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Microsoft Woos Newspapers By Funding Their Stick To Bing Google With

As Microsoft shed its beta tag for the launch of the UK version of Bing today, TechCrunch Europe has learnt that it held a secret meeting with a group of big European publishers, mainly newspapers. The meeting came literally days after Rupoert Murdoch ...

From MIKE BUTCHER, TechCrunch,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.,  TechCrunch,  Axel Springer

Exclusive: Saul Klein On Seedcamp’s Past, Present And Future

Today Saul Klein, chairman and co-founder of Seedcamp, the pan-European programme for early stage startups, blogged a long post about Seedcamp’s structure and history. But over the last few weeks I’ve been meeting Saul to tease out, over long ...

From MIKE BUTCHER, TechCrunch,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mike Butcher,  TechCrunch,  Michael Arrington,  Twitter Inc,  Jeff Bezos

The Next Step For Twitter Lists — Entire Populations

[Ireland] Social media consultants Simplyzesty started using Twitter Lists to list blogs. However, a brainwave has lead them to take Twitter Lists to their logical conclusion: creating lists of Twitter users in entire countries. They’ve launched a ...

From MIKE BUTCHER, TechCrunch,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

Amazon Launches PayPhrase — Will It Be Easy To Game?

Amazon is launching “PayPhrase” a simple way to verify your account to speed up purchasing – a great move ahead of the holiday season when even more people than ever will be shopping online. It’s simple stuff. You set up a unique phrase like “Axe ...

From MIKE BUTCHER, TechCrunch,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: eBay Inc.,  Wal-Mart

DailyMotion Bags €17 million, This Time With The French Government

BREAKING: It looks like DailyMotionaccording to Atlas VC Fred Destin on his blog today, although we haven’t seen an official release out just yet. Destin says Atlas Venture has participated “above pro-rata in this round and grows ownership”. The site ...

From MIKE BUTCHER, TechCrunch,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Facebook Inc.

Launch48 Startups Present Their Ideas After 48 Hours Of Hacking

[UK] The Launch48 event in London this weekend has seen six teams attempt to launch a startup in, you guessed it 48 hours. The event, which was basically created by some UK startup enthusiasts, is different to StartupWeekend in that separate teams come ...

From MIKE BUTCHER, TechCrunch,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc

Gilt, eBay And Amazon Circle Vente Privee With Chatter Of $1.5 Billion On The Table

[France] On stage at last year’s Le Web an argument broke out between co-founder Loic Le Meur and TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington over whether Europe was capable of producing a ‘big win’ Web company or whether Skype was, perhaps, just a one-hit wonder. ...

From MIKE BUTCHER, TechCrunch,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: eBay Inc.,  Michael Arrington,  TechCrunch,  Skype

Reevoo’s Hunkering Down Pays Off As It Signs New Partners

Back in December 2008 Reevoo looked like it was running out of time.The B2B customer reviews site hunkered down on staffing amid pressure from the downbeat economic climate in an attempt to play out both its venture investment and give its revenues ...

From MIKE BUTCHER, TechCrunch,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Toshiba

LeWeb Startup Competition Partners With TechCrunch Europe

I’m delighted to announce that this year’s Startup Competition at LeWeb, the annual gathering of global technology luminaries and startups in Paris, will be organized in partnership with TechCrunch Europe. We’ve been running startup events all over ...

From MIKE BUTCHER, TechCrunch,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: TechCrunch

Spotify Just Extended Playing Offline To The Desktop

But perhaps the hint of their strategy lay in the fact that on that app you could save playlists and tracks for offline playing (if, say, you were on a plane), though you can not access any kind of MP3 file for sharing of course. All that changes today ...

From MIKE BUTCHER, TechCrunch,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Napster, Inc.

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