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Start your business with 1kr

Trendsonline reports good news for Danish entrepreneurs. A bill has gone through cabinet, so still an idea at this stage, but as Benny Engelbrecht – Business Reporter of the Social Democrats’ tweet revealed: Good news for entrepreneurs – new company form has just passed by Parliament – start business for 1 kr # dkpol In [...]

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Malmö’s Avail acquired, will double number of employees

IT company Avail will be doubling the number of employees over the next year, following its acquisition by American counterpart RichRelevance. Sydsvenskan reported that the transaction was completed last week, and the San Francisco based RichRelevance announced the news that Avail will bring 82 new clients, and extend their footprint deeper in the EU and [...]

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Winners venture cup South Sweden

On the 16th of May, the regional finals of the Venture Cup South Sweden have been held. Eight businesses were nominated in four categories of which the following teams won 3.000 Euro each and a chance to participate in the national final. – Web, software and media: Photago – Environment and energy: Peer to volunteer [...]

Interview with Dan Nilsson who recently sold Roliga Prylar

Sydsvenskan published an interview with Dan Nisson who recently sold his webshop Roliga Prylar to Net Departo Ventures. Selling one of his webshops has been one of his goals for ten to eleven years and the webshop will now start to enter Denmark and Finland. We translated some quotes from the interview in Sydsvenskan: Which [...]

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A company established in CSE is nominated for Europe’s best spin-out

Abeo AS, a Danish company that offers revolutionary building technologies, has been nominated in the category “Europe’s best spin-out” at the Academic Enterprise Awards conference organized by Science|Business. The award is given to a European company that managed successfully commercialize an invention from a research institute. This year’s event will be held on June 4th. [...]

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SEED Capital – Active European Investor

Trendsonline reports that Denmark’s SEED Capital fund is the second most active investor in Europe. Drawing on the Dow Jones Venture Source Quarterly Report SEED Capital’s 13 investments since the last quarter of 2012, makes them Europe’s second most active investor, only surpassed by the German High-Tech Gründerfonds. It is something that SEED Captial partner [...]

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Pocket Gamer’s Mobile Mixer Malmö – 21 May

In the lead up to Nordic Game and after an outing in Helsinki, the European-leg of the Pocket Gamer Mobile Mixer continues in Malmö’s Level bar. The event will unite great minds and fresh faces in the world of mobile games development, with presentations, panels, and networking, plus a little complimentary booze. Doors open at [...]

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Black Pearl is hosting a housewarming party!

Black Pearl is a new creative space in Lund open for cross-collaboration between business, academia and students. The idea to start such a place appeared in October of 2012 and was fulfilled this March. With a few resources and a lot of volunteer work the project has come a long way. It is now fully [...]

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Crunchfish makes a deal on new touchless technology worth at least a million

A Chinese mobile manufacturer will use Crunchfish’s technology allowing users to control their phone with gestures rather than with their touch. Which mobile manufacturer is involved is secret, but according to CEO Joakim Nydemark, it is one of China’s major domestic players. The deal is initially worth a million dollars followed by ongoing royalties. “[The deal [...]

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YooDo.se. Free.

Today, Tuesday 14 May 2013, is a historic day, as the Entreprenor 24 blog reports, becuase YooDo.se becomes completely free. In a revolutionary movement against expensive skills agencies, YooDo lets you search their database of over 1500 creatively talented programmers and web designers for the right price. Totally free. And they’re asking everyone to spread [...]

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Veridu for online identity check

Veridu is a company that provides global identity services based on digital footprints. Its main focus is making strong authentication friendly and useful for such businesses as couchsurfing, online dating, youth communities, social games etc. It is often the case that in order to complete online transactions, customers are required to upload an image of [...]

Queue-it spreading globally

Danish Business news reports that Queue-it is quickly spreading out in Europe, Africa and North America, and the cloud computing-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product actually makes money from people waiting. At the beginning of March, Danes trying to do their annual tax reporting on the tax administration’s website might have experienced a message “You are now [...]

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Innovation by Design – SPIN-SYD @ Sony in Lund, 16 May

SPIN-SYD (info in Swedish and English) will be hosting the “innovation by design” event at Sony Mobile in Lund, Thursday 16 May. Lectures and open discussions (all in English) will address ‘What does Innovation look like?‘ and cover the whole chain from effective, innovative, product development to what it takes to be successful in a [...]

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Interview with the Godfather – on Internet Discovery Day!

If you haven’t already, mark of your calendars and register (free) for Internet Discovery Day, 23 May, happening at Media Evolution City. We have written about this not-to-be-missed event before and here is some extra insight from a chat this week with ‘the Godfather’ of IDD Johan Jörgensen. IDD in Malmö? ‘IDD has been held [...]