What is the Google/Baidu of Europe?

SAP bro. SAP. I am not proud of it, but there is SAP

RU != EU

Minecraft

Moscow is basically Europe, not EU tho

ARM

Would it really be such a good thing if EU had it's own purely sinister Beast (or multiple, such as Facebook, MS & Amazon), that tries it's best to pose as the backbone of the internet and, to the extent, Western society?
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I already can't do local online payments over 150 EUR without reliance on (((Google Play Services))).

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OP said Europe.

Actually that SAP cancer.

>What big tech companies does Europe have?
Uh… SAP and maybe RocketInternet/Zalando and a bunch of shitty Berlin startups and quite a few unheard of specialists. But big names? Bot that I know of.

but thats a product of your greatest ally user

spotify
then in a large sense there's stuff like dassault airbus bayer basf siemens etc

>What big tech companies does Europe have?
ARM

Not anymore kiddo, the nips bought them up.

EU has antitrust agencies so it's not gonna happen anytime soon.

Still located in the UK

There's IC companies like STMicroelectronics, NXP, and Infineon

yids aren't european though

EU is too busy recreating the sun aka fusion reactor.

We let the kids play with the silicon valley toys.

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Muslims can't into tech OP.

Real talk the EU has no tech companies because of crazy regulations and difficulty to start up a business.

Why would any tech company base itself in Europe if they get sued for antitrust as soon as they are successful.

Bump. I want to know.

Top European tech companies ...

t. european

In addition to this;

Despite our combined population of 511M (For EU only, Europe is 741M but Russia really shouldn't count as a European country), we are also a collection of many differing countries, cultures and languages. This fractured state means that nothing done in any of our countries scales as well and as rapidly as something done by Americans and Chinks who both benefit from a singular identity and singular language.
Also, government wasn't as vigorously active in the formation of our high-tech industry as it was in America. The French and the Brits did try their best to aggressively fund their local R&D efforts but in comparison to the Yanks, we both may as well have been impoverished 3rd world countries because we simply didn't have the sheer financial and industrial wherewithal of America.

TL:DR; Virtually no other country on earth enjoyed the blessed combination of top-tier economy + top-tier educational institutions + workforce + culture of technology + immense political will + entrepreneurial support that allowed for something like Silicon valley to form in the US.

SAP

the EU requires companies to pay taxes which is a big no-no in the US and China

Nokia. Ericson. Siemens.

Also: Linus Torvalds is not American and he made the kernel you're likely using on your OS now.

Dassault Systèmes

It is Europe, no "basically" about it.

Qwant
Yandex

It is absolutely considered Europe in a geopolitical sense, the eastern bounds of Europe are the Ural mountains which are over 1000km from Moscow. However,
Western Europe should probably be considered as distinct from Russia as from other regions of the world.

Ah yes, the Aryan übermensch Nord.

Explain China then.

you should also mention that outside of Western Europe, the rest of the countries in this continent are essentially slav filled shitholes that contribute absolutely nothing

Completely different economic climate. Even though there are plenty of barriers there it's also a lot cheaper to start a business there.

I don't.

No. The EU has no big tech companies because the American alternatives are more convenient, more developed and as easily accessible as a local alternative. There's basically no reason to invest in the European alternatives.

No Android device?

the cd-i was good.

China literally stops other countries from competing, which is why you have a bunch of american tech clone companies.

You don't actually have anything functional.

Also SpaceX BluOrigin ULA.

Well now with GDPR, yes, but traditionally mostly because fractured market.

Galileo is a functional thing.

Literally decades old tech.

???
It has better accuracy than any US and other satellite systems.

This, and also the EU has a lot of antitrust laws that discourage the formation of huge tech monopolies.

China's game is to ban the foreign products, allow local companies to make their own copies, and then legalize the foreign companies only when it is already too late and they have to compete against an entrenched system. They did it, for example, with the American credit card companies. They were not allowed to set up terminals or compete in the country until after AliPay and WeChat Pay had both become so widespread that even peasants in the countryside use them to pay for pigs and chicken feed. Chinese people are now literally incapable of operating in their day-to-day lives without WeChat. Speaking of WeChat and WeChat pay, Tencent pretty much started out by making a blatant copy of ICQ called O-ICQ, or "Oriental ICQ", when ICQ itself was banned. Even if a foreign company manages to get a foothold, it doesn't mean that they won't be arbitrarily shot down later. Weibo basically came to be because the CPC suppressed Twitter people exposed the general incompetence of the government's response to the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake using Twitter as a platform. China's entire tech sector is essentially the product of government sheltering domestic firms from foreign competition.

It doesn't even matter if the foreigners have a better product after the local firms have become established, because locals are unlikely to switch unless the domestic firms they know REALLY fuck up. Ever wonder why the British now all drive Fords and Hondas, but the French still overwhelmingly buy Renaults, Peugeots and Citroens, despite the latter being demonstrably inferior in terms of reliability? It's because while the French car industry fucked up (Renault in the 1980s, Peugeot-Citroen more recently), they didn't fuck up nearly as bad as the British car industry did, and didn't give the local consumers a reason to revolt against domestic manufacturers.

