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Dubious Duplicate Finders in Apple’s App Store – and Apple Conceals the Risks

Even when an app appears convenient, many duplicate-finder tools cannot be trusted—and they pose a serious threat to privacy. NETZ-TRENDS.de emphasizes that it’s not enough to regulate which apps may be offered in the App Store; it is equally vital to mandate how these apps are labeled and transparently presented. In the sensitive domain of app distribution, the EU must enact far stricter laws to reliably protect users from privacy breaches and data exploitation. Convenience at What Cost? What ...

GammaApp KI statt PowerPoint Terror: Milliardenverluste durch zeitfressende Präsentationen – bis zu 12 Mrd. Euro in DACH, weltweit über 400 Mrd.

Bis zu 12 Milliarden Euro Arbeitszeit gehen jedes Jahr allein in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz durch zeitfressendes Erstellen von PowerPoint-Präsentationen verloren – weltweit summiert sich die Verschwendung auf 200 bis 400 Milliarden Euro.

Google the octopus: With Google Compare conquering the world of insurance

Google is becoming more and more of an octopus. Several sources report that US market-listed Google Inc. has increased its efforts to enter the international billion Dollar market of insurance brokerage. Google has named its new project Google Compare which has been running as a pilot project in Great Britain since 2012. The corporation is now preparing to roll out Google Compare on the world stage. In the pilot project Google Compare in Great Britain, Google collaborates with the following

Theft of hotel items: 4.5 million Germans do it / 1.3 million stolen towels

Prices for travels have never been as low as they are today. However, especially hotel tourists seem to think that they are entitled to more than what’s shown on the bill. You might have guessed it, now you know for sure: theft from hotel rooms is not an exception. It has long become an offense committed by many people. This has now been proven by a survey of the online travel portal Travel24.com (1.5 million users per month; Travel24.com AG) which operates in nine EU countries. For the study,

Google: Using Google Fiber to become the biggest TV provider and telecommunications company? A German perspective

The US company Google Inc. is starting their marketing tour in the US state of Texas to encourage Texans to switch to Google's super-fast - and costly - internet and TV network, Google Fiber. This is how Google advertises for Google Fiber: Google employees are on the road in a car with the 'Fiber' lettering and logo. They then approach residents of particular neighbourhoods and offer them to switch to the Google Fiber network.

China's smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi to invest $300 million in video platform iQiyi

After only having been founded in 2010, China's biggest smartphone maker and manufacturer of the smartphone Mi, Xiaomi Corp. (Chinese 小米科技, pinyin Xiǎomĭ Kējì), now announced its second partnership with the video industry. The company paid $300 million for a stake in China's second largest online video platform iQiyi. iQiyi belongs to Baidu Inc., the owner of China's largest internet search engine Baidu. Rank one of China's most popular video platforms is occupied by Youku Tudou

Rocket Internet Companies: What is worth how much? Samwer brothers' stock market launch

The German internet company Rocket Internet, founded by the Samwer brothers, is one of the most successful internet enterprises in Germany and Europe. Its downside: it resembles a labyrinth and is difficult to fully understand in all its dimensions - which is not exactly beneficial to the planned stock market launch of Rocket Internet. And we're talking about a market value of more than two billion Euros. Not only Rocket Internet is open to investors: the Leipzig-based internet company Unister

Rocket Internet & Oliver Samwer: Annual loss of 431 million Euros in 10 affiliated companies? / Famous German TV format barrages Olli with lots of unpleasant questions

Whoever advised German Rocket Internet CEO Oliver Samwer to take it up with the German public-service broadcasting company ZDF, especially with the format Frontal21 that critically questions political, economic and social issues: that person didn't do Olli, as many in the scene call him actually rather reverently, very much of a service. Driven by the positive media hype of the last few months, Oliver Samwer of Rocket Internet may have thought: I'll channel my inner John Steed and let my

German-language Newspapers in the USA, Brasil, Argentina, and Chile before 1928

Even if there are extensive contemporary historical documents available for posterity on the internet, it is nevertheless a fact that millions of books, writings, newspaper or magazine articles lie dormant and undiscovered in archives somewhere, and today's and future generations have a hard time accessing this knowledge. While delving in the now defunct German marketing magazine 'Seidels Reklame' from September 1928, we have come across a very interesting article about German media abroad -

