LeWeb has published its schedule for the upcoming global conference for tech in Paris, and it's looking pretty good. TechCrunch Europe is a media partner and is helping to organise the startup competition, so that's our interest declared. That said Loic and Geraldine Le Meur have clearly finessed the event back towards tech companies and brought a new focus on Europe I think. Here are some highlights they've just published: -Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan will speak at noon on Dec 10th -The Real Time Web theme will be present in the form of Jack Dorsey (inventor of Twitter) opening the event, followed by announcements from Microsoft, Facebook, MySpace, Ning, LinkedIn and Ustream. Full story...
[France] Nomao defines itself as a personnalized search engine. It helps you to find places, based on what you like or what you Facebook friends like and where you are.
At CES, Steve Ballmer presented a tablet built by Hewlett Packard and powered by the Windows 7 O.S.
Absolicon Solar Concentrator Ab from Sweden is a company which was born out of research conducted by the Royal Institute of Technology and various other universities and grew into a well funded business.
Going through my RSS reader today, I discovered that Facebook surpassed the 100 million visitors milestone in the US.
Finnish startup Rightware acquires Futuremark’s mobile and embedded business unit.
Rightware is really a spin-off from Futuremark that was just founded at the end of 2009.
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Well, who knew. It turns out trying to hire a baby sitter is actually a pretty competitive space online.
OpenFund, an Athens-based seed level Venture Firm, has announced the first bunch of startups selected for funding.
Jamendo, a community of free, legal music published with Creative Commons licenses, is actively looking to sell to or merge with another company, TechCrunch Europe has learned.
[UK] The UK government today announced that its Next Generation Fund will invest £1 billion to help bring "super-fast broadband" to 90% of the country by 2017, particularly rural households and businesses who might otherwise be left out of so-called Digital Britain.