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Startup of the Week – Photocircle “Buy photos, help the world”

Startup of the Week – Photocircle “Buy photos, help the world”

Elaine Jung July 26, 2012 4

Social enterprise startup Photocircle.net has officially launched this week, allowing photographers to sell their worldly snaps while passing on a cut to social projects.  Imagine if part of the profits made from the famous 1984 National

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Babysitter-finder Kinderfee scores funding

Babysitter-finder Kinderfee scores funding

Nina Fowler July 24, 2012 0

Berlin-based online babysitting service Kinderfee just raised a six-figure angel investment round and plan to release an iPhone app in the next few months. Kinderfee, like a wave of other startups in the US

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Exclusive: The fabulous life of Fab.com’s Tom Claessens

Exclusive: The fabulous life of Fab.com’s Tom Claessens

Marguerite Imbert July 24, 2012 3

“It’s difficult for a chair to be nice and comfortable at the same time,” Fab.com’s Berlin-based design guru Tom Claessens tells me when I ask him to critique the room we’ve just sat down in.

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Mobile app Lover & Hater – tapping the crowd to share street art, opinions, hot city spots

Mobile app Lover & Hater – tapping the crowd to share street art, opinions, hot city spots

Nina Fowler July 23, 2012 4

Officially out of beta today, Lover & Hater is a new, free location-based snap, rate and share mobile app for Android (iOS on the way). It’s the first app from Berlin developers Markus Otte,

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VIDEO – Berlin Geekettes – women in tech

VIDEO – Berlin Geekettes – women in tech

Elaine Jung July 23, 2012 4

With the past decade heralding the momentous growth in technology within the internet industry, the ‘lack of women in tech’ debate continues to gather steam. But, in the German capital, more than 200 women

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Tell us your craziest startup sacrifice and win TOA tickets

Tell us your craziest startup sacrifice and win TOA tickets

Marguerite Imbert July 20, 2012 1

As you may have heard in the shuffle this week, KLASH and VentureVillage are looking to find the baddest badass startup in Berlin. Have you pitched in a mankini on live TV? Did you marry a stranger

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Exclusive office snaps – inside Groupon’s new Berlin international office

Exclusive office snaps – inside Groupon’s new Berlin international office

Nina Fowler July 20, 2012 1

The opening of Groupon’s new international office in Berlin followed another record low share price this week and more details of the group’s push to become what founder and CEO Andrew Mason calls an “OS for

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UPcload scoops six-figure funding from IBB, readies further funding round

UPcload scoops six-figure funding from IBB, readies further funding round

Nina Fowler July 19, 2012 3

Berlin startup UPcload recently secured a six-figure sum from the Investment Bank Berlin (IBB)’s innovation funding programme ProFIT and is preparing to close a larger funding round with several new investors. UPcload, founded by Sebastian

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BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin – 10 app ideas to disrupt daily urban life

BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin – 10 app ideas to disrupt daily urban life

Nina Fowler July 17, 2012 4

Moving past its controversial opening in June, the BMW Guggenheim Lab is bringing a rich selection of brains and topics to its wall-less temporary home in Berlin. MIT’s Jose Gomez-Marquez, who helps doctors with few

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Spätschicht “Summer Breeze” – all the Photobox pictures

Spätschicht “Summer Breeze” – all the Photobox pictures

Elaine Jung July 16, 2012 1

The photobox is a popular staple at our Spätschicht event at Kunztschule Mitte, and our biggest one yet – proved no different. We garnered a wonderful selection of snaps from the Modomoto photobox. Check out

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