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Last night, myself and Anastasia attended a very successful fourth edition of Digital Sizzle. The evening included the regular free beers, bbq and tech banter, but it was also a very unique opportunity to hear from the CEO of Tech City Investment Organisation, Eric van der Kleij and have an open Q&A between the audience and the panel about the recent TCIO Impact Report and a discussion about where Tech City should focus their attention and budget in the year ahead.

With the event massively oversubscribed (700+ signing up for a ticket!) the event organisers carefully whittled the list down to only 100 attendees (we were one of the lucky ones!). So for those who couldn’t attend, Kashflow’s Stu Bradley provided an entertaining live blog (you can read the transcript here). At TechfluffTV, we captured some snippets of the Q&A debate and asked attendees if they were the CEO of Tech City, where would they focus their £2million+ budget? Watch the video to find out their answers!

Also, check out the photos taken during the event by Paul Clarke here!

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This week, cloud-based customer service tool Zendesk celebrated their 5000th customer since launching their European Head Office in London one year ago. Yesterday we visited their official office opening party and had the opportunity to interview the CEO of Zendesk, Mikkel Svane! With an impressive customer list of big corporations such as GroupOn, MSNBC.com, Lonely Planet and Sony Music, to SMEs and other startups such as Dropbox, Zendesk has grown to having over 15,000+ companies as part of their customer portfolio. On the age old debate of Silicon Valley vs the European Tech Scene, Mikkel said that moving to San Francisco really helped him scale the business, and that any tech company wanting get investment and traction should seriously consider moving to Silicon Valley to kick start their startup. What do you think? Is is it – ‘The Only Way is Silicon Valley’ or does London’s Tech City have just as much to offer startups? Watch the video above to hear more from Mikkel.

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So often, Africa is only associated with its struggles. Ikenna Azuike wants to make you think of the positive aspects of Africa; it’s a large continent with plenty of potential! While there are many serious issues to deal with, Ikenna choses to showcase the booming talent of Africa – all in a fun way. He’s been dressed up as a woman, a preacher, and so many more in his series ‘What’s Up Africa?’ found at his youtube channel.

But that’s not it. He’s created Strawberry Earth, a site that offers ‘green’ deals, discounted products and experiences that adhere to the Strawberry Principles. There are also events such as the Green Film Making Competition, the Strawberry Earth Film Festival, and theStrawberry Earth Hotel Crash that call forth creative people to make a difference. During the hotel crash, they raised €9,750 that went towards making the hotel more eco-friendly!

Strawberry Earth is looking to go global, not bad for starting as a two-person blog on WordPress!

Check out what he has to say!

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Recently we caught up with one of our fellow online video evangelists, Catherine Allen of Ember Television. They are a Birmingham based service that makes videos from ‘Your Church Wedding’ to a flash mob for charity. Similarly, to our sister site, Newspepper.com, Ember Television produce online video content, and also work closely with marketing agencies for distribution.

Ember Television’s new idea is (tentatively) called ‘audience looping’ where the target audience provides ideas for videos they want to watch. Ember Television provides a ‘matchmaking’ service, pairing the audiences with ideas to the clients with money to bring these ideas to life.

Watch the video interview above to find out more on how this process works and her advice for other production companies.

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When you walk down the street or take the tube, almost everyone has out his or her mobile. It’s a convenient way to message friends, play games, listen to music, and surf the web, all from a device you can fit in your pocket. Of course, this turned mobiles into a great marketing platform.

In Barcelona, the Mobile World Congress hosted their largest event yet, with more than 67,000 attendees! European Leaders presented Hot Topics Mobile, attended by the top 250 mobile influencers. Two panels about Mobile Commerce and Mobile Communications included panelists such as Bill Gajda, Global Head of Visa Mobile; Sebastian Siemaitkowski, CEO Klarna; and Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare.

The panels, “Changing the Way we Shop” and “Is Facebook the Future?” covered questions such as how mobile shopping will change the payment infrastructure and how mobile usage will affect the future of connectivity. As of now, 50 to 70 percent of Facebook access in emerging markets is mobile!

Check out the video to see what the panelist and audience had to say!

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Today StartupBus America officially kicks off and we give you an exclusive sneak peek in to the buses and find out what’s happening today!
We’ll have a special guest, Founder Rackspace and will be dialing into The New York bus to see their progress as they hit the road.
You can also tune into all the action via TheNextWeb.com. StartupBus.tv is brought to you by Viadeo, TheNextWeb, LiveU, Tropo and Pop17 and produced by Newspepper Media. Follow all the live action and updates at #StartupBusTV

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