This is the kind of story that we would love to cover more often: an innovative european startup gets a successful exit, being acquired by a large player (the latter being Vodafone, a european global player, for a change of the Google, eBay, or Yahoo...
Topics: mobile social networking, startups, vodafone, zyb

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For those who don’t know, Atomico is the investment arm started by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (Skype founders), with their payday from the eBay acquisition. Atomico is a new breed of player in the European (and global) investment scene, the..
Topics: Atomico, friis, skype, Uncategorized, zennström

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During the startup presentation at TheNextWeb, founder Scott Rafer introduced Lookery, which allows to monetize applications on social networks.The company made itself famous for guaranteeing application developers a $0.125 CPM. They have been extremely.
Topics: lookery, scott rafer, Uncategorized

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Note : David Verbustel is covering TheNextWeb event in Amsterdam for Europe 2.0. If you are over there, he will always be happy to discuss with fellow entrepreneurs, with bloggers, investors. Contact him : david.verbustel[at]gmail.com. Other coverage of.
Topics: digg, pownce, scott rafer, startups

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I had the chance to meet at Plugg with Gary Cige and Thibaud Elziere, the founders of ZiLok, a website where people can rent just about anything (offers and demands of rental), in their area (in a space where we should also mention RentMineOnline.com, a..
Topics: rentmineonline, seedcamp, startups, zilok

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