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Let’s vote on it: Will Europeans use Gowalla, FourSquare or what?
So it’s been nearly 10 days since Foursquare launched its social mobile game ‘ground assault’ into 50 more cities, including a bunch of European ones. But what I’d like to know is who’s actually using it here in Europe? Because, you see, Europeans are already quite well served by location based mobile applications like Qype , the various localised versions of Yelp, and other startups like Rummble
Microsoft’s Dance With Newspapers Continues
We’ve been doing some more digging on the definitive moves by Microsoft to woo newspapers over to Bing and away from Google, a story we broke two weeks ago . Since then there have been some follow-up by various media outlets, notably the Financial Times this week which confirmed that Microsoft had had discussions with News Corp to “de-index” its news websites from Google. Who approached who first?
iPhone To Be Sold In The UK Equivalent Of Walmart
Is an iPhone price war about to break out in the UK?
Russian Social Strategy Game Raises $5 Million
We all know social games are hot right now, and that’s as true in Russia – a large and growing market – as anywhere else. Now Russian online game developer Nival Network has closed a $5 million round from an undisclosed investor but will use the funds to develop Prime World, its online strategy game with social networking features aimed at the Russia and former Soviet countries
London VC: European Startups Need To Work Much Harder
This is our third guest post written by a London-based VC. To allow them to speak plainly without jeopardising their fund or their career in the small village that is the London VC scene, I’m allowing them to post anonymously.
Voddler, The Spotify-for-movies, Secures Mystery Funding
Movie-streaming service Voddler (the so-called ”Spotify for movies”) has received about 3.4 million Euros (35 million SEK) in funding from a group of private investors. The money will supposedly go into developing the service. Voddler has chosen to not to give out any info about the investors or how large their share in the company will be
Social Gaming Still In Play – Wooga Raises An Additional €5 Million
It seems that social gaming is where the action is right now, and we’re not just hearing that from the kids. Following Electronic Arts’ $300 million acquisition of Playfish , and the just-reported $43 million further investment that Playdom has raised, we’ve caught wind that Berlin-based wooga has secured €5 million ($7.5m) of additional funding. The round is being led by Balderton Capital , although earlier investor Holtzbrinck Ventures has also participated
Le Web Releases The List For Its Startup Competition
Well, after a tonne of entries and a pretty intense sifting process, Le Web , the annual gathering of the tech tribes in Paris, has announced the names of the 16 startups that will present during the startup competition — organised for the first time this year in partnership with TechCrunch Europe. The companies selected are either existing companies launching new products or new startups entirely.
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