The Luxembourg-based Wikio has secured funding for €4 million ($5.3 million).
Wikio is like Digg + Google News + Technorati, still in its early phases but promises to lead the way in European Web 2.0 search technologies.

Wikio, launched in France last June, and currently operating sites in France, United States, Germany, Italy and Spain, is [...]

Google News is a very comprehensive news aggregation of both news sources (4500 in total), as well as blogs.
Since part 1 of blogging is listening (part 2 being responding), you need to find easy ways to listen to what your customers are saying. Searching the web is an inefficient use of time. Google News [...]

Ever since Google stock hit $300 last year we’ve all been following the growth of this market performer.  In fact, when they hit $500 a few weeks ago we were all blown away, well, at least I was blown away.
So, why question their decision to release 5.3 M Class A shares?  Well, partly because many [...]