This is a guest post by Nigel Eccles, co-founder and CEO of Hubdub Ltd, the company behind Hubdub, the news prediction game, and Fanduel, the daily draft fantasy sports game. Over his last three start-ups he admits he has made every mistake outlined below. Throughout the summer TechCrunch Europe is running guest posts written by [...] Full story...
This is our third guest post written by a London-based VC. To allow them to speak plainly without jeopardising their fund or their career in the small village that is the London VC scene, I'm allowing them to post anonymously.
[Holland] This week we've got Rutger van Waveren, Founder of Spectives.com, doing an elevator pitch. Spectives.
I thought I’d try an iPadio phonecast live from a NESTA debate on social media:
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[Belgium] Earlier this week, 3D gesture recognition software developer Softkinetic and VUB university spin-off company Optrima, inventor of patented 3D sensing technology announced a joint venture offering what they say is the most complete 3D depth-sensing imaging and gesture recognition interface solution on the market.
A fairly pointless but fun survey asks: If the British could follow any figure from history on Twitter, who would it be? The top answer, apparently, is ex-war time prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, a man who was renown for making speeches that far exceeded 140 characters.
Here are some random upcoming events
• CloudStorm event in Paris, December 1
CloudStorm provides a showcase of cloud computing solutions covering a wide range of areas including application development and deployment, infrastructure, storage, video management and SAAS from leading European technology vendors.
[UK] London-based Mendeley, which calls itself "the Last.fm of research", has announced that its reached somewhat of a milestone today - claiming 100,000 users and 8 million research papers uploaded to the site in less than a year since its launch.
This is why I love this medium. You put something out there. Sometimes you have all the holes pluggged.
BREAKING: German media giant Burda has used its digital arm to purchase a 25.1% share in XING, the business social network that is biggest in Germany and competes with LinkedIn.
[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.