European Pre-Owned Kids Clothing Startup Percentil Acquires Germany’s Kirondo
In a move that sees some consolidation in the European ‘pre-owned’ kids clothing space, Spain’s Percentil has acquired Kirondo, which claims to be the leader in its home country of Germany. Both companies buy and sell ‘nearly-new” clothing, helping parents cash in on clothes that their kids have out-grown and barely used, and letting other parents clothe their kids… Read MoreThe Business Of Privacy On Show At MWC
Privacy was a theme bubbling under the surface at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow — even more so than last year when Silent Circle and Geeksphone grabbed attention with demos of a privacy-centric smartphone called Blackphone. Read MoreGame Over For Storybricks
After a courageous 5 years, it’s game over for Storybricks, the AI gaming startup best known for its work on EverQuest Next, the upcoming new release in the EverQuest MMORPG franchise. Read MoreA Closer Look At Canonical’s Ubuntu Phones
Canonical has finally got skin in the mobile game, putting its first Ubuntu phone on sale in Europe last month. It’s been showing off that mid-tier device, made by BQ, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, along with a more premium smartphone made by Meizu, which will be released later this year — targeting the Chinese market. Read MoreTravel Startup Musement Secures €5M In Series A Funding
Musement, a booking service for travel activities, has announced it’s raised €5 million in Series A funding from P101, 360 Capital Partners, Micheli Associati and Italian Angels for Growth. While there are many startups that claim to “curate travel experiences” Musement does this by concentrating on locations which might be harder to book in a seamless manner. Naturally… Read MoreSuperAwesome Continues Kids Marketing Land-Grab With Acquisition Of Spain’s Ad4Kids
SuperAwesome, the ad network and marketing platform for kids and teens, continues to be on a mini-shopping spree. The London-headquartered company is acquiring Spanish startup Ad4Kids, a platform for mobile app developers to cross-promote their ‘kid-safe’ apps, in an all-cash, otherwise undisclosed, deal. It adds to a spew of recent acquisitions and acqui-hires by SuperAwesome… Read MoreGoldman Sachs Leads New £25M Round In UK Online Furniture Retailer WorldStores
More evidence that VCs are bullish about the online furniture retail space in the UK, as web upstarts continue to apply pressure on the likes of IKEA and other traditional brick ‘n’ mortar furniture retailers. This time Goldman Sachs is leading a £25 million round in WorldStores, the “home and living products” online retailer and operator of flash sales site Casafina. Read MoreHooks Wants To Send You A Notification For Anything That’s Important To You
Whenever I install a new app on my iPhone, the first thing I invariably do is deny it permission to send me notifications. It is a bit odd, therefore, to find myself writing about Hooks, an iOS app that has the sole purpose of sending you notifications triggered by things that are important to you. Read MoreCylindo Raises $1M To Create 3D Furniture Models And Expand In The US
Product visualization startup Cylindo has raised $1 million in new funding. CEO Janus Jagd told me the company emerged from his own struggles moving into a new apartment, where he and his girlfriend wanted to visualize how their living room would look with a bunch of new furniture. To do that, Jagd said he built a 3D room model on his own and gave it to furniture merchants. Read MoreHands On With Jolla’s Sailfish Slate, The Tablet Without A U.S. OS
Finland’s Jolla, the plucky startup that’s built its own mobile OS, called Sailfish, atop the Mer open source project, is showing off its forthcoming, crowdsourced tablet here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It’s the follow up to Jolla’s first device, the eponymous Jolla smartphone, which was released at the end of 2013. Read MoreMy Friend Will Hate SeeYoo, An App To Say OMW
No matter how far or close by, a good friend of mine always texts to say he’s “20 minutes away” when he’s running late. SeeYoo, which calls itself a ‘pre-meeting app’, is almost certainly not for him. Read More
Sunday, March 15, 2015
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