Tag Archives: SonntagsBlick

Taxi drivers and trade unions have both opposed Uber in Switzerland. The ride sharing service Uber plans to expand further in Switzerland, but not as aggressively as in the past, Swiss head Steve Salom says in a newspaper interview. Uber is present in Zurich, Basel, Geneva and Lausanne with 300,000 regular customers and some 2,600 drivers in Switzerland, Salom told SonntagsBlick. But it has also run into some...

Novartis’ Sandoz unit is one of the dozen Swiss firms alleged to have been targeted in the long-running German spying operation in Austria A dozen branches of Swiss firms in Austria were targeted by German spies between 1999 and 2006, according to the SonntagsBlick newspaper which has seen documents belonging to Germany’s federal intelligence service BND. Part of the data was allegedly handed to the United States. The...