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Apple’s VP of Europe Pascal Cagni quits after 12 year tenure
Apple’s vice president of Europe Pascal Cagni has reportedly resigned after twelve years at the company, having originally joined in 2000 as a direct appointment by Steve Jobs.
The news comes by way of French newspaper Le Figaro, which reports that ...
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Collaboration software maker Huddle raises $24m from Jafco, WebEx founder and others
Cloud-based collaboration and task management software company Huddle has raised $24 million in Series C financing on the heels of setting up an office in New York, and plans to use the proceeds to triple its team size in the next 12 months.
The round was...
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A new app promises to let anyone use social media sentiment to guide them in the stock market
Derwent Capital Markets raised eyebrows when it launched a hedge fund that used analysis of Twitter to predict movements in the stock market. Now the London-based firm is set to open up its technology for anyone to use via what it’s calling the R...
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Online payments firm Klarna brings two finance industry heavyweights on board
After raising a whopping $155 million in funding from DST, General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital at the end of last year, Swedish online payments company Klarna has brought two heavyweights from the haute finance industry on board – literally.
The co...
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KipCall wants to put phone calls back in fashion, launches on Android
The social calling platform KipCall is now available for Android devices in beta version, the French startup announced during TC Disrupt in New York this week.
As we reported when the company launched its free iOS app last year, KipCall lets you call your...
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Nokia World no longer a big annual event, now multiple ‘intimate’ events; first in Helsinki on 5-6 Sept
Nokia just announced on its Conversations blog that it is moving away from organizing one major annual event to organizing more than one “smaller, more intimate events” over the course of the year.
Each of these smaller events will be ‘t...
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The Guardian’s n0tice launches Open Journalism Toolkit for publishers, brands, communities & developers
The Guardian‘s n0tice project launched last year as an experimental new way of sharing local news and community events. Now the platform behind it is being opened up as a toolkit that publishers, brands, communities and developers can use as part of...
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What’s SUB? Sonos’ new wireless subwoofer. Available from 19 June for €699 (or $699)

The latest hot item to come out of the delicious Sonos kitchen is the SUB, a wireless subwoofer that (well, evidently) integrates with the Sonos System.
The SUB can be placed anywhere in a room – provided there’s a power source – in pre...
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Cloud computing firm Salesforce to add 750 jobs in Europe
At its Cloudforce event in London, enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce today announced that it will add 750 new jobs to its European organization over the next few years.
The company, which offers enterprise solutions based on social, mobile and...
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Communication apps maker yuilop lands $5.75 million in Series A funding
Horribly named yuilop has secured 4.5 million euros (roughly $5.75 million) in Series A funding for its social communication apps for Android and iOS.
Hamburg, Germany-based Shortcut led the round alongside Russian VC Bright Capital (part of RU.COM) and p...
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CanvasDropr: “like a visual Dropbox meets Google Docs for rich media”
One of the most interesting startups that manned a booth at last month’s The Next Web Conference was CanvasDropr, a Danish software company that is hacking together a product that is (and I quote from the email you get when you sign up) a “vis...
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Tears, Tantrums & Tech episode 5: Reality sets in for the accelerator teams [Video]
In part five of our video series following three startups taking part in the Springboard accelerator in London, it’s time to take a look at how the teams are getting on.
What challenges do the team face? This week, Springboard mentor Salim Virani of...
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This Week in Media: From Internet Week NY to YouTube’s 7th Birthday
With the Internet Week taking New York by storm for the last few days, it has been yet another busy week in the media world. Here’s our selection of news and trends that can’t be missed.
Video rules the web – happy birthday, YouTube!
As ...
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Online marketplace notonthehighstreet.com scores $15.8m from Fidelity, Index and Greylock
Notonthehighstreet.com, an online marketplace where you can buy a wide variety of unique products straight from over 3,000 small businesses, this morning announced that it has raised £10 million ($15.8 million) in Series D funding.
The round was led by Fi...
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Tumblr is now available in Portuguese for Portugal and Brazil, its second largest community
Tumblr is now available in Portuguese for Brazil and Portugal, the company announced on its staff blog today. According to the startup, this means that its platform is now available in 11 languages.
To switch to a new language, all you have to do is to go...
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Rovio to launch racing-themed ‘Angry Birds Heikki’ webgame on June 18
Rovio might be looking beyond Angry Birds with the announcement of its new ‘Amazing Alex’ franchise but the company is set to launch a new bird-smashing racing-themed webgame called ‘Angry Birds Heikki’ on June 18. The company has ...
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Flat-Club leverages trust, social networks to facilitate short-term letting; lands funding

