OK, it’s not really a circus. More of a traveling expo of some the best mobile apps.

That’s how mobile strategist Rudy De Waele describes his latest project AppCircus, which aims to showcase “the most creative and innovative apps by developers, startups and other organizations presented in front of live audiences.”

The idea is to take mobile app developers on the road to present at already established events around the globe. Any developer can apply to present at any of the listed events, and the best will be chosen by the AppCircus jury.

“It’s an app showcase in partnership with some of the most influential international events in mobile/web to bring opportunities for developers and industry professionals to meet and inspire one another”, says De Waele.

Events already confirmed to feature the AppCircus include:

[Croatia] With Easter only days away and with it the tradition of egg tapping or egg fighting, the 1337bit team have taken it upon themselves to revive this traditional kids game on – yes, you’ve guessed it – the iPhone.

EggsEggsEggs, which costs $0.99 from the App Store, lets you choose an egg and swing it using the iPhone’s accelerometer. The harder you swing, the better the results.

In single player “skill mode”, you test your strength and try to get the highest score. In two player “duel” mode, you search for an opponent using Bluetooth or the EggsEggsEggs online service (which is free) and start an egg fight. The goal is to break your opponent’s egg before they break yours.

[France] Kwaga, which offers a semantic email organiser, has announced that users of its Kwaga Birdseye product can log in without handing over their Gmail password. That’s because the service now supports Google’s newly rolled out implementation of the OAuth standard, a first for a European company, says Kwaga.

The Paris-based startup was a third-party developer tester and worked with Google’s Eric Sachs and team to fine tune the implementation of the protocol for both Gmail and Google apps accounts within Kwaga. The result is that subscribers to the service just need to type in their Gmail address, including Enterprise accounts (Google Apps for Your Domain) where they’ll be redirected to the Gmail dashboard and asked to grant access without ever revealing their password.

France Telecom / Orange is partnering with OpenX to launch Orange Ad Market, a brand new online advertising marketplace tailored to the European digital industry.

Orange Ad Market will be operated by Orange and powered by OpenX in exchange for a share on every transaction that is made through the platform. The marketplace will allow all classes of buyers to compete for targeted impressions in real-time auctions and help sellers of online display advertising inventory from all over the globe maximize revenue.

The partnership between Orange and OpenX spans multiple years and is mutually exclusive to all regions Orange operates in.

[UK] Business software specialist IRIS has invested in Edinburgh-based FreeAgent Central, the money management and accounting tool aimed at small businesses, in return for a minority stake.

As well as providing additional funding, IRIS will become the exclusive reseller for FreeAgent to the UK accountancy practice market, which will be re-badged under their own brand. FreeAgent will continue to target individual UK businesses, partnerships and sole traders as well as customers worldwide.

IRIS supplies software to over 60,000 business customers in the UK, which includes a major slice of the accountancy practice software market with over 14,000 practice customers, a 50% market share, says FreeAgent.

A new take on the group-buying bandwagon launches today, but this one will attempt to address the information overload about offers, known as “voucher fatigue”, while incentivising local businesses. Keynoir is described as a “private buying club meets Woot”, in reference to the tech site which made its name by having just one offer on one decent product a day. The startup even includes aspects of the old Letsbuyit.com.

But this is not a trivial play. Keynoir has already secured £1.3m of investment from PROFounders Capital, investor Jan Riem and Index Ventures (including Dominique Vidal). Serial entrepreneurs Paul Birch and Andrej Henkler participated. Vidal and Sean Seton-Rogers from PROfounders will be joining the board.

The founders are Philip Wilkinson (founder of the UK’s first price comparison engine which later became Kelkoo), Glen Drury (ex-MD Kelkoo Europe and VP Yahoo), and Jan Riem (technology deal maker). It launches in London this week , and plans to exand across the rest of the UK and Europe by the end of the year.

[Germany] Berlin-based mobile ad network madvertise has closed a series A round from Earlybird Venture Capital and the startup’s previous investor and co-founder Team Europe Ventures. The actual amount isn’t being disclosed but is said to be in the “medium single-digit million Euros” range.

The new funding will be used by madvertise to leverage its strong position in the growing mobile advertising market in German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and for further international expansion, says the company.

[UK] A million dollars, baby. That’s the amount paid by UK price comparison site ‘Top 10 Broadband and Top 10 Mobile Phones‘ to purchase the Top10.com domain name from US-based investor Idealab in a cash plus equity deal. Apparently, this also makes it one of the most expensive domain names ever purchased by a British company.

Under the terms of the deal, Top 10 Broadband and Top 10 Mobile Phones will pay Idealab $200,000 and hand over a 7% share in the newly branded company Top10.com Media Ltd. Bill Gross, Idealab’s founder, will join Top 10′s advisory board.

To us, however, it feels just a little frothy.

[France] Bordeaux-based AllGoob, a French search engine publisher, has just announced that it has raised a €1 million first round with Newfund for its European development and new search engine, wiPikit.

AllGoob was founded by Thomas Allaire and François Goube after roughly 2 years of development in 2007.

