Germany’s equivalent to the NSA is able to spy on some German citizens thanks to a loophole in the country’s laws, a government surveillance inquiry learned last week. According to a former… Read more »
The company said on Monday that it was in preliminary acquisition talks with two carriers, one of which it confirmed as being O2. The other is reportedly EE. Read more »
The Parliament is, according to the Financial Times, poised to call on the European Commission to separate Google’s core search business from its other businesses or take some other serious measure… Read more »
German media companies have been fighting with Google for years over what they claim is the search giant’s theft of their news content, but after being removed from Google News for… Read more »
The German firm focuses on behind-the-firewall installations because its customers — the likes of the U.S. Navy — aren’t too keen on building their applications in the public cloud. Read more »
German publishers who recently accused Google of blackmail for threatening to stop listing their stories in Google News – after they tried for years to wrangle copyright cash out of Google… Read more »
Telefónica will cut 1,600 jobs in Germany following the merger of O2 Deutschland with E-Plus, to get rid of duplicate roles. The jobs will be phased out by 2018, the firm… Read more »
Google says it is “studying their order to determine next steps.” Based on precedent, those next steps will involve Google paying lip service to the privacy regulators and doing nothing to… Read more »
After courts in Hamburg and Berlin upheld bans on Uber’s services, the company announced the opening of its traditional-taxi-friendly UberTaxi service in those cities. Read more »