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Industry news & Market trends November 2, 2018

New innovation campus in Berlin

Siemens will realize its innovation campus in Berlin with investments of around 600 million euros. Is that good?

Industry news & Market trends November 1, 2018

Lower VAT for digital press coming

The EU approves low VAT for digital press: Printed books, newspapers and magazines have so far been subject to the reduced VAT rate in Europe, ...

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Industry news & Market trends November 1, 2018

New Spotify balance sheet: 'only' 4 million paying new customers in the third quarter

Does Apple's marketing power now leave its mark? In the September quarter, the second accounting period since the IPO, the Swedish streaming pioneer Spotify continued ...

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Industry news & Market trends November 1, 2018

Big head start for the small dealers?

The gap in sales development between independent booksellers and chain stores is wide from 1 January to 28 October 2018. While the independent product ranges ...

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Industry news & Market trends October 27, 2018

Remedy through a new law: self-employed persons should be able to afford health insurance in future

Many self-employed people have so far often switched to private health insurance because the statutory carnken funds were too expensive - and ended up in ...

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Industry news & Market trends October 27, 2018

IBB presents updated sustainability report

How 'sustainable' is Berlin? The Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) presents a second update of its first sustainability report from 2016. The report contains, among other things, ...

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Tagesspiegel October 26, 2018

6.3 million euros for the Exile Museum

The collection of art dealer Bernd Schultz will be auctioned off for the benefit of the new Berlin Exilmuseum.

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Tagesspiegel October 17, 2018

100 million euros for the digitisation of German film heritage

Ten million every year: The Federal Film Board, the State Ministry of Culture and the federal states finance the digitisation of Germany's film heritage.

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Tagesspiegel September 24, 2018

Must Berlin invest more in culture?

At least that's what Culture Senator Klaus Lederer demands in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung. You can find the complete interview here:

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IHK September 18, 2018

Gross advertising revenues in radio increased by EUR 1.8 billion

In the first eight months of 2018, gross advertising revenues in radio increased to EUR 1.18 billion compared to the previous year's level (EUR 1.15 ...

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IHK September 14, 2018

New Copyright Directive: What does this mean for publishers?

The EU Parliament has now presented its member states a new copyright directive. This includes an ancillary copyright law according to which large web platforms have ...

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IHK September 13, 2018

How much does it cost to work with influencers?

There is hardly a topic where the supposed experts are so far apart. Who would like to co-operate with Influencern, should identify the Influencer suitable ...

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Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa September 7, 2018

First interim assessment of the "Berlin Open to the World" initiatives

First balance of the initiative "Weltoffenes Berlin" launched by the Berlin Senate: 500,000 euros are available annually to the Senate Department for Culture and Europe ...

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Berliner Zeitung September 4, 2018

And what's more, is there an abundance of art in Berlin?

The Berliner Zeitung asks this question today. It even concludes: "The event culture feeds and eats its children". But is that true?

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Industry news & Market trends August 28, 2018

Pop Culture Festival 2018: How was it?

10,000 visitors flocked to this year's Pop Culture Festival in Berlin from August 15 to 17. We were there ourselves as media partners - and ...

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Industry news & Market trends August 26, 2018

Who is coworking worthwhile for?

They are praised as a work paradise for millennials and are intended to combine networking opportunities with flexibility: Coworking offices have established themselves as a ...

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Tagesspiegel August 22, 2018

Berlin's cultural autumn is getting hot

Museum Night, Art Week, Citizens' Festival, Revolution: one big cultural event follows another in Berlin in autumn.

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Industry news & Market trends August 21, 2018

BVMI Half Year Report 2018: Audio streaming overtakes the CD

In the first half of 2018, audio streaming (+35.2 percent) overtook the CD and is now - as in other markets - the largest revenue ...

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Industry news & Market trends August 15, 2018

New: GLS Bank promotes sustainable start-ups with capital, know-how and contacts

After the Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Business announced in June the opening of Investitionsbank Berlin | IBB's financing programs for social entrepreneurs, GLS ...

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Tagesspiegel July 19, 2018

Federal, state and district do not want to spend money on Exile Museum

Monika Grütters and Klaus Lederer do not offer any financial support for the private exile museum at Anhalter Bahnhof.

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Industry news & Market trends July 18, 2018

New Market Trends for the Music Industry: CD loses, Downloads going down, Streaming growths

Audio streaming is currently the largest revenue segment in the music industry. This is the result of the new half-yearly report by the Federal Association of ...

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Industry news & Market trends July 9, 2018

Dawanda closes: Berlin's online marketplace for handmade gives up

Hands can do. They create something new. People make things happen with their hands. But now the Berlin online marketplace for handmades, Dawanda, closes. What ...

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