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Mark Zuckerberg spotted in Berlin – but who did he visit?
Mark Zuckerberg has been spotted in Berlin this week, as part of a whistle-stop tour of Germany, taking in both the German capital and Hamburg and squeezing in a rooftop meeting with politicians at
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Airbnb deemed illegal in New York City in landmark ruling
Officials in New York City have ruled that some hosts using Airbnb, the game-changing peer-to-peer holiday rental service are acting illegally. The case centred around Nigel Warren, a casual Airbnb user who rented out his East Village
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“Skype for currency exchange” TransferWise lands $6 million Series A led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures
Thiel’s Valar Ventures makes its first European investment Entrepreneur, investor, future-gazer and philanthropist Peter Thiel has led a $6m Series A investment round in the “Skype for money transfers”, TransferWise via his Valar Ventures fund.
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Soundcloud opens New York offices, hires ex-Pandora sales veteran to monetise
Soundcloud has announced that its expanding its US operations, by opening new offices in New York. In addition, the music distribution platform has already made its first New York hire – Dan Gerber –
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Waze founder Uri Levine on navigating to global success. Is this Facebook’s next billion-dollar acquisition?
Rumours are surfacing that Facebook is eyeing up social driving app Waze to follow on Instagram’s footsteps as its second big $1bn acquisition after Instagram. We travelled to Tel Aviv last year to examine the startup scene
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Opinion: Gidsy and GetYourGuide – a much-needed wakeup call from Berlin’s “startup Inception”
Well, it was nice while it lasted. Last week news dropped that Gidsy, the “Airbnb for experiences” and de facto poster-child of the Berlin startup scene was being acquired and subsumed by fellow Berlin
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Berlin Apple Store will open 3 May, 5pm. Fanboys save the date…
It’s official: the Berlin Apple Store is opening 3 May at 5pm. As we reported last week, the historic building in the centre of Kurfürstendamm was nearing completion, with the scaffolding being removed and the
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Twitter #Music launches – but will it make it to Germany?
Twitter has finally launched its much-rumoured Twitter #Music service, a standalone app for iOS and web dedicated to music discovery. The company announced the news via a blog post by We Are Hunted founder Stephen Philips: “Today, we’re
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Facebook Home Bluffer’s Guide… is that Grumpy Cat in the video??
As you might be aware, Facebook has just announced Home, its new mobile offering, designed specifically for Android OS. And in a special press event and global live stream held yesterday in Menlo Park,
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