More than one Silicon Valley: The ten most popular entrepreneurial stars in European science and technology

Valley？ Which one do you ask? Microsoft CEO Boll recently asked the Churchill Club.

Today's "Silicon Valley" not only broke the conceptual level, has already broken through the geographical level, whether it is San Francisco, or the back of the Earth Zhongguancun and Bangalore. And