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Worth reading: iZettle, Infogr.am, Mendeley, Rocket, Playdemic

There are so many interesting stories out there and unfortunately we don’t have the time to cover all of them. With our section “Worth reading”, we provide you once in a while with some links to interesting articles by other publications:

iZettle-logoSwedish payments startup iZettle is the leading European rival to the US-based Square. Now that the Scandinavian company is adding Android support to its arsenal, the potential for conflict between the two companies just got a lot bigger. Find out more and visit GigaOm Europe (Update – March 2023: The article seems to be not visible anymore, and we therefore deactivated the original link).

infogr.am-logoInfogr.am, a Latvian company that graduated from Helsinki’s Startup Sauna programme, has continued it’s acceleration through HackFwd, and has recently hit 100,000 infographics made on its platform. Co-founder Uldis Leiterts told ArcticStartup that Infogr.am is seeing increasing adoption from large media companies, professional data journalists and bloggers (Update – March 2023: Arctic Startup seems to be no longer in business under this website and we therefore deactivated the link).

Mendeley-logoMendeley, the scientific data aggregation platform which is headquartered in London, already has data on some 65 million unique documents. There are about 3,000 developers who have produced 240 apps that use the platform to help researchers. The UK-based startup just announced that those apps make 100 million requests for information every month. Read more on WSJ.

The_SamwersUS-based financial firm JP Morgan is to invest $45 million in Dafiti, which was built with the backing of Berlin incubator Rocket Internet and is now the largest online fashion retailer in Brazil. The investors will take a holding in the e-commerce site, which offers customers a variety of products including clothing, shoes, accessories, cosmetics and home wares. Find out more on VentureVillage.eu (Update – March 2023: The article seems to be not visible anymore, and we therefore deactivated the original link).

Playdemic-logoPlaydemic, a UK-based developer of social games, has announced a $4 million round of funding from a group of investors, with $3 million of that coming from the Watson family, meaning the grandchildren of IBM founder Thomas Watson. The funding will be used to develop “second-generation social games”. Read the full article on TechCrunch.

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Thomas Ohr
Thomas Ohr
Thomas Ohr is the "Editor in Chief" of EU-Startups.com and started the blog in October 2010. He is excited about Europe's future, passionate about new business ideas and lives in Barcelona (Spain).
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