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The Duracell Bunny we are not

July 25, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness Tags: , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Thanks again, China.

German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications – German battery manufacturer Varta has filed four ​insolvency applications, a spokesperson for ‌the Stuttgart district court said on Friday, marking another setback for ​the company.

Reuters reported on ​Thursday that Varta planned to ⁠file for insolvency after ​its shareholders sports car maker ​Porsche AG and Austrian investor Michael Tojner declined to provide additional funding ​to the struggling company.

Varta ​now faces a potential breakup: Key creditors, ‌including ⁠Deutsche Bank, intend to take over the profitable household battery business, while Tojner has ​expressed interest ​in ⁠the micro-battery division.

Varta lost its key customer ​in the spring: Apple ​plans ⁠to source the rechargeable “CoinPower” button cells for its AirPods headphones ⁠from ​China in the ​future.

A Secret German Laboratory?

April 18, 2016 By in Heconomy, Hi-tech, High Art, Home Cooking, Humor Tags: , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

An “underground” research facility run by an elite staff of sinister scientist specialist types? Right here in the heart of Berlin?

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Damn. Sounds pretty creepy to me. And I think I even saw that one once, too. Didn’t you? Wasn’t that the one with Michael Caine in it?

Apple could be developing the Apple Car in a secret Berlin lab, according to a report from Frankfurter Allgemeine. The German publication said on Monday that it had “learned from informed sources that Apple is running a secret laboratory for the development of an automobile — and this in the middle of Berlin.”

Wie deutsch wird das Apple-Auto? Eine Denkfabrik aus 20 Branchenexperten soll in Berlin an einem Geschäftsmodell für das iCar arbeiten. Die Pläne sind angeblich schon sehr konkret.

Never Forget That Apple Is Still Evil

February 23, 2015 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hi-tech, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hypocrisy Tags: , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Just like Google, Facebook, eBay, Amazon and all those other hi-tech folks (from US-Amerika).

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But try not to notice that German suppliers raked in two billion euros from Apple last year alone. That would be indelicate or something.

German companies are supplying the glass for Apple’s future Campus 2 “mother ship” in Cupertino, for instance. Glass and Geld (money) don’t stink, I guess.

Apple hat im vergangenen Jahr rund zwei Milliarden Euro an Zulieferer aus Deutschland gezahlt, wie Konzernchef Tim Cook am Montag der Deutschen Presse-Agentur mitteilte. Cook besuchte in Gersthofen bei Augsburg den Glas-Spezialisten Seele, dessen Tochtergesellschaft Sedak die Frontscheiben des neuen Apple-Hauptquartiers in Cupertino liefert. Die eigentliche Fassade inklusive der Sedak-Glasscheiben stammt vom schwäbischen Stahl- und Glas-Spezialisten Josef Gartner aus dem benachbarten Gundelfingen an der Donau.