Schibsted invest in Riidr
TrendsOnline reports that Schibsted Media Group, one of the largest media-companies in Scandinavia invest in Riidr and their e-book business. Riidr was one of the first companies to focus on e-books in Denmark, and they have developed their own app for both the iOS and Android platforms. No sum for the investment has been mentioned, […]
Copenhagen Code Clubbing!
Code Clubbing, having been held in Malmö (at STPLN and MEC) and Helsingborg (at SHIP) earlier, will have it’s first event in Copenhagen, at Founders House, on friday the 26th october. Code Clubbing is just what it sounds like – nice music and nice atmosphere, but instead of dancing there is coding! It is a […]
Saplo and Qlikview predict the US election
Saplo, a startup that works with text-analysis, has teamed up with one of the regions success-stories, Qlikview, to create an interactive website analysing the presidential election campaigns. An easy to use application that lets you see what is being said in news articles and tweets on the web about both candidates. It also gives an […]
Crunchfish and Parkster nominated for Guldmobilen
Both Crunchfish and Parkster have been nominated for Guldmobilen. Crunchfish for best innovative product, with their gesture and eye-tracking based UI for phones, and Parkster in the most useful category, for their smart idea and good approach to making parking easier. Being nominated together with companies such as iZettle and previous winners such as Toca […]
Everplace wins QPrize competition and €100K
Everplace won the European QPrize competition. Arranged by Qualcomm Ventures, the first price is €100 000 in convertible note funding and also the opportunity to participate in the Grand Finals competition. The Grand Finals offers an additional chance for $150 000 in prize funding. Winning the European competition will certainly help Everplace forward, both with […]
Open API from the danish Ministry of Finance
Just a short news story – the danish Ministry of Finance released a press release today that they will be working for an open API for the basic information on citizens and companies, such as addresses and company registration numbers. This will hopefully enable more interesting services and startups to emerge, who can use the […]
A tribute to failing @ MINC
On the 3rd of October, MINC held an open session about failure in the startup scene. It was a somewhat ad-hoc event: it was nearly canceled until they decided it would be held anyway. In the end roughly 150 people turned up – and a great mixed crowd, not just regulars from MINC and nearby […]
Startup Sauna @ MEC
Media Evolution City will host the first Startup Sauna at october the 11th. The concept is shared with other cities in nothern Europe and Russia. Startups are given an 3 minutes pitch, where they can pitch there business idea and get honest and brutal feedback. Read more about the concept at the official event site. […]
BrowserTexting – an international success
TrendsOnline has a nice write-up of BrowserTexting: an Google Play App that lets you write sms messages through your browser (if you are using an android phone). It was an unexpected success, that has gone from being free to being a payed service. Read the story about the founder Elias Naur og Martin Willer Tychsen here. […]
Joakim Jardenberg becomes business developer at incubator
Joakim Jardenberg, voted one of the most influental techinvestors in Europe (#14) and “1 of the 10 people PM Fredrik Reinfeldt should listen to” has now taken a part time job as the business developer at an incubatorprogram in the northern Øresund Region, with Helsingborg as focus point. This is the first “job” Joakim has […]