Tech companies are facing hiring freezes and lay offs due to cost cutting measures. But will the pain from any new tech crisis be felt evenly on both sides of the atlantic? In past crises, european technology firms suffered much more than their american counterparts. Ludwig sigel is our european business editor.
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