| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.05.2016 | Why This Vice President Left J.P. Morgan To Build Fluttr: “LinkedIn With A Heart” | Most of us have dreams or adventures we hope to carry out during our lifetime, but often times the responsibilities of our daily life and current career track gets in our way.
But some ideas are just too good to let go, too exciting to put... |
| 24.12.2015 | French professional social network Viadeo exits Chinese market, closes data center in California | The publicly listed French company behind professional social network Viadeo this morning announced that it would be shutting down its operations in China next week, and that it is closing its data center in California to move its servers t... |
| 28.09.2012 | LinkedIn Shuts Off API Access To Fellow Professional Social Network Viadeo For TOS Violations | LinkedIn has shut off API access to fellow professional social network Viadeo and a number of other startups who have been tapping into LinkedIn’s firehose of data via its open API program. The other companies whose access to LinkedIn’s dat... |
| 12.04.2012 | Viadeo Completes $32M Funding | Viadeo, a Paris, France-based professional social network, has completed a $32m funding.
Backers include the French Sovereign Wealth Fund, the Fonds Strategique d’Investissement, existing institutional shareholders, Idinvest and Ventech, an... |
| 12.04.2012 | Viadeo Secures $32M |
PARIS, FRANCE, World's No.2 Professional Social Network raised $32 million led by the French Sovereign Fund and the Fonds Strategique d'Investissement.
>> Click here for more funding data on Viadeo
>> To export Viadeo fundin... |
| 12.04.2012 | Already #1 in China, Viadeo Raises $32M to Compete with LinkedIn Internationally | Today, professional social network Viadeo announced $32 million in funding to help it dominate local markets worldwide. A third of that funding is aimed at China, where Viadeo’s brand Tianji leads the market.
The funding came from the Frenc... |
| 11.04.2012 | Viadeo Raises $32M To Expand Its Professional Social Network In China, Russia And Beyond | Paris-based business social networking site Viadeo may have put a planned IPO into a holding pattern last year, but it is not having any trouble raising capital elsewhere as it forges ahead with its international expansion.
Today, it has an... |
| 11.04.2012 | LinkedIn challenger Viadeo raises $32M to take over China | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Above: Dan Serfaty, CEO Viadeo
Proving that secon... |
| 13.02.2012 | Identified Hits 1.5M Active Users, 202M Profiles, But Can It Beat BranchOut (Or LinkedIn)? | The professional networking space has been heating up over the last few years, with a number of players vying for control of our digital resumes, job and employment searches, and career buildings. For all intents and purposes, LinkedIn cont... |
| 13.12.2011 | Viadeo doubles down on emerging markets, expands into Russia | Viadeo, the world’s second-biggest online networking site for professionals after LinkedIn largely due to its joint ventures in China is extending that policy into Russia. It’s now launching a joint venture with the Russian subsidiary of Fi... |
| 24.10.2011 | Job Search Engine SimplyHired Integrates With Viadeo | Job search engine SimplyHired.com, which aggregates jobs listing across the Web, is now adding international professional social network Viadeo to its supported services. The new integration will allow users to see which of their business c... |
| 24.10.2011 | The Hackathon: Your Ticket To Disrupt Beijing, Great Prizes, And More | Hackers, are you ready? The Disrupt Beijing Hackathon is almost here. Not only is this our fifth time hosting the Hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt, but it is our very first time hosting it overseas. The Hackathon has become an incredibly pop... |
| 06.09.2011 | LinkedIn’s European competitor Viadeo opens API, brings developer contest to US | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Viadeo, a European business social network, opened its public application programming interface (API) in the United States today. The c... |
| 05.09.2011 | Viadeo Launches Developer Contest With $20,000 Prize | We’ve written before about Viadeo, a business-oriented social network. Today they announced opening up their API and to get folks interested, they are starting a contest for the best app developed on their platform. The contest will run unt... |
| 04.08.2011 | TechCrunch Europe Summer #CrunchUp – The Evidence | It was a simple plan. We checked the weather. It looked good. We found a huge venue, with all the facilities. We told you to come. And you did. At least 300 tech people swamped London’s Southbank yesterday for our long overdue Summer #Crunc... |
| 01.08.2011 | TechCrunch Europe Ad-hoc #CrunchUp this Wednesday in London | London is sunny for a change and the river is the beautiful so let’s take advantage of it. We’re having a totally impromptu, ‘organised at the last minute’ CrunchUp/Meetup/WhateverUp meetup this Wednesday, 3rd August. The last time we did t... |
| 15.07.2011 | Viadeo challenges LinkedIn in China as CEO moves from the Valley to Beijing | This is a guest post by Monty Munford.
