Tag Archives: European startups

Have Fon !

There at it again, giving stuff away to all & sundry. Any respect for normal business practice – where people pay for manufactured goods? Not for those Spanish loco revolutionaries down there in Fonland, I’m pleased to say. So, if …

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Swiss whispers

Another European telecommunications (Swisscom) subsidiary company is tuning into the blogosphere and receiving funds for doing so. coComments is one of a handful of start-ups who are trying to help people keep tabs on their – or other peoples – …

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WengoVisio – videophone for blogs

After the OpenWengo project – ‘A VoIP provider whose goal is to make standards-based SIP telephony available to all’, Wengo, a subsidiary of the French telecommunications company Neuf Cegetel, has begun flirting with the blogosphere. WengoVisio, a video communication widget …

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Germany pulls the plug on Eurogoogle

To anybody left wondering what ever happened to Quaero – the Franco-German Internet search engine that was scheduled to be officially launched in early 2006 – it appears to have taken yet another two steps backwards into Franco-French. At an …

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French digg-like goes all polyglot

Wikio continues its international development this Monday by launching an English version – Wikio.com, und German – Wikio.de and Spanish – Wikio.es, también. Pierre Chappaz, who founded the popular (600,000 users in Fr, 100,000 in Italy) user-contributed news company, admits …

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The ascension of Panoramio star

Good news this week for a young Spanish start up – Panoramio, who find themselves part of the new Geographic Web layer in Google Earth. Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo Manchón Aguilar, launched Panoramio, a Google Maps mashup for geo-positioning …

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Last night a PC saved my life

Let the PC be the DJ Musicovery can be useful if you like listening to Web radio and discovering new songs but get fed up with the constant rattling of the DJ. Or, you’re with a group of friends and …

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