'About you' women's fashion & men's clothing: Evaluation E-Commerce Website

The E-Commerce Website ‘About you” from the About You GmbH is the latest digital project by one of the worlds leading E-Commerce Companies, the German Billion Dollar Company, the Otto Group. First we thought: Why does Germany’s biggest daily financial newspaper, the Handelsblatt published by the Holtzbrink company in Düsseldorf, report so prominently on page 1 about the fact that aboutyou exists and continues the praise extensively on the inside? Not only the Handelsblatt, but also the

Mathias Döpfner, CEO at Axel Springer: 'Break up Google'-thesis brings international Stir

German publishers are afraid of the almighty American internet monopolist Google, says Mathias Döpfner, CEO of the once almighty German newspaper giant Axel Springer (publisher of national dailies Bild or ‘Die Welt’) in daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). He says out loud what small and big publishers as well as e-commerce providers alike don’t dare to say in public: Is the US monster Google going to devour its own children? Others wonder if Google is turning to some

German-Russian Raw Materials Conference against sanctions against Russia

On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, countless high-cablibre representatives from both German and Russian politics, economics as well as science have come together for the 7th German-Russian Raw Materials Conference in Dresden’s International Congress Center. The Russian Deputy Prime Minister, the manager of Gazprom and the former Metro manager Dr. Eckhard Cordes were among the high-profile speakers. The former Bavarian Minister-President Dr. Edmund Stoiber was also present. All parties agreed that

Unister Web Portal Operator: from start-up to 1 Billion Euros

By Wolfgang Seemann - Ten years after the Internet bubble burst in 2001 / 2002, Netz-Trends started to present some successful internet and software entrepreneurs in infrequent intervals. Our series begins with Thomas Wagner, 34 from Leipzig in Eastern-Germany, founder of Unister. Unister is one of Germany's and Europe’s most successful Internet companies. ...

Bizarre Debate: Instapult's Russian API service for Instagram

Strange rumours are currently circulating through the Russian media: Instapult’s Russian developers have created an automated API to access the US photo-sharing service Instagram. However: Instagram’s Terms and Conditions specify that external APIs to upload photographs to Instagram are seemingly not allowed. What is strange about this situation is also the following: The responsibility for the programming of the new APIs seems to lie, according to Russian blogs, with Dmitry Trachuk from

WOT Web of Trust is still not entirely trustworthy

According to the "WOT - Web of Trust" website (mywot.com), it already has more than 110 million worldwide users, going up from about 35 million in mid-2012. Therefore, this could be called a web-story of success. However, there are several points of criticism regarding WOT – Web of Trust, saying that WOT would be rather dubious. Netz-Trends would like to explain some of these points of criticism in this article. The aim of WOT – Web of Trust is very valid: to provide guidance on the

Remove Sweet-Page.com: Google Chrome, Explorer, Mozilla Firefox

Konstantin Grakow

Sweet-Page.com is currently annoying a lot of users but whether you can talk about a virus or malware or a potentially unwanted programme is currently not clear. However, it’s fact that sweet-page.com gets installed automatically as a browser plugin when downloading free software into the browsers Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer (BHO). These are Netz-Trends‘ experiences when downloading two well-known duplicate file finders, one of them starting with ‘tot…’, the

Taxi business in the Dominican Republic resembles mafia - Ministerio de Turismo sits still

Konstantin Grakow

If you need a taxi in the Dominican Republic, you are dealing with an organised mafia-like system ripping off tourists with only one goal: to take as much money from tourists as possible. The Ministerio de Turismo (Ministerio de Turismo La República Dominicana) likes to point out how safe the Dominican Republic is for tourists, however, the Dominican government does not exactly promote the rights of passengers when it comes to official taxi fares and, more importantly, the use of official

NetzTrends supports Edward Snowden demonstration in Washington on October 26

The Web-Magazine Netz-Trends supports the demonstration for Edward Snowden in Washington on the 26th of October. This is why we publish the following Call from David Segal, organisator of a huge Action against total state control in the Internet or Mobile Phones. David Segal wrote us: "We’re less than a month out from the single biggest protest against the NSA surveillance state yet. More than 2,000 people have already said they’re joining us in Washington DC on October 26th – but to

Mozilla Problem: WOT Web of Trust Is Not Trustworthy

Konstantin Grakow

The website WOT Web of Trust says they have already more than 35 million worldwide users. But how wonder: The page is still prominently downright imposed to the users by Mozilla Firefox browser with the help of best placements in the ad-on List. But, the voices distrust the WOT increase - and for good reason. netz-trends.de will try to explain why. The concern of "WOT - Web of Trust" is perfectly legitimate - namely, to provide guidance on the web. With the help of Mozilla Firefox the ad-on "WOT