# Lacking Its Own Digital Giants, Europe Plans New Approach

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/lacking-its-own-digital-giants-europe-plans-new-approach-2/
- Published: 2020-03-02T09:30:34-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Station F, a campus for tech startups in Paris. The European Union wants to reduce reliance on technology companies from the United States and Asia. Credit…Bertrand Guay/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Article by Adam Satariano and Monika Pronczuk. LONDON — Across the digital economy, Europe has been missing. Apple, based in California, and Samsung, from South Korea, make the most popular phones in Europe. Facebook owns the most widely used social networks, Google dominates online search and advertising, and Amazon controls e-commerce. European companies run their businesses on cloud infrastructure from Amazon and Microsoft. The region’s wireless networks are largely made with equipment from the Chinese giant Huawei. The European Union on Wednesday outlined an attempt to restore what officials called “technological sovereignty,” seeking tougher regulation of the world’s biggest tech platforms, new rules for artificial intelligence, and more public spending for the European tech sector. […] Click here to view original web page at www.nytimes.com