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Kontron is to acquire Fujitsu's Augsburg-based motherboard factory. Fujitsu wanted to close the location completely. Kontron will manufacture motherboards for industrial applications and robots. It is one of the last computer factories…

Google has asked the data protection officer in Hamburg whether it can publish images on Street View without Germans being able to object in advance. Google is also trying to get permission on a European level.The Hamburg data protection…

The Court of Justice in Luxembourg has ruled that there are no EU rules that preclude an obligation for hosting providers such as Facebook to remove comments that are closely related to previous comments that have been declared illegal.The…

In Australia, Facebook will hide the amount of Likes a message receives from the outside world. Instead, only the users who posted the message can see it. Facebook wants to use this test to see what the consequences are for mental…

Facebook has started making available its Clear History tool, which allows users to unlink information Facebook has collected about them. The tool was announced more than a year ago and is now available in three countries.The tool will be…

Spotify is making innovations in its Family subscription. Beginning in the fall, admins will have the option to manage an explicit content filter for all individual accounts. There will also be a Family Mix, a playlist for the whole…

Ireland's privacy watchdog is investigating whether European Instagram users have been affected by a scraping case. It concerns Hyp3r, a former partner of Instagram. Hyp3r has stolen quite a bit of data, probably including data from…

Plex has released version 1.16.2.1297 of Plex Media Server. This version was previously available to holders of the paid PlexPass, but can now be downloaded by anyone. Plex Media Server is a media server for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD,…

On Thursday, the French Senate approved the proposal for a so-called gafa tax: a tax on large tech companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. The US has criticized the plans.The plans, approved by the French Senate on Thursday,…

We all know very well that the well-known Chinese smartphone maker, Huawei is going through a complicated situation after the prohibition of the United States government, which led to it that the company has reconsidered its entire…