TrekStor GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer of portable storage products, audio devices and

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s incorporated in 2001 and located in

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The company is primarily known for its

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s and

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. TrekStor is a well-known brand of digital media players in Germany. Major sub-brands are DataStation, MovieStation, and . In August 2007 they were the subject of a brief controversy due to the name of the latest of their

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series, the , which is pronounced as "I beat

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." After this was pointed out, they soon renamed the player the TrekStor Blaxx. In July 2009 the company announced its insolvency. However, an investor (TrekStor GmbH now part of Hong-Kong based Telefield International Holdings Limited) http://www.trekstor.de/about-trekstor.html was found and the company could continue its business. In 2010 an eBook reader was released. TrekStor also develops its own series of

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