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KLASH launches: Are you ready to challenge your friends?

KLASH, a mobile app that aims to combine ‘fun’ with ‘competition’, has just been launched. The app of the Berlin-based KLASH-team allows you to challenge or dare your friends in anything, prove it with pictures and share the experience. Have you … Continue reading

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addFleet gets €3M from Telefonica and La Caixa

Meet addFleet, a Barcelona based provider of fleet management services. And here comes Telefónica and La Caixa, just nine months after the company starts, with a €3M “inversión” (investment). The company’s main product is a complete solution that includes the … Continue reading

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Milestone: Skyscanner’s flight ​app reaches 10m downloads​

Skyscanner’s highly rated travel search app, which allows users to find the cheapest flights on the go, has just reached the milestone of 10 million downloads. The free app was first launched on the iPhone in February 2011 and is now available … Continue reading

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Pictorama: A new app that lets you earn money with your smartphone

Pictorama, a Hamburg based startup that aims to enter the market of microstock photography, recently launched its Pictorama app. It enables users to sell their smartphone pictures on a digital market place and to earn up to 50% of the selling … Continue reading

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busuu.com apps reach landmark of 10m downloads

The Madrid-based language learning startup busuu.com just announced that it has reached 10 million downloads of its Android and iOS apps. Every day, busuu.com registers more than 20,000 downloads of its app by language learners from all over the world. … Continue reading

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busuu launches an interactive app for learning languages

busuu.com, a Madrid based startup that created the leading language-learning community, just launched the first language-learning app in the world that allows you to interact with native speakers. Whether you are waiting for the train or for your girlfriend to finish … Continue reading

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Amen secures new funding and launches new features

Amen, the mysterious app we introduced you to back in July 2011, has just announced a new funding round (worth: $1m) with Sunstone Capital and Path’s Dave Morin. The previous investors of Amen were Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary (Madonna’s Manager) Index … Continue reading

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Skyscanner app hits 5m downloads in just 10 months

The Edinburgh based travel company Skyscanner has today announced that it achieved a total of five million downloads of its app in just ten months. The Skyscanner app is available for Android, iPhone, iPad and the Windows Phone. It’s basically a free flight … Continue reading

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Interview with Nick Drandakis (Taxibeat)

We recently had the chance to interview Nick Drandakis – the co-founder of Taxibeat. The Athens based company was started in the beginning of this year by Nick Drandakis and Nick Damilakis, while Kostis Sakkas is also a member of the initial development … Continue reading

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busuu.com launches Android apps for 9 languages

Since their launch, the iPhone apps of busuu.com, which is a Madrid based language learning community, have been downloaded more than 2 million times. As the startup announced today, busuu.com apps are now also available for Android phones. The young company … Continue reading

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