We've been doing some more digging on the definitive moves by Microsoft to woo newspapers over to Bing and away from Google, a story we broke two weeks ago. Since then there have been some follow-up by various media outlets, notably the Financial Times this week which confirmed that Microsoft had had discussions with News Corp to “de-index” its news websites from Google. Who approached who first? The FT said the impetus came from News Corp, although our information is that Microsoft is also talking to a range of newspaper publishers in Europe as well, such as German publishers like Axel Springer. Full story...
[France] Ok listen-up kids. Today is "Safer internet Day". Got that? So put that web browser down right now before you take someone eye out.
[Switzerland] Would you be comfortable with storing your passwords in the cloud? That's the hope of DataInherit, from Swiss banking security specialists DSwiss, which launched a new password 'safe' that lets you store your most important passwords on the company's servers.
[UK] Larry Ellison isn't the only one who has his reservations regarding the legitimacy of cloud computing.
Almost two years ago The Filter, a startup backed by Peter Gabriel, launched to bring better music and movie recommendations to consumers.
There remains an ongoing desktop Twitter application war. Traditionally Tweetdeck and Seesmic have been at loggerheads for the lion share, although Tweetdeck has remained in the lead so far.
So for a bit of fun we've decided to open a TechCrunch Europe T-Shirt store on that European startup Spreadshirt.
It looks like some major consolidation is about to go down in the Central European Internet market, and in particular Poland.
[UK] The London-based online identity startup Garlik have partnered with the UK online stockbroker Selftrade to offer its customers identity fraud protection.
Nokia this morning published two press releases on its website, one talking about the 'development' of one of its manufacturing plants and one commenting on a class action lawsuit filed in the United States.