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Internet muscles in on world's biggest IT fair
Internet players are set to make a big splash at the world's biggest IT fair opening in Germany Monday, likely to widen the event's appeal from a traditional devotion to pure technology.
Mar 05, 2012 |
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German Internet community cries foul over Google news law
Germany's Internet community, gathered at the world's biggest high-tech fair, was up in arms Thursday at a draft law forcing Google and other similar sites to pay media firms for content.
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Germany set to abandon nuclear power for good
(AP) -- Germany is determined to show the world how abandoning nuclear energy can be done.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 23, 2011 |
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German cabinet passes nuclear exit bill
The German cabinet signed off Monday on a bill phasing out nuclear power in Europe's biggest economy by 2022, prompted by the disaster in March at Japan's Fukushima plant.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 06, 2011 |
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One in four Germans wants microchip under skin: poll
It sounds like something from a sci-fi film, but one in four Germans would be happy to have a microchip implanted in their body if they derived concrete benefits from it, a poll Monday showed.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 01, 2010 |
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German jobs boom in renewable energy questioned
Optimistic predictions that Germany's decision to turn its back on nuclear energy will lead to the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the renewable energy sector have met with scepticism.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 08, 2012 |
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Google boss lays out future vision at world's top tech fair
Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt cast a science-fiction vision of the future as the world's top tech fair opened Monday, with the German IT sector predicting record sales in 2012.
Mar 05, 2012 |
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CO2 storage law falls through in Germany
Germany's parliament Friday blocked a law allowing the storage of carbon dioxide underground, as Europe's top economy wrangles over energy policy following Japan's nuclear disaster.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 23, 2011 |
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Berlin to pay bln euro subsidy for electric cars
The German government is prepared to pay a billion euros ($ 1.4 billion) in subsidies over the next two years to help its industry develop electric cars, Welt am Sonntag newspaper said Sunday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 15, 2011 |
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Bullish Schwarzenegger pumps up giant tech fair
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, guest of honour at the world's biggest high-tech fair, told crisis-hit executives Monday to stop their whining and invest in the future.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Heidi, Germany's cross-eyed opossum star, dead
Heidi, a cross-eyed opossum who became an Internet sensation in Germany, winning three times more Facebook admirers than Chancellor Angela Merkel, died on Wednesday, her zoo said.
Sep 28, 2011 |
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Merkel backs proposal to end nuclear power in 2022
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that 2022 was "a good time" for Germany to end nuclear power, backing a proposal by the Bavarian wing of her party.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 22, 2011 |
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Germany to scrap nuclear power by 2022
Germany on Monday announced plans to become the first major industrialised power to shut down all its nuclear plants in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phase-out due to be wrapped up by 2022.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 30, 2011 |
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Germany outlines bold plan to drive electric
Germany outlined Monday a bold plan to rev up the number of all-electric cars on its roads from next to nothing to one million in under 10 years, helping its automakers shift into the key sector.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 16, 2011 |
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Germany's Merkel vows 'measured' nuclear exit
Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Thursday that Germany would speed up the transition to renewable energy as Europe's top economy mulled a "measured exit" from nuclear power after the events in Japan.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 17, 2011 |
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