Berlin's internet start-up incubator Rocket Internet has pulled together more than half a billion euros this year in new investment and is going shopping in regions such as Latin America and Asia.
Happy holidays once again courtesy of the EU, as a new, lower cap on was slapped on the cost of Europe-wide roaming mobile calls and internet from Monday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel described the internet as “virgin territory” during a press conference with President Obama on Wednesday, prompting Twitter to explode with mockery about her recent discovery of a brave new online world.
For many, watching television is all about the size of the screen and the sharpest image rather than mobile access. Only one in four Germans told a poll released on Thursday they want TV channels on their smartphone.
A young businessman from Dresden recycles used Lego bricks and sells them across the world. He's now of the biggest internet dealers in the growing trade in the timeless bricks.
Germany's sensationalist <i>Bild</i> daily, the biggest-selling European newspaper, plans to make readers pay for part of its online content from early next month, it said in its Tuesday edition.
German Economy Minister Philipp Rösler appealed to top US university students this week to consider Germany as the place to start their IT careers and called for tech entrepreneurs to be offered dual citizenship.
German tech company SAP said on Tuesday it wants to hire hundreds of people with autism to work as software testers and programmers. The search has, it said, begun for people “who think differently from others.”
Germany's top court has made a potentially landmark judgement against Google's internet search engine, ruling that plaintiffs have the right to take down offensive suggestions in its auto-complete function.
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Anonymous web surfing came a step closer to becoming a thing of the past in Germany on Friday when the upper house of parliament passed a law giving security officials wider access to information on the identity of internet users.
German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom has triggered outcry from politicians and customers after announcing it would put a data limit on flat rate internet plans.
An American scientist is trying to stir up creative spontaneity in the eastern German city of Dresden by leaving disposable cameras around for strangers' use, before collecting them and displaying the results online. Jessica Ware reports.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken part in her first Google “Hangout” session in which she discussed integration with seven carefully-selected guests.
A fashionable 83-year-old in Berlin has gained international fame after an Australian photographer started a Tumblr blog called '<a href="http://alioutfit.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">What Ali Wore</a>' showcasing his sartorial splendor. Ali is The Local's German of the Week.
Germany's intelligence service is taking the escalating cyber threat increasingly seriously and now hopes to entice a horde of hackers to defend against foreign IT attacks, it emerged on Sunday.
From a glove that can be used as a mobile phone to a remote-controlled spy helicopter: this year's CeBIT, the world's top high-tech fair, showcases a bewildering array of gadgets.
The world's biggest high-tech fair, the CeBIT, kicks off on Tuesday, pinning its hopes on growing tech regions Asia and Africa and the hot topic of social media to beat competition from other high-profile fairs.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and other German political leaders with access to state secrets are to be issued state-of-the-art, high security mobile phones later this year.
Germany’s ruling centre-right coalition is set to water down proposed legislation that would force internet search engines and news aggregators like Google to pay publishers for displaying snippets of their content.
Computer scientists from Germany's Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) have won an $81,000 (€61,000) prize from tech giant Google for developing an "air-writing" glove that could simplify typing on mobile phones.
Most people think ordering products online is better for the environment than actually going to a store, but a story in the <i>SĂĽddeutsche Zeitung</i> on Sunday showed that internet shopping can have its ecological costs.
Germany's struggling Free Democratic Party (FDP) have suggested a sudden surge of Twitter followers was because their initials stood for the obscenity "son of a bitch" in Portuguese - and not because they had paid for them.
The German competition watchdog on Wednesday launched an investigation into the policy of online retailer Amazon which bans third-party traders from selling their products cheaper elsewhere on the web.