Flat-Club, a London startup that enables people to sell and book short-term accommodations in a relatively closed ‘circle of trust’, has secured funding.
The investors joining the Series A financing round are all non-traditional VCs; the lis...
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Fotolia scores $300m in equity, debt financing from PE firm KKR in exchange for 50% stake
First stock imagery site Shutterstock files for a $115 million IPO, and now rival Fotolia is selling 50 percent (note: link goes to a paywalled Financial Times article) of the company to private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR).
KKR, w...
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Europe’s Square rival iZettle to ship 3,000 card readers to UK testers, warms up for summer launch
iZettle is one of the European companies doing what Jack Dorsey’s Square is doing in the United States: trying to convince small businesses and individuals to take card payments with its mobile applications and a custom-built reader.
So far, the mob...
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StartupBootcamp and Campus Party events in Berlin open registration for this year’s excited entrepreneurs
If you’re in the business of tech startups and entrepreneurial spirit in Berlin, there’s a lot coming up that you might want to try. Today, Telefonica and O2 have opened up their European Campus Party and Startupbootcamp has announced that it ...
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Nokia is getting pummeled: Stock price hits staggering low after a 6% nosedive
Troubled Finnish phone maker Nokia saw its stock price take an unusually steep nosedive this morning on market open, dropping about 6.3 percent to 2.35 euros.
Earlier this morning, it even hit an all-time low of 2.34 euros per share.
Yup, Nokia’s de...
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The need for speed: TeliaSonera to build Facebook’s new pan-European optical network
TeliaSonera International Carrier, a 100% subsidiary of Swedish telco TeliaSonera, this morning announced that it has been retained by social networking giant Facebook to both build and operate a new pan-European managed optical network.
The multi-terabit...
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Deals marketplace WhaleShark Media buys French online coupon firm Miwim
WhaleShark Media, an Austin, Texas-based company that aims to create a truly global marketplace for coupons and deals (with backing from Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan and multiple VC firms), has invaded France.
WhaleShark this morning announced that it has...
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Tears, Tantrums & Tech: Episode 4 of our accelerator series: Lion Kings [Video]
In part three of our video series following three startups taking part in the Springboard accelerator in London, we’re looking at Birdback, a startup that wants to help you get more out of your debit or credit card.
With a founding team from Denmark and I...
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It’s not an eelusion: Berlin game studio raises $1.7 million in just 3 weeks
We caught this one rather late, but Berlin, Germany-based mobile games maker eelusion has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. According to the startup, the capital was raised 3 weeks after kicking off its fundraising efforts.
The game studio didn’t...
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Livebookings, Europe’s OpenTable, raises delicious $24 million round
Livebookings, which provides more than 9,000 restaurants with online marketing and real-time reservations services, has secured £15 million (a little over $24 million) in funding from existing investors Balderton Capital, Wellington Partners and Ekstranda...
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O2 announces new mobile roaming tariffs for European travelers, £1.99 for 25MB of data
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s news that EU price caps on mobile data roaming were coming into force from this July, restricting EU networks to charging no more than €0.70 (plus VAT) per megabyte of data, UK operator O2 has announced a new data roa...
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Amazing Alex: Rovio CEO confirms name of Angry Birds successor
The successor to Rovio’s immensely popular Angry Birds franchise will be called ‘Amazing Alex’ and will be based on the iOS game Casey’s Contraptions, launching in the next two months.
Rovio CEO Mikael Hed told presenters on Finnis...
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Farmeron harvests $1.4m from star backers for online farm management tool. Yes, really.
Farmers have needs too, and there aren’t a lot of software developers building the tools they require. Enter Croatian startup Farmeron, whose founder and CEO Matija Kopić I was delighted to meet in London last year (the company is backed by Seedcamp...
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Tripomatic launches iOS app to let holidaymakers plot and plan their daily travel itinerary
Tripomatic was one of the startups demoing their wares at The Next Web’s conference last month [see all our coverage here], and the travel-planner startup has just rolled out its new iOS app.
The Czech Republic-based company launched in 2011 as a We...
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Movie discovery site Moviepilot.com scores $7m from DFJ Esprit, others
Time for yet another Berlin startup to raise funding to fuel international growth.
Moviepilot, the company behind a community-driven personal movie and TV show recommendation and discovery site with the same name, has secured $7 million in a Series B fina...
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The Samwer brothers’ Square clone is called EvoPay, and businesses can already sign up

