BaltCap, a leading venture investor in startups in the Baltics region, has signed a €1 million investment in Clusterpoint, an enterprise software startup created by Latvian programmers and backed by seed investors in the UK and Baltics. Clusterpoint has built a database platform designed for cloud computing infrastructure which they claim is highly scalable. They are competing against open source solutions such as MongoDB.
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Lytro Teardown Shows Potential Wireless Capability, Smallish Sensor
TechCrunch » Gadgets8 Feb 2012 | 4:51 pmIt’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about Lytro (other than nearly grabbing a Crunchie (I voted for them)), the camera where you shoot now and focus later. And the latest news comes not from the company itself, but from the FCC, which just today published the internal photos from its investigation of the device. There’s nothing fabulously surprising, but Wireless Goodness points out that the chip pictured, a Marvell Avastar 88W8787, has Bluetooth and wi-fi capabilities. Companies don’t generally include capabilities in hardware they don’t expect to use;… -
Clusterpoint secures €1m from BaltCap to scale its database for clouds
TechCrunch Europe9 Feb 2012 | 4:41 amBaltCap, a leading venture investor in startups in the Baltics region, has signed a €1 million investment in Clusterpoint, an enterprise software startup created by Latvian programmers and backed by seed investors in the UK and Baltics. Clusterpoint has built a database platform designed for cloud computing infrastructure which they claim is highly scalable. They are competing against open source solutions such as MongoDB. Clusterpoint’s database software is aimed at providing better performance on modest hardware – this means bigger cost savings and energy-efficiency in data… -
Invokit et Evoliz : solutions de gestion commerciale en ligne
TechCrunch France8 Feb 2012 | 2:13 amJ’ai pu me rendre compte la semaine dernière au salon des entrepreneurs de Paris, des avantages des logiciels de gestion commerciale et de facturation en ligne en y rencontrant les sociétés Invokit et Evoliz. En effet, Invokit, ex Myfacture.com y lançait sa nouvelle version SaaS. Cette start-up de la Rochelle vient de changer de positionnement et de nom en réponse à la forte demande de son service accessible via Internet, ainsi que pour regarder au-delà des frontières françaises et entamer un développement à l’international: « Notre V1 intitulée Myfacture permettait la…
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Clusterpoint Secures €1m From BaltCap To Scale Its Database For Clouds
9 Feb 2012 | 4:44 amBaltCap, a leading venture investor in startups in the Baltics region, has signed a €1 million investment in Clusterpoint, an enterprise software startup created by Latvian programmers and backed by seed investors in the UK and Baltics. Clusterpoint has built a database platform designed for cloud computing infrastructure which they claim is highly scalable. They are competing against open source solutions such as MongoDB. -
Live from Riga – TechCrunch Baltics meetup #TCBaltics
9 Feb 2012 | 3:37 amWe’re running the first ever TechCrunch Baltics meetup today with a mini-conference and pitch contest in the lovely city of Riga, Latvia. The Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are tiny countries, but punch above their weight in terms of their technical prowess. Estonia in particular was made famous as being the base from which Skype was developed, and now the rest of the region is coming alive with startups and accelerators. You can find the agenda here. Up to 8 selected Baltic startups will pitch to a jury and audience that includes many key investors in the region and… -
Montblanc Takes Google To Court To Obtain Identity Of, And Sue, Counterfeit Advertisers
9 Feb 2012 | 2:21 amGoogle has been going to great lengths to keep advertisers who sell counterfeit goods online out of its AdWords program, but as far as Montblanc, the Germany-based maker of ‘writing instruments’, watches, jewelry and whatnot, is concerned, they ought to be doing more. Montblanc-Simplo GmbH, as the holding is called, is taking Google to court in an effort to obtain the identity of a certain – or more – persistent counterfeit goods seller(s). TechCrunch has obtained the court documents, which make for an interesting read. Montblanc says it has received numerous… -
Remember Netvibes? It’s Finally Acquired By Engineering Giant Dassault Systèmes
8 Feb 2012 | 11:48 pmIt’s been a long and winding road since Tariq Krim created and eventually left Netvibes, but today Netvibes has been acquired by huge French engineering giant Dassault Systèmes for an undisclosed amount. Krim continues to pursue his original dream of organising the social web on Jolicloud. -
Analytics Dashboard Netvibes Sold To Dassault Systèmes
