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Come to TechCrunch Helsinki Meetup With Aaltoes, July 23
Well Helsinki, we’ve decided that you can’t have all Angry Birds fun to yourself. We’re continuing our European roadshow to promote TechCrunch Disrupt Europe in London (October 20-21) by holding a Meetup in this fair city, home of the famous Rovio, among many other great startups. Please sign up for free here. Run in partnership with the awesome startups organisation … Read More
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Microsoft Next To Comply With Europe’s Search Privacy Ruling
Microsoft has followed Google’s lead and launched an online webform where European users of its Bing search engine (all few of them) can make a request for information displayed in search results triggered by a search for their name to be de-indexed — if that information is outdated or irrelevant. Read More
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Soundwave Focuses On Group Messaging And Playlists In Bid To Become Music’s Water Cooler
Soundwave, the mobile app that tracks the listening habits of you, your friends and other users you follow, to help you discover more and better music, is rolling out a significant update today that sees it manoeuvre to try to become the ‘water cooler’ of what people are listening to right now. Read More
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PredictionIO Raises $2.5M For Its Open Source Machine Learning Server
Aiming to do for Machine Learning what MySQL did for database servers, U.S. and UK-based PredictionIO has raised $2.5 million in seed funding from a raft of investors. Read More
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Balderton Injects $6.5M Into Crowdcube’s Funding Platform
Balderton Capital is leading an investment into investment crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. Yes, things really have got that meta in the startup investment world. Read More
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i-Bell Lets You Know Who’s Ringing Your Doorbell From Afar
Meet i-Bell, a new wi-fi connected doorbell contending for your crowdfunding cash so you can spy on callers to your home from the comfort of your smartphone. Read More
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Tado, The Smart Climate Control Startup, Raises Further €10M For European Expansion
Tado, a European competitor to Google-owned Nest and local smart thermostat companies, such as the UK’s Heatmiser or Hive from British Gas, has topped up its funding today, disclosing a new €10 million (13.6m) round. Read More
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Music Messaging App La-La Lets Users Chat With Songs Snippets
As Yo has proved, the public’s appetite for messaging seems not to have stopped with WhatsApp. Many others have appeared before an since. As Sarah Perez recently found out. Now another has appeared which plans to plug at our emotional side a little more, drawing the medium most tied to the heart: music. Instead of a Yo, or a word or an image, new music messaging app La-La lets its users… Read More
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Clever Pencil Stylus For The Paper App Now Available In Europe
Last year FiftyThree, the company behind the popular iPad creativity app Paper, launched into the hardware space with a new stylus it called “Pencil.” The stylus is now available in Europe from Amazon UK, Germany and France. Pencil can be charged by USB in under 90 minutes. It’s used to work directly with the company’s Paper app and unlocks new features to draw on the app. Read More
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Elliptic Secures $2M From Octopus For Its Insured Bitcoin Storage Service
In the first UK institutional investment into Bitcoin storage, Octopus Investments has invested $2m into Elliptic. It’s first product, Elliptic Vault, claims to be the world’s first ever insured Bitcoin storage service, which launched six months ago. Elliptic aims to offer suite of enterprise services that try to bridge the gap between traditional finance and digital assets. Read More
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Givey Secures Cash For Free Charity Giving Model To Compete With JustGiving
In the UK, one company dominates the charitable giving space: JustGiving. But many are concerned about the fees this organisation takes and its virtual monopoly on the market. In recent times a number of competitors have arisen with different models. One is Believe.in, which is building out a cloud platform where brands themselves can push charitable giving, and it doesn’t take fees from… Read More
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BadSeed Scores €250K From United Ventures For New Mobile Games
BadSeed, a mobile games startup, has secured €250,000 early stage investment from United Ventures, the European VC. The funding will back the development of BadSeed’s second game “Sleep Attack” and another title. BadSeed was founded in Italy in 2012 by former engineers and staff from Ubisoft, Jacopo Musso, Roberto Mangiafico and Clara Parona. In late 2012 the team moved… Read More
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Happn Is A Dating App Powered By Real Life Interactions
It’s a sunny Wednesday afternoon, you’re sitting outside at a café in Paris. You see this beautiful person who is about to leave, and you get a warm fuzzy feeling. Unfortunately, you don’t have time to introduce yourself, they’re already gone. Until now, the only thing you could do was maybe post something in the missed connections section of Craigslist or the… Read More
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Dropbox Does Carrier Deal To Be Preloaded On Handsets In Europe
With the consumer-facing cloud storage space getting ever more crowded — Apple announced its own iCloud Drive offering just last month — Dropbox has not been sitting on its laurels, waiting for its ~300 million customers to be lured away by rivals. Read More
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cPulse Is An Android Smartphone Case That Packs 128 Multicoloured And Programable LED Lights
As smartphone makers look to bring innovation even to the backside of our phones, adding all sorts of extra functionality to otherwise dormant real-estate, it’s perhaps no surprise to see third-party case-makers think along similar lines. But Codlight’s cPulse, which kicks off its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign today, has to be one of the more ambitious and garish efforts to date. Read More
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Airfy’s Beacon Wants To Make The Smart Home Smarter
Berlin-based Airfy, maker of the Airfy WiFi router that our very own John Biggs called one of the sexiest Wi-Fi routers he’d ever seen (and the man has doubtless seen a lot of WiFi routers), is launching a crowdfunding campaign for a new product today. Rather than tackling the ugliness and (often) stupidity of WiFi routers, the Airfy Beacon is an attempt at making the smart home… Read More
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UK Emergency Surveillance Law Criticized For Being Overly Broad, Vague And Draconian
Late last week it emerged that the UK government intended to railroad emergency surveillance legislation through Parliament just before the summer recess — meaning members of parliament would not be able to properly scrutinise the law. The new Data Retention and Investigation Powers Bill (aka DRIP) is being debated in the House of Commons today — but has been criticized for… Read More
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Tok Tok Tok Hires Former Carrefour CFO Eric Reiss To Head The European Delivery Startup
Conventional wisdom has it that Tok Tok Tok is an idea that can’t work. In a few taps, you can order anything you want in Paris, but it will cost you between €5 or €10 depending on where you are. So why would you order a fine burger from Big Fernand if there is a 30 percent premium on the final price? Some users already order dozens of times per month, but the startup has bigger… Read More
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Seedcamp’s 3rd Fund Hits First Close Of $28M To Scale Startups Globally
Seedcamp, the former accelerator (I’ll explain why later) which helped kick start the European startup scene seven years ago, has announced it’s third fund with a first close of $28M – the eventual aim is for around the $30M mark. This is to scale its seed investing across Europe and build its US presence. When I say build its US presence, what they actually mean is that… Read More
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Flat Club Launches ‘Priceline For P2P Rental’, Allows Guests To Post Requests
Appartment rentals and sharing startup Flat Club has launched a radically new function which we think is pretty cool. It’s created a sort of ‘Priceline for peer to peer rentals’ called LiveDemand. Instead of hosts posting listings, guests post requests for accommodation and hosts then can pick and choose which guests to make offers to. Peer to peer marketplaces like… Read More