The company is behind job search engine success JobiJoba - which was launched the same year and is now one of the largest job databases in France, uniting over 300,000 job offers with 700,000 candidates on the site per month. The site also launched in Belgium in 2008 along with the UK, the US and Spain in 2009.

[Turkey] Markafoni, the Turkish private shopping club, has raised £4.7 million (11 million Turkish Lira) from Trayas, an investment group whose partners include leading European investors Klaus Hommels and Oliver Jung.

Trayas seems to be focusing on investing in private shopping clubs, having already closed deals in Brazil, Switzerland and India. Of note, Hommels has previously invested in Facebook, Skype and Spotify.

Markafoni is the first and leading private shopping club in Turkey. Its closest competitor is Germany-based B2C giant Otto Group’s limango. There are also newcomers TrendYol.com and Bedava.com.

[UK] London-based Frog Capital has announced that Stephen Lowery has joined as a Partner. Frog invests in growth-stage companies across the cleantech and IT & digital media sectors.

Lowery leaves 3i where he was Director of Venture and then Growth Capital and led or was “closely involved in” investments in European IT and cleantech companies, such as Icera, Nujira and Light Blue Optics, and in profitable exits, including Respond, Insensys and UbiNetics. He also represented 3i on the board of The Cambridge Network.

Prior to 3i he was with PA Consulting in its Global Technology Group.

[UK] It’s not the norm for a startup based in London’s Silicon Roundabout to be in the hardware business, let alone the highly competitive world of consumer electronics. But that’s precisely the position that 3view find themselves in.

The company’s Internet connected set-top box, which marriages the worlds of over-the-air broadcast television and Internet TV (IPTV), is poised to compete directly with TVs and set-tops from the likes of Sony, Pioneer, Sharp, Humax, Pace and others, and to some degree, the online video and media playback capabilities of Microsoft’s XBox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 game consoles.

[Denmark] A thriving startup scene is in part characterised by its events and meetups where creativity, knowledge and contacts can be exchanged. And that precondition is very much in evidence in Copenhagen this spring.

Here’s a breakdown of upcoming events:

[Germany] Billed as an iPad competitor, the WePad is not vaporware, but is in fact, The Chosen One. At least, that’s the view of some, who are hailing the WePad as the saviour of the German print publishing industry.

While Apple is still racing to the wire to secure enough media content partnerships for the iPad before its launch this week, the WePad has already bagged Europe’s biggest publisher, Gruner & Jahr.

Bernd Buchholz, CEO of Gruner + Jahr, presented the first German-born slate PC at this week’s annual press conference for his company. Unfortunately, there is only a very dark photo of this event on on Facebook, but you can find new professional shots on sites like Areamobile (below).

Tommy Ahlers, founder of ZYB which was acquired by Vodafone for €31.5m in 2008 – will be keynoting at this year’s GeeknRolla in London on April 20. GeeknRolla is an annual London conference for technology startups to launch, network with investors and talk about how they create and build themselves.

Before founding ZYB, where he has held the position of CEO since the company’s inception, Ahlers spent six years in strategy and management, partly in the mobile industry. He was previously with McKinsey & Company for more than four years, where he served as an engagement manager working with mobile operators to shape their strategies. In addition to ZYB, he also founded another start-up which provided a global SMS-service to mobile users.

He’ll be joined by Morten Lund, among others. We’ll be rolling out the rest of our speaker programme next week.

Yandex is one of few national non-English language search engines that have managed to outrun the likes of Google, Microsoft and Yahoo in their countries, in this case Russia.

Yandex was first to market in Russia – it made its debut in 1997 – and has since established itself as the undisputed leader in search with an estimated domestic market share of 58% according to LiveInternet.ru. At number two we find Google, which trails far behind at 23% despite a recent search partnership with Mail.ru, the third horse in this race.

But rather than building a browser of its own, Yandex has apparently opted to develop a custom iteration of Google’s Chrome browser based on the Chromium open source project.

Yesterday we gave you an intro into the first real Twitter television initiative, Twision, originating from none other than a digital TV channel in Spain, VEO7, a part of Unidad Editorial.

Veo7 launched their first Twision program last Thursday and will continue to air every Thursday evening at midnight. Here’s some more post-launch insight into the initiative.

Unlike other international attempts to integrate Twitter, uni-directionally, Twision viewers are able to use the #veo7 hashtag to speak directly to presenters and influence where the program’s discussion goes — branded “twittertulia”.

During the latest program (which is at midnight and Veo7 is not a prime channel), Melchor Miralles’ timeline crashed and he was quickly buried under nearly 2,000 comments and suggestions.

Madrid-based Tuenti, sometimes called the Facebook of Spain, has been around for four years now. It’s a very well funded company that, despite a huge growth in user numbers and a number of product releases, has been getting some bad press on their lack of monetization and for not having a clear direction – though if you follow the product releases and the company’s hiring habits, there is a roadmap.

However Tuenti has now launched what it deems to be their most strategic move yet – tapping into their social graph to introduce location-based features. The launch is a beta, still lacking some oomph perhaps, but it’s interesting to pick over what they’ve done. Especially as everyone is expecting Facebook to do the same at some point.