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 of other publications:
European Square competitor iZettle today informed its users that it was forced to withdraw support for Visa card payments in Denmark, Finland and Norway. The young company acknowledged the news on its Twitter account, and said it is working “very hard” to fix things with Visa Europe and bring them back ‘on board’. Read more about iZettle’s current problems on TNW.
Creating native mobile applications with HTML5 is picking up speed. The Helsinki-based AppGyver has seen steady growth in its client base in the last two years and to speed things up, they closed a $1 million funding round. The money will be used for instance to expand business operations to the US. Read more and visit ArcticStartup (Update – March 2023: Arctic Startup seems to be no longer in business under this website and we therefore deactivated the link).
The Swedish investor Kinnevik just provided Rocket Internet, the Samwer brothers’ incubator, with even more capital. Together with this recent investment of €124 million, Kinnevik increased its capital volume for Rocket Internet’s purposes to a total of €830 million. Find out more about Kinnevik’s latest investment and visit Gruenderszene.de (in German).
Delivery Hero’s German platform Lieferheld is now clear of allegations of computer sabotage against competitor Lieferando, closing off a saga that hit headlines in April with a police raid on Lieferheld’s headquarters in Berlin. Now, the Berlin public prosector has thrown out the case. Continue reading on VentureVillage.eu (Update – March 2023: The article seems to be not visible anymore, and we therefore deactivated the original link).
A data leak at the meetOne dating site allowed anyone to access private data including the plain text passwords, email addresses and real names of the site’s approximately 900,000 members (Update – March 2023: The startup seems to be no longer in business under this website, and we therefore deactivated the original link). To obtain the data, an attacker simply needed to increment a URL parameter. Visit H-Online to find out more.
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The news about iZettle has been really big that I feel bad for them. But I am quite happy I made the right decision of choosing to sign up with mPowa (www.mpowa.com) as the latter has been making steady progress.