1st TrendSlam a great success!

Congratulations to Monty and his team for organizing the 1st TrendSlam in history. A well attended event of top media experts and entrepreneurs was challenged to present in exactly 5min their ideas, trends and thoughts about the future in “new media”. Top speakers at this well attended event were i.e. Felix Petersen from Plazes, Anina and [...]

Cleantech on the rise!

Cleantech has been on the rise for quite some time now! Investors are putting a lot of money to work in exciting areas such as photovoltaics, energy mgmt, water treatment or nanotechnologies. In addition to professional investors, governments and politicians are also acknowledging the importance of this sector. The recent decision by the European Commission [...]

Google buys YouTube for stunning $1.65Bn

What started off as a head-line on WSJ on Friday is now official. Google buys YouTube for an amazing $1.65Bn in stocks according to various sources. Obviously, industry experts had expected such a move from either Google, Yahoo or Microsoft, but the speed of the acquisition comes as a surprise for many of us I believe.
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Qype gets funding – How to generate revenues?

Qype today announced a financing round, led by Advent and Partech International. Established by Internet-Entrepreneur Stephan Uhrenbacher in 2005, qype is a user-generated recommendation platform for any locals needs, i.e. Restaurants, Hotel, services, etc.
Takeway: Without any question, there is an increasing trend away from standard old-fashioned yellow pages, towards UGC sites for local information and [...]