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Social Music Streaming With Frenzapp Music

YoungUpstarts

Bitsmedia currently develops iPhone applications for Universal Music in Europe and Australia. He was also previously CTO of Vivendi Mobile Entertainment, which operates a subscription based PC/Mobile/TV service for music and movies in France and Germany.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. For example, workers in Europe have fewer incentives than workers in the United States to work hard. They are not alone.

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Which Social Networks are for Entrepreneurs?

Startup Professionals Musings

Social networking is indeed the new business networking. Since I’ve been lurking around the various social networks for the last year or so, I’ve learned a few things, so I thought it would be helpful to clue you in on current networking cultures, and how they map into the business networking scene.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. But if we’re honest, Amsterdam is currently outdone by several places in Europe. A fundamental underpinning of social capital is the level of ‘trust’ a society has. Serious talent.

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Bitesize Friday: Israeli startups get funded, launch new products

VC Cafe

Matomy - provider of alternative payment solutions for social network applications, online and freemium games, MMOs and other players in the online marketplace. Consumer confidence in Israel drops for the second month in a row – reflecting the growing concern about the deteriorating economic conditions in Europe.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. What’s the ARPU of a business on a social network? Next-Gen Networking. 2029 Stierlin Court. 1 Hacker Way.

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Facebook As The Ultimate Surveillance Machine

Feld Thoughts

It seems far more likely that Facebook will be directly regulated than Google; arguably this is already the case in Europe with the GDPR. Facebook, meanwhile, has always seemed more immune to antitrust enforcement: its users are its suppliers, so what is there to regulate? That, though, is the answer: user data.