Some products are in high demand because they are so special and advanced. Germany's medical equipment industry, for example, exports two thirds of its output. And machinery made in Germany is snapped up around the world.

They are at the forefront of industry and will radically change manufacturing: 3-D printers. Replacement parts will no longer be sent through complicated and expensive logistics chains. Instead, they will be produced on-site with 3-D.

Jazz musicians earn an average of 12,500 euros a year. In Berlin, gigs are especially hard to find. Professional musicians with diplomas and experience often earn less than 50 euros a night. How do jazz musicians balance passion and profit?

Nicolas Zimmer, Head of the Technology Foundation Berlin, and the Federation of German Startups tells us about the challenges and goals for the digital workplace of the future.

Flixbus has come to dominate the long-distance bus market in Germany, with a 90% share. It has huge pricing power and is a threat to its few remaining competitors. It is expanding across Europe. How has it managed to be so successful so fast?

Where there is a monopoly, competition is absent. Where a firm dominates a market, competition is curtailed. For consumers, that can mean rising prices and inferior quality. Competition authorities seek to maintain or restore competition to markets.

KTG was the first farming company to be listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange. It owned 46,000 hectares of land. Then it went belly-up. Investors lost their money. What went so horribly wrong?

A Berlin start-up has devised technology to deliver clean sound to specific parts of a space. At train stations, that could mean actually understanding the announcements. See how it works.

Tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Amazon are hugely powerful. Are they monopolies? Have they attained market dominance? Do antitrust authorities need to intervene? The former head of Germany’s Monopolies Commission, Daniel Zimmer, has the answers.

Bushy or smooth, that is the question. Beards are very in among hipsters. But what about businessmen? May they or may they not? DW’s Gerhard Elfers tackles the thorny issue. A master barber gives his blessing, but warns that certain versions are barbaric.