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Grinda of Zingy made the leap into cell phones from another recent tech darling, online auctions. A native of France, Grinda sold his company Aucland, a pan-European version of eBay, to the Spanish company Terra in 2000. After watching a friend make a fortune in ringtones--a business he once thought would never be more than a novelty--Grinda got into the game himself. He started Zingy and sold it to the Japanese company For-Side.com last May, but he is still running the business and pushing the company into city guides and traffic reports...
...business blood, blames teething troubles; this was the first time a Czech firm had opened in the area. "In the future, things will run more smoothly," he says. "I think it will be much easier for the next people who come here." Perhaps, but until a true pan-European market for services is created, setting up shop outside your own borders will remain a thorny business...
...chronic staff troubles could make it hard to get similar steps at BA off the ground. - By Adam Smith Trading Flaws Frankfurt's Deutsche Börse bowed to pressure from rebel shareholders and shelved its $2.5 billion bid for the London Stock Exchange. LSE shares promptly tanked. Pan-European rival Euronext, its remaining suitor, has yet to name a price...
...Pan-European polyglot poppers Stereo Total seem to always summon the same images in American minds: trendy coffee bars, tightly-dressed Euro hipsters, neon lights against shadowy backgrounds. It’s certainly the style their album covers more or less convey, especially prominent on their new Sub Pop debut Do The Bambi, on whose cover a green deer logo and the album’s title illuminate the faces of the band from above...
...extend their marketing. That's changing, as governments squeeze their budgets and a new, less self-interested type of charity takes hold. There has been a sharp rise in the number of not-for-profit foundations throughout Europe. And a network of foundations is beginning to lobby for pan-European legislation. According to the Brussels-based European Foundation Centre, about a quarter of the 61,000 foundations in the European Union were established in the past decade. In Belgium, one-third of the country's 323 foundations were created after 1990. Growth is particularly strong in Germany, where more than...