an online shopping platform to boost local businesses

The Brussels-Capital Region has launched an online shopping platform aiming to give a boost to local and independently-owned shops...

Europe’s Big Tech Myopia Undermines Small Business Digital Safety Net

COVID-19 is surging again. European health officials are ordering more lockdowns, quarantines and travel restrictions. This is the time when small business owners, facing a financial tsunami of locked-down customers and economic headwinds, should invest in Digital Safety Net tools and services that can help them survive. But in a classic case of bad timing…

UK Government COVID-19 Business Support

Coronavirus (COVID-19) support is available to businesses. Loans, tax relief and cash grants are available. Employers can apply for staff to get up to 80% pay if they can’t work. Self-employed people can receive up...

Is your business having difficulties due to the coronavirus? Here are the French Government’s measures

We know that many of you are encountering significant difficulties due to the coronavirus: cancellation of reservations in tourism, sharp decline in your BtoB activity, brake on your international development...

Collected Best Practices of the German Startup Scene

This is a list of *public* coronavirus // Covid-19 communications/measures and resources. If you have any questions, additional resources, or suggestions to make this document more useful...

Startup for the Relaunch

Database of startups, scalps and innovative SMEs that offer useful solutions and services to manage the coronavirus emergency and the restart phase...

Entrepreneurs are not intimidated by the coronavirus

From Barcelona Tech City we are closely monitoring the economic impact that the health crisis we are experiencing may cause. Given the uncertainty that has been generated in this regard...

The Alliance for an Innovation Driven Recovery for Ireland

The Alliance for an Innovation Driven Recovery is a newly formed coalition of organisations with a shared interest in the growth of the indigenous tech sector in Ireland...

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New Research: 93% of European Small Businesses Use Targeted Ads

Jan. 19, 2022 (BRUSSELS) — As the European Parliament considers proposals to ban targeted advertising, a new survey shows that 93% of European small business leaders have embraced data-driven advertising that enables advertisers to reach recipients based on products and services that interest them, 76% percent called targeted ads valuable and 34% say they are…

Covid-19 Widened Inequalities. Digital Tools Can Close the Gap

As well as its more obvious effects, one of the most noticeable aspects about the global pandemic was that it further widened existing divides. Women, low-income workers, the youngest and the poorest were hit extremely hard.

European Parliament Spares European Small Businesses in DMA Vote

The Connected Commerce Council (3C), a global small business organisation with more than 2,000 digitally empowered European members, applauded today’s European Parliament plenary vote that rejected radical amendments to the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and maintained important compromises crafted in the Parliament’s Internal Markets Committee (IMCO). Some MEPs submitted last-minute amendments that would have effectively…