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Need a free train ride? Just watch these adverts
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A new app launched in Düsseldorf allows those without cash on hand the chance for get a transit ticket for free, simply by watching four promotional videos.

What businessman Trump will mean for German business
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Billionaire Donald Trump slid into the presidency on a wave of support bolstered by his perceived business prowess. But German and other international investors have major concerns about what he will mean for their own business future.

This is how much startup geeks earn in Germany
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A comprehensive new survey of 143 startup founders shows how much you are likely to be earning at a German startup, from entry level all the way up to sitting on the board.

London v. Berlin: Which is better for startups?
Photos: London skyline from Pexels.com, Berlin skyline by Thomas Wolf/Wikimedia Commons.

How do London and Berlin compare when it comes to creating or working for a startup? This comparison might help you decide.

Opinion
How the Berlin startup scene is wasting its potential
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"The truth is, there really isn't a truly successful international Berlin startup."

Six weird things I've learned working for Berlin startups
A tech firm in Berlin. Photo: DPA.

Italian expat Federico Prandi explains what the biggest surprises were for him when he first started working in Berlin's growing tech scene.

German tech millionaire dies in Slovenia plane crash
Thomas Wagner. Photo: DPA

Four Germans were killed in Slovenia on Thursday when their small plane crashed, local police said, with internet millionaire Thomas Wagner confirmed as being among them.

Berlin liberals woo London startups with cheeky placard
Photo courtesy FDP Facebook page

Keep calm and move to Berlin: Germany's liberal party are rubbing salt into London's Brexit wounds by wooing startups with a mobile billboard.

Brexit vote
'Over 100,000 Brits' flood Berlin job site after Brexit vote
"Searching for job." Photo: DPA.

A German job-hunting website reported getting four times the amount of traffic from the UK that it normally does in the wake of the Brexit vote.

Brexit vote
Brexit will turn Berlin into 'Europe’s startup capital'
A sign in Berlin's tech giant and startup-building company Rocket Internet. Photo: DPA.

London is currently thought of as the main hub for startups in Europe, but that will all turn around when the UK leaves the EU, tech industry experts say.

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