Team Messaging App Fleep Adds ID Feature To Wean You Off Email
Fleep, the team messaging app built and backed by a number of ex-Skype engineers, is another step further in its mission to help wean you off email. Read MoreEurope’s Antitrust Chief Confirms Google Shopping Objections, Launches Formal Android Probe
As widely expected, Europe’s antitrust chief, Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, has issued a formal Statement of Objections (SO) regarding the operation of Google’s shopping search comparison service — marking both the latest step in a five-year long antitrust investigation, and an escalation of European anti-competition action against Mountain View. Read MoreVideo Challenge App FightMe Bets On More Ice Bucket Challenges And Social Movements
FightMe is a video challenge app. Now, other “challenge apps” have failed miserably. There just hash’t been the consumer demand for this model. Despite a good run at the idea, Klash, which raised a million Euros in funding, failed after a year. However, FightMe, an iOS app startup, thinks it has the answer. It’s been remodelled and re-launches today with a new version and… Read MoreMusicyou Raises A Seed Round For Its Private Music Sharing Platform
The value proposition of apps which allow you to share music though messaging, like PingTune or MusicMessenger is, largely, to chat about music. Meanwhile, apps like TunePics, Mindie and Flipagram are more about sharing music in a public, Twitter-like, feed. While Music Messenger, PingTune, Mindie and Flipagram have raised VC funding, TunePics has not, being rather the product of an… Read MoreBlaBlaCar Acquires Its Biggest Competitor Carpooling.com To Dominate European Market
BlaBlaCar, a marketplace for city-to-city ridesharing, is acquiring its German competitor Carpooling.com, as well as Hungary-based competitor AutoHop. This is no surprise when you know the French company’s aggressive expansion strategy. While the terms of the deal are undisclosed, Carpooling.com definitely represents an important acquisition for the French company. BlaBlaCar is a… Read MoreItalian Home Design Startup Lovethesign Pulls In $4 Million Series A
They say that the only thing guaranteed in life is death and taxes. But perhaps we should add VCs piling money into furniture and homewear e-commerce startups to the list, not least in Europe. Today it’s the turn of Italian home design startup Lovethesign. Read MoreGamesGrabr Snags $665k To Level Up Its ‘Pinterest For Gamers’
U.K.-based serial gaming entrepreneur Tony Pearce has pulled in another tranche of equity crowdfunding for gamesGRABR, his Pinterest style social network for gamers, bagging £450,000 in seed funding from 220 investors. Read MoreNokia Agrees To Buy Alcatel-Lucent For $16.6B
Nokia has announced that it plans to move ahead with the purchase of Alcatel-Lucent, less than one day after confirming that the two companies were discussing a deal. Nokia will pay $16.6 billion in shares for the rival telecom equipment maker. The merger is expected to close in the first half of next year. Read MoreInternal Google Memo Responds To EU Antitrust Objections
Following reports about the European Union preparing to file formal charges against Google in its ongoing antitrust investigation, Google General Counsel Kent Walker has issued an internal memo to all employees. TechCrunch obtained the memo and it is reproduced in its entirety below. In the letter, the counsel also notes that the EU is likely to open an investigation into its mobile… Read MoreTruBe Launches To Give Londoners An On-Demand Ass Kicking
A few hours after I download the TruBe iOS app I’m standing in my local park under the shade of a spreading oak punching the palms of Alex, the 2013 ICO light welterweight World Kickboxing Champion. He’s not looking scared. Thumbs out, he barks, then dances towards me making me lurch backwards, before smoothly reversing his trajectory while simultaneously urging me to punch faster. Read MoreRocket Internet Backs European Restaurant Delivery Service Take Eat Easy
Similar to Deliveroo in the U.K., and DoorDash in the U.S., Take Eat Easy lets you order food online from restaurants that don’t traditionally offer a take-out and delivery service. It operates in Belgium, and France, but outside of those markets the company has been flying somewhat under the radar. Read More
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