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0	Ravenwood Fair passes 10M users and keeps growing (exclusive) The shelf life of a video game in stores is measured in days or weeks these days. But online, games can live — and grow sales — longer. LOLapps‘... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Feb 25, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	LOLapps launches a novel expansion for Ravenwood Fair Facebook game LOLapps has had a big hit with its social game Ravenwood Fair, which has grown to 10 million monthly active users since its launch in October. So the... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Feb 22, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Shoeboxed to make expense reports easier with iPhone app Online receipt scanning and expense management service Shoeboxed.com wants to become an essential tool for mobile businesspeople. The company recently... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Nov 4, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Web 2.0: Sean Parker on why Facebook will win, and Google will lose Sean Parker, a managing partner at Founders Fund and an early president of Facebook, argued that a new breed of “network” companies will overshadow... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Oct 22, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Oliver Samwer Walks Out Of An Interview With TechCrunch The three Samwer brothers (Oliver, Marc and Alexander) founders of the Rocket Internet incubator in Berlin, are a phenomenon. They are far and away... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Oct 14, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Betaworks, Conway, And Sacca Embed $250,000 Into Embed.ly The angels are lining up to give Y Combinator startup Embed.ly some cash. Betaworks, Ron Conway, and Chris Sacca are investing $250,000 in the... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Aug 5, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	When Clones Attack! German Groupon Clone Gets €7m Warchest While the Groupon-clone fall out has already begun in the UK, it's looking more and more like a two horse race in Germany based on funding alone.... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Apr 6, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	European Startups Race To Emulate Groupon The Chicago-based Groupon has been valued at $280 million after closing their recent $30 million venture round with Accel Partners and previous... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Jan 6, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Hacker Of German Facebook Clones Commits Suicide In Jail You could say StudiVZ, the German Facebook clone, has a few problems on its hands - and some unwelcome publicity. Back in August Facebook officially... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Nov 1, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	High-Tech Gründerfonds Invests in Click-2-Call, the Next Generation of VoIP Technology WERL, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--C2Call (Click-to-call) GmbH, a developer of a ground-breaking new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology has... Source: businesswire.com Date: Oct 16, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Facebook And StudiVZ Dispute Ends With Settlement Facebook and StudiVZ have reached a settlement in the alleged plagiarism case, with the German social network operator paying Zuckerberg and co an... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Sep 10, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Social Media in Germany: 5 Years Behind - Still Lots to Learn A few days ago, we got a chance to talk about the state of blogging and social media in Germany with Marcel Weiß, the editor of Netzwertig.com - one... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Jul 9, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Facebook Loses Infringement Lawsuit In Germany Over Copycat Site This is a bit of a surprise, as it appears that Facebook has lost a lawsuit in Germany against a site it accuses of copying Facebook (but in German).... Source: techdirt.com Date: Jun 17, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Facebook Loses Lawsuit Against German Clone StudiVZ, Gets Criticized For Sloppy Preparation Bad news for Facebook from Germany today. Facebook has had issues with Berlin-based social network StudiVZ ("student directory" in German) for years... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Jun 16, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Social Networks Around the World Italian PR professional and former Microsoft Italy marketer Vincenzo Cosenza sent us an interesting visualization today. Below is a map of the world,... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Jun 7, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Pirate Party Banned From German Site That 'Pirated' Facebook A bunch of folks have sent in the story on TorrentFreak about how the German social networking site, StudiVZ, has refused to allow The Pirate Party to... Source: techdirt.com Date: May 1, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Facebook Goes International: Sees Impressive Growth Rates in Africa and Asia According to data compiled by O'Reilly's Ben Lorica, Facebook is currently seeing some very impressive growth outside of the United States. In Africa... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Apr 20, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Nimbuzz Enters Europe’s Hottest Mobile Market Social networks are driving the mobile internet boom and having already signed a major distribution agreement with StudiVZ in Germany, Nimbuzz enters... Source: sociableblog.com (Company Blog) Date: Mar 22, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	5 Great Instant Messenger Aggregators Across Multiple Platforms Hillel Fuld authors a blog about technology and marketing at Technmarketing.com. You can follow him on Twitter. Since the proliferation of the... Source: mashable.com Date: Feb 28, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	German Social Network Wer-kennt-wen.de Bought By RTL Wer-kennt-wen.de, one Germany's largest social networks, has been acquired by The RTL Group, one of Europe’s largest media conglomerates. RTL... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Feb 2, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0