Berlin’s attempt to become one of the world’s premier cities for startup culture is taking a serious blow, with a new airport months behind schedule and a ‘crazy’ compulsory pension contributions scheme that has nascent companies warning that it could prove too much. Read more »
The animated GIF has been given new life thanks to Tumblr’s obsession with quirky pictures of Ryan Gosling and kittens. But now German app Loopcam is uncovering a problem — what happens when creation happens on mobile, but consumption takes place on the web? Read more »
The mobile communications management platform takes almost all the functionality of the phone and puts it, along with a scary amount of insights data, into a desktop or tablet’s HTML5 browser. Read more »
A prominent local VC has called for German venture capitalists to band together and create a seed platform, but others say the likes of Kickstarter and AngelList need to appear naturally and organically if they are to work Read more »
Berlin is the most un-German of German cities. It is relatively new in its latest & post-unification incarnation. It is cheap and it has no major industry – for now. But that could soon change. My impression from a visit to what could become Europe’s biggest tech-hub. Read more »
txtr, a Berlin-based startup, is building an eReader that’s aimed to be Europe’s answer to the Amazon Kindle. Christophe Maire, chief executive officer of the company, sat down with me in Paris earlier this week and gave me the details. Read more »
