Google abandons planned Berlin office hub

(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 4, 2018 A woman sits next to a graffiti reading 'Google You Informer!' in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. - Silicon Valley giant Google said on October 24, 2018 it would not be setting up its campus in the bohemian Berlin district of Kreuzberg following local protests against it. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Campaigners in a bohemian district of Berlin celebrated Oct 24 after Internet giant Google abandoned strongly-opposed plans to open a large campus there. 

The US firm had planned to set up an incubator for startup companies in Kreuzberg, one of the older districts in the west of the capital.