Siemens and Philips

Siemens

It's almost as if europeans actually care about worker rights and don't allow massive exploitation

Are you stupid
Galileo commercial has magic accuracy
It's not even funny how accurate it is

This. 1 meter (~3.3 feet) accuracy on unencrypted connections. And 1 centimeter (0.39 inches) accuracy on encrypted connections.

Not a company

Beidou is far superior to your obsolete muslim shit. You westerners genuinely fail at building navigation systems

>Galileo
Cringy name

Except for tech hubs that Google, Microsoft etc, have across Europe, where the majority of their bulk R&D is done.

ABB, SAP, SCHNEIDER, BOSCH, BAE SYSTEMS etc...

The absolute state of burger ignorance.

That doesn't make then European companies m8. That's akin to me claiming that BAE is a yank company because of the vast amount of their R&D done in the states.

SAP SE
Oracle can't even pretend to be close.

Toppenkekken

Beidou isn't even complete you chinaboo.

I feel the need to quietly mention that Oracle is in truth, significantly bigger than SAP. But I'll still mention SAP since it's something that we can put forth as our German equivalent.

Linus is a naturalized US citizen though, and the rest of the Linux core team is also a bunch of Americans.

interesting read. Wise user

Apparently a Dutch company called Altice is the 4th largest ISP in America. They own the Optimum and Suddenlink services.

SAP, Dassault Systemes, Sage, Hexagon, Wincor Nixdorf, many more household names like Sophos, AVG, Avast, F-Secure, Teamviewer, Opera, Spotify, Soundcloud, Jetbrains, uTorrent, etc

He became a naturalised US citizen after getting a job at a now defunct US semiconductor company though, and suggesting that the Linux core team is mostly Americans is doing a huge disservice to the countless forgotten European contributors who were there from the beginning that never received nearly as much fame
In the UK we even had a Stallman-lite for some context, pic related

Also Airbus, Rolls-Royce

Ever seen their new HQ building that was built last year? No fucking expense spared.

>t. works for one of the contractors on the site.

>What is the Google/Baidu of Europe?
we have the German p2p search engine YaCy. You can run your own node and use it to search even if you're not in Europe.

It doesn't organize the search results that well. It needs a lot of work. But it is uncensored. This means that you'll be able to find a ton of sites that are simply censored by Google. Using it also gives you an idea of just how heavily censored Google really is since you'll be able to see all the sites both Google and Bing won't show you.

>All these brain-damaged retards listing heavy industrial firms

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Let me rephrase that to be more compatible with your autism: what is the Alphabet of Europe?

>Burgerstan is number on--, Whoa!!!
>but muh 1HB
>but muh sillicon valey
>but muh innovation
>but muh corporations

REKT

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None, cause Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural. Transformation must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies that they once were in the last century. It's a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode. But without that transformation, Europe will not survive.

this one

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At least they produce tangible assets, instead of the meme botnet, ad-revenue and social media US companies.

Seems our eurofriends are confusing technology forms with manufacturing firms. Many such cases.

literally the best programming languages comes from euros, but they did move to the US.

>Expecting Europe to have proper tech companies

Europeans can't even figure out how to make CISC chips without having their hands held by an American corp. Why do you think that all the top quality European engineers abandon that shithole continent and come over to the US?

How is a search engine company, technology?
How is a taxi rental company, technology?
How is a house rental company, technology?

>What big tech companies does Europe have?

We have actual tech companies like ASML.
Not marketing/advertising companies like Facebook and Twitter.

Without the tech foundation they built, they would not exist. Same reason traditional taxis are comitting sudoku all the time, they didn't innovate through technology.

>C++

your baitpost aside, I actually do wonder why we never had an Intel or an AMD here in Europe.

Go ahead and use this website without any American tech companies then.

It is just a bunch of glorified websites, that seized the monopoly in a specific sector. They don't really innovate or produce anything worthwhile. Also most of their bussiness is getting rekt by EU regulations and antitrust fines.

just because there is no big search engine or social network doesnt mean there are no tech companies how retarded are burgers

Telekom, Siemens, Bosch, SAP, ABB and all other mentioned

Why would you make CISC chips in current year?
NXP makes some impressively innovative chips.

How is throwing acid at each other during every confrontation, technology?

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none of them invented anything though, just the most popular (and only in the US for most)

>What big tech companies does Europe have?
Volkswagen, BMW, Bosch, Airbus... quite a few.

However note that Europe culturally doesn't like monopolies / duopolies / cartels of a few big companies quite as much as the USA or China does.

You have these everywhere. Europe has them more in a few states that have a tendency to be authoritarian to dictatorial.

Euros are just butthurt they can't create, so they just take money from successful companies to fund refugees and such.

You mean the absolute cancer that is recaptcha?
And the America internet infrastructure is shit, much better to host it here.

go ahead use the internet without any europe tech company/innovation

oh you wouldnt

>None
Define this, and then explain the massive success of them then. And then explain your reasoning they didn't create anything.