How many tabs does one have opened in a web browser at any one time? Managing documents, emails, calendar, notes, sales leads, tasks and contacts located in different clouds can be inconvenient, and the number of apps only goes up as new ones get crunched almost every day.

Busyflow has just released a private beta of its cloud-based integration tool. The startup which has recently graduated from Polish GammaRebels accelerator, brings cloud-based productivity apps onto a single screen. It is intended for collaboration and synchronization purposes.

Exclusive - Atomico, the pan-European investment firm started by the founders of Skype, has invested $4.2 million in 6Wunderkinder, an interesting startup out of Berlin that offers well-designed productivity tools for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and the Web.

They earlier raised over 600,000 euros in early-stage funding.

Confirming rumors that started circulating earlier this week, music streaming phenomenon Spotify has finally made its way to my home country of Belgium, and is also launching today in Switzerland after debuting in Austria yesterday.

That means Spotify is now available in 12 countries, 11 in Europe and the United States.

The Europas, the European Tech Startup Awards, will be held this Thursday, November 17, in London. As of today they are poised to sell out (there are just a handful left). And unfortunately you can’t buy tickets on the door. Boo hoo. But over 400 of you are coming already. Yay!

The Europas will take take place at a ridiculously cool London venue in the heart of London’s West End. There has been a huge response from the community. There was a month-long submission process. Over 40,000 votes were cast inside a week for people’s favourite early stage startups of the year. You can see the finalists here. And the esteemed Advisory Board also voted for their picks. The results were combined to find the best companies.

A huge thank you goes to the sponsors of the event so far, below.

In future, for the latest updates on the awards simply subscribe to the Twitter feed, subscribe to the email, and ‘Like’ the Facebook page.

This post is for those of you who are just getting started.

Those of you who already have established businesses and are enjoying post-startup success should probably read the other stuff on TechCrunch or play Skyrim or go make a cup of tea instead.

Okay? Okay.

What I like about NOAH is that it feels like a big cocktail party. Yes, there are the panels and presentations, hidden elegantly behind the black curtains that separate the exhibition area from the conference hall, where the big guys onstage share success stories with the audience. But the real action is outside where the bar invites to mingle. Networking is just more fun at Noah.

In the past two years the annual conference organised by NOAH Advisors founder Marco Rodzynek has gained a reputation for being a genuinely pan-European top event bursting with investment opportunities. It lived up to its name. NOAH 2011 was vibrant and it was big, with over 1700 attendants and 100 speakers. Only few attendants at the Old Billingsgate venue were from the UK, instead it sounded like the entire German startup scene had met in London, with a dominant presence of businesses from the big three German tech hubs: Berlin, Munich and Hamburg.

Tech City, East London’s go-to-region for digital and creative companies, is one of the fastest growing tech and digital clusters in the world, according to UK government figures. Today the area hosts more than 600 tech startups. In 2008 TechCrunch Europe noted that number was around 16. So today TechHub, the co-working space for tech entrepreneurs on Old Street, teamed up with company information startup Duedil to release deeper research into London’s startup scene and identified what they call “hard-core tech startups”. These are defined as companies less than 10 years old that are “product focused” or data/development driven. With this definition they boiled down the number to 200 hard-core startups in London. It’s likely that the true figure is somewhere between the government figure and this one – at any rare it’s clear London’s East End is once more an engine of creativity, as it has been for some time.

Well, it’s exactly a year on from the UK Prime Minister’s speech in Shoreditch which fired the starting gun on what the government decided to call “Tech City“, a cluster of tech companies it had recognised were growing organically in East London. This is an area local tech people had already dubbed Silicon Roundabout way back in 2008. That’s not to say London, and the UK doesn’t have plenty of tech companies all over – but clearly the government had decided to fan the flames by giving it some attention in the form of an appearance by the PM in Brick Lane.

Since then they’ve done more – created an arm of the UKTI, called the Tech City Investment Organisation which has been running around beating the PR drum amongst VCs in Silicon Valley, in the media and anyone who will listen.

At How to Web today I got to be invited to judge its startup competition. One of the judges was nowhere to be found and I was considered a suitable replacement. My rookie level of judging experience has not skewed the results dramatically, as the judges were in sync about the winner.

And the winner is Easyling, the crowdsourced website translation service. Easyling help website owners get websites translated by the professional agencies, minimizing the situations where the translation is put out of context. It achieves that by displaying translation word by word as it would actually appear on the website, eliminating the need to take text of the website and subsequently uploading the translation into the content management system.

Back in 2006 (hell, back in 2002!), it was kinda lonely being a tech blogger in Europe.

Not that there weren’t plenty of tech sites and nascent blogs opining on ‘social media’.

Oh no, plenty of those.

But not many what I would call hard core sites, setting out to kick down the doors and make trouble.

It’s taken a long time to get to where we are.