Europe Urged To Make Safeguarding Personal Data A Selling Point
How do you balance the competing interests of personal data privacy with the rapacious appetites of big data fueled digital businesses? European data protection authorities are continuing to wrangle with this question, and have today published a joint declaration on the principles they believe are core to achieving a balance. Read MoreChatGrape Is An Intelligent Messaging App That Could Save Your Team A Heck Of A Lot Of Time
Enter ChatGrape, a startup based out of Austria that might otherwise be mistaken for being another Slack or HipChat clone. But, actually, under the hood there’s some interesting — and extremely useful — technology. Read MoreMobile-First Stock Photo Marketplace Foap Snaps Further $2.3M Funding
Sweden’s Foap, one of a number of startups taking aim at the stock photo industry via iOS and Android apps that let you upload and sell your photos through the company’s marketplace, has raised a further $2.3 million in funding. This brings total funding to approximately $5 million. Read MoreSwiftGift Lets You Send Presents Via Facebook
‘Tis the season for gift-giving, which is presumably why stealthy U.K. startup SwiftGift — founded back in 2013 — is unwrapping its gifting-made-easy service to launch in beta today, ahead of the holidays. Read MoreMore Woe For Uber As Ride Sharing Service UberPop Ban Upheld In The Netherlands [Updated]
Uber, the controversial transportation startup valued at $40 billion+, is facing more heat, this time in Europe. A Dutch court today ruled to bar use of the company’s UberPop ride-sharing service because of the lack of livery licensing for drivers. A report in Reuters notes that the Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal in The Hague ruled that drivers for UberPop could be fined… Read MoreVidcoin Solves Buffering Issues For Mobile Video Ads
Vidcoin is an advertising technology startup focused on video ads for smartphones. The French startup makes watching video ads less painful by providing an SDK that will buffer videos before playing them so that they will instantly play. “Mobile video continues to be a challenge for one simple reason: mobile connectivity can be spotty so the type of streaming videos [companies like… Read MoreAddr Is A Nifty iPad Ebook Reader For Those Who Miss Readmill
Meet Addr, a brand new iPad app to read your ePub ebooks. In some way, Addr is very reminiscent of Readmill’s now defunct ebook reader. It’s all about importing your DRM-free ebooks and adding a social layer to take annotations and share them with your friends. But the comparison stops there as Addr is a very different take when it comes to design. First, the app goes a bit… Read MoreRecruitment Platform Intern Avenue To Roll Out Across Europe With Vodafone
Intern Avenue is a startup which matches college undergraduates/graduates searching for paid internships with employers by using a data-based scoring system. To date, around 2,000 employers and 40,000 intern applicants have registered with the service in the UK. But it’s now secured a major distribution deal with Vodafone Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the telecoms giant, to expand… Read MoreTo Get Off Russia’s Blacklist, GitHub Has Blocked Access To Pages That Highlight Suicide
GitHub is slowly navigating the tricky waters of Internet censorship in Russia, using its own platform to track how it’s doing it in an effort to remain transparent, but also agreeing to block pages that the regulator says offend content regulations. “We have since blocked access within the Russian Federation to the specific content which was flagged as prohibited by law… Read MoreViewbix Raises $3M To Wrap Video Ads Inside Interactive Players
Video ad startup Viewbix is announcing that it has raised $3 million in additional funding. The company basically wraps videos in a custom player — so if you’re an advertiser, the player can include your branding, as well as the ability to collect contact information and more. Read MoreWonderloop Attracts Investment From One Of Africa’s Wealthiest Magnates
Tony O. Elumelu, one of Africa’s wealthiest magnates (who recently launched a $100 million program to support entrepreneurship in Africa) is understood to have put an undisclosed sum into Silicon Valley-based mobile startup Wonderloop. Prior to this, Wonderloop had raised $500,000 in seed funding and received $100,000 from Innovation Norway. Heirs Holdings, a Lagos based proprietary… Read More
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