[UK] Today in London a couple of hundred delegates turned up to Jeff Pulver's 140 Conference to jaw-jaw over the nature and impact of business and society of, well, Twitter. But as various startups and social media pundits took to the stage to debate the mostly positive impact Twitter will have, a much darker side has appeared on the social site in the last few days. @Dinner_Guest is tweeting some extremely dark stuff. Most if it is decidedly not suitable for work, and read like passages from the novel about a killer, American Psycho. Of course, this is no surprise - Twitter is big enough now to attract all sorts of crazy people. Full story...
[France] Zimbalam, the digital music distributor from Believe Digital, launches in the US today.
The service lets artists submit and distribute their music through 25 of the most popular music platforms, including Apple's iTunes and Spotify, in addition to "several hundred additional stores worldwide".
Fits.me, a virtual fitting room for internet clothing retailers based on robots (yes really) has won the European startup competition in Brussels, Plugg.
[Israel] FlyScreen, the mobile phone lock-screen replacement from Israeli startup Cellogic, has added Foursquare integration to its Android app ahead of this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) festival.
[UK] Anything that makes the form-filling associated with claiming a refund less tedious is a win for consumers.
[France] French start-up Regioneo launched a participative investment program yesterday to help the company raise the €200,000 it needs for development.
[France] France’s MyERP has just announced a partnership deal with Google, in which the company’s platform will be one of the first available in Google’s new Apps Marketplace.
[France] France-based eXo has just raised a €4 million series A round with Auriga Partners and XAnge Capital to expand their business in the US.
Later this week, thousands of ironic t-shirts will be arriving in Austin for the 16th annual South By Southwest Interactive festival.
[Finland] This is exactly the type of deal that Spotify needs to achieve the kind of distribution that might lead to economies of scale and therefore reduce the cost to end-users with regards to its Premium offering.
[Germany] Team Europe Ventures, the Berlin-based VC firm, has launched a new €6 million fund for early stage startups in the Internet and mobile Internet space.