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VIDEO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel shows first signs of support for Berlin startups
Tech entrepreneurs and investors rubbed shoulders with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin last week, in a move which some say is a greater shift in addresssing the burgeoning startup sector. During her speech,
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Berlin startups, calls them “yeast”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Berlin startups “the yeast that makes the industry grow” at a special reception held in the city last night. The event, named “Internet and Start-ups in Deutschland” gathered together
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Hamburg’s YieldKit ready for global roll-out – Tim Schumacher, HackFwd inject $750,000
Today YieldKit, a Hamburg-based affiliate marketing tool, secured $750,000 in Series A funding to focus on company growth and international expansion. The investment comes from Sedo Founder Tim Schumacher, who recently joined as an investor, and Lars
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CODE_n – €40,000 in prizes for energy-conscious startups
Calling all energy-conscious startups. Do you have a product or idea that could help save the planet by conserving precious energy? Then you could bag €15,000 of prize money from the CODE_n startup competition and maybe
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Burda wants to take over Xing – for the tidy sum of €147.3 million
The Burda publishing house is interested in buying out all shareholders in German professional networking site Xing, offering them a generous takeover bid. By taking over Xing, the Offenburger media corporation is making a
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“Get a damn good lawyer” – top quotes on VCs, clones and risk-taking from IdeaLab! 2012
This year’s IdeaLab! in Vallendar felt at times like a battle for the hearts and minds of Germany’s future founders. Students from the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management – who independently put on the two-day IdeaLab! conference each year
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myTaxi releases first direct mobile payment solution in Germany – and viral video
Hamburg-based myTaxi yesterday released the first direct mobile payment service for taxis in Germany and this viral video of a naked man trying to make purchases with nothing but a smartphone. MyTaxi, released by Sven
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Lars Hinrichs – 10 Things I Know…
Lars Hinrichs, founder of Xing, creator of HackFWD and the man with Angela Merkel’s ear on matters of digital policy, speaks to VentureVillage on what he looks for in a killer product, the Berlin
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