Netzwelt is a technology-related news website run by Netzwelt GmbH. The site, which bills itself "Guter Rat auf einen Klick." (Good advice at a click.), features consumer electronics and software, as well as user-generated content in a popular forum. With up to 10 million page impressions, Netzwelt is one of the top five IT websites in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Austria and Switzerland. The two founders, Dirk and Sascha Hottes, founded Netzwelt in early 1999 in Darmstadt

Darmstadt

Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...

. 2003, Netzwelt moved it's headquarters to Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

. In 2008, Netzwelt was awarded the Hamburger Gründer Champion (founder champion). The music news division called Akuma was sold in December 2010, focussing on Netzwelt as the core platform for the company behind it.