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Social games start-up wooga, developer of Brain Buddies on Facebook, received a new investment from Balderton Capital which will enable the company to grow its international talent base and continue to develop new quality games.

Berlin, November 6th 2009: 12designer, the online market for design projects as creative competitions, offers to its clients a brand new functionality for start-ups or new products: Naming.

Communication Service Providers today are facing several challenges such as increasing competition from Internet service providers, proliferation of convergent services and increased costs due duplication of application silos and other resources.

- First game „Brain Buddies“ reaches 2.5 million users on Facebook within 5 weeks after launch - New games in the pipeline - Online games industry proofs to be crisis resistant

Thailand-Today.com broadens its Thailand news coverage to include numerous Thailand-focused internet blogs in addition to Thai and international newspapers.

Chillout Light 2009 is a mobile fun application with calming color combinations and light effects for BlackBerry (R.I.M.) smart-phones.

Munich, 24th of March 2009. AutoVision, the International Automotive Film and Multimedia Festival opens its Call for Entries for the 9th edition of the OttoCar awards.

Berlin, Germany, 16 March 2009: The news platform Imooty.eu has been accepted as member of the exclusive European Knowledge-Intensive-Services-Innovation-Platform (KIS) 100 Club.

WorldGuide, the exclusive internet gateway, has enhanced its online presence with a new website design and with new features.

Local authorities prevent the participation of a prominent Chinese citizen journalist in the international weblog awards, The BOBs, in Berlin.

Reporters Without Borders Award presented for the fourth time at Deutsche Welle’s annual international weblog awards, The BOBs. Jean-François Julliard, Reporters Without Borders secretary-general, offers his views.

DW-RADIO celebrates 45th anniversary of service in Indonesia and, for the first time ever, blogs in Indonesian will be included and recognized at Deutsche Welle’s international blogging awards, The BOBs.

Pocketfilm develops new multimedia and interactive advertising formats that are setting new benchmarks of success. Brandt is convinced of the firm's untapped potential.

Deutsche Welle continues to develop innovative television programming for people in Arabic countries. Director General Erik Bettermann: “We are increasing Germany’s media presence in this important region and intensifying the dialogue.”

Cridon introduces a methodology for innovation management. This framework has been created on the basis of international research on successful innovation and on the basis of Cridons experience.

Deutsche Welle announces the start of online voting for the world’s best weblogs, videoblogs and podcasts. This year, more than 8,500 blogs from all over the world were nominated for the BOBs.

Today marks the first anniversary of Gadgets4Girls, a leading online technology website just for women. Gadgets4Girls aim is to provide a one-stop-site where women could find news and reviews about Technology after the motto “for women, by women”

DW to work with bdnews24.com, Bangladesh’s first online bilingual news source, on training, technology and content.

Write the story of your life! annoknips.com is a free autobiography portal for users who have already celebrated a few "round number" birthdays.

Why are the two major-party candidates afraid to let other voices be heard, and why do they collude to stifle independent voices?

Russia is this year’s partner country for the Orchestra Campus – a Deutsche Welle initiative.

The revolutionary idea of a user-generated WiFi network has entered a new stage. More than one million members have joined FON so far and form the by far largest WiFi Community in the world.

The internet centric audio mastering studio service Online-mastering.com presents the next big step in professional audio mastering online. Their new web interface connects musicians and producers with their high-end mastering studios in Germany.

New partnership between Deutsche Welle and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) means that DW-RADIO will be broadcast over campus radio throughout India.

COSMOTE Romania announces it has partnered with Deutsche Welle in order to offer its customers directly on their mobile phones the latest news provided by Germany’s international broadcaster, exclusively through the i-mode service.

Berlin, August 5, 2008. Thousands of visitors from 15 countries in the first 24 hours: The online biography annoknips.com attracts lots of interest

The limitations in the main press center at the Beijing Olympic Games have fully illustrated how Beijing views freedom of the press and freedom of opinion.

Starting July 15, “Campus Bremen: Tomorrow’s Business Leaders” will put Jacobs University in focus. Deutsche Welle highlights the school and environment from the students' perspective.

Joint project from Deutsche Welle, University of Bonn and the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences will begin in the winter of 2009.

The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum, an interdisciplinary conference with approximately 900 participants from 100 countries comes to an end on June 4, 2008. The second Global Media Forum will take place in Bonn in 2009.

It´s all about being specialized. The Rights-Managed photolibrary announces the relaunch of their new website based on the Picturemaxx-Technology.

A new, television coproduction from Deutsche Welle and Egypt TV focuses on young people, their thoughts and opinions.

The bi-medial, distance education project was developed primarily with the participation of African journalists and authors of audio books, and will be transmitted via radio and the Internet.

170 journalists have already registered for the event in Bonn – accreditation must be completed by May 28.

International social-community Studymee for students goes online, multilingual and worldwide available.

The Global Media Forum features workshops with journalists and international experts on “Covering Hostile Environments – From Conflict Zones to Organized Crime”, “Terrorists Online” and “Populism and Press Freedom”.

Photo exhibition can be seen at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in June, as well as New York and Tokyo this fall. Among the photographers is the “World Press Photo” winner Tim Hetherington.

From 20 April 2008 on Soundflag with its website www.soundflag.com acts as agent for unknown musician,bands, producers and small Labels from more than 25 countries worldwide.

Radio Vocea Basarabiei, a new DW partner station, is now broadcasting programming from DW-RADIO to its listeners throughout Moldova and bordering areas.

This year’s conference will focus on “Media in Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention” and will take place from June 2-4 at the World Conference Center Bonn. Keynote speakers include Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Shirin Ebadi.

EURANET: European media project puts emphasis on fair and balanced information and increased dialog.

New resolution from the directors of Deutsche Welle, the BBC World Service, Radio France Internationale, Radio Netherlands Worldwide and the Voice of America calls upon governments to honor the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

DW-TV will broadcast live from the biggest New Year’s Eve party in Germany at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

On time for the New Year the Japanese version of AmazingDusseldorf.com is launched on 21 December with support of Mitsubishi Electric Europe.

One look is worth a thousand words! MyGreatWorld.com is about YOUR photos and about the places YOU have seen. It is about YOUR opinion and YOUR point of view. Share YOUR recommendations!

In this Karl-Richter-Video documentary Johannes Martin has let over 20 contemporary witnesses have their say and providing over 26 Musical Quotes, to explain the interpretation and the fascination of Karl Richter’s music.

The Hamburg-based outdoor photography specialists have recently added 1000 new images to their archive from Austrian photographer, Leo Himsl.

The Australian digital music label, Hidden Shoal Recordings, today announced the release of the stun-ning new debut album by German artist Jumpel.