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Boost your startup in Silicon Valley – German Silicon Valley Accelerator doubles its startup spots
Germany’s Minister of Economics and Technology Philipp Rösler – along with his entourage of 100 entrepreneurs – made a whirlwind promo tour of Silicon Valley this week. During the trip, Rösler announced that the
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German optical shop Fielmann eyes up startups with incubator Fielmann Ventures
Missed the latest German corporate to jump on the incubator bandwagon? Looks like one of Germany’s biggest optical shops, Fielmann, launched Hamburg-based Fielmann Ventures without a big press junket or showy announcement last year.
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ProSiebenSat.1 unveils the startups taking part in its first accelerator programme
German television company ProSiebenSat.1 has announced the six startups that will be participating in the first round of its three-month accelerator programme, which was launched at the beginning of this year. Over 150 applications
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Exclusive – Groupon cuts back its Berlin office, up to 100 jobs could be slashed
Groupon’s Berlin base is undergoing a “restructuring” that involves its marketing department being pruned back, with as many as 100 jobs reportedly to be slashed at the company. Alex Hofmann reports… Go to Dublin or
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Fab ditches flash sales, acquires Germany’s Massivkonzept – and reveals first retail store in Hamburg
“Pivot” tends to be a dirty world in the tech world. When companies pivot, it’s usually because they messed up somewhere, and they tend not to hold press events flaunting their shift in focus.
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Infographic: The most active investors in Europe revealed
German seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is the most active investor for Europe-based, VC-backed companies – with 16 completed deals – according to a quarterly report released by Dow Jones VentureSource. Coming in second place is Danish VC
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Jobs of the week – Work for Epic Companies, Linkbird, SEOshop
The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and you’re ready to bust a move at the Berlin Music Video Awards. But before you get too excited about basking in the spring weather and
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Germany fines Google a tiny $190,000 over its Street View Wi-Fi snooping “mistake”
If regulators really want to deter Google from doing naughty things, they can start by fining the company more money… Germany is fining Google $189,230 (145,000 euros) over the company’s public Wi-Fi data snooping, the news of which emerged
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Infographic: Berlin’s startup hype in numbers
Only about 4.5 per cent of the overall number of new companies founded in Berlin in 2012 are IT startups, according to a report released by the Statistical Office of Berlin-Brandenburg. This is surprisingly low given
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German supermarket chain Rewe to soup-up its online business with startup incubator
German supermarket giant Rewe wants to soup-up its online business activities – and intends to open a startup incubator as part of that plan. Speaking to Germany’s Wirtschafts Woche, Rewe CEO Alain Caparros (left) conceded
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