Using Candy, a new Chrome extension, you can mark, organize and store any type of web content. The new type of content storage application was designed along the line of the mechanics of the human mind to store captivating bits of information.
Candy facilitates and quickens conscious research and boosts the inspirational effect of browsing. Thanks to an exciting feature, the bits and bobs of information collected from all over the internet can be beaded up to form a train of thought by arranging your candies (saved contents) in the preferred order. While browser bookmarks remember the website URL only, Candy stores all the relevant information and allows for highlighting several passages of text. This way, you can save the relevant parts of every website: the very particulars that grabbed your attention.Read more »
According to a study released by Fundacity, the total amount of investment in European accelerator-based start-ups during 2014 stands at €39,578,636 in 1588 startups by 76 accelerators. The UK tops the investment ranks, followed by Spain and Germany.
Over the last ten years, startup accelerators have continued to spread all around Europe. This model was originally born in 2005 with the launch of YCombinator, followed by Techstars in 2006. Seedcamp was the first accelerator founded in Europe, in 2007, and many others were created in the following years.Read more »
Speed UP! Europe is a EU subsidy program that provides a grant of €50.000 for established companies and startups alike interested in using EU funded FIWARE technology as the technological foundation of their product. The call is open until December 10.
If you’re starting a software company in the verticals clean tech, smart cities or agribusiness or launching a new product as an existing company than you might be interested in the EU subsidy program Speed UP! Europe.Read more »
Europe's pioneering technology entrepreneurs received the prestigious Europioneers Awards at the Web Summit held in Dublin earlier this week. Peter Arvai, one of the founders of Prezi received the Europioneers award "Top Web Entrepreneur of 2014".
The Europioneers competition is an annual event organized as a part of Startup Europe and the European Commission’s Europe programme for Web Entrepreneurship. The objective of the competition is to identify and recognise successful European web initiatives, to promote the role web entrepreneurs play in European society, and to encourage and inspire potential entrepreneurs. Read more »
Organised for the second year by the StartUp Europe initiative of the European Commission, the Europioneers 2014 competition aims at bringing visibility, raising awareness, and inspiring the whole European tech ecosystem. Nominations are open until August 31.
The Europioneers competition is an annual event organized as a part of Startup Europe and the European Commission’s Europe programme for Web Entrepreneurship. In 2013 over 1,200 nominations and 5,600 votes involving 28 European countries were recorded. The objective of the competition is to identify and recognise successful European web initiatives, to promote the role web entrepreneurs play in European society, and to encourage and inspire potential entrepreneurs.Read more »
