Technology Events, Promotion & Marketing Twitter buys TweetDeck for $40m - Josephine Moulds, The Telegraph 24-May One of the leading lights of East London’s tech community, TweetDeck, has been bought by Twitter for $40m (£25m), according to reports. The deal is likely to make 36 -year -old founder and chief executive Iain Dodsworth an instant millionaire. CNN Money said the sale was closed on Monday, quoting sources close to the deal. It is thought that Twitter will pay for the start -up with a mix of cash and stock. Twitter is remaining tight -lipped about the deal. Its global PR team put out a tweet late on Monday that said: “ For all those who might be curious, we continue to n ot comment on rumors.” Mr. Dodsworth was not answering his phone nor emails. TweetDeck is a piece of software that organises feeds from Twitter and other social networks into columns, making them easier to read. Mr. Dodsworth, a former programmer at Pruden tial and PricewaterhouseCoopers, built the application in 2008, after b e- coming frustrated when he missed messages from friends on Twitter. MORE HEADLINE: TweetDeck – 3 years, staff of 15 and $40m – not a bad deal! TweetDeck organises feeds from Twitter and other social networks into columns, making them easier to read UPCOMING MEETUP: Techmeetups June Meetup MONTHLY NEWSLETTER MAY 2011 ISSUE Inside This Issue Headline TweetDeck – 3 years, staff of 15 and $40m – not a ba d deal! 1 Upcoming Meetup Techmeetups June Meetup 1 Other News 2 Recent Meetup Techmeetups May Meetup along with Digital Shoreditch 2 Feature Techmeetups.com Startup Mentoring Program 3 June Events 3 Event Sponsors: Seren is one of the world's leading service design con- sultancies. They are passion- ate about using design to change the reality of services in this complex, multi - channel world. They are re- defining the world of branding by delivering elegant, commer- cially successful experiences. Ciklum is a Danish i nnovative IT outsourcing company with a new approach that establishes interactive IT teams to enable clients to work directly with developers to reach a high level of productivity. The Intel AppUp SM developer program provides developers with everything they need to create and then sell their applications to millions of Intel Atom- based devices. The program gives OEMs and the ecosystem a framework to deliver great new applications di- rectly to consumers.
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Technology Events, Promotion & Marketing
OTHER NEWS
27 May TweetDeck's Dodsworth On What It Means To Join Twitter – FT
LONDON: The New Technology Capital – C - MW
25 May Funding Prospects On The Horizon For UK’s Other Tech Clusters As Deadline Looms For TSB’sPilot Project: Tech City Launchpad
Should We Stop Dreaming Of a New Silicon Valley?
24 May H&K Wins Five Figure Contract To Promote Tech City
Does East London Tech City Need An Army Of Stay - At - Home Mums? – WITsend
23 May London Silicon Roundabout Picture Featured On USA Today
FT Reports That Twitter Is Still Coming To East London Tech City
Cargo Cults, Artificial Reefs and the East London Tech City
17 May KPMG To Offer Discounted Services To Silicon Roundabout Startups – 17 May 2011 – Computing News
16 May Another Win For London Tech City & Silicon Roundabout!
RECENT MEETUP: Techmeetups May Meetup along with Digital Shoreditch
Like our Facebook Fanpage, www.facebook.com/lsrtechmeetups , to view more photos from our May meetup.
Startup Presenters:
The world of Moshi Monstershas been created by Mind Candy.
Their intentionwhen creating Moshi Monsters was to a produce a ground - breaking new entertainment experience that would be fun, safe and educational for kids of all ages.
Bambuser is an interactive mobile videostreaming platform, enabling users to quickly and easily stream and share live mobile videowith all of their favorite social networks, in-cluding Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Word-Press, RSS and BlogSpot.
Zuztertu is a real word that means “to grow shoots”. It is in this vein that Zuztertu devel-
ops educational and informational mobileapplications that allow individuals to grow
and develop.
