German authorities said Friday they took down the country's largest internet marketplace for narcotics and arrested 11
suspects from Germany, the Netherlands and Poland.
German ministers on Wednesday agreed to toughen the law on so-called "cyber-grooming" of prospective victims by predators, making illegal even attempts to communicate online with a child for sexual purposes.
Few issues are as controversial in Germany today as immigration. Why do foreigners come here? Why do they leave? Questions like these can be explored soon at a museum which has no exhibition rooms.
One of Germany's most prolific covert weapons traders was sentenced to five and a half years in jail on Thursday, having sold enough weapons to equip "a small army", the presiding judge said.
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.
The European Commission presented a plan for making the internet and digital content more âborder-freeâ 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?
In our weekly feature series, The Local looks into a successful entrepreneur's life - the story behind their successes, major challenges and how being an entrepreneur changed them forever. This week, Sparsh Sharma talks to Robin Eric Haak, founder and COO of Berlin-based Jobspotting.
A blog which posts pictures and names of internet users who make racist comments online has caused a stir in Germany and has had its Facebook page shut. Is it going too far?
Millions of Germans have had their passwords and usernames for websites stolen, the countryâs Federal Office for Online Security (BSI) revealed on Tuesday.
Top German tabloid <i>Bild</i> could cut up to 200 jobs at its print edition to make savings worth âŹ20 million, it emerged on Saturday. Planned restructuring could force some print edition staff to accept less favourable conditions.
The popular program Adobe Flash Player can be used to take over another personâs computer and spy through their camera and microphone, researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have discovered.
A Leipzig woman flew to New Zealand hoping to find love with a 33-year-old PhD student she had met online, but found an old man living in a âhorror houseâ instead, New Zealand paper <i>Otago Daily Times</i> reported on Tuesday.
German users of online auction house Ebay are planning to boycott the site in protest of changes to its rating system. More than 5,000 users have already added themselves to the list of sellers who will not use Ebay between the 18th and 25th of February. Germany is the second most important market for Ebay.
