QDQ Media, the Spanish subsidiary of PagesJaunesGroupe, who offers a line of web design and online marketing services especially geared at local SMBs and 11870.com, a local Spanish champion for business listings and recommendations just announced an collaboration agreement, with a hefty integration, to muscle up in joint effort.

The agreement makes sense for both, wherein each compliments a missing piece and allows for further growth. QDQ brings in 200,000 opinions for 1.500.000 business from 11870. Another words, they will integrate a slew of user generated content. QDQ will also soon add 11870’s quote request service for businesses. For 11870, it means growing their reach and revenues substantially; QDQ boasts 45,000 clients. Yet it’s still a space that can grow exponentially, as more and more Spanish SMBs start getting the hang of promotional online opportunities. And both companies are clearly looking to bank on it together.

Tradeshift, the free invoicing platform aiming to be a kind of social network for B2B processes, broke cover last year and since raised a significant $7m round from Notion Capital and already has angel investment from former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos and founding investor in Last.fm Stefan Glaenzer, alongside PayPal.

Dubbed “Skype for invoicing”, now Tradeshift is shifting up a gear to address a big problem. Getting paid fast is probably the biggest problem companies face today, and its new the Instant Payment solution is designed to address that. The new service will be offered to selected suppliers in beta and will roll out over next six months, but, we can give exclusive early access for Techcrunch readers. To qualify, register for a free Tradeshift account and then go to tradeshift.com/instantpayments

Brand Regard, a software as a service startup which manages brand assets for agencies too disorganised to do it for themselves, seems to be hitting pay-dirt. London based agency Target-Live has brought them on as a digital asset management provider not least because the platform lets agencies find, distribute and collaborate with all their branding and marketing related assets such as designs for logos, posters and digital banners.

In many respects the gargantuan project that is the tech behind the Olympics and ‘tech bubble’ startups don’t have a lot in common. One is a massive systems integration exercise involving large corporate players like ATOS, ACER, BT, Samsung, Panasonic, Cisco and multiple others. The other is a wave of fast moving companies filled with sneaker-wearing CEOs who prefer bean bags and foozebal to the air-conditioned corporate offices of LOCOG (that’s London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, to you).

But, speaking to Gerry Pennell, CIO of London 2012 and the man charged with delivering the technology around the Olympics, it looks like there is more to this than meets the eye that might pique the interest of the entrepreneur.

British entrepreneur Alastair Mills, who recently sold his latest venture, SpiriTel, to communications giant Daisy for £37 million, is at it again.

Mills is today debuting his new company, Six Degrees Group, and has announced that private equity firm Penta Capital (who also backed SpiritTel) has agreed to invest £60 million in the business.

Six Degrees Group is launching today with almost 100 staff and already serving over 1,200 business customers.

We’re delighted to announce the members of The Europas Awards Advisory Board. These are people who know the pan-European tech scene very well indeed. But just as importantly, it also represents a number of key European VCs and journalists who will now have to look at your entries!

The Advisory Board will be looking at the nominations and selecting their finalists for the Europas. These finalists will be put to the public vote, and then the board’s picks and your votes will be combined to find the winners at the event on November 17 in London.

You can still buy tickets, follow the event on Twitter @TheEuropas and on Facebook. But today voting closes (5pm London time) – some instructions on how to enter.

22-year-old British entrepreneur Rich Martell – who mirrored Mark Zuckerberg’s experience in almost being sacked from his university for developing a flirting social network – is pivoting his company towards location-based offers. In fact, it’s reminiscent of the Amen app launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, though more overtly geared towards monetization than Amen’s more Twitter-like experience.

Martell developed the FitFinder mobile social network for students, renamed Floxx, but has clearly realised that this is a narrow niche and is now working on Spottd, which received approval by Apple over the weekend and is now live on the App Store.

Amen, the app launched at TechCrunch Disrupt designed to find out the best of everything on the planet, has been in closed private beta with over 3,500 users, but it has finally fit the iPhone app store officially.

Here’s how it works. You fire up the app on the iPhone or web browser and say a person, place or thing is “the best” or “the worst” ever, like like, the Best Dubstep track ever. Or perhaps, as actress Demi Moore (a beta user) puts it, “After Sex is the Best State For Amening Ever.” Hubbie Ashton Kutcher – an investor – “Led Zeppelin is the best rock band ever.” You can agree with this statement with an “Amen”. But with a “Hell no” you have to suggest an alternative answer. It’s a rigid structure, but you can post whatever you want.

YouTube has rolled out its movie rental service in the UK. Youtube.com/moviesnow features over a thousand feature films including The Dark Knight and Reservoir Dogs alongside British classics like Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The UK is the third country to get the service, following the US and Canada.

