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Heureka conference 2013 – Instagram photo gallery and top Tweets
Yesterday’s Heureka 2013 conference in Berlin welcomed some of the most notable European entrepreneurs and business stars to the stage to share their wisdom around the theme of “Elements of a Startup”. As well
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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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Social networks: wild expectations versus grim reality
Here Startup Hipster – the most elusive member of the Berlin Startup Scene, pens his thoughts on the hard-won truths of social networking. It all comes down to stalking, Twitter-induced seizures, food, and Justin Timberlake’s face… There’s
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Instabank: the most souped-up Facebook banking app you’ve never heard of
It’s a great time to build new ways to make and take payments. Online shopping is booming and analysts predict there’ll be more smartphones than people on the planet by 2016. Customers hurt by
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Photography enthusiasts get ready: EyeEm’s announced its June photo hackathon
Berlin-based Instagram competitor EyeEm is gearing up for the third edition of its Photo Hack Day, which they boast is “Europe’s largest image-centric hackathon.” Held at an as yet unconfirmed location in Berlin on
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Berlin photo sharing app EyeEm wins in Instagram scandal
The outrage over Instagram’s changes in the wording of its terms of service has seen rival photo editing and sharing app EyeEm receive a boost in downloads. The founder of the Berlin-based startup, Florian
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Technology 2012 – the winners and the losers
2012 has been an amazing year in technology. We’ve seen the clash of titans in mobile as Apple, Google, and Microsoft have released new phones, tablets, and mobile operating systems. We’ve seen a single network connect over
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The Top 10 social media stories that shaped 2012
Social media was inescapable in 2012. Facebook ballooned to 1 billion users, Instagram surpassed critical mass, Twitter took over the presidential election, and Pinterest gave us something new to root for. But we also
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VentureVillage’s Top 10 video reports of 2012
From meeting footballing robots to exploring the latest tech trends and cultural issues, it’s been a bumper year for our Berlin video crew. We’ve recorded and compiled a breadth of stories and events in
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Project A’s Shirtagram – an Instagram-inspired first foray into the app market
Shirtagram, the newest startup to be launched by Berlin-based incubator Project A Ventures, is jumping on the Instagram-to-real-life bandwagon – following the big news this week of the Twitter/Instagram spat which has led to the picture-sharing
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