Archive for June 2011
by Steve O'Hear on June 1, 2011

Designed to mark the company’s full launch after four years of development, iGlue, in partnership with one of its backers, Power of the Dream Ventures (PDV), is launching “The iGlue Summer Annotation Challenge” with cash prizes totaling $40k.

Putting to one side the question as to whether this is money well spent compared to other forms of marketing, the competition, which kicks off today and will last through to August 31st, asks users to download iGlue’s browser add-on or install the bookmarklet and help Wikify the Web.

by Lukas Zinnagl on June 1, 2011

Six months after the Berlin-based startup 6Wunderkinder raised €500,000 from High-Tech Gründerfonds, the company just announced another round of funding from T-Venture, the venture arm of Deutsche Telekom.

After its founding 10 months ago they’ve developed a beautiful and handy task manager called “Wunderlist”, which has been downloaded more than 1.7 million times according to a recent press release.