Prices for the films range from £2.49 to £3.49. Users have 30 days to watch the movies rented and then have 48 hours to finish the movie.

During FOWA 2011, London, three startups launched their businesses.

City King is a way to list your favourite London places.

Jottify is a new space for writers to share, read and sell their work.

Layer Vault promises to give simple version control for designers.

Here are their pitches, produced by Chris Leydon of Keyone Producitons for TechCrunch TV.

Until recently Vienna hasn’t generally been known in Europe as a startup hub, but this week has blown that perception out of the water. What appears to be going on is the clear emergence of Vienna as kind of bridge between Eastern and Central Europe on the one hand and the gravitational pull of London and Berlin’s startup ecosystems in Western Europe. The evidence was clear this week, as over 500 people and 50 startups packed into an 18th century ballroom for five days in the combined conference and startup competition billed as Startup Week Europe. There are plenty of pretenders to that nom du clure, but Vienna has proved an awesome hub for the region and the event is sure to take its place in the panoply of European tech conferences now emerging – and appropriately, a minute’s silence was held today in honour of Steve Jobs. The eventual winner of the startups competition was Mysugr, a startup which appears to have captured the zeitgeist of mobile, health and social gaming.

This is a guest post by Jos White of Notion Capital who blogs here and Tweets here.

It’s difficult to know where to invest your money right now. Most asset classes are moving in the wrong direction as the world teeters on the edge of a double dip recession.

There is growing distrust of most of the established financial markets – complaints include that they are deliberately complicated and full of jargon, they are over regulated, there are huge rewards for a very few that are not necessarily linked to sustained performance and, perhaps most importantly, when things go wrong it seems to be the ordinary people who are the ones that really suffer.

The Europas, the European Tech Startup Awards supported by TechCrunch Europe, will be on November 17 in London. 450 of Europe’s top startups, VCs and entrepreneurs will celebrate the European startup scene with 20 awards after taking hundreds of entries, sifting with an advisory board, putting the finalists to a public vote by the industry and merging the results.

You can still buy tickets, follow the event on Twitter @TheEuropas and on Facebook. But you only have three days left (Friday 7 October is the deadline) to enter yourself or your startup. Here’s how.

Fast-growing online takeaway service provider Just-Eat this morning announced that it has acquired Urbanbite, a London online food delivery company. The purchase marks Just-Eat’s entry into the corporate business.

Just-Eat is taking full ownership over Urbanbite, and the latter’s founder Ben Carmona will remain with the company in an undefined ‘leadership role’.

This is a guest post by Paul Jozefak of Neuhaus Partners, commenting on the release of a working paper put out by the European Investment Fund about the performance and prospects for European venture capital. You can follow Paul at his blog or on Twitter.

The European Investment Fund (EIF) put out a working paper recently that initially sounds like bad news. Fortunately, for those of us in the market long enough, it's actually good news. As a side note, I'm glad to see this paper come out from the EIF. For those of you not in the know, they are one of the largest limited partners (LP's: investors in venture capital funds) in Europe and are basically in almost all the funds throughout the market. Hence anything from them is going to be based on information that truly represents the situation in Europe. 

Shutl, the home delivery startup that offers speedier options for Internet shoppers, has now launched its service for Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff and Liverpool.

The service allows shoppers to receive online purchases from high street retailers in as little as 90 minutes or to choose a one-hour delivery window, same day or any day. Shutl does this by fulfilling web orders from local stores rather than a centralised warehouse.

Reevoo, a long-time customer reviews startup which last year raised a Series B round of funding from existing investors Eden Ventures, Banexi Ventures and angels, keeps on keeping on. Today’s it’s added Kelkoo’s ten European websites as distribution partners for its Reevoo Broadcast product.

Eastern Europe was featured prominently at the latest HackFwd event Build 0.7 in Berlin. During our conversation at an outdoor gathering of “pirates” during the European Pirate Summit in Cologne, Germany, Lars Hinrichs, the executive geek at HackFwd, a pre-seed investment company could not have been more positive about the region. Even he was surprised to realise that out of 14 current “Hackboxes”, or investee companies, three of them come from the region.

Here’s a new one on turning against your former wet-nurse. Huddle was once a Microsoft BizSpark One company. But it’s business collaboration platform now competes with Microsoft’s Sharepoint. Indeed, there are rumours that UK-based Huddle (which now has a large SF office) was once yanked off stage at Mix ‘O6 at the last minute because someone realised the potential controversy. No stranger to controversy, Huddle also recently managed to convince Google to change it’s Google+ feature called Huddle. Now Huddle is back to harass its alma mater.