Rocket Internet, the controversial German startup incubator (lovingly called ‘cloning factory’ by some) that was started by the infamous Samwer brothers, is indeed working on the launch of a credit card reader for tablets and smartphones that...
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Mobile data roaming is set to become a lot cheaper in Europe as new EU price caps roll out
Staying connected as you travel around Europe is about to get a lot cheaper for millions of EU citizens as new European Union price caps on mobile data roaming come into force.
From 1 July 2012, EU mobile operators will be able to charge no more than 70 e...
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Citi pumps $3.3m more into digital payments startup Jumio, at a $130m valuation
Jumio, an innovative digital payments and ID certification solutions provider, has received more funding from Citi Ventures, which is thus joining previous backers Andreessen Horowitz and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin on its rather impressive roster...
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Atomico-backed Silk launches smart search, data visualization tool in open beta
Silk, a Web app that lets users collect, sort and consume information in a structured way, is opening up to the world after attracting 10,000 users to its private beta.
Note: Silk is not to be confused with Amazon’s Silk, which is a mobile Web brows...
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As the Dutch adopt net neutrality laws, let’s all follow suit before we sleepwalk into the ‘Schminternet’
Yesterday, the Netherlands became the first country in Europe to adopt laws that protect net neutrality. The rest of Europe, and indeed most the world, needs to follow suit before we sleepwalk into letting corporations use their deep pockets to gain an un...
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It’s not just Brazil: Apple’s new iPad launching in 30 territories this weekend
The new iPad is coming to 30 additional territories on May 11th and May 12th, Apple announced on its site today. While we already knew that the tablet would become available in Brazil this weekend, it is the first time that the company has confirmed its r...
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Deutsche Telekom debuts Berlin startup incubator, teams with General Assembly [video interview]

This morning at the NEXT Berlin conference, Deutsche Telekom CEO René Obermann formally announced the launch of a new startup incubator called hub:raum, which will start in Berlin but expand to other territories in the future.
In addition, Deutsche Telek...
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Viewbix lands $2 million for its interactive video creation and analytics platform
Viewbix, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based company that offers a nifty interactive video platform and analytics software suite, has raised $2 million in Series A financing in a round led by Canaan Partners with participation from Longfellow Venture Partners.
Viewb...
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Free calling app Viber hits BlackBerry, Windows Phone (but without the free calling)
Viber Media, the company that it is challenging Skype and a plethora of cross-platform communication app makers with its free calling, texting and photo sharing application for mobile phones, is doubling the number of platforms it supports.
Already availa...
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Now powering over 100 APIs, 3scale debuts free self-service API management solution
San Francisco startup 3scale (which was actually born in Spain) is today releasing its free self-service API management platform. The company already powers 100+ APIs and has over 60,000 developers leveraging them to write applications.
3scale, which comp...
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Frommees: This startup creates physical keepsakes for digital content
“Is this the next Web?” asked Frommees‘ self-proclaimed ‘Founding Father’ Martin Brouns, holding aloft a small, coin-shaped piece of recycled plastic. “Is this technologically anything? It doesn’t have a QR code o...
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Angry Birds maker Rovio saw $106.3m in revenues in 2011, prepares to go public

Finnish game studio Rovio, the company behind the successful Angry Birds franchise, this morning reported its financial results for 2011 (via The Guardian).
The company says it booked revenue of 75.4 million euros ($106,3 million) and earned 48 million e...
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How Electionista helps filter through Tweets from current elections in 6 different countries
This weekend sees elections taking place in six different countries, Serbia, Armenia, France, Germany, Italy and Greece.
If you live and work in Europe, these are all important to keep an eye one while the economic crisis rolls on. Each may have a differe...
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Zynga sues Microsoft-backed social gaming startup Kobojo over ‘PyramidVille’ game

Last week, social gaming juggernaut Zynga filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against one of Europe’s leading social games companies, venture-backed Kobojo.
The Paris, France-based social games studio last year released a Facebook game called Py...
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Audiodraft Marketplace: Find music for your media project or startup that no-one else will have
A good piece of music can be a powerful thing when you’re putting together projects like promotional videos or podcasts. The problem is that free music is often poor quality, while easy-to-license, high quality music often ends up getting used by lo...
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Four years after buying Plazes, Nokia axes pioneering location-based social network
Nokia has just sent out an email to users of location-based social network Plazes – though I can’t imagine there were many users still using it – to inform them that the service will be shut down as soon as next week.
Plazes allowed user...
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Tears, Tantrums & Tech: Episode 3 of our accelerator series: Made up [Video]
In part three of our video series following three startups taking part in the Springboard accelerator in London, we’re looking at local service marketplace startup Teddle.
With a founding team who met while working for business consultancy giant Acc...
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Twilio brings its Voice API to 4 new Western European countries
Cloud communications company Twilio is expanding into four new European countries, days after striking a major deal with Microsoft to spread its voice and messaging APIs to developers on the Windows Azure platform.
The San Francisco-based company is toda...
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