Yahoo (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: YHO) are still in time for Christmas, a study on shopping behavior of its users for the best. Up to 200 € the Yahoo users want to spend, according to a user analysis of the site for Christmas shopping on the Internet. The bad news: The main onslaught was already in [...]

Scout24 group claims to have done in the current quarter to break even. As the company announced today stand in the fourth quarter, the cash break-even into the house. Since its inception three years ago we have been able to increase sales up to around 65 million euros in 2002.The unlisted company will in future [...]

COMMENT – credit where credit is due. Web services are a real innovation, the first one from Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF). Usually the creativity of the Gates Company to other companies for ideas to rebuild itself and its own marketing. Thus MS-DOS (known initially as quick and dirty operating system QDOS) in the core, [...]

Infineon (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: IFX) falls into the ranks of companies that are considering because of the allegedly high tax burden in this country to pull out of Germany. “We want long term and can not accept that we pay for the part twice as high taxes as our competitors,” citing the “Financial Times Germany,” [...]

First of all: There is no satisfactory answer to the cost of web services. Companies who want to run they receive, depending on the type of application solutions free from the Internet or in extreme cases, this must-million dollar development projects are undertaken. This span is related to that Web services still is no functioning [...]

paid content on the web sit through ever stronger and reported continued strong growth – this is the conclusion of the Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ), who took power together with the technology consultancy Sapient, the market for paid-for web content under the microscope. In the first three quarters of this year were the [...]

The former Mannesmann chief executive Frank Esser is of Cegetel. Then, the management has agreed on Friday in Paris. The 44-year-old economist was from 1988 until 2000 in the service of man’s man. Prior to its takeover by Vodafone Esser was responsible for business development. He then moved to Cegetel, where he was responsible since [...]

In the third year of the stock market crisis takes Direkt Anlage Bank (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DRN) before further deep cuts in order to suppress their cost: The Munich-based bank has confirmed press reports that all investment center to be closed. This affects operations in Dresden, Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin. “It is as painful as [...]

Web.de (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: WE9) now offers its registered club members a free file-sharing option. The free e-mail users, the new service from 19 December are available. The new service is aimed primarily at users who want to make their digital pictures on the net for certain user groups. With “Friends & Family 1.0″ should [...]

The online store Pearl has the “Q-Sonic MMB3000″ a portable MP3 player with integrated CD-burner on sale for € 239.90. The player is supplied in leather bag can burn the CD-DA format, CD-R XA, VCD, CD-I, CD-Extra, CD-Text to eight centimeters in diameter mini CD-Rs and CD-RW (200 MB). The writing speed of 145 times [...]

developer of open source development project, gave an update of its mono. Net version free. Other programmers can use it to Microsoft. Net write applications for Linux and Unix systems. Mono is behind such reports, the company Ximian, which in turn is supported by SCO, formerly Caldera. The aim of Ximian is an open source [...]

The U.S. film industry united in the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has filed against home users in eight U.S. states civil lawsuits. Reason is the alleged trading of pirated DVDs in online auctions. So far the film industry only to content pirates had taken the courts to have acted illegally on the internet [...]

The ten largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world want to dispose of their mobile phones in future environmental regulations. The companies – including Siemens (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SIE), Nokia (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: NOA3) and Philips – signed in Geneva on Thursday to a commitment, after which they take back used phones and recycle. The [...]

Amazon (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AMZ) is no longer number one in online holiday shopping season, if we are to believe a study by Goldman Sachs and Harris Interactive: So does eBay (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EBY), a leading position in the virtual Christmas rush, reported, “Spiegel Online”. However, the figures with caution to enjoy: The ranking [...]

Leisure is dear to the Germans. Last year, consumers spent according to a study by the Institute of German Economy (IW) in Cologne, a quarter of their household budget on leisure activities. Altogether more than 280 billion euros flowed into the non-working time. With 110 billion euros could jump the Germans for the lion’s share [...]