AdTaily, the self-service advertising network, has launched its global marketplace for advertisers. It builds on top of the company’s existing self-serve ad widget for publishers which lets them sell ads direct, to offer a central place for advertisers to buy ads across the AdTaily network. Interestingly, however, the marketplace – just like the self-serve widget – will be commission-free, for now at least.

AdTaily, which says it’s already making money from its Polish operations, is clearly still gunning for scale internationally – its publisher base outside Poland remains small – and keeping ads purchased through its marketplace commission-free is, potentially, one way to do that. And when AdTaily does begin charging, it says it plans to remain hyper-competitive compared to similar long-tail ad networks.

Research from mobile ad network provider InMobi has found that iPhone OS currently dominates the European mobile ad market with a 31.9% share, while Nokia’s share has slide to 19.7%, putting it in second place.

Android OS, meanwhile, is making its way after a slow start in these parts: the platform has gained +9.5 share points between July 2010 and October 2010, growing to a 12.9% share.

The rapid decline of Nokia (-6.0 share points in the past 90 days alone) is a major inflection point for the European mobile advertising community, remarks James Lamberti of InMobi.

Posterbee is relaunching today – yes, they’re pivoting! – as a more efficient way for teams to share what the Estonian startup refers to as “ambient information”, such as news, slides, reports and videos.

It combines elements of Facebook’s news feed (these are called ‘streams’), including the ability to comment on any shared item, with the ‘bookmarklet’ functionality of, say, Delicious. Another comparison might be the sharing aspect of Yammer or its many competitors. And in fact Posterbee originally launched in September as a more generic group communications app not dissimilar in concept to the new Facebook groups, but is now targeting knowledge workers and other small teams through what’s being pitched as a better alternative to email or IM for sharing information, which no doubt it is.

Apprupt, the affiliate network for mobile apps, has today announced a further partnership with RTL interactive, specifically extending its “app shop” reach to the European broadcaster’s iPad users, a first for the startup.

Apprupt already powers a version of its affiliate network for mobile apps on RTL’s mobile website mobil.rtl.de and the RTL iPhone app, but this will now also include the newly launched RTL NOW iPad (and iPhone) app as well as Clipfish on iPad and iPhone. The iPad versions employ what is described as “novel recommendation formats” such as a rotating app carousel (think CoverFlow), which presents and recommends relevant apps to users in a more touch friendly and dynamic way. Of course, it’s not only users who’ll benefit from iPad support but also developers who want to push their wares via apprupt’s network.

Sevenload, the German video startup, is performing what amounts to an exit – it must be said in a somewhat roundabout fashion. TechCrunch Europe understands that German media giant Burda, which owns a large stake in the company is taking on the majority of the shares, and adding some growth capital, though the amount is undisclosed. CEO Axel Schmiegelow is stepping down from the post but retaining some shares and taking a board seat. COO Andreas Heyden is stepping up to the CEO position. All change then.

Sevenload has number of premium-tv-shows, music videos, but it is the IPTV aspect that Burda is understood to be planning to exploit.

Mobile carrier Three UK, owned by Hutchison Whampoa, has beefed up its ‘One Plan’ pay-monthly tariff to include an all-you-can-eat data allowance. This is quite interesting on several fronts.

Firstly, what we’re talking about here isn’t so-called ‘Unlimited’ data that in actual fact has a fair usage policy that translates into something like 1GB or less (Three stopped employing that trick a while ago). This really does appear to be all-you-can-eat.

Secondly, it flies in the face of a wider industry trend whereby the incumbent players across Europe are starting to make very loud noises regarding the need to cap mobile data to protect quality of service or begin charging per-usage.

On Monday this week TechCrunch Europe held the first ever TechCrunch Moscow event. We expected 300 people. We attracted around 500 attendees and another 400 went on the waiting list. The whole thing was in English, and the video stream brought in 10,000 (yes, ten thousand) more people watching live. Many more are now watching the archive. which is here. There is a large archive of photos – I have never seen so many photographers at a tech event – and you can work through them by starting at the beginning here.

Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine which is thought to be mulling over an IPO for up to $1.5 billion, is rolling out a new feature today that aims to make its search experience seem a lot more intelligent.

Dubbed “Spectrum” and claiming to be able to read users’ minds, it uses what sounds like a combination of semantic technology and machine learning to “infer implicit queries and return matching search results.” In other words, Spectrum is able to make better sense of the meaning of searches based on its own classification system.

It’s based on what Yandex describes as query statistics:

Without much fanfare Truphone, international mobile roaming and app company, has decided to re-brand as “Tru”. Like all re-brandings this is a path fraught with danger, as people must now be put through the pain of constantly correcting themselves when referring to the company. And it’s always fun when the re-brand is a word you might actually use generically, leading to all sorts of confusion. All very Tru… I mean true.

A post on the site’s customer site says today:

Live mobile streaming startup Bambuser is releasing its application for the Samsung Bada platform. Like the apps it already does for iPhoneOS, Symbian, Android, Nokia Maemo, Symbian, Windows Mobile platforms, it features easy live streaming, geo-location tagging, and social sharing.

The Bada app is not particularly startegic however. It is simply the result of a competition called the Samsung bada Global Developer Challenge, where Bambuser placed 35th out of 2000 teams from 54 countries. Samsung selected 34 winning applications, of which Bambuser was one, with the winners receiving a share of £1.7 million between them. So in other words they were paid to produce the app and got a bit of marketing out of it. Handy, but Bada remains in the backwater of smartphone platforms.

