StartUp2.0 is a competition of European web 2.0 sites and they've just announced the 15 final nominees. There is an event in Madrid on May 10, where the nominees will Continue reading »

Ozon.ru, which claims to be Russia's largest e-commerce store for books, audio and video, software, multimedia games, electronic and digital goods, received $18 million in funding this week from Index Continue reading »

Even though SecondLife has attracted a lot of attention in China and the first millionaire from SecondLife is Chinese, this western virtual world has still not been officially launched in Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Top_Irish_Web_Apps_on_Read_WriteWeb'; Continuing Read/WriteWeb's series on international web apps, I bring you a sample of all that the emerald isle has to offer. 20 years ago Ireland was Continue reading »

Recently I was contacted by the publishers of YeeYan, a website that translates articles from english language blogs into Chinese. They asked for my permission to translate some of Read/WriteWeb's Continue reading »

In New Zealand this week, two new Web portals were announced: Yahoo!Xtra and the launch of msn.co.nz on 1 March 2007. The background, briefly, is that both of these new Continue reading »

Written by Gang Lu and edited by Richard MacManus. China's QQ.com is the world's 9th largest web property and in this post Gang Lu talks with Richard Chang, the Founder Continue reading »

Saul Klein, the former Skype global marketing VP who joined VC firm Index Ventures this week, has a great post on his blog about the European startup scene. I spoke Continue reading »

Latvia is a small country in Northern Europe, next to Estonia, Lithuania, Russia and Belarus. It has a population of 2.3 million, around 38% of whom have Internet access. The Continue reading »

In Chennai, India, a DEMO-like event called Proto.in was held this week to showcase 30 new technology companies. As of now there is no information on the official blog Continue reading »