Pora Ora has been developed by Caped Koala Stu-dios.
In Pora Ora, they have created an engaging world for
children in the primary school age range (5 – 12)which presents educational content in a compelling and immersive way.
Static moodboards, and their filmic brethren,are the common tabula rasa from which every idea begins the long journey towards becom-ing reality.
MoodShare allows you to create and collabo-rate with others on truly multi - media mood-boards.
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I would like to be a Mentor, how do I get involved ?
Excellent! We are looking for Mentors having experience inthe various areas of a Business — Development & Testing,Sales & Marketing, PR, Legal, Company structuring etc. to
join our team and help our Startup members.
What is expected from me ?
Few hours every week looking throughStartup info
Weekly review of Startups over the WebMonthly Mentoring workshopInvolvement in monthly Techmeetups
Mentorship, Advice & contacts
What do I get in return ?
Our Investment partners would be expected to pay the stand-ard market fee for investing in our start - ups. As a mentor youwould be eligible part of this fee.You may take up a more dedicated position with any of thestart - ups being mentored if they feel you can help acceleratetheir process.
I’m a Startup what do I get ?
Weekly coaching, advice & mentoringIf required Intensive hands on mentoring program withone of our Accelerator partnersConnecting with a focused group of tech companies for advice, partnership & collaborationSupport to pitch at our quarterly Investor day to our Investment partners
What will all this cost me ?
Nothing! This program is free for LSR members. We would take a fee from theInvestor if they invest in a startup from our mentoring program.
Do I need to be based in London ?
No you can be based anywhere. We have similar programsrunning in Berlin, Madrid & Dublin.
What kind of companies would you mentor ?
We invest in early stage Tech start - ups in the areas of Mobile Apps, Gaming, Web or Software companies that aregoing after a big market ... hopefully taking on the world.
Technology Events, Promotion & Marketing
FEATURE
Techmeetups.com organises The London Silicon Roundabout Group and provides a platform for start - ups to presentto the group on a monthly basis. Hundreds of start - ups approached us with various type of support from Funding toMentorship and from Development to Marketing. Based on this need we decided to launch this program and expect tofilter through 200 start - ups a year to find the 10 best investment worthy companies that will be forwarded to our Angel & VC Investment partners.
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ABOUT US
TechMeetups.com was launched in 2010 to help setup a Tech community around The London Silicon Roundabout area. Westarted this group in order to bring together startups, investors, techies and webbies in and around this area. We soon expan ded
to Cambridge and also setup a dedicated meet-
up for Online Publishers. How can we help you...Events & Promotion
We help Technology companies promote themselves by presenting their solution in front of a focused & dedicatedtech audience.
Training & Marketing
We organize Training programs and help Technology companies market their solutions through indirect & directchannels.
StartHub - Start - up Innovation Center
Start Hub has been designed to give Startups a flexible and elastic workplace. Drop in and only pay when youuse!
Techmeetups.com Ltd.
14 5 - 157 St. John Street
London EC1V 4PY
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 7908 283 073
E - mail: [email protected]
www.techmeetups.com * ALL LOGOS / IMAGES ARE PROPERTIES OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS
JUNE EVENTS
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June
UKTI Pitch Workshop 09
June
London Silicon Roundabout June Meetup
03June
MC ThinkCamp - mHealth Hack4Europe UK 2011
06June
Crowdsourcing, Real - time Data &Connected Cities: Waze's Di - Ann Eisnor
[Async]: Making History
Guathon 2011 12June
Software Practice Advancement (SPA)Conference 2011
07June
Mobile App World 2011 13June
London Ruby User Group June 2011
This Happened London #9 18June
Interesting 2011
The Inspire Conference 21June
HydraHack 0.4
DIBI (Design It. Build It) 2011 23June
AppsJunction Monthly Meetup
08June
Open Mobile Summit London 24June
Computing At School Conference 2011
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