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Nextcloud in the Wall Street Journal: Microsoft and cookies

Nextcloud was covered in a Wall Street Journal article, “Microsoft Goes on Offensive in Europe to Combat Cloud Concerns.” It covers a range of challenges Microsoft is facing, and how it employs its army of lawyers and lobbyist to push back. As the article explains,...

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Galileo Presents Nextcloud as Major Challenger of Microsoft

Galileo, one of Germany’s most popular television programs, just released a new episode covering Nextcloud as a major competitor against Microsoft’s cloud services. In the episode, reporter Vincent Dehler states, «there are only a few big players in the cloud business, and that’s exactly what...

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The European Commission praises Nextcloud as a Role Model for the Open-Source Businesses

Last September, the European Commission published a comprehensive study about the impact of open-source software and hardware on the EU economy. The main breakthrough of this study is that open-source benefits the public good and that it increases technological independence, competitiveness, and innovation in the...

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Plan your next trip with Nextcloud Maps! New Features!

Planning a trip with friends? Need to stay organized? Look no further than Nextcloud *now* collaborative Maps! At our recent NextGov Hackathon, Arne Hamann from Germany had a clear goal for his idea: make the maps app collaborative. Prior, the features were minimal, and there...

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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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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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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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