It looks like some major consolidation is about to go down in the Central European Internet market, and in particular Poland. According to local newspaper reports, the largest Internet group in the region, Naspers/MIH Group, is conducting due diligence of assets belonging to DST (Digital Sky Technology)-owned holding Forticom. Naspers/MIH Group and DST already together own the largest Russian online portal Mail.ru. Full story...
While every man and his dog is waiting for their preordered iPad to arrive, some Germans went their own way and yesterday presented a Slate that appears to have, well, better features.
We've just confirmed that Morten Lund, possibly the quintessential European tech entrepreneur/investor - will be keynoting at this year's GeeknRolla in London on April 20.
According to investir.fi and various other sources, the world's leading people search engine 123people, which strives from Austria and has been incubated by i5invest, is being acquired by the leading french yellow pages company Pages Jaunes.
TechCrunch Europe and UK Trade and Investment are organising a series of pitch workshops to help startups hone their pitch.
[UK] You know how it is, you wait for a bus and then three arrive at once. Although NextBuses (iTunes link), a new iPhone app by London-based developer Malcolm Barclay, doesn't quite solve this problem, it does promise to make it easier to know when the next bus is due and even, in some instances, tell you if it's running on time.
Yahoo will power search and related advertising on the 'emocion' portal of Telefónica España, Spain’s largest operator network, the two companies announced this morning.
[UK] Brownbook, the business directory, has integrated seed data for nearly 4 million businesses for several countries to fill up their pages and grow the site's index to 34 million listings.
[Sweden] Stockholm-based Videoplaza, the video ad server startup, has secured a €3.5 million funding round from leading Nordic VCs Creandum and Northzone Ventures.
[Russia] The Moscow-based social games company Nival Network, part of the Nival Group, has raised $7 million in new funding from DST, 1C Company and Nival Group founder & CEO Sergey Orlovskiy, according a report (russian) in the Vedomosti newspaper.
[France] Social location-based search service Tellmewhere or Dismoioù has released a new version of its iPhone app as part of its quest to conquer the local market.