Fubra, the Aldershot, UK-based online media company behind PetrolPrices.com and a network of around 100 other sites, has invested in deal-a-day aggregator Buyometric. The actual amount isn’t being disclosed but is said to be a “5 figure seed investment”.

Perhaps equally significant, however, the deal involves a marketing and infrastructure tie-in that will see Fubra push Buyometric’s offering to its existing 3 million-strong subscriber base, with the company also taking over back end responsibilities to cope with the expected increase in server demand.

Real estate startup Zoopla has raised a further £3.25 million in funding, consisting of £1.75 million of new equity finance from existing shareholders, led by venture capital firms Atlas Venture and Octopus, together with a £1.5 million debt facility from Silicon Valley Bank. This latest round of funding will be used to invest further in marketing.

This is on top of a £3.75 million raise back in January 2009.

So far Zoopla has used it’s funding to acquire a litany of ailing competitors including OnOneMap.com, DotHomes.com, Extate.com and the PropertyFinder Group. Gunning to become to become one of the UK’s top property websites, it’s now on 5 million visitors per month.

It’s not over till it’s over huh. Wikileaks head Julian Assange has been granted bail. However, an immediate appeal lodged by Swedish prosecutors trying to have him extradited to Sweden to face rape allegations means that he must now stay in custody until the appeal is heard at some time in the next 48 hours. It’s not known when, as yet.

Assange’s lawyer Mark Stephens, best known for defending human rights cases, told reporters outside court that “they want to put Mr Assange through more hurdles and expense,” and that the case was turning into a “a show trial.” Conditional bail had been set at £200,000, put up by a host of celebrities who are backing Assange, including U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore. Crowds of protesters have been surrounding every episode outside court, some dressed in Assange masks.

The full list of the charges which the Swedish court hopes to bring at a trial in Stockholm are here. Best put your TMZ hat on.

Groupola, the rather opportunistically named UK Groupon clone from the same company behind MyVoucherCodes, has ceased offering any deals.

A quick check in on the website today, for example, reveals no current live offers, and we’re hearing that this has been the state of play since late November. A sign that Groupola is heading to the deadpool maybe? It wouldn’t be the first Groupon-clone to throw in the towel. Hell, Snippa did it in record time.

So what exactly is going on?

Making online shopping a more social experience to aid discovery is a problem that many startups are busy trying to solve. Meet Nuji, a London-based startup and Seedcamp winner that launched their social shopping discovery service at this year’s LeWeb.

The idea behind Nuji is to fully tap into your social graph to discover products that you actually like, as apposed to products that your friends are pushing virally, either to tip a Groupon-style deal or for an affiliate kickback (see loved.by). It does this by asking users to connect to their Facebook account to start sharing products they love and then algorithmically recommends similar products based on matching tastes.

The fight for European predominance in Augmented Reality (AR) is a competitive one. Both Layar from the Netherlands and Wikitude, Austria, are working hard on establishing strategic distribution partnerships and strengthening their position with a raft of handset producers, mobile phone operators and producers of navigation systems. AR itself, of course, has been around for years, but the ubiquity of smartphones has opened up entirely new business models for this type of technology.

Layar, which has raised $16 million from Intel Capital, has a significant head-start given their respectable amount of cash in the bank. Not only cash but also by having scored a partnership with a global handset manufacturer, the startup is definitely the leader in Europe’s AR space.

However, Wikitude, which has significantly less funding, just announced a new addition to their team. Martin Herdina joins the company as their new CEO. He’s a seasoned entrepreneur who sold his last company Fatfoogoo to Digital River for $10m.

While attending an exhausting, snowy yet insightful LeWeb in Paris, the TechCrunch Europe team met with a variety of startups and founders. One of them is a recently launched Slovenian company called Toshl, which gives people a well-designed mobile app to track their day to day expenses.

Both the web interface and the mobile version, which is available for most mobile phones such as iPhone, Android and Symbian, allow you to input all of your expenses manually and sync them in between. In comparison to other startups in the space, however, Toshl has not yet secured any partnerships with banks.

It’s December 14th. The holidays are getting closer…and closer…And with only 10 days until Christmas, I am sure there are tons of parents still frantically searching for something for their kids. Hoping to avoid crowded malls, many are perhaps buying gifts online. So what better time to announce a €2 million ($2.6 million) investment in an online store with over 150 of the hottest clothing, decoration, toy and furniture brands for kids than now ?

Smallable, a Paris-based e-commerce startup founded in 2008, has just announced a 2 million euro investment from French VC firm Alven Capital. For anyone who doesn’t know, Alven is the French VC behind up-and-coming French startup MyFab. This investment is in-line with the not-so-new e-commerce investment trend in France (EspaceMax, Showroomprivé, InstantLuxe…) but is perhaps one of the country’s very first investments  that addresses e-commerce oriented towards the 0-12 year-old age range.

Lovefilm, the Netflix-of-Europe, has rolled out its streaming service in Germany, albeit in Beta. Previously, Germans only had access to the DVD and Blu-ray rental via the post element of Lovefilm, but slowly but surely the company is growing its video-on-demand proposition.

Subscribers of Lovefilm.de can now stream films to their PC as part of their subscription package. Content comes from major studios as well as “classic and more special interest titles from a range of other partners” at no extra cost.

Simon Calver, CEO of Lovefilm, talks up the international roll out of the subscription streaming service as an important component of the company’s expansion strategy.

Hivext, a cloud-based application development platform, has secured $500,000 of funding from Runa Capital, the Russian VC fund that launched in August.

It follows Runa’s first investment announced last month: $2 million in OnAir3G, which is described as a “voice-enabled mobile social networking platform”.