Category: Business

Otovo, the European market leader for solar panels and batteries, is opening its doors to the Belgian market. Otovo makes access to solar panels and batteries simple and affordable. In two clicks, customers are linked to a reliable installer. And with the subscription formula, customers don’t have to make big investments to opt for solar panels. Cedric sever, known as a former manager of Coolblue, will lead the work on the Belgian market in the right direction as general manager: “…at the moment, Belgium is the most expensive country for…

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Proximus and Google Cloud will soon offer sovereign cloud services in Belgium and Luxembourg A strategic partnership to be the first to offer ‘Google distributed Cloud Hosted’ -a disconnected sovereign cloud solution – to governments, regulated companies and international organizations in Europe Proximus and Google Cloud today announced a five-year agreement to offer sovereign cloud services in Belgium and Luxembourg. This partnership will provide solutions for governments, regulated businesses and international organizations to safely roll out sensitive, mission-critical activities and provide them with advanced digital sovereignty controls. Under this agreement,…

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The sale of 5G spectrum in Belgium took place quite late. Nevertheless, it seems that our country no longer has a significant backlog. In fact, the rollout of 5G in a B2B context is going very well. Belgium is well into the transformation of 5G. these are not our words: at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we hear positive sounds from all sides. Providers, Infrastructure Partners and even private 5G specialists praise the commitment and strategy of our country. That’s somewhat surprising. After all, our country was very late…

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Denmark will be the first country in the world to store CO2 emissions from across the border in empty gas fields under the North Sea. Belgium is the first customer. CO2 capture and storage (CCS) has been around for a while (some projects have even been around for decades), but the technology has never been used to store CO2 emissions from other countries. Now I am. A Belgian industrial player is going to capture part of his emissions. This is then transported via ships to project Greensand of, among others,…

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The Luminus, Jan De Nul and EDF Renewables groups have joined forces to respond to a call for tenders for offshore wind energy in Belgium for the first phase of the Princess Elisabeth zone, the three companies announced on Tuesday. The Princess Elisabeth zone has been identified by the Belgian federal authorities as a key zone to increase renewable electricity production in the country. The area is part of an artificial energy island that will be built off the Belgian coast by 2026. The total capacity of offshore wind energy…

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The Arts-Loi Metro station in Brussels is closed off to the public on Tuesday morning as a result of the national demonstration by the police and fire services – which is part of the announced week of protest actions organised by the public services. Over 500 police officers, firefighters and ambulances are gathered around the station and even a helicopter is circling overhead. The demonstration started this morning at 10:00 and protestors marched along the Congress Column towards the Arts-Loi station. “When there are too many people above ground, the…

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The Delhaize supermarket chain has announced that it will transform all of its Belgian stores that it currently directly manages into franchises. The move directly contradicts previous assurances to employees and has been widely condemned by Belgian unions, Belga News Agency reports. In a press release published on Tuesday morning, Delhaize claimed that it was compelled to make the decision in response to the increased market share of its 636 already-franchised stores in Belgium. Whilst these stores have performed strongly, the remaining 128 directly-managed stores saw their profitability and market…

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Which outsourcers are the best in their field? The top three in digital transformation, application services, infrastructure hosting, workplace services, network & telecommunications , security services and cloud software and infrastructure. We are based on the figures from the recent Whitelane research study of more than 250 of the largest companies in Belgium and Luxembourg. Thus, it is the largest customers of it service providers who were surveyed. Every year, Whitelane Research conducts research on sourcing deals and their customers. It is about satisfaction. Hexaware, Computacenter, TCS, GTT and Cegeka…

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Twitter will soon show users how often their tweets have been displayed, new Twitter owner Elon Musk has announced. This allows Twitterers to track how popular their posts are on the social network. According to Musk, this would apply to tweets the same as to videos, on which the number of views can already be seen. Now Twitter users can only determine from the number of comments, retweets and likes whether a tweet is popular. Musk has been communicating on Twitter about developments within the company. At the end of…

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Colruyt employees put the new Product Finder technology into operation this week. All 16,000 shop assistants of the Colruyt Group received a smartphone some time ago that supports them in their daily work. This week, a test started with a very special new application on this smartphone: when store employees scan an item with a barcode scanner connected to their device, the light of the electronic price tag flashes on the shelf and they know where the item belongs. Stocking the shelves takes up to 90 minutes less daily. The…

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