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Tears, Tantrums & Tech 6: Keep It Simple, Stupid [Video]

Mentors: if you’re on an accelerator program, you’re going to be facing a lot of them. How do you deal with being bombarded by so much (sometimes conflicting) advice? In…

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Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe. Here's What We Hear.

Juicy rumor coming from Pocket-lint this morning: Facebook is reportedly eyeing a takeover of desktop, tablet and smartphone browser maker Opera Software. Citing an unnamed source, Pocket-lint says the social…

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Former Yahoo EMEA Exec Launches Milk.ly

Does you car need a decent scrubbing? Need someone to go pick up your groceries at the store because you’re on a tight deadline at work? Could you use someone…

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Team Europe Opens Office In Asia

Berlin-based Internet startup incubator Team Europe is expanding to Asia with the establishment of a “market-watch” office in Seoul, South Korea. It will be headed by German-Korean Ludolf Ebner-Chung, a…

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What the Future Holds for tape.tv After €5m Round

It is already a well-established name on the Berlin startup cityscape – and now tape.tv has taken the next step with the €5 million Series B funding round. With the…

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Collaboration Software Maker Huddle Raises $24 Million

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…

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Apple's VP of Europe Pascal Cagni Quits After 12 Years

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…

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Use Social Media Sentiment to Guide You 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…

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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…

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Social Calling Platform KipCall 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…

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Nokia World Now Multiple, Smaller Events; First In Helsinki 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…

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The Guardian's n0tice launches an Open Journalism Toolkit

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…

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What's SUB? Sonos' New Wireless Subwoofer

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…

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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…

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Communication Apps Maker yuilop Raises $5.75 Million

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…