These are supposedly heady days for professional social networks. (At time of writing, 12/07) LinkedIn shares are now trading at $100, more than double its IPO price of $45 and valuing the company at m... |
| 19.05.2011 | LinkedIn competitor Viadeo: No regrets about IPO delay | After watching LinkedIn’s stock climb to impressive heights following its IPO today, not to mention all the subsequent talk that we’re in a new bubble that will eventually pop, you might think that the executives at professional networking ... |
| 05.04.2011 | TechCrunch Europe and The Telegraph release the Startup100 | TechCrunch Europe occasionally partners with other media outlets in Europe in order to support the European ecosystem. Last December we agreed to link up with the London Telegraph newspaper, which planned to put some time and resources into... |
| 16.03.2011 | Linkedin opens office in France – 2 open positions | The French press has been going crazy announcing the opening of Linkedin’s new Paris office. Finally, it looks like Linkedin in stepping-up its game to take on French rival, Viadeo. In France, Viadeo counts 4 million users, which is double ... |
| 22.11.2010 | Kwaga partners with Viadeo to add professional profiles to its semantic email filter | Kwaga, which offers a semantic toolkit to help manage email, is partnering with LinkedIn competitor Viadeo to make the social network’s 30m user profiles available within Gmail, with other email services to follow.
Specifically, Viadeo supp... |
| 27.09.2010 | Social network for business XING hits 10 million members | XING, the European social network for business professionals, has recently passed the ten million registered user mark (even if it still advertises 9 million members on its main website).
The publicly-listed company says the second quarter ... |
| 21.07.2010 | LinkedIn reaches 1 million users in Spain, competitors keep up the pressure | LinkedIn has announced that its reached 1 million users in Spain. That’s 1 million out of 16 million users in Europe, a market that clearly important to the company, having opened offices in the UK in 2008 and a follow-up office in Holland ... |
| 20.05.2010 | France's Doyoubuzz launches in the US to crush word-processed resumes | For Nantes-based Doyoubuzz, the days of the Microsoft Word-based resumes are numbered. So what better to do than set-up shop in San Francisco in hopes of conquering the US web 2.0 generation with its online resume service and personal brand... |
| 11.05.2010 | LinkedIn competitor Viadeo hits 30 million members | Viadeo, the social network for professionals, has reached somewhat of a milestone today, claiming 30 million members. It competes directly with the likes of Germany’s Xing and Silicon Valley heavyweight LinkedIn, which claims 65 million use... |
| 06.01.2010 | LinkedIn opens first office in mainland Europe, based in Amsterdam | Business social network LinkedIn has set up its first office in Continental Europe, and announced today that it will be led by Eugenie van Wiechen, who previously led eBay.nl / Marktplaats.nl in the Netherlands as Managing Director. The new... |
| 22.12.2009 | Thanks to our sponsors – they help make the Euro tech scene great | We’d like to heartily thank the sponsors that have supported us this year at TechCrunch Europe. Without these guys, we would never be able to afford to create the kind of events and content around Europe and showcase the startups scene here... |
| 16.07.2009 | Viadeo Secures $5m More Funding, But How Does It Achieve Breakout? | Viadeo, aLinkedIn and Xing competitor, has secured $5m of funding from French investment houses AGF, Ventech and other investors (including the wealthy Mulliez family) to accelerate growth and prep for potential acquisitions. The business s... |
| 16.07.2009 | Viadeo secures $5m more funding, but it still needs a breakout strategy | Viadeo, a LinkedIn and Xing competitor, has secured $5m of funding from French investment houses AGF, Ventech and other investors (including the wealthy Mulliez family) to accelerate growth and prep for potential acquisitions. The business ... |
| 09.07.2009 | Live from London: The Europas Awards Live Stream, from 6pm GMT | The Europas, the Europan tech startup awards from, will be streamed live from this post from 6pm tonight London time/GMT (10am SF, 1pm NYC). We’ll kick off with a startup pitch competition, followed by a panel of some of the leading lights ... |
| 09.07.2009 | The Europas: The Winners and Finalists | The Europas, the inaugural European Startup Awards 2009 for European and EMEA tech companies, were held last night, Thursday July 9, 2009 in London. Check out our live blog from the event and subsequent coverage in video, pictures and posts... |
| 01.07.2009 | Vote In The Europas, The TechCrunch Europe Startup Awards | Public voting in the The Europas, the tech startup awards from TechCrunch Europe, will close today, Wednesday July 1 at 11.59pm London time (GMT/BST). So best get voting. This public vote will be mixed with voting from our advisory board of... |
| 01.07.2009 | Voting in The Europas ends tonight, so get to it | Public voting in the The Europas, the Europan tech startup awards, will close today, Wednesday July 1 at 11.59pm London time (GMT/BST). So best get your vote out now. This public vote will be mixed with voting from our advisory board of Eur... |
| 30.04.2009 | GeeknRolla – The Movie | GeeknRolla – The Movie from Mike Butcher on Vimeo.
GeeknRolla was a day long (April 21, 2009) conference I created for startups. As part of the day I asked startups around Europe to celebrate with a little rocking out. This video was create... |
| 23.04.2009 | Just a Girl – Why we put on the "Balancing Tech Culture" debate @GeeknRolla | A wrap-up post collating lots of feedback and thoughts by people who attended Geek’ n Rolla is coming. But one of the most hotly debated issues since the conference on Tuesday has been the panel about Women in Tech, specifically tech startu... |
| 21.04.2009 | Live From London – GeeknRolla | Here is the Ustream video from the day. Huge thanks to Hermione Way (@HermioneWay) and the TechFluffTV (@techfluffTV) team, including Josh March (@JoshuaMarch).
