Update: German Telekom is now looking into evidence of a hacker attack after 900,000 internet, phone and television clients were hit by a massive outage starting on Sunday and going into Monday.
The German firm behind Adblock Plus, the adblocker software, on Wednesday announced the launch of a service of "Acceptable Ads" for content publishers.
In the chaos after the Munich mall shooting, city residents spontaneously offered shelter to strangers - a move that Chancellor Angela Merkel said showed that Germany's strength lies in its values.
Sixty percent of Germans think internet users should be forced to use their real name when leaving comments - but the response varies dramatically between different age groups.
Four Germans were killed in Slovenia on Thursday when their small plane crashed, local police said, with internet millionaire Thomas Wagner confirmed as being among them.
Boredom during long sermons could soon be a thing of the past in Berlin and Brandenburg as the Protestant Church plans to install Wi-Fi hotspots in its 3,000 churches.
Financial crises and an uncertain future are making young Germans risk-averse and driving them into a cultural mainstream – although they're also the most socially tolerant generation ever, a new study claims.
Facebook 'like' buttons on commercial websites break German law if users are not warned that their personal data is
being shared, a court ruled on Wednesday.
Germany announced a deal Tuesday with social network giants Facebook, Twitter and Google to clamp down on hate speech, with the Internet companies pledging to remove offending posts within 24 hours.
Since a top European court ruled people have a right to be forgotten online, Google has received 348,085 requests for
tidbits to vanish from search results.
US tech giant Microsoft has put new data centres in Germany under the control of Deutsche Telekom, the companies said on Wednesday, in a move that will keep privacy-sensitive Germans' customer data in the country.
German telecoms operator Deutsche Telekom said Friday it is to partner with China's Huawei to offer public cloud computing services in a bid to rival US behemoth Amazon.
German startups are attracting more international workers than ever before as they look forward to a bright future, a recently published industry survey shows.
A job-seeker in Bonn has been sentenced to three months in prison after announcing on Facebook that he would go on an ISIS-inspired killing spree at his local job centre.
Media reports on Thursday alleged that German spies traded access to information about the country to the US National Security Agency (NSA) in exchange for surveillance software.
Germany's BMW said Tuesday it was checking the "trademark implications" of Google naming its new parent company Alphabet, which is the registered name of one of the carmaker's subsidiaries.
The government's special commissioner for drug dependency said on Thursday that doctors need to start assessing teenagers for addiction to the internet.
Heinz ketchup suffered an embarrassing PR setback when a promotional QR code on a hot ketchup bottle led a customer to a spicier destination than he was expecting.
Germany's chief prosecutor has dropped a probe into the alleged tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone by US intelligence agencies, his office said Friday.
The European Commission presented a plan for making the internet and digital content more ‘border-free’ on Wednesday, suggesting ways to loosen up restrictions that often see music, movies and other services blocked when users travel across borders. But could such a plan succeed?
A widening scandal over claims Germany helped the US spy on European targets triggered tensions in Angela Merkel's coalition Tuesday, which analysts said could potentially prove dangerous for the "untouchable" Chancellor.
