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Rovio to launch racing-themed ‘Angry Birds Heikki’ webgame on June 18

May 18, 2012   Matt Brian

Rovio might be looking beyond Angry Birds with the announcement of its new ‘Amazing Alex’ franchise but the company is set to launch a new bird-smashing racing-themed webgame called ‘Angry Birds Heikki’ on June 18.
The company has remained quiet…

Flat-Club leverages trust, social networks to facilitate short-term letting; lands funding

May 17, 2012   Robin Wauters

Flat-Club, a London startup that enables people to sell and book short-term accommodations in a relatively closed ‘circle of trust’, has secured funding.
The investors joining the Series A financing round are all non-traditional VCs; the list of backers…

Europe’s Square rival iZettle to ship 3,000 card readers to UK testers, warms up for summer launch

May 16, 2012   Robin Wauters

iZettle is one of the European companies doing what Jack Dorsey’s Square is doing in the United States: trying to convince small businesses and individuals to take card payments with its mobile applications and a custom-built reader.
So far, the…

Fotolia scores $300m in equity, debt financing from PE firm KKR in exchange for 50% stake

May 16, 2012   Robin Wauters

First stock imagery site Shutterstock files for a $115 million IPO, and now rival Fotolia is selling 50 percent (note: link goes to a paywalled Financial Times article) of the company to private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.…

StartupBootcamp and Campus Party events in Berlin open registration for this year’s excited entrepreneurs

May 15, 2012   Jamillah Knowles

If you’re in the business of tech startups and entrepreneurial spirit in Berlin, there’s a lot coming up that you might want to try. Today, Telefonica and O2 have opened up their European Campus Party and Startupbootcamp has announced that it will…

Nokia is getting pummeled: Stock price hits staggering low after a 6% nosedive

May 14, 2012   Robin Wauters

Troubled Finnish phone maker Nokia saw its stock price take an unusually steep nosedive this morning on market open, dropping about 6.3 percent to 2.35 euros.
Earlier this morning, it even hit an all-time low of 2.34 euros per share.…

The need for speed: TeliaSonera to build Facebook’s new pan-European optical network

May 14, 2012   Robin Wauters

TeliaSonera International Carrier, a 100% subsidiary of Swedish telco TeliaSonera, this morning announced that it has been retained by social networking giant Facebook to both build and operate a new pan-European managed optical network.
The multi-terabit optical network will provide…

Deals marketplace WhaleShark Media buys French online coupon firm Miwim

May 14, 2012   Robin Wauters

WhaleShark Media, an Austin, Texas-based company that aims to create a truly global marketplace for coupons and deals (with backing from Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan and multiple VC firms), has invaded France.
WhaleShark this morning announced that it has purchased…

Tears, Tantrums & Tech: Episode 4 of our accelerator series: Lion Kings [Video]

May 12, 2012   Martin Bryant

In part three of our video series following three startups taking part in the Springboard accelerator in London, we’re looking at Birdback, a startup that wants to help you get more out of your debit or credit card.
With a founding team…

It’s not an eelusion: Berlin game studio raises $1.7 million in just 3 weeks

May 11, 2012   Robin Wauters

We caught this one rather late, but Berlin, Germany-based mobile games maker eelusion has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. According to the startup, the capital was raised 3 weeks after kicking off its fundraising efforts.
The game studio didn’t,…

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