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		<title>Alien bacteria disable GoalEurope bloggers (but the battle continues)</title>
		<link>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/22/alien-bacteria-disable-goaleurope-bloggers-but-the-battle-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha Starkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like GoalEurope will be quiet for a few days or even a week as evil forces have schemed to disable our key blogger (me). Please come back in a week for in-depth coverage of the Eastern European innovation, startup and outsourcing scene.]]></description>
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		<title>Poles team up with QIWI to help Russian ecommerce industry grow</title>
		<link>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/20/eastern-europe-innovation-russia-startup-cee-venture-capital-poles-team-up-with-qiwi-to-help-russian-ecommerce-industry-grow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha Starkell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia is a large country. Even after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia’s area of 17 million square kilometers is almost double that of the US. But unlike United States it is disadvantaged when it comes to the parcel delivery service. In addition to Russian Post, a government owned inefficient organization, Russia has a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The value of specialized accelerators: Parallels opens up its market channels</title>
		<link>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/17/venture-capital-russia-startup-eastern-europe-innovation-the-value-of-specialized-accelerators-parallels-opens-up-its-market-channels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha Starkell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Runa Capital]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Russian seed capital fund Runa Capital and one of the world’s leading hosting and cloud services enablers Parallels are inextricably linked. Serguei Beloussov, the Russian founder of Parallels is a founding partner of Runa Capital, that’s why. Despite Runa’s investment in a number of companies which could not be further away from Parallel’s business  &#8211; such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over 5000 visitors at Webit Bulgaria in 2011. Will Webit Istanbul 2012 beat that?</title>
		<link>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/17/technology-conference-eastern-europe-over-5000-visitors-at-webit-bulgaria-in-2011-will-webit-istanbul-2012-beat-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha Starkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Technologies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology confernce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Webit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Webit Congress has an interesting concept. Having focused on Central and Eastern Europe previously, Webit 2012 expanded its geographical focus to EMEA, bringing together professionals and business leaders from various industries with a common focus on technology and innovation in emerging markets. However, instead of concentrating on one particular area of tech entrepreneurship, say startups [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual business cards come to Kosovo</title>
		<link>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/16/startup-kosovo-innovation-eastern-europe-virtual-business-cards-come-to-kosovo/</link>
		<comments>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/16/startup-kosovo-innovation-eastern-europe-virtual-business-cards-come-to-kosovo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Çelik Nimani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kosovo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common processes when meeting business people is the moment when you exchange business cards. And while you get back to the office, the office desk just keeps getting filled up with paper. This is probably not the most pressing problem of Kosovo, whose 45 percent of workforce is unemployed. Yet Berthama, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attrition rates in software development industry in Eastern Europe: looking good</title>
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		<comments>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/16/software-development-eastern-europe-outsourcing-czech-attrition-rates-in-software-development-industry-in-eastern-europe-looking-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha Starkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Czech Republic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the software development industry where demand on IT specialists continues to increase, employers often wonder about the attrition rate. This is a typical question that interests our outsourcing clients. In Czech Republic situation may appear to be worse than average, as during my latest research I learned that hiring 50 software developers people within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TechCrunch Baltics reveals strong ties in the Northern European startup scene. An example for all Europeans to follow?</title>
		<link>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/15/startup-eastern-europe-innovation-techcrunch-baltics-reveals-strong-ties-in-the-northern-european-startup-scene-an-example-for-all-europeans-to-follow/</link>
		<comments>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/15/startup-eastern-europe-innovation-techcrunch-baltics-reveals-strong-ties-in-the-northern-european-startup-scene-an-example-for-all-europeans-to-follow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha Starkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[B2B]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latvia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lithuania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Technologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balticmafia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Week in Riga the venue of TechCrunch Baltics was packed. There I met people from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Finland, Germany, Denmark and the UK to mention but a few countries and I got a feeling that Baltic and Nordic entrepreneurs knew each other rather well. The geographical distance is not a big issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian online shoe store Sapato is sold to Ozon</title>
		<link>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/15/russian-online-shoe-store-sapato-is-sold-to-ozon/</link>
		<comments>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/15/russian-online-shoe-store-sapato-is-sold-to-ozon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha Starkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Funding News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eVenture Capital Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fast Lane Ventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intel capital]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now it is official: Russian online store Ozon (a.k.a Amazon of Russia), which has recently obtained an approval from Federal Antimonopoly Service to buy the online shoe store Sapato, has completed the transaction. Fast Lane Ventures, which calls itself the developer of Internet companies in the Russian internet market (rather than an incubator), has sold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Deals Summit Europe unites Groupon industry in London on March 19th</title>
		<link>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/14/daily-deals-summit-europe-unites-groupon-industry-in-london-on-march-19th/</link>
		<comments>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/14/daily-deals-summit-europe-unites-groupon-industry-in-london-on-march-19th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha Starkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Czech Republic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proliferation of  businesses which sell daily deals online is a known fact. In Europe there are over 1500 daily deals providers. In North America Yipit already saw the number going down from 807 to 350, whilst Groupon continues to increase its market share which has past 50 percent in the US. So just like growth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly News: TC Baltics, Accelerators, EPAM, Oktogo, DoubleRecall, Piano Media, Social Bakers, Runa Capital</title>
		<link>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/13/startup-eastern-europe-innovation-weekly-news-tc-baltics-accelerators-epam-oktogo-doublerecall-piano-media-social-bakers/</link>
		<comments>http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/13/startup-eastern-europe-innovation-weekly-news-tc-baltics-accelerators-epam-oktogo-doublerecall-piano-media-social-bakers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natasha Starkell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Belarus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Czech Republic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Latvia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[startup sauna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the huge thing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As TechCrunch Baltics took place last week in Riga, Latvia, the weekly news begin with coverage of startups in Baltic Rim. Infogr.am, the startup from Latvia won TC Baltic competition and raised seed funding from HackFwd. I have previously met the co-founder Uldis Leiterts at mini-Seedcamp Paris, where he was presenting his startup developing simple [...]]]></description>
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