8 Feb 2012 | 11:06 pmNetvibes has just been acquired by European product design company Dassault Systèmes (sure this isn’t the type of thing I usually write, but I like the founder Tariq Krim so bear with me here … ). French startup Netvibes is a sentiment analytics dashboard that allows Fortune 500 companies to track their social media presence throughout the realtime web. Dassault is a “3D experience” design company — which lets designers virtualize how products will work in the real world — so the acquisition actually seems jarring at first, but Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini…
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Lytro Teardown Shows Potential Wireless Capability, Smallish Sensor
8 Feb 2012 | 4:51 pmIt’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about Lytro (other than nearly grabbing a Crunchie (I voted for them)), the camera where you shoot now and focus later. And the latest news comes not from the company itself, but from the FCC, which just today published the internal photos from its investigation of the device. There’s nothing fabulously surprising, but Wireless Goodness points out that the chip pictured, a Marvell Avastar 88W8787, has Bluetooth and wi-fi capabilities. Companies don’t generally include capabilities in hardware they don’t expect to use;… -
Nokia Cuts 4000 Jobs; Last European Phone Assembly Work Goes To Asia
8 Feb 2012 | 2:35 pmIt’s a sign of the times, though not a particularly surprising one: Nokia has finally eliminated its European phone assembly infrastructure and will be moving those 4000 jobs to Asia, according to a Reuters report. The factories are not being shuttered altogether, and localizing and finishing work will still be done there, but the primary assembly work is being relocated. The news and layoffs were expected, as the company has slashed many more thousands of jobs over the last year, but this particular cut is symbolic: the intensely European company has been battered into submission, and… -
Nest Labs Responds To Honeywell Lawsuit, Says It Has The Resources To Defend Itself
8 Feb 2012 | 1:55 pmNest is ready to fight. The Palo Alto company just issued a followup statement regarding Honeywell’s recent patent infringement suit. In short they’re not going to roll over. They’re going to stand tall. The plan is to “vigorously defend itself” from what they call an attempt to stifle “thoughtful competition.” Nice. Go get ‘em, boys. From Nest Labs: We at Nest are proud of creating products that bring true innovation to home efficiency and we are continuing to innovate and bring products to market. The Nest Learning Thermostat is already making… -
Google Offers To Pay People To Have Their Web Use Tracked Minutely
8 Feb 2012 | 1:05 pmSome people might say that there’s no way Google could be more aware of your browsing habits. Not true! There is much they don’t know. But it’s not because they don’t want to know. Last night Google rolled out two programs aimed at increasing their awareness of how people use their browsers — what sites they visit, for how long, for what purpose, etc. They’ll pay you for the privilege, a bit like being a Nielsen family. They even give you a little box! The “lightweight” option (first noted at Search Engine Land) is simply a Chrome browser… -
Study: iPhone Resale Value 63% After One Year, Android 46%
8 Feb 2012 | 12:50 pmAll smartphones do not depreciate equally. 18 months after purchase, iPhones can be sold for 53% of their original price, while Androids can only be sold for 42% and BlackBerries for 41% on average according to a study by Y Combinator second-hand price guide startup Priceonomics. That frown on Android fanboy faces gets even larger the quicker they try to resell. 12 months after purchase, iPhones can pull in 63% of their day 1 manufacturer suggested retail price, compared to 46% for Android. Early adopters who must have the latest model would do well to stick with Apple. 6 months after…
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Clusterpoint secures €1m from BaltCap to scale its database for clouds
9 Feb 2012 | 4:41 amBaltCap, a leading venture investor in startups in the Baltics region, has signed a €1 million investment in Clusterpoint, an enterprise software startup created by Latvian programmers and backed by seed investors in the UK and Baltics. Clusterpoint has built a database platform designed for cloud computing infrastructure which they claim is highly scalable. They are competing against open source solutions such as MongoDB. Clusterpoint’s database software is aimed at providing better performance on modest hardware – this means bigger cost savings and energy-efficiency in data… -
Live from Riga – TechCrunch Baltics meetup
9 Feb 2012 | 1:17 amWe’re running the first ever TechCrunch Baltics meetup today with a mini-conference and pitch contest in the lovely city of Riga, Latvia. The Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are tiny countries, but punch above their weight in terms of their technical prowess. Estonia in particular was made famous as being the base from which Skype was developed, and now the rest of the region is coming alive with startups and accelerators. You can find the agenda here. Up to 8 selected Baltic startups will pitch to a jury and audience that includes many key investors in the region and… -
Netvibes is finally acquired by French engineering giant Dassault Systèmes
