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EU cloud providers subject to lock-in with Microsoft due to new strategy

Fair competition is essential to a healthy business ecosystem, yet tech giants seem to believe they can work around it using their market dominance and various anti-competitive activities. Microsoft tries to lock-in EU CSPs 3 weeks ago, Microsoft announced a new strategy shift with the...

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The new Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework fails to make US cloud services GDPR compliant

On Friday, March 25th the White House announced the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy framework. The Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework is the most recent scheme on how data privacy should be managed on an international level between the EU and US. As stated in the official White...

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All about Collectives: its founders, mission, and use cases. Create a Collective today!

The story of how it began It’s true that many successful business ideas originate out of a need for something that is lacking. The same goes for Collectives, where innovators Max and Jonas recognized that the existing open source options to self-organize a community project...

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Data protection: Microsoft 365 banned in Baden-Württemberg’s schools. Suitable alternatives exist!

The education sector has had to make many adjustments in the past years due to the covid-19 pandemic, new GDPR regulations, and more innovative ways of teaching instruction and learning in general. Switching to online learning has its benefits, however it comes with its own...

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Major improvements for Nextcloud clients: Nextcloud Files 3.5 for desktop and 3.20 for Android

As a digital event streamed worldwide, the Nextcloud team introduced the availability of Nextcloud Hub 24, the first major product launch this year and the 24th major software release. As with all major releases, we also introduce exciting releases of Nextcloud Files for desktop and...

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GDPR compliant collaboration coming to 750K students, teachers and researchers in Sweden

European researchers are up to date with modern cloud storage solutions, however struggle to find one that is safe, secure, and that meets compliance standards. SUNET, a Swedish company, found a solution to providing a GDPR compliant service through their provider Safespring. Today, we can...

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Featuring Bookmarks, the app that organizes your favorite bookmarks into folders, by Marcel Klehr

Do you like to bookmark your favorite web pages, videos, and more for later? Many would say yes, but how do you keep them all organized? The solution: the Nextcloud App Bookmarks! Bookmarks sorts all of your favorite and most important bookmarks into folders, so...

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Stadtsparkasse Munich facilitates customer data exchange with Nextcloud by HKN

As one of the oldest banks in Germany, Stadtsparkasse Munich has gone through many groundbreaking changes since its founding in 1824. From introducing cashless payment transactions in 1899, to converting to a computerized electronic data processing system between 1968 and 1971, they have always put...

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