Central Europe loves Facebook. Or parts of it do, anyway. Although the social network didn't really start releasing versions in different languages until March of this year, new reports put Facebook's growth in two countries in the triple digits.
German Left Party politician Lutz Heilmann didn't like some of the claims printed in a Wikipedia article about him. As a result, Heilmann filed an injunction against the German version of the site, caused a massive outcry, and has now backed down in the face of all the attention.
Either Google Germany's lawyers aren't up to snuff, or they're just stuck in a really hostile environment. Regardless, a new report indicates that two court rulings would have Google stop showing certain thumbnail images in its search results.
Aspects of Google are pretty popular in Germany; the latest comScore data indicates, for example, that it's cornered 79.8 percent of the country's search market. Google Street View is being looked at in a different light, however, and may hit a show-stopping barrier in the town of Molfsee.
It doesn’t get any more “official” than this here. Yesterday, Saturday at around 20:07, Germany’s oldest and perhaps biggest prime time news Tagesschau announced the following under the headline “Warning against internet browser"*:
In the UK, Germany, and France the Internet has about double the influence of television when it comes to consumer decision making according to the Digital Influence Index, a study done by Fleishman-Hillard and Harris Interactive.The study found that consumers use the Internet in a number of ways to make decisions. Consumers are more likely to seek opinions of others by visiting social media and product rating sites when making choices that have a major personal impact.
After years of trying to wrest the rights to the Gmail name away from a German businessman, Google decided to abandon the fight.
Private investors and venture capital firms in Germany are looking to social networks when they make investments according to a study.Angel investors, who usually invest their own funds, said about 41percent of their capital goes towards social networks, a study of 539 investments in 2008 of 49 investors, and venture capital firms revealed.
Germany, Europe's biggest economy, is experiencing a digital divide, according to German industry association Bitkom.Western German states, including Hesse and Bavaria, have the majority of Internet addresses ending in the German ".de" country code domain, with the country's five former Communist eastern states landing at the bottom of the list.
A few inches of snow are supposed to fall on Lexington, Kentucky today, and if history is any indicator, everything will cease to work. Yesterday, folks in Germany had it comparatively easy - only Google didn't function.
iEntry 10th Anniversary
RSS
Newsletter
Advertising