8 Feb 2012 | 11:45 pmIt’s been a long and winding road since Tariq Krim created and eventually left Netvibes, but today Netvibes has been acquired by huge French engineering giant Dassault Systèmes for an undisclosed amount. Krim continues to pursue his original dream of organising the social web on Jolicloud. Netvibes had an early lead back in the era when ‘personal start pages’ were the new new thing, but (and we won;t go into the long story here) a large pivot towards enterprise saw it moving into more of a dashboard for Fortune 500 brands, enterprises and agencies (including Coca Cola, HP,… -
Jozefak re-appears at LiquidLabs, a new German tech skunkworks
8 Feb 2012 | 2:06 pmWe were a little concerned at the end of last year that one of Europe’s better VCs, Paul Jozefak (@pjozefak) had parted ways with his firm Neuhaus Partners in Hamburg, and that there was no news on his next move. Now the word on the street appears to be that he’s working on something pretty interesting. I’ve heard through the grapevine that he’s told people about a new project called Liquid Labs. I reached out for comment but he politely declined. Still, I hear he’s been hanging out with one Michael Backes, formerly of eVenture (the Otto venture fund in Hamburg)… -
Skimlinks is the real story behind Pinterest’s success
8 Feb 2012 | 12:32 pmI love it when a startup I’ve been covering for literally years suddenly finds itself in the spotlight, and for the right reasons. In this case, Skimlinks, originally from London but now with a growing US base, has been revealed as powering the affiliate links behind Pinterest, one of the hottest startups on the map right now. For some that appears to be a little bit of scandal, at least for Pinterest, though not for Skimlinks. LLSocial uncovered the practice, whereby if a post on Pinterest happens to link to a commerce site with an affiliate program, Pinterest uses Skimlinks – a…
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Invokit et Evoliz : solutions de gestion commerciale en ligne
8 Feb 2012 | 2:13 amJ’ai pu me rendre compte la semaine dernière au salon des entrepreneurs de Paris, des avantages des logiciels de gestion commerciale et de facturation en ligne en y rencontrant les sociétés Invokit et Evoliz. En effet, Invokit, ex Myfacture.com y lançait sa nouvelle version SaaS. Cette start-up de la Rochelle vient de changer de positionnement et de nom en réponse à la forte demande de son service accessible via Internet, ainsi que pour regarder au-delà des frontières françaises et entamer un développement à l’international: « Notre V1 intitulée Myfacture permettait la… -
Connecting Startups organise un nouvel Atelier Start’UP le 21/02 sur l’immatriculation d’entreprises
6 Feb 2012 | 3:18 amDans le cadre de son programme d’ateliers, Connecting Startups organise une prochaine édition à La Cantine le 21 février de 17h à 20h. Cet atelier, intitulé « Guide pratique d’immatriculation d’entreprises », sera animé par un expert du cabinet d’expertise comptable Consoleo spécialisé dans l’accompagnement des startups. Le processus d’immatriculation d’une société en France est aussi formel que l’est l’administration qui s’en charge. Connecting startups vous propose de faire le point sur les tenants et aboutissants de ce processus d’immatriculation et de… -
Lancement de TripXP, les activités touristiques en mode collaboratif.
2 Feb 2012 | 2:57 amTripXP.com, startup française néée en 2011, lance aujourd’hui sa place de marché collaborative permettant à des particuliers ou des professionnels de proposer aux voyageurs ou curieux des activités qui sortent de l’ordinaire. Découvrir le Paris hanté ou encore faire du sightjogging à Amsterdam, c’est désormais possible. A l’heure où le partage d’expériences et l’économie collaborative (cf l’article d’hier sur AirBnB) font fureur, les 3 fondateurs de TripXP entendent créer un véritable lien social autour des activités… -
Mash-up #5 : Rencontres étudiants-entrepreneurs lundi prochain
2 Feb 2012 | 1:41 amLe lundi 6 Février à 19h30 au sein de l’ESCP Europe aura lieu la 5ème édition du Mash Up sur le thème “Quelle stratégie pour financer sa start-up ? Regards croisés d’un entrepreneur et d’un investisseur“. Pour l’occasion, cette nouvelle édition du Mash-up accueillera Emilie Gobin, co-fondatrice de l’Usine à Design, et Stéphane Pesqué, investisseur dans l’Usine à Design et membre du directoire du CM-CIC Capital Privé, qui viendront partager leurs expériences et leurs réflexions sur le thème du financement. Après avoir organisé quatre… -
AirBnB à la conquête du marché français.
1 Feb 2012 | 9:37 amAirBnB, site de partage d’appartements et porte-étendard de l’économie du partage, poursuit son expansion et ouvre un bureau à Paris. Deux des trois fondateurs historiques, Brian Chesky et Joe Gebbia, étaient à Paris pour célébrer le lancement de la version localisée du site et annoncer la nomination de Olivier Grémillon à la tête de Airbnb France. Nous les avons rencontrés afin d’évoquer leur ascension fulgurante et parler de la spécificité du marché français. Il y a quatre ans, fraîchement sortis de leur école de design, Joe et Brian cherchent à…
