As expected, with each passing day troubles for Volkswagen are increasing with the latest jolt coming from Paris where authorities have started an “aggravated deception” inquiry into the German automaker. The move…
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Germany wants Facebook to allow pseudonyms
The Hamburg Data Protection Authority is none too pleased with Facebook over the social networking site’s policy of not allowing people to use pseudonyms and has challenged this policy. The regulator said…
Ericsson sues Apple in Germany, Britain and Netherlands over technology license payment issue
Mobile telecom equipment maker Ericsson has filed lawsuits against Apple in Germany, Britain and the Netherlands over technology license payments. The Swedish tech giant in a statement said its offer that called…
Germany sketching new laws for driverless cars
Germany will soon lay down legal guidelines for driverless cars to be followed on the country’s autobahns. The German transport minister, Alexander Dobrindt, said that some rules are required to be in…
German Watchdog warns Google over user profiling
Hamburg’s commissioner for data protection: Google is ordered to take the necessary technical and organisational measures to guarantee that their users can decide on their own if and to what extend their data is used for profiling.
Oracle to open 2 new data centres in Frankfurt & Munich
The two new facilities will go live in the next few weeks and will be completely operational before the end of the year.
Wikileaks releases FinFisher’s weaponized malware to help developers build defences
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Editor in Chief: FinFisher continues to operate brazenly from Germany selling weaponised surveillance malware to some of the most abusive regimes in the world. The Merkel government pretends to be concerned about privacy, but its actions speak otherwise.
Germany wants Google to cough up search algorithm secrets
Germany is urging Google to disclose details on how its search engine rankings really work. Germany’s Justice Minister Heiko Maas in an interview with the Financial Times said Google had to become…
Germany ends Verizon deal over NSA snooping fears
Irked by NSA spying its Chancellor, Germany has ditched the US telecom giant Verizon replacing it with Deutsche Telekom AG!
Nintendo wraps up Großostheim headquarters, axes 130 jobs
European operation will move to the Frankfurt, Germany office, while Großostheim building and warehouse will be sold off.
Netflix to land Germany, France, Switzerland, three other European markets this year
Netflix is all set to expand its footprint in Europe with 6 new market additions – Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Luxembourg, by the end of 2014. The company officially announced…
Google Play Store gets PayPal payments support in 12 countries
Google on Thursday announced that it will accept PayPal payments for apps, games, books and other digital goods from its Playstore. The PayPal integration update will be rolled out in US, Germany,…
European Media Tycoon: ‘We are afraid of Google’
One of Europe’s leading media tycoons has accused Google of abusing its monopoly position in the digital sector to build up a ‘superstate’ free of anti-trust and privacy laws. Mathias Dopfner, chief…
UK tops European broadband scorecard
Britain now has superfast broadband connections of 30Mbps or faster available to 73 percent of the population up from 60 percent in 2011, according to communications regulator Ofcom. Ofcom, claiming it to…
WhatsApp alternative Threema tops German App Store charts
Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition may have had a negative impact on the latter at least in Germany as within 24 hours of the acquisition announcement, Threema – a Swiss instant messaging app and…