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Mind Candy Reports Losses As Moshi Fades And It Pins Hopes On Warriors
As was widely predicted after Mind Candy’s Moshi Monsters smash-hit game failed to make the shift from Web to mobile in any meaningful way — apart from a few cursory apps — its financial results looked dismal. The company has announced that it lurched to a net loss of £2.2 million ($3.5 million) in 2013, after making an £8 million profit in 2012. Kids have clearly left… Read More -
Dinein.co.uk Acquires MyDeliveryCab As Premium Restaurant Take-Out Space Heats Up In London
Dinein.co.uk has acquired local rival MyDeliveryCab — a move that sees it add a further 60+ premium restaurant partners in London, as well as expanding its fleet of drivers. It also follows hot on the heels of competitor Deliveroo raising a £2.7 million series A round led by Index Ventures back in June. Read More -
Microsoft Buys Israeli Hybrid Cloud Security Startup Aorato In $200M Deal
Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired Aorato, an Israel-based maker of security solutions co-founded by veterans of the Israeli defense forces, which only exited from stealth earlier this year. Aorato’s focus is on enterprise services in the cloud and in hybrid on-premise and cloud environments, using machine learning to detect suspicious patterns. The terms of the deal were… Read More -
SwiftKey Eyes The Far East With Beta Launch Of Chinese On Android
Predictive keyboard maker SwiftKey, which is backed by investors including Index and Accel, has finally launched a Chinese beta of its software on the Android platform. This follows the launch of SwiftKey for Japanese beta back in May. This time last year the U.K. startup — which was founded back in 2008 — told TechCrunch the two Asian languages were the big outstanding… Read More -
EyeFocus Accelerator Launches In Berlin To Focus On Eye-care Startups
A new startup accelerator launch in Berlin this week. But while there are accelerators dotted all over Berlin, this one will be ‘laser-focused’ on startups in the area of the human eye. The EyeFocus Accelerator claims to be world’s first accelerator focussed on eye-care. It plans to invest up to 20,000 Euros into startups that are helping prevent, cure, and live with… Read More -
Online Labs Designed Its Own ARM Servers To Take On AWS, DigitalOcean
A couple of years ago, the team behind Online Labs started a long ambitious project — instead of building a virtual cloud hosting infrastructure that competes directly with Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean and other VPS providers, it designed its own hardware for its cloud solution. Online Labs managed to squeeze 912 separate computers in a single server rack. But the best part is that… Read More -
E-Commerce Aggregator Thefashion.com Raises $1.7M For Further European Expansion
Co-founded by serial entrepreneur Kasper Vardrup — who also co-founded accelerator Startupbootcamp, amongst many other companies — Thefashion.com is another startup operating in the fashion discovery and shopping space. The site aggregates the wares of a multitude of fashion sites into a single online destination, enabling consumers to cross-shop from millions of fashion products. Read More -
Spotify Axes App Finder, Kills Soundrop And Its Listening Rooms
Music streaming service Spotify quietly announced in October that it would be removing the App Finder and no longer supporting apps in its desktop client, and today comes news of a significant casualty resulting from that move: Soundrop — makers of popular group listening rooms that run on Spotify, Deezer and the wider web, but mainly on Spotify — is shutting down. The team… Read More -
CubeSensors Will Now Monitor Your Sleeping Environment
CubeSensors is a startup that makes small, pretty stylish, connected devices that monitor rooms, feeding back information about air quality, temperature, and other things. It was a star performer at our TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield during CES 2014. It’s now produced an update to its Cubes which monitors your bedroom environment to help you get a good night’s sleep. CubeSensors… Read More -
Europe’s Google Antitrust Decision Delayed — Again!
The long-running saga — four years and counting — that is the European Union’s investigation into Google over alleged antitrust violations has stalled again. Read More
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