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"Super-Toxic" E.Coli Strain Kills 18 In Europe
A virulent strain of antibiotic-resistant E.coli has left 18 dead in Europe, left over 1,800 sick, and touched off a continent-wide scare against all produce, suspected to be the source of the...
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German Sprouts Not Deadly E.coli Culprit, Initial Tests Show
German sprouts are not the cause of the deadly e.coli outbreak that has killed 22 and sickened over 2,000, according to initial tests of samples from a farm that a German agriculture minister had...
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Stocks Tumble On Renewed Fears Of Greek Default
US markets fell 200 points on news that Greece could be on the precipice of defaulting on its debt. Wait, haven’t they been talking about that all summer? Yes, but this comes after the Germans, key...
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Somewhere, There’s A Massive, Chocolatey, Delicious Black Market For Nutella
(urgent_98) As mass-market food products go, chocolate-hazelnut spread and noted health food Nutella is pretty expensive per ounce. So it’s not really surprising that thieves made off with more than...
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German Brewers Fight Fracking To Maintain Purity Of Beer
(blissed0and0gone)Fracking — the process of obtaining natural gas and other resources through the use of hydraulic fracturing — is a controversial and divisive issue, with proponents claiming it is a...
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Germany Bans Uber’s Ride-Sharing Service, Threatens $328,225 Fine Per Ride
When your company’s goal is to disrupt the entire livery industry, current taxi and other car-for-hire operators and livery regulators are not going to like you very much. The idea of a car-sharing...
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Business At Uber In Germany Is Booming, Thanks To Publicity From Ban
Yesterday, we shared the news that ride-sharing service Uber had been banned in Germany. The company’s service that lets people summon a limo with a smartphone was fine, but the peer-to-peer,...
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Germany Un-Bans UberPop, Ride-Sharing Rolls On
Uber is a smartphone app that connects people in need of a ride with drivers willing to accept money in exchange for rides. Or it’s a fancied-up taxi dispatch service that’s out to destroy the world’s...
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What Do You Mean, This German Beer Was Brewed In Missouri?
You can’t really blame reader Nathan for thinking that Beck’s beer comes from Germany. Until just a few years ago, it was an import. Then InBev, the brand’s owner, acquired Anheuser Busch, and with...
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Uber Wants To Hire German Taxi Drivers, Not Fight With Them
(So Cal Metro)Uber is best known as an app that dispatches limos, black cars, or regular drivers in regular cars to wherever you and your smartphone are, but has a less-known feature called UberTaxi....
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Woman Allegedly Squirted Breast Milk At Pharmacy Staff, Then Stole Money
(Tambako The Jaguar)When you need to distract someone in order to steal money, simply use what you have at hand. A woman in Germany allegedly stole cash from a pharmacy earlier this week after she...
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Coca-Cola Pulls Fanta Ad Suggesting Nazi Germany Was “Good Old Times”
In a recent video recounting the birth of Fanta soft drinks, Coca-Cola explains that its German operation had trouble getting cola-making ingredients to the country’s bottling plants 75 years ago,...
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Germany Bans Uber For Second Time, Fines Company $264,825 For Each Violation
Uber’s fight to transport customers in Germany hit yet another roadblock today as it was banned from operating within the country for the second time in 12 months. And this time, if the company breaks...
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McDonald’s Introduces Table Service In Germany For Some Reason
(Mike Mozart)Imagine that you’re visiting a large restaurant at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. You take a seat and give your order to a roving server, who taps it into a tablet computer and takes...
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Amazon & DHL Testing Delivery To Customers’ Car Trunks
Amazon will begin testing a new delivery method that allows couriers to place packages to the trunk of customers’ cars. It’s not uncommon for consumers to shuttle around packages and shopping bags in...
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McDonald’s Now Offering A 100% Organic Burger… In Germany
In an attempt to turn around sluggish sales and capture the always desirable millennial market, McDonald’s has introduced new and revised old menu items: offering kale, beefing up the Quarter Pounder,...
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Report: Volkswagen Knew Of “Defeat Devices” Eight Years Before EPA Action
An internal review spurred by the emissions scandal that has engulfed Volkswagen over the past week found that the carmaker knew that so-called “defeat devices,” used to trick emissions tests, were...
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Germany Asks Tesla To Rename “Misleading” Autopilot Feature
Two months ago, Tesla revised its website in China to make it more clear that the company’s Autopilot assisted-steering feature is not a fully hands-off autonomous driving function. Now, German...
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Facebook: There Is No “Wonder Machine” To Automatically Detect Hate Speech,...
Social media services like Facebook and Twitter have taken a lot of heat in recent years over many of the hateful things their users share with the rest of the world. Some have accused these companies...
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German Officials Tell Parents To Destroy Doll That Records Conversations
Late last year, research indicated that certain toys may be collecting audio recording and personal information from children and sending that data to a company that used the information to improve the...
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