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The Europas — It’s time for a different type of tech conference
Let’s face it. Some tech conferences have lost their way. While TechCrunch Disrupt remains a firmly curated, media-driven, event, with hundreds of journalists attending, a couple of other conferences have really gone for scale. A minimum of 15,000 people, thousands of companies, echoing halls — and a lot of investors (and journalists) turning their badges around so they don’t… Read More
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Chemists create an app that can tell if your beer is skunked
Bummer, dude! That’s what you say when you find out your whole keg of Heiney is totally skunked but it doesn’t matter because you’ll totally still drink it after you finish the pony keg of Sammo’s Irish Red. But what if I told you that folks in Spain have figured out a way to use an app to tell if your beer is a mess? Whoa, right? Whoa, indeed. Chemists at the… Read More
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Google files appeal in France opposing an order to apply Right to be Forgotten globally
While Google shows off its latest developments at the I/O event in California, there’s been another development in the ongoing legal fallout from the 2014 Right to be Forgotten ruling in Europe. Today, Google said that it has filed an appeal in France’s Supreme Administrative Court, the Conseil d’Etat, in opposition to a new, expanded order from the French data… Read More
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Tink scores $10M for its virtual banking app
Sweden’s Tink, a mobile banking app, has raised $10 million in Series B funding in a round led by Swedish investment firm Creades, and SEB Venture Capital, the venture arm of Swedish bank SEB. The new capital will be used to help the startup expand internationally and, by taking advantage of new European banking technical standards, evolve its product beyond a ‘read only’… Read More
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Zenly proves that location sharing isn’t dead
Now that you are giving up on check-ins and sharing your location with your friends, a French startup is coming up with better technology and new use cases to make location cool again. Zenly has been quietly working on location for years, and teenagers are now getting addicted to this app. SoLoMo is back. Zenly couldn’t be more straightforward. When you open the app, you see a giant map… Read More
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Dojo Madness raises $4.5M to turn your mobile phone into an eSports coach
Berlin-based eSports startup Dojo Madness is on a mission to help gamers level up. It does this via a mobile app, initially targeting League of Legends, that essentially turns your phone into an eSports coach, offering tips on strategy before and during gameplay, and analysis afterwards based on data culled from your in-game performance. Read More
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Mobile crowdsourcing company BeMyEye raises €6.5M and acquires French competitor LocalEyes
BeMyEye, one of a number of ‘mobile crowdsourcing’ apps that lets companies pay to have people carry out mobile tasks, such as photographing in-store promotions to ensure that are actually happening, has raised €6.5 million and acquired a competitor. Read More
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For Tattoo obsessives, Tattoodo adds an app to its arsenal
Tattoo culture has pretty much gone mainstream. Tattooing is the sixth fastest growing market in the retail industry with about 30% of Americans getting them now. Thus Tattoodo started out as a “digital lifestyle hub for all things tattoo-related,” with content, community and a marketplace. Think Pinterest for Tattoos, almost. Back in February we reported that the… Read More
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For democracy’s sake, UK tech staff need to vote in the EU Referendum
When it comes to startups trying to scale across Europe one thing is abundantly clear: although the market of over 500 million citizens in the European Union is far greater than the US’s 323 million, European startups are hobbled by fragmentation in jurisdictions, legislation and languages. With the caveat that language will always be an issue, it would seem simply logical to come up with… Read More
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UK healthcare products regulator in talks with Google/DeepMind over its Streams app
An app being made by DeepMind, the Google-owned AI company, working in collaboration with the NHS Royal Free Trust in London and being used to help identify hospital patients who might be at risk of acute kidney disease (AKI) is not currently in use, TechCrunch has learned. Read More
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Microsoft offloads Nokia feature phone business to Foxconn for $350M
Microsoft is selling the feature phone business it acquired from Nokia back in 2013 to a subsidiary of Chinese manufacturer Foxconn for $350 million, it announced today. At the same time former owner Nokia said it has inked a deal to license its brand to HMD Global, a new Finnish company run by ex-Nokia and Microsoft devices staff, to “create a new generation of Nokia-branded mobile… Read More
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Android Pay Debuts in the UK, no need to unlock device when you tap for sales under £30
Ahead of Google’s annual I/O event kicking off later today in Mountain View, the company is unveiling its latest developments for Android Pay. The mobile wallet for Android-powered smartphones is opening for business in the UK — its first market outside the U.S. (where it launched in September 2015) — starting out on NFC-enabled Android devices running KitKat 4.4 or… Read More
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Privacy shield rejection highlights need for proactive corporate privacy approach
To anyone familiar with doing business in Europe, it really is no surprise that the European Data Protection Supervisor and the European Commission — Referred to as the Article 29 Working Party — rejected the EU/US Privacy Shield data transfer agreement. Europeans believe personal privacy is a fundamental right of all people, similar to the way people in the United States believe… Read More
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The Facebook effect: BBC cuts Food site, local news and more factual content to save £15M
While the BBC is planning to take on Netflix by building its own “Britflix” on-demand video streaming service, on the news front, it looks like the UK media giant is cutting back to shore up its funds and figure out a better way of competing against (or within!) Facebook. Today, the many-tentacled public broadcaster confirmed that it would be closing down and… Read More
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Snips is a personal assistant that combines all your data in one app
French startup Snips is launching its first product today, an iOS app that is supposed to make your life easier by letting you view and search your data more easily. Snips is a personal assistant that helps you know where you need to be and when. When you first launch the app, Snips wants you to grant access to your location, calendars, contacts, motion sensor and Gmail account. Then… Read More
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This is your last chance to apply to the TechCrunch Pitch-Off in Stockholm
In three short weeks, the TechCrunch team will be in the beautiful city of Stockholm for a good old TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off — and I couldn’t be more excited about this event. If you’re an entrepreneur and you’re available on June 7, it’s now time to apply to the pitch-off. Read More
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