worldspy - 13.02.12 02:12 While startups across the world are doing their best to disrupt mobile networks with clever voice call apps, like Viber, there remains the basic issues of actual voice and data access which still requires some chipping away at. It's a particular issue in places like Europe where you can drive for only a couple of hours and cross two or even three...

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worldspy - 08.02.12 23:01 I love it when a startup I've been covering for literally years suddenly finds itself in the spotlight, and for the right reasons. In this case, Skimlinks, originally from London but now with a growing US base, has been revealed as powering the affiliate links behind Pinterest, one of the hottest startups on the map right now.

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worldspy - 08.02.12 03:25 For many technology startups today, Silicon Valley remains the quintessential place to look towards for inspiration, trends and - for some - a place to set up shop at some point in their startup's life cycle. That remains true of some European entrepreneurs as well.

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worldspy - 01.02.12 12:26 Berlin-based startup 6Wunderkinder has just launched their private beta for their productivity suite Wunderkit. This is an extension to their simple, yet well designed task list manager Wunderlist, which was acclaimed both by early adopters and users.

With Wunderkit the startup is now taking a next step.

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worldspy - 01.02.12 12:02 With the huge rise in the consumption of online video it follows that services to monetize that video are becoming hot properties. To that end, today Videoplaza, a 'sell side' ad management platform for video, has secured a Series B round of $12million led by Qualcomm Ventures and Innovacom.

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worldspy - 31.01.12 13:27 Way back in 2009 there was no large event dedicated to technology startups in the UK. TechCrunch, under Mike Arrington, was busy trying to get its TechCrunch50/Disrupt programme going in the US, and outside of local meetups, the TC event juggernaut still had yet to arrive in Europe.

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worldspy - 27.01.12 17:28 Olery, an Amsterdam-based startup that offers reputation management and media monitoring tools for the leisure industry, has raised 750,000 euros ($1 million) to boost its international expansion and develop new products.

Founded in 2010, Olery offers simple online brand, reputation management and performance benchmarking tools for hotels that...

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worldspy - 23.01.12 18:53 When Siri arrived on the iPhone 4S I thought to myself, who else could do this? It would need to be a search engine with natural language processing, but also behave in the manner of artificial intelligence and respond to voice recognition. One company that sprung to mind was True Knowledge. I pinged them.

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worldspy - 18.01.12 12:02 Nine teams from the new Ignite100 accelerator based in the North East of the UK, which launched with a £1m fund that invests up to £100k per team - are presenting to investors in London today. Here's a quick rundown.

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worldspy - 17.01.12 21:53 Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, a new book on the culmination of much of his thinking about startups and how they work, has been touring the UK and Ireland and TechCrunch Europe managed to catch up with him at one of his appearances in London. I’m busily transcribing the interview, but rather than [...]

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