Archive for December 2011
by Robin Wauters on December 2, 2011

JolieBox, which is essentially a Birchbox clone in France, has acquired a British competitor, Boudoir Privé. The news comes a few weeks after JolieBox raised 1 million euros from Alven Capital and Oleg Tscheltzoff.

Boudoir Privé will soon become JolieBox UK and the existing team will be maintained.

by Mike Butcher on December 1, 2011

I’m looking forward to TechCrunch Moscow, on 5th December. Conveniently it is just before Le Web in Paris. Hope to see you there.

by Mike Butcher on December 1, 2011

Phonedeck appeared last year at Le Web. At the time it seemed very much like a beta project to manage calls from a computer. But we’ve long had the position that real social graph is in your phone – the people you text and call – and Phonedeck has now come on leaps and bounds. Today it’s releasing 500 invites for TechCrunch readers (use the code “TechCrunch” on the site) and revealing more about its upcoming service.

Twitter hires its first UK sales director
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by Geoff Butler on December 1, 2011

Twitter UK has hired its first UK sales director. Bruce Daisley was previously at YouTube in the UK. Here’s Twitter UK CEO Tony Wang announcing it. Twitter currently has a business development manager role left going.

https://twitter.com/jobs/international

by Robin Wauters on December 1, 2011

Amazon this morning announced the fresh availability of a €99 Italian-language Kindle, and the opening of an Italian Kindle Store, offering customers over 16,000 Italian-language Kindle books. The same thing is happening in Spain, obviously with a Spanish-language Kindle and a custom Spanish Kindle Store (over 22,000 titles).

In addition, Amazon announced that authors and publishers in both countries are now able to make their books available in the new Amazon.es and Amazon.it Kindle Stores using its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform (Spanish / Italian).

by Robin Wauters on December 1, 2011

Zentyal, the Zaragoza, Spain-based maker of the Zentyal Linux small business server, has raised $1 million in Series A funding from freshly financed and Europe-focused venture capital firm Open Ocean Capital.

Zentyal develops a server solution that combines cloud-based services to make network management easy and secure for small and medium-sized businesses. Basically, it’s an open source alternative to Microsoft’s Windows Small Business Server.