Who will be the finalist for the next web conference 2008 in Amsterdam?
Selected startups until now:
eBuddy
Wakoopa
Lookery
andUNITE
Twingly
Webnode
Backbase
CoComment
Netlog
BembaBemba
Radionomy
Goojet
BeezBox
Symbaloo
Wauw.fm
Empressr
Fleck
Fav.or.it
Hoera
uberVU
ConfNetwork
Introniche
Zilok ? you?
Last.fm expanded in Germany and plans to “scrobble” video/TV as well as music.
• XING, the European business social network competing with LinkedIn hit revenues of $30.98 million and the member base increased to nearly 5 million .
• 100 Euro Tech startups were picked out for the Red Herring’s annual European competition.
• The Guardian newspaper hired Matt McAlister, currently the director of Yahoo’s developer network to begin building a development platform.
• Zemanta launched its alpha for blogging on acid.
• Facebook’s UK figures bounced back after the holiday period.
• 3i re-terated that it was exiting from early stage in Europe.
• IBM started a Cloud Computing Centre in Dublin.
• We reviewed Intruders.TV, Europe’s answer to FastCompany.tv.
• Video startup BlinkBox inked a deal with FreemantleMedia.
• France’s Wikio RSS news aggregator launched in the UK.
• EU startups competed at the Plugg conference.
• Myrl launched a Web-based virtual world.
• Spinvox raised $100m (as story we broke) .
• Isango raised $8 million for its ‘travel experiences’.
• WAYN.com looked like it was on the block again.
• CloudMade raised €2.4m to supercharge open source maps.
• WeLoveLocal sold a majority stake to a local radio group.
• Pointlessly, EU taxpayers were forced to fund a $306m Google rival.
• We reviewed Forkd – a social network for recipes.
• 20 UK startups are to visit Silicon Valley in April – come meet them.
• The Russian government to buy YouTube clone for $15m.
• Scott Rafer joined Polldaddy.
• Google had strong European growth.
More European Startup news:
• Online video viewing stats tripled in the UK.
• UK real estate startup Zoopla! got off to a cracking start.
• European mobile Internet users will triple, reaching 125 million by 2013.
• Russiona search player Yandex questioned Google’s claim to dominance in Russia.
• UK startup Reevoo received funding from a French VC firm.
• The EU officially endorsed DVB-H for handset TV video.
• Apple appears to be waiting for 3G iPhones before launching in Spain and Italy.
• Behavioural targeting firm Phorm has been branded ‘illegal’ by a policy group amid further criticism of the company’s plans to track users via their ISP.
