Germany

German data regulator bans new WhatsApp terms of service

Germany’s data protection regulator has issued an emergency ban against Facebook collecting WhatsApp user data under the messaging app’s new terms of service. The…

Facebook cleared in fake news defamation case

Last month, Syrian refugee Anas Modamani filed a lawsuit against Facebook after a barrage of fake news linked an image of him and German…

Facebook’s fake news tools coming to France ahead of elections

According to a report, Facebook will implement fake news checking systems in France ahead of the country’s elections. The move is in a bid…

Facebook debuts ‘fake news’ tools in Germany ahead of elections

We’re only three weeks into the new year, but “fake news” could already be the phrase of the year. After reports suggested that fake…

Have Spanish publishers shot themselves in the foot with Google News shutdown?

Google has shut down its News offering in Spain. The decision follows a ruling in a Spanish court that would compel Google to pay…

Failure to launch: Germany’s Rocket Internet goes public, shares drop 14%

Massive German startup factory Rocket Internet went public today and reactions haven’t exactly been enthusiastic. Shortly after its shares first started trading, the company’s…

Germany’s secret weapon for the World Cup? That would be big data

The 2014 FIFA World Cup kicks off today, meaning that each of the 32 teams are about to find out how effective their preparation…

eBook piracy rampant but under control, say experts

The advent of eBooks means the publishing world now faces similar piracy battles to the music industry faces with illegal downloads. Publishers and experts…

German authorities claim Facebook ‘Like’ violates privacy laws

Facebook users in a northeastern German state have been told to stay away from the “Like” button (Gefällt mir in German) on Facebook. Government…

It’s all about the gadgets at the CeBIT tech fair

CeBIT’s high-tech fair on Wednesday continued to wow visitors with a “Shakespeare-reciting robot and intelligent” cocktail shaker at topping the list of innovations. Some…

SecondLife, another graphic World Wide Web?

At the beginning of this year I blogged about the amazing work that Adam Pasick was doing with Reuters in Second Life, the virtual…

German blogosphere waning, bloggers quitting, says Ifra blog

I’ll be heading off to Dublin, Ireland around the beginning of November to speak at IFRA’s Beyond the Printed Word, the world’s leading association…

Online news will supplant TV as leading source

According to a World Association of Newspapers poll online news will supplant television network news as the leading news source over the next five…

Open source in SA

Something pretty revolutionary is going down in a dusty patch of Limpopo province. It involves billionaire and Africa’s first Astronaut Mark Shuttleworth, a multi-national technology company and the government.

Dotcom dating dollars

When the internet arrived, people screamed let’s make lots of money. This new, interactive medium had the ability to deliver content to audiences in innovative ways and make money at the same time. Content would suck readers in, went the theory, and communities would form around these content genres. E-commerce areas would then be built around relevant content and wham bam thank you Ram, your community interacts and you have dotcom dollars.

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