If you run a business, trying to share content on your own video site has probably been a bit of a headache: it requires specialist software, it’s difficult to programme and video takes up oodles of expensive bandwidth. But all of that is changing fast. Danish startup 23 Video is a case in point: it [...]

Berlin is a byword for all things cool in contemporary culture – be it fashion, art, music or design – and often features in the pages of style bibles and glossy, high-end magazines. If ever there was a city that could fuel a cutting edge editorial, then Berlin is it. But sugarhigh is a magazine [...]

There’s a fine line between fame and notoriety. Just ask the American author Timothy Ferriss, whose 2007 book The 4-Hour Workweek: More time, more money, more life delighted and scandalised its readers in equal measure with its claim that you can perform the work of an entire week in just four hours. The book has [...]

Loïc Le Meur is a French entrepreneur best known for his startup conference LeWeb. Angel investors, VCs, prominent bloggers and startup entrepreneurs of all stripes come from around the world to attend the conference, held in Paris. LeWeb is now so highly esteemed it has the luxury of not needing any marketing activity at all, [...]

What do Alcoholics Anonymous, Wikipedia and the native American Indian tribe the Apache have in common? They are all examples of groups that function without a leader at the top: many-headed serpent organisations that employ a decentralised system of management. And according to Ori Brafman, author of the 2006 book “The Starfish and the Spider: [...]

Part translation tool, part search engine, Linguee is more than just a German-English dictionary. It enables the user to search the web for literally millions of phrases and idioms, providing translations that are given in context and with explanatory information. We caught up with founder Gereon Frahling to ask him about the innovative technology behind [...]

Please introduce yourself briefly. Who are you and what do you do? My name is Heiko Hubertz, I am the founder and CEO of Bigpoint. What was your greatest business success and what was your biggest mistake? My biggest entrepreneurial success has been Bigpoint, which is the largest German gaming portal and one of the [...]

Mike Butcher is editor of TechCrunch Europe and is closely involved in a project to bring European technology entrepreneurs and investors together in a club environment called TechHub. Mike has written for newspapers including The Financial Times, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph and is a former editor of New Media Age, the UK’s leading [...]

He was one of the most in-demand guests at the recent Digital Life Design conference, and not merely because Google was the conference sponsor. Jeff Jarvis is an influential tech journalist, blogger, academic and author of the best-selling book “What Would Google Do?”, which sets out to “reverse engineer” the success of the fastest growing [...]

Named by Time magazine in 2006 as one of the world’s most influential people, Jimmy Wales changed forever the way knowledge is accessed online when he founded Wikipedia in 2001. His radical idea – a free, multi-lingual online encyclopaedia written and edited by users – democratised access to knowledge and has grown into a vast [...]