Why hasn't Europe managed to produce a single important tech company in the last 10 years?

Don't worry. Bernie Sanders is on it. He'll make sure that Google pays for the crime of providing a wildly valuable and popular product!

Creative destruction wrote:

So how is it that while the U.S. produces literally dozens of innovative, valuable hardware and software companies every year, Europe hasn't even managed to develop 1 in 10 years?

Linus Torvalds is Finnish and wrote Linux. While not nearly as profitable as a product, it is significantly more important as an OS over Windows and OSX.

The entire internet server world is built on Linux. In addition, most of the world's smart phones use android which is based on the Linux kernel.

Care to make any other asinine comments today?

And then there's UNIX. People don't realized how important these OSs are for applications to things like space exploration for instance.

US of Europe wrote:

Creative destruction wrote:

So how is it that while the U.S. produces literally dozens of innovative, valuable hardware and software companies every year, Europe hasn't even managed to develop 1 in 10 years?

Linus Torvalds is Finnish and wrote Linux. While not nearly as profitable as a product, it is significantly more important as an OS over Windows and OSX.

The entire internet server world is built on Linux. In addition, most of the world's smart phones use android which is based on the Linux kernel.

Care to make any other asinine comments today?

Linux is more than ten years old. Are you unable to read?

I thought Europe had schools wrote:

US of Europe wrote:

Linus Torvalds is Finnish and wrote Linux. While not nearly as profitable as a product, it is significantly more important as an OS over Windows and OSX.

The entire internet server world is built on Linux. In addition, most of the world's smart phones use android which is based on the Linux kernel.

Care to make any other asinine comments today?

Linux is more than ten years old. Are you unable to read?

Also Linux isn't a company. Please try to keep up.

US of Europe wrote:

Creative destruction wrote:

So how is it that while the U.S. produces literally dozens of innovative, valuable hardware and software companies every year, Europe hasn't even managed to develop 1 in 10 years?

Linus Torvalds is Finnish and wrote Linux. While not nearly as profitable as a product, it is significantly more important as an OS over Windows and OSX.

The entire internet server world is built on Linux. In addition, most of the world's smart phones use android which is based on the Linux kernel.

Care to make any other asinine comments today?

Yeah, a Finish-AMERICAN who's lived most of his adult life in... AMERICA.

Land of opportunity baby.

The answer to your question is probably the same for "why aren't New York, South Dakota, or Hawaii producing these companies?"

I guess you forgot about Nokia, Software AG, SAP, etc...

and a lot of those cool gizmos you see are from Europe

http://tech.eu/features/385/lean-hardware-startups-europe/

so basically your premise is false

Keith Stone wrote:

I guess you forgot about Nokia, Software AG, SAP, etc...

and a lot of those cool gizmos you see are from Europe

http://tech.eu/features/385/lean-hardware-startups-europe/

so basically your premise is false

What is it that you can't understand about "last ten years?" Those companies are ancient dinosaurs that haven't done anything relevant in over a decade.

Keith Stone wrote:

I guess you forgot about Nokia, Software AG, SAP, etc...

and a lot of those cool gizmos you see are from Europe

http://tech.eu/features/385/lean-hardware-startups-europe/

so basically your premise is false

Bluetooth was developed by Ericsson, who are Swedish; Rockstar North, the company behind the GTA video games, are Scottish; Sage are from England.

Funny how you can come to the conclusion there are no European tech companies if you conveniently ignore all of the European tech companies.

US of Europe wrote:

Creative destruction wrote:

So how is it that while the U.S. produces literally dozens of innovative, valuable hardware and software companies every year, Europe hasn't even managed to develop 1 in 10 years?

Linus Torvalds is Finnish and wrote Linux. While not nearly as profitable as a product, it is significantly more important as an OS over Windows and OSX.

The entire internet server world is built on Linux. In addition, most of the world's smart phones use android which is based on the Linux kernel.

Care to make any other asinine comments today?

Reading comprehension is not your strong point.

Grandpa, the OP's question asked if there has been anything important in the past 10 years.

Linux was invented in 1991. The question was about anything important in the past ten years.

US of Europe, do YOU have any other asinine comments today?

Spotify

Americans are just Europeans who live on a bit of land called America

Got anything important in the past ten years?

GTA was 1997.

Bluetooth was 1994.

Tech in the last 10 years has just been a venture capital absorber. Tech is a bubble.

Keith Stone wrote:

I guess you forgot about Nokia, Software AG, SAP, etc...

and a lot of those cool gizmos you see are from Europe

http://tech.eu/features/385/lean-hardware-startups-europe/

so basically your premise is false

That website is just an advertising portal for those company's products. It's like looking at an old Sharper Image catalog.

This piece of questionable technology is particularly interesting.

“NeuroOn is the world’s first brainwave – monitoring SLEEP MASK that allows you to switch from monophasic to polyphasic sleep. That means you can sleep less and more efficiently.”

Skype. Soundcloud. Materialise. iMakr. 3D Hubs. Nginx. ResearchGate. Prezi. Lyst.

Seriously just leave, you've made a fool of yourself.

Are there even any important american tech companies that are less than ten years old?

The only thing that comes to mind for me is SolarCity and that is stretching it. Airbnb and Uber don't count. Must be profitable and publically traded. Even Theranos was founded in 2003.

Also, Skype is 2003, and the others are arguably non-important.

adsfadsfadsf wrote:

Skype. Soundcloud. Materialise. iMakr. 3D Hubs. Nginx. ResearchGate. Prezi. Lyst.

Seriously just leave, you've made a fool of yourself.

Skype main product came out in 2003. It not terribly important and already has dozens of copycats.

Sorry, but never heard of those other companies.