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Archive for February, 2010
French court slams eBay with €1.7M fine over LVMH product resale dispute
Feb 28th
A commercial court in Paris has fined eBay €1.7 million euros (roughly £1.6 million) for allegedly not sticking to an injunction banning users from selling on products of luxury goods conglomerate Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH in short).
Allowing the LVMH perfumes and cosmetics to be purchased by Frenchmen on its More >
The End Of The CrunchPad
Feb 25th
It was so close I could taste it. Two weeks ago we were ready to publicly launch the CrunchPad. The device was stable enough for a demo. It went hours without crashing. We could even let people play with the device themselves – the user interface was intuitive enough that More >
The New TweetDeck Goes List Crazy And Adds Maps To GeoTweets
Feb 20th
Streamreaders just keep getting better and better. A new version of TweetDeck is rolling out today with some major improvements, including support for Lists, Retweets, maps for geo-tagged messages, and LinkedIn streams. TweetDeck has already been downloaded more than 10 million times, and its active user base is in the More >
GrabMyTable Lets Mom And Pop Restaurants Easily Serve Up Websites
Feb 15th
As more consumers turn to sites like Yelp and Citysearch to find restaurants, it’s important for establishments of all sizes to have a website. While larger restaurants may have more resources to create an informative consumer-facing site, the mom and pop restaurants out there need an easy way to create More >
“We fucked it up”: Lack of media companies buying startups is Europe’s achilles heel says Hommels
Feb 10th
here were some interesting panel discussion today at the NOAH conference – a new event in London aimed at presenting tech companies to the private equity and banking sector – but the plethora of suited and booted attendees were shocked out of their chairs a little when Klaus Hommels, (one More >
Spotify heads towards TVs, gaming consoles and China
Feb 5th
At the first ever outing of the brand new (and quite high level) NOAH Conference in London a clutch of European companies, most mid-to-late stage startups, set out their wares to a broad range of European VCs, private equity people and bankers. Was it a pitch event? It was hard More >
Playmesh Tops the Charts with #1 Game on the iPhone: iFarm downloaded 1 million times in 10 days
Feb 1st
You might find this suprising, but the top social gaming companies on the iPhone are not the same ones you know of from Facebook and MySpace. Zynga, despite $54.2M in funding, has hardly made a dent on the iPhone. Neither has Playfish, which was recently bought for $300M. Playdom hasn’t More >
