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Google's Eric Schmidt says that its biggest competitor is Amazon and probably some small start-up company that nobody has heard about yet. Image:

Google sees Amazon as its biggest competition

14 Oct 2014

Head of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association Heinrich Riethmuller says publishers are "not scared" of Amazon or its threat to boycott online sales. Image:

German book publishers 'not scared' of Amazon

8 Oct 2014

EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia says that Luxembourg is cooperating with the investigation and has supplied documents it needs in the probe into whether Amazon's tax deal amounted to state aid. Image:

Amazon facing EU probe over tax deals

8 Oct 2014

Funai is asking the Court of Arbitration to rule in its favour that Philips pay it €312m in compensation for a failed deal in which Funai attempted to by the electronic products division from the Dutch company. Image: Wikipedia

Funai demands €312m from Philips

6 Oct 2014

Apple, with its iPhones, iPads and iPods has made billions of euros in Europe and yet paid just a fraction in taxes even though it is actually one of the richest companies in the world. Image:

Apple's "sweet" tax deal with Ireland being scrutinised

1 Oct 2014

EU Digital Commissioner Guenther Oettinger has been berated by the German press for saying celebrities who are "stupid enough" to put nude images on the internet cannot be protected. Image:

German papers ridicule Oettinger for comments

1 Oct 2014

British MP Stella Creasy was the victim of abuse from Twitter user Peter Nunn who was jailed for 18 weeks for his campaign against her by a judge in the UK. Image: Flickr

Twitter abuse: man jailed for 18 weeks

30 Sep 2014

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is likely to press ahead with his plans to create Sky Europe by amalgamating BSkyB with Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia. Image: Wikipedia

Sky Deutschland against BSkyB offer

18 Sep 2014

Rodez Prosecutor Yves Deperie is trying to prosecute members of a Facebook page who tip of the public about speed traps in Aveyron. Image:

Facebook members in court for speed trap tip-offs

10 Sep 2014

Infineon, Philips and Samsung and been fined €138m for its control of smartcard markets in Europe. Image: Samsung

Samsung, Philips and Infineon fined for cartel

4 Sep 2014

Uber's European boss Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty says Uber is looking to change its service to comply with the court ruling but also says it is unfazed by the setback. Image:

Uber's services halted in Germany

3 Sep 2014

The WEF is using a crowdsourching approach to bring the best brains together to devise ways to better control and run the internet says Accenture's Pierre Nanterme. Image: Accenture

WEF's 'Crowdsourcing' push to find ways to control internet

29 Aug 2014

Porsche's former Chief Executive Wendelin Wiedeking will have to face charges of share price manipulation after the failed deal to buy Volkswagen. Image:

Porsche's former boss to stand trial

29 Aug 2014

The Dresden court where a former German policeman, Detlef Guenzel, is being tried to killing and dismembering a 'willing victim'. Image

German cop appears on cannibalism charges

22 Aug 2014

Scottish National Party Leader Alex Salmond has fought had to lower the voting age to 16 but young Scottish voters to not seem to support his independence campaign. Image: Wikipedia

Scottish teens not keen on independence

20 Aug 2014

Julian Assange is keen to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy but will not do so without assurances that he won't be extradited to Sweden or the USA to face charges against him. Image:

Assange going nowhere until assurances are given

19 Aug 2014

Russian bloggers take revenge over tough new law

Russian bloggers take revenge over tough new law

4 Aug 2014

Beats headphones and music streaming system. The European Commission has approved the deal for Apple to buy Beats for $3bn. Image:

EU clears Apple's $3bn Beats deal despite Bose legal claims

29 Jul 2014

Counterfeit battle between LVMH and eBay ends

18 Jul 2014

Valery Seleznev says his son, hacker son, Roman might die in a US prison unless he's kept on appropriate medication. Image:

Hacking accused could die in US prison

14 Jul 2014

Germany weighs how to hit back in US spying row

Germany weighs how to hit back in US spying row

9 Jul 2014

Media freedom requires commitment to truth

Media freedom requires commitment to truth

Pallo Jordan 5 Jul 2014

This photograph of Dougie McDonald, taken from the BBC's website shows that searches for the disgraced Scottish referee on Google in South Africa are still working. Image:

Google starts 'forgetting' BBC and UK newspaper stories

4 Jul 2014

Foreign Ministry official Peter Stenlund says Finland has been the target of a huge spying racket for a number of years. Image:

Finland's government offices hacked, documents taken

3 Jul 2014

Rupert Murdoch, Executive Chairman of News Corporation has held talks with his staff after Andy Coulson was convicted of phone hacking charges. Image: Wikipedia

Murdoch heads to UK after phone-hacking trial

27 Jun 2014

Aurelelie Fillippetti, France's Culture Minister has welcomed the ban against Amazon's free shipping and discounted prices. Image: Wikipedia

Anti-Amazon bill adopted in France

27 Jun 2014

Head of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association Alexander Skipis says Amazon is 'blackmailing' publishers for bigger discounts. Image:

German publishers lodge complaint against Amazon

25 Jun 2014

Solucom's Gerome Billois says Rex Mundi has tried on several occasions to extort money from companies in return for not publishing stolen data. Image: Solucom

Worthless extortion demand against Domino's Pizza

18 Jun 2014

Whistle-blower Edward Snowden's lawyer has sold the rights to a book he has written about Snowden's exploits to Oliver Stone. Image:

Oliver Stone gets rights to Snowden movie

12 Jun 2014

EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Alumnia says multi-national companies are not paying enough taxes. Image:

EU says international companies got 'illegal state aid'

12 Jun 2014