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Switzerland gains new Michelin-star restaurants

Caviar being prepared at B. Violier Hotel de Ville restaurant, Crissier

This content was published on Oct 9, 2017 This year Switzerland still has three restaurants with three stars: the “B. Violier – Restaurant de l’Hôtel de Ville” in Crissier, canton Vaud, the “Schloss Schauenstein” in Fürstenau, canton Graubünden, and the “Cheval Blanc” in Basel. Two new two-star restaurants in eastern Switzerland were recently added to the growing list: the “Einstein Gourmet” in St…

Students in glass houses should throw around ideas

This content was published on Oct 9, 2017 Three teams of students, four days and three glass cubes.

A student in robes and mortar board is thrown up in the air by colleagues

University ‘walks the walk’ with bitcoin payments

This content was published on Oct 8, 2017 The transactions will be handled by Zug-based crypto trading platform Bitcoin SuisseExternal link, which has agreed to absorb exchange rate losses and currency fluctuations. Students will pay a 1% transaction fee to further insulate the university form such losses. Situated close to Zug’s Crypto Valley, the university is chiseling out a niche for fintech researchExternal…

App helps youngsters get part-time jobs

This content was published on Oct 8, 2017

Airbnb has ‘impact’ on housing market

This content was published on Oct 5, 2017 Online accommodation platforms such as Airbnb have negative effects on the Swiss housing market finds a study.

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Swiss economy to benefit from Olympics and World Cup

This content was published on Oct 5, 2017 Major global sporting events have a noticeable knock-on effect for the Swiss economy, even if they are held outside of Switzerland.

Conservative Swiss seek fintech niche

This content was published on Oct 4, 2017 There’s certainly enough of the pie to go around and it makes perfect sense to have a range of interconnected jurisdictions driving forward the digital finance revolution. But what will differentiate fintech Switzerland from Singapore, London, Berlin or Silicon Valley? To a large extent, Swiss firms will use fintech to both improve its strengths and tackle some…

Uncle Scrooge McDuck jumps into a pile of money

Who says ICOs will crowd out VC sugar daddies?

This content was published on Oct 4, 2017 Hang on a minute, perhaps not so. A couple of crypto conferences in Zurich last week had the VCs fighting back. The smarter funds are determined not to be crowded out by ICOs that have raised more than $1.6 billion so far this year. There is a general recognition that the standard VC model has…

A computer visualisation of a moving sidewalk.

Imagining a world without cars

This content was published on Oct 3, 2017 A study shows that despite their love of cars, the Swiss are open the idea of replacing private motor vehicles with other mobility options.

Johann Schneider-Ammann speaks to students at the university of Teheran, Iran,

Swiss-Iran trade slowly takes off

This content was published on Oct 3, 2017 A new trade agreement between Switzerland and Iran appears to be slowly bearing fruit, despite banks' reluctance.

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