Author: DER SPIEGEL

“No ads” was once the mantra of the founders of WhatsApp. Now, the service has announced it will be introducing advertisements. Chats, though, are to be kept ad-free. DER SPIEGEL spoke with WhatsApp head Will Cathcart about the plans.

With the iPhone 16e, Apple has launched a new middle-class device. The 5G chip it uses was largely developed in Munich. DER SPIEGEL spoke with those behind the novelty.

Ever since Elon Musk threw his support behind the right-wing AfD party in the pages of Die Welt, the paper and the Axel Springer publishing house has had a newsroom revolt on its hands. CEO Mathias Döpfner’s apparent courtship of Musk may have been behind the stunt.

Already facing significant headwinds, VW has now been hit by a data protection nightmare. Location data from 800,000 electric vehicles and contact info from owners was accessible unprotected on the internet. And the company didn’t even know about it.

In an interview, Barry Eichengreen, one of the most renowned economists in the U.S., expresses deep concerns about the second administration of Donald Trump. Europe, he says, could face stiff economic head winds from Washington.

China and the U.S. are isolating their economies and supporting industry with billions in subsidies. Will the German economy be crushed between the two blocs? Domestic industry faces tough choices.

VW was hoping to rake in billions in profits from its U.S. operations. Now, though, it is looking like the company’s all-electric plan for the region will create steep losses instead.

August Hanning, the former president of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND, finds himself in the spotlight once again. Reporting by DER SPIEGEL has unveiled a series of questionable advisory engagements he has undertaken since leaving public office.

The Intellexa Alliance is the name of the shady group of European companies that supplies dictators and despots with cyberweapons. The mass spyware attacks have also been lucrative for some in Germany.

Danish researcher Lotte Bjerre Knudsen is regarded as the inventor of the weight loss injections that made Novo Nordisk Europe’s most valuable and one of its most-hyped companies. In an interview, she discusses the revolution spawned by the drugs.