Another site busted by the Brits. It makes you proud
5:43 pm PDT • October 23, 2007
What is it with the British Police? Suddenly they seem to be channelling the RIAA and Hollywood’s militant tendency. Various news outlets are reporting that the world’s largest BitTorrent site…
Videojug poaches UK Web veteran
5:06 pm PDT • October 23, 2007
It’s interesting that UK-based Videojug, the ‘how to’ video website, has attracted the likes of Nancy Cruickshank, the high-profile head of Hearst Digital, to become its global chief executive. Videojug…
Imagepick launches royalty-free image bank
3:55 pm PDT • October 23, 2007
When two former C-level executives leave a monolith like Getty Images it’s a fair bet that they will go and create something smaller, faster moving and a lot less hide-bound…
Widgets invade Brighton
3:22 pm PDT • October 23, 2007
Event News: People are decorating their social profiles with widgets and that’s created a market, whether you call them MySpace widgets or Facebook applications. Widgets had a boom of interest…
Tablefinder signs deal with TopTable
2:42 pm PDT • October 23, 2007
EU News: Tablefinder, a startup aimed at aggregating the world’s online bookable restaurants, has signed a partner agreement with the UK’s TopTable, the largest restaurant booker in Europe. The deal…
Wakoopa launches iPhone service
8:51 pm PDT • October 22, 2007
EU News: Wakoopa (site), the Dutch startup which tracks your use of desktop applications and wraps that in a social network, is about to launch a service supporting the iPhone.…
Gurgle launches with Mothercare backing
2:19 pm PDT • October 22, 2007
Gurgle, a social network for parents launches today as a joint venture between retailer Mothercare and MediaBurn, an agency specialising in social networking sites. The site aims to bring together…
TechCrunch UKI launching advertising and events
11:26 am PDT • October 22, 2007
Well, we’ve been going for a month and a half now at TechCrunch UK & Ireland since the re-launch. We now have over 3,500 regular readers on RSS and email,…
Users generate viral ads for movies, TV with BlinkBox
9:05 am PDT • October 22, 2007
BlinkBox, a new UK startup has launched allowing users to overlay a video clip taken from a movie or TV show with a personalised message at the beginning. Designed to…
Tioti.com wins 'seven figures' from Pond
8:33 pm PDT • October 21, 2007
EXCLUSIVE: Tape It Off The Internet (Tioti.com), the aggregator of social media around TV, will announce on Monday that it has secured a “a seven-figure” Series A funding round from…
TapeItOffTheInternet wins Series A from Pond Ventures
12:51 pm PDT • October 21, 2007
Tape It Off The Internet, the social-networking-around-TV startup, will announce Monday that it has secured an undisclosed “a seven-figure” Series A funding round from Europe’s largest early-stage technology venture capital…
Testcard.tv taken down as Police swoop on TV-Links
10:00 am PDT • October 21, 2007
New Web TV startup Testcard.tv, which drew heavily on the TV-Links site closed by the Police this week for alleged copyright infringement, has been taken down for “site maintenance”. UPDATE:…
The strange case of Mr Hyde
5:28 pm PDT • October 19, 2007
On July 7 this year a 23-year-old part-time cameraman started a venture known as StartupWeekend where he planned to create, with others, a startup in one weekend. Since then he…
Skype to launch handset for UK
3:08 pm PDT • October 18, 2007
Although there has been no official announcement, my sources say it’s a done deal that Skype will launch a mobile handset with UK operator Three this month. BusinessWeek is also…
edocr aims to be YouTube of documents
1:04 pm PDT • October 18, 2007
UK-based edocr opens its doors officially today allowing anyone to upload documents. There are already US startups trying to become the ‘YouTube for documents’, notably Scribd and Docstoc and edocr…
edocr joins Scribd, Docstoc in document sharing
5:24 am PDT • October 18, 2007
There are two main startups trying to become the ‘YouTube for documents’, notably Scribd and Docstoc. Newly launched edocr, coming out of the UK, does something similar, but with a…
VOIP over social networks threatens telcos
4:52 pm PDT • October 17, 2007
Today’s announcement that MySpace’s 110 million active users will be able to make free calls using Skype-enabled version of MySpace’s IM client will set the cat amongst the telco pigeons…
Blurb launches crowd-sourced books
11:50 pm PDT • October 16, 2007
Blurb, a self-publishing startup which specialises in illustrated books, is launching a new service to enable people to collaboratively create books. The new service is called Community Books and will…
Tales from the Crunchboard
4:32 pm PDT • October 16, 2007
Here are a few jobs I picked out from our newly-launched Crunchboard jobs board which look kind’ve interesting. Jobs are often an indication of where things are heading in any…
LinkedIn hits a million UK members. Suggests pint.
2:47 pm PDT • October 16, 2007
LinkedIn says it has reached the significant marker of a million members in the UK, with more than two thousand British professionals signing up on any given day. The firm…
Blurb launches crowd-sourced books
2:36 pm PDT • October 16, 2007
Blurb, a self-publishing startup which specialises in illustrated books, is launching a new service to enable people to collaboratively create books. The new service is called Community Books and will…
Bebo and Ministry in joint promo
12:03 pm PDT • October 16, 2007
Bebo and the Ministry of Sound have entered into a marketing partnership which will mean Bebo users being able to upload their best dance mix to Bebo (via yousendit.com) with…
ITN launches channel on YouTube
10:53 am PDT • October 16, 2007
UK TV news provider ITN is to launch a channel on YouTube, making it one of the first UK media companies to employ YouTube’s new in-video ad format that runs…
News Dredge 161007
10:25 am PDT • October 16, 2007
• A rather odd event has crossed my desk in the shape of the London Startup Weekend on November 30- December 2: “Startup Weekend is an idea, an experiment, a…
BBC Online free via The Cloud
12:57 am PDT • October 16, 2007
If you’ve ever heard the collective anger of thousands of commercial web sites in the UK, then imagine a field of people all growling under their breath. Now keep that…
Jiglu: enterprise-level tagging starts at free
11:13 pm PDT • October 15, 2007
Intelligently tagging the content on a site can be done either by hand as the content is created, or with some kind of text analysis algorithm. But the former is…
Jiglu: enterprise-level tagging starts at free
2:39 pm PDT • October 15, 2007
Intelligently tagging the content on a site can be done either by hand as the content is created, or with some kind of text analysis algorithm. But the former is…
BattleSeen: Soldiers video uncensored
1:45 pm PDT • October 15, 2007
BattleSeen is a new ‘soldier generated video’ site being backed by Andy McNab, the former SAS soldier turned best-selling author, and London-based webcasting firm Spoken. The site launches this week…
Dear VCs: Look at the idea, not the postcode
4:47 pm PDT • October 12, 2007
I’m interrupting the normal coverage today to write about something I care deeply about. The long feature I wanted to post today will have to wait. Let’s make one thing…
StyleShake turns women into fashion designers
2:06 pm PDT • October 12, 2007
StyleShake, an e-commerce bespoke fashion brand, launches officially today. Headquartered in London/UK but also also available in Israel, the startup aims to allows customers to create and order individually tailor-made…