Germany’s Mr Startup launches his own HuffPo Posted Oct 29, 2009 by Markus Goebel [Germany] Serial founder and investor Lukasz Gadowski constantly taps new online markets. In his latest venture, the entrepreneur from Berlin ( who is best known for…

Smava is Germany’s most successful social lending platform Posted Oct 21, 2009 by Markus Goebel [Germany] Every financial crisis has its losers, but it also has its winners. In Germany, one of these winners is the social lending online platform…

Hacker arrested for blackmailing StudiVZ and other social networks Posted Oct 21, 2009 by Markus Goebel [Germany] Berlin police have arrested a man who apparently tried to blackmail VZ-Netzwerke, the holding company for the successful Facebook clone StudiVZ and other…

TechCrunch Europe – Now covering 16 countries, and counting Posted Oct 19, 2009 by Mike Butcher (@mikebutcher) … Now covering 16 countries, with contributors on the ground, that makes TechCrunch Europe the biggest blog out there focused primarily on tech…

German iPhone startup Mobilinga gets its first investment Posted Oct 16, 2009 by Markus Goebel [Germany] Now that was fast. Only two days after their first article on TechCrunch Europe, mobile startup Mobilinga gets its first VC investment. German entrepreneur…

Back from the ashes, a smaller Mobilinga looks better Posted Oct 14, 2009 by Markus Goebel [Germany] The iPhone’s App Store Bonanza is over. Not only have most sellers failed to turn a profit, many come nowhere near recouping their…

PaperC secures its first VC round Posted Oct 13, 2009 by Markus Goebel [Berlin] Seedcamp Berlin winner PaperC has secured its first round of funding. Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS), a state run venture fund by the German state of Saxony, has…

Facebook appoints bizdev in Germany, as Twitter goes Deutsch Posted Oct 10, 2009 by Markus Goebel Facebook finally gets its own ‘face’ for Germany: The sleuths of media newswire Kress Report got wind that Facebook could hire the advertising expert…

While other German VCs wilt, the Samwer brothers invest and clone like mad Posted Oct 7, 2009 by Markus Goebel [Germany] The Samwer brothers, Germany’s most prolific startup investors, are on an e-commerce investment spree. While TechCrunch mourns the end…