Alternative link here GeeknRolla
Live TV : Ustream
EARLIER POST: Here you’ll fi... |
| 21.04.2009 | @Geeknrolla: Just a girl – how do we get more women into the tech sector? | Balancing Tech Culture: Getting more women involved in tech startups
A panel discussion featuring
Cate Sevilla, founding editor at BitchBuzz
Sophie Cox, co-founder of Worldeka.com
Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson, head of marketing communication... |
| 20.04.2009 | Live Video From London – TechCrunch Geek'n Rolla | Here you’ll find the live video stream from Geek’n Rolla, a day-long conference created by TechCrunch Europe for European early stage tech startups old and new to share real, hard-core knowledge about their experiences. Here is our agenda a... |
| 20.04.2009 | GeeknRolla – The Agenda for the day | Agenda: Geek’nRolla – Tech Startups Rock!
London – April 21, 2009
Geek’nRolla is sponsored by Viadeo one of the largest professional social networks in the world, and supported by UK Trade and Investment, as well as NESTA, the National Endo... |
| 14.04.2009 | London. 21 April. 2009. Are you a real Geek 'n Rolla? | So far this year I’ve has run roundtable meetup events for startups in Barcelona, Paris, Prague and coming up we’ll be in Stockholm in 27 May, Berlin on 10 June and throwing a huge summer party in London on 9 July (come meet The Travelling ... |
| 08.04.2009 | Enter the pitch competition for Geek 'n Rolla | Our first ever TechCrunch Europe conference for tech startups old and new, Geek ‘n Rolla, will feature a pitch competition from early stage startups. You can be looking for funding, publicity or both. But you need to be a tech startup, less... |
| 02.04.2009 | Some of our speakers for Geek 'n Rolla – Tech Startups Rock! – April 21, London | Our first ever TechCrunch Europe conference for tech startups old and new, Geek ‘n Rolla, is shaping up pretty nicely, even if I do say so myself. Today I’m going to share with you the amazing profiles of just some of our speakers and panel... |
| 20.03.2009 | Geek 'n Rolla – Tech Startups Rock! – April 21, London | It’s my pleasure to announce a grand day out for tech startups old and new to share real, hard-core knowledge about their experiences on April 21st – an event we’ve dubbed “Geek ‘n Rolla” in a light-hearted homage to a certain movie which a... |
| 20.03.2009 | Geek ‘n Rolla – Tech Startups Rock! – April 21, London | TechCrunch Europe is announcing a grand day out for European tech startups old and new to share real, hard-core knowledge about their experiences on April 21. The event is called “Geek ‘n Rolla” in a light-hearted homage to Rock ‘n Rolla, t... |
| 14.03.2009 | Live From Paris: TechCrunchTalk – What Next For France 2.0? | TechCrunch Europe recently hosted a Roundtable & Meetup in Paris. Despite issues getting a live video stream going, we recorded the event and have now been able to upload the videos. “TechCrunchTalk: What Next For France 2.0?” featured ... |
| 20.02.2009 | TechCrunch Roundtable, Paris, Feb 25: What Next For France 2.0? | TechCrunch is hosting a Roundtable and Meetup in Paris on Wednesday next week, Feb 25. “TechCrunchTalk: What Next For France 2.0?” will feature an afternoon of panel discussions and some great evening networking with French startups and the... |
| 13.02.2009 | French Business Networking Site Viadeo Acquires ApnaCircle | After Arzoo.com, Sabeer Bhatia has now given up on another internet business. French business networking site Viadeo has acquired Bhatia funded social networking website ApnaCircle.com. The financial terms are not disclosed.
"The deal ... |
| 02.03.2008 | Big Win For LinkedIn As They Hook Up With France's Apec | Most English speakers won’t know much about France’s Apec, a non profit organization that offers job listings and job resources in France. But they’re big – they employ around 1,000 human resource specialists who work with companies and peo... |
| 16.01.2008 | Old School BBS: The Chinese Social Networking Phenomenon | According to latest report from China Internet Network Information
Center (CNNIC), by end of 2007, there are over 200 million Internet users
(including 163 million broadband users) in China. 2008 is shaping up to be a very busy year
for the... |
| 05.09.2007 | Peoplesearch latest trend… SMS me a beach BBQ… P*rn still lurks at work… eCommerce complaints | Peoplesearch latest trend
SMS me a beach BBQ
P*rn still lurks at work
eCommerce complaints Peoplesearch – the latest web trend
It’s fun to Google yourself, but increasingly keen web users want to find information about other people – and a ... |
| 31.08.2007 | The rush to people search: Viadeo, ZoomInfo, Yahoo China, Spock…and PeekYou | For years, technology to search for people has been neglected, compared to most parts of the Web. Until now, that is.
A wave of new entrants are making it much easier to find out everything about a person, from their job, to their personali... |
