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Ukraine Comment: a Reformer against deadlock in Kiev Missing in Ukraine, the courage and the will to make real changes? Political hopefuls give up in frustration. And much more is currently wrong. The reform process is in danger of failing, writes Bernd Johann. Under President Petro Poroshenko is coming Ukraine is not progressing Almost two…

Balance sheet Rubelverfall burdened Metro The crisis in Russia holds the German retail group Metro next in breath. The weak rouble has the Christmas verhagelt. A delight to Vietnam. The strong in Eastern Europe dedicated commercial giant was recorded in the first quarter of 2015/16 with the crucial Christmas period a decrease of the operating…

Church Commentary: A historic encounter The Meeting between the Pope and the Russian Patriarch to Cuba must be the way to a dialogue on the unity of the Orthodox and the Catholic Church, pave, says our Gastkommentator Konstantin von Eggert. Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest of all the Orthodox churches…

Science Scientists observe for the first time, gravitational waves It is a Jahrhunderterfolg: space explorers according to their own by Albert Einstein 100 years ago, predicted gravitational waves for the first time directly demonstrated. The astrophysicists from gravitational-wave Observatory LIGO presented their nobelpreisverdächtige discovery in Washington. Gravitational waves occur, especially when large objects like stars…

Culture “Babylon Berlin”: Tom Tykwer turns TV series with Rekordbudget TV series “Made in Germany” are on the best way to the quality brand to be international. Now comes a million project: Tom Tykwer filmed in the Directors team, a crime Thriller-best-seller. The three Directors of the new television series: Hendrik Handloegten, Tom Tykwer, Achim…

IMF IMF Boss Lagarde inherits itself She was instrumental in the tough negotiations with Greece involved. In their home country France it is under pressure. But now a second term of office of Christine Lagarde, nothing in the way. “Prudent Krisenmanagerin”: IMF chief Christine Lagarde (file picture) The French Ex-Minister Christine Lagarde has good prospects…

Development cooperation A Million Jobs through development projects The Entwicklungsfinanzierer DEG has in the past year, fewer new funds for private investment in developing countries is promised as in the previous year. Nevertheless, sees the Institute as “Krisengewinnler”. The recently weaker economic activity in many Parts of the world also has the new business of…

Space Einstein was right! It needs the Nobel prize. US-researchers from the LIGO Observatory have announced that for the first time gravitational waves beobachet. A great Moment for science and for the net. To this message the world has hingefiebert – and yet they are actually no longer surprised. For whatever reason, otherwise you would…

Nigeria Gaucks Nigeria-travel: economic opportunities and moving moments For four days, was Federal President Joachim Gauck in Nigeria on the go. He met people before Boko Haram flee – and the richest man in Africa. Adrian Kriesch and Jan-Philipp Scholz have accompanied him. Warm welcome for the President to be in a refugee camp More…

Bundesliga Is Stuttgart’s series against Hertha? Four times in a row, Stuttgart in the Bundesliga last won the Abstiegszone away. Now, waiting with Hertha is a tough one. Particularly motivated is on the Berlin page, an Ex-Stuttgart. 3:1, 3:1, 2:1 and 4:2 – the victories of VfB Stuttgart from the last four League games against…

Lenovo will Motorola brand for more expensive smartphones. That leaves a senior official of the Chinese manufacturer to know in an interview. It is unknown what that means for the popular Moto G-line from Motorola. The ceo says in the interview with business newspaper, The Wall Street Journal at the consumer electronics show CES that…

Netgear at CES two new nas models in its ReadyNAS line announced. Both the ReadyNAS 202 with 2 bays if the ReadyNAS 204 with 4 bays, it has a dualcore ARM-soc. According to Netgear the storage throughput speeds up to 200MB/s. The ReadyNAS 202 features an Annapurna AL212 ARM-soc. It is going to be a…

Manufacturer LG at the consumer electronics show CES a screen for a smartphone display that extends on both sides of the housing. This is the prototype further than the screen of Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, only on the right side of the mill. The screen to curve the sides, where it connects to the rest…

Toshiba has announced a 2.5″hdd announced with four platters of 750GB each, for a total storage capacity of 3TB. In addition, the company has a new sshd from which the nand controller is part of the hdd extensively. The capacity of 3TB of the MQ03ABB is, according to Toshiba, the top of a 2.5″drive so…

The independent gameontwikkelaar Zombie Studios closes after more than twenty years of its doors. One of the most famous titles in the last years of the studio have appeared, is Blacklight: Retribution. From the studio flows the company Builder Box to continue, that the employees takes over. Over twenty years ago was the gamestudio founded,…

Twenty Dutch data centres have united in the stichting Dutch Datacenter Association. The companies do this in a single batch of forms, for example, negotiations with the government. The foundation was founded by, among others, BT, BIT, Equinix, Eurofiber, EvoSwitch, KPN, Interconnect, TelecityGroup, The Datacenter Group and TCN. At the beginning of this year would…

Vuzix has signed a deal with Nokia, the company that smartglasses produces may use the navigation service Here. This competes with the M100 from Vuzix with the Google Glass, the smart glasses from Google. Nokia Here is the primary kaartendienst of the M100 from Vuzix, as stated in the announcement. Unlike the Google Glass, the…

The American reisbeoordelingssite TripAdvisor takes over Dutch restaurantsite Iens. That is, both firms have announced. What are the consequences of the acquisition for users of both sites, it is not yet known. The acquisition includes both Iens as SeatMe, the reserveringsbedrijf which Iens in 2012, it merged. TripAdvisor says that the acquisition is more growth…

AMD is demonstrating at CES a laptop with a Carrizo-apu. The-up chip designer showed, among other things, that a system with the apu is capable of 4k video on the basis of the h265 codec smooth to play. In addition to the laptop there were more systems with Carrizo chips from AMD, claims Anandtech. The…

MediaTek has during the consumentenelektronicabeurs CES a soc announced, which is specifically designed for wearables that run on the Android Wear software from Google. The manufacturer uses a Cortex-A7 in combination with a Mali 400 MP gpu. MediaTek speaks in the announcement about the MT2601. The soc is a dual-core based on ARM’s Cortex A7…

Tourism Germany is popular with tourists as never The Boom in the Germany-tourism has 2015 continues. The past year brought the sixth Übernachtungsrekord in a row. This is primarily due to guests from abroad. Holiday in Germany is becoming more and more popular. The number of Overnight stays of domestic and foreign guests between Flensburg…

Asia Sierens China: in Cash in the year of the monkey More and more Chinese give Neujahrsgeld digital and no longer in the red envelope. This is so cool, that even the Communist party participates, says DW columnist Frank Umbrella. The highlight of every Chinese Neujahrsessens in the family always ends with the Presentation of…