Business social network LinkedIn has set up its first office in Continental Europe, and announced today that it will be led by Eugenie van Wiechen, who previously led eBay.nl / Marktplaats.nl in the Netherlands as Managing Director. The new offices were set up at the World Trade Center in Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. The move comes nearly two years after LinkedIn first established an office in London and appointed Kevin Eyres, previously MD of SideStep Europe and GM of AltaVista as European MD. Full story...
WorkSnug, an augmented reality iPhone app that is setting out to connect "mobile workers" (that's everybody now, right?) to the nearest places to work in major cities, is now live in New York and San Francisco.
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.