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Adsmazon.com - Czech advertising marketplace for small and medium sized publishers

Misha — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:37:37 +0000

I am happy to be the first who announces launch of Czech start-up Adsmazon.com. “Advertising self-service shop”, as says tagline of this project, is aimed on connecting small to medium sized publishers with advertisers on direct market. People behind this project - Alexis Manach and Jakub Havrlant - have already developed another startup recently, “For [...]

Mall.cz launched dynamic product search based on Flex

Misha — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:30:33 +0000

One of the leading Czech online retailers Mall.cz launched dynamic product search engine to their stores. AnswerOil product finder, developed by PrismaStar.com (read an interview with their CEO Josuha Tabin in my older post) extends fulltext and parametric search on Mall.cz product pages.

Legal czech online betting launched. God bless Miroslav Kalousek:)

Misha — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:25:01 +0000

On January 5th, 5 Czech betting companies obtained an official licence to provide online betting services in the Czech Republic. They now are allowed to compete with other bookies like bwin or Expekt, who operates on European market upon licences based in other countries (Great Britain, Gibraltar, Slovakia, Malta). It is a huge impulse for [...]

Compare your ideas with Paul Graham

Misha — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:03:15 +0000

Paul Graham, head of the venture project YCombinator, published a list of 30 startup ideas which he (and YCombinator) would like to fund. Check the list and explanations at http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html and don’t miss all the user comments as well. Graham made one of the most inspiring startup articles in recent months.

Adobe is here to make people happy

Misha — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:31:58 +0000

Busy week started for me on last Monday, getting up at 4 AM and catching train to Prague for Adobe onAir Europe Tour event. And it was definitely worth to get up so early - it was one of the best tech events in the Czech Republic I had a chance to attend. Great venue [...]

BarCamp Bratislava next week

Misha — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:34:05 +0000

First ever BarCamp in the area of former Czechoslovakia will take place on Saturday July the 14th in Bratislava. Although there has been some attempts to make an un-conference style events in the Czech Republic, or even a BarCamp itself, our fellow bros in Slovakia hit the nail sooner and this make the Czech Republic [...]

Blog.cz & Jyxo.cz acquisition by CME. Who’s the winner?

Misha — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:48:43 +0000

Recently announced transaction which sold search engine technology Jyxo and the largest czech blogging platform blog.cz to CME, an owner of the most popular Czech TV channel Nova, has been a huge success to former owner and founder of Jyxo, Michal Illich. He will earn approximately 8 - 10 mil USD when the process of [...]

The best Czech translator? Google

Misha — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:40:07 +0000

I am currently at the IIHF ice hockey world championships in Quebec and there couldn’t be better gift for me as a journalist which anyone could give me than today’s release of Czech version of Google Translator. Google now allows me (and anyone else too;) to have text or webpage translated from 22 languages to [...]

Polish fund MCI bought Czech online travel leader Invia.cz

Misha — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:46:55 +0000

As various Czech and Polish sources reports, polish venture fund MCI investment, who already possesses several shares among Czech companies (read more in this older spot), bought 50,11% shares of Invia.cz, largest Czech online travel retailer. Invia sold travel services for over than 50 mil. euro in 2007 with profit of 400 000 euro, [...]

Micropayments are here: PaySec, Sazka and mTransfer

Misha — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:01:35 +0000

Czech ecommerce has been limited with lack of any useful and widespread micropayment system so far. There were some attempts before, but since 2002 any micropayment system had to obtain a bank licence from Czech national bank and it was too difficult for all providers. Only Monetka.cz managed to get some kind of exception, but [...]