Virtually everyone online in France, the UK and Germany use e-mail to communicate with friends and family.
The Stoxx Europe 600 utilities index ended down 0.5%, led lower by Germany's E.
The commission had a big win in getting the Spanish government to drop its opposition to the bid by Germany's E.
Since the E. coli outbreak in Germany last month, killing at least 36 people and sickening more than 3, 000, many have been leery of anything green.
Not surprisingly, the deadly E. coli outbreak in Germany has generated a steady stream of comment by American officials and media on similar U.S. vulnerability.
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The Germany segment includes E-Plus, Blau Mobilfunk and Magnum.
When Scottish Power found a new chief executive officer and "fresh perspective" in the person of Philip Bowman early this year, there was widespread speculation of a deal with Germany's E.
In February it rebuffed appeals by Germany's e.
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But this E. coli, the outbreak in Germany, what is the level of concern here?
France and Germany are still opposed to such E-bonds, but others in Europe are willing to discuss them.
Germany's health minister says new E. coli infections from a deadly outbreak are dropping significantly and the worst of the illness is over.
Germany, too, is preparing legislation requiring e-mails and website-address records to be retained.
Earlier this year, when BGI sequenced the strain of E. coli that had infected 3, 000 people in Germany, it instantly posted the data online, enabling a global crowdsourced analysis that identified the strain within a week.
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Florian Mueller, a German-based analyst in IP law who writes the FOSS Patents blog, thinks the court will probably keep the Galaxy Tab ban in place for Germany, but not for the rest of the E.
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Since 2000, productivity-adjusted wages have increased by about 5% in Germany while rising between 25% and 40% in other E.
Attempts to classify e-cigarettes as a medicinal product have been made in Holland and Germany but the industry successfully overturned the decisions in court.
Forrester expects Britain and Germany to go into the same hyper-growth stage of e-business about two years after America, with Japan, France and Italy a further two years behind.
Three-times world champions Germany are drawn with Cameroon, Ireland and Saudi Arabia in group E for the finals.
For U.S. investors without the wherewithal to jump around in international equties, there are exchange-traded funds like the iShares MSCI Germany Index Fund, which counts Siemens, power and gas company E.
Outside of France, Vin Santo in Italy (Isole e Olena is a favorite) and the glorious high-acidity Rieslings found in Germany are worth exploring.
That means focusing on investment banking, serving rich individuals and e-commerce, and cutting back traditional retail banking, in which margins in Germany are painfully thin.
Joyn is so far available only in Spain, although it is due to be launched in Germany in October and South Korean operators and others are expected to start RCS-e services soon.
Among other things, Habibie spent the morning e-mailing his 36-year-old son Ilham Akbar, who was born in Germany, a message in fluent German, urging him not to worry about the day's events and to go to bed.
Another talking point from the summit is that Germany is starting to form its own disparate view of policy vs. the other nations in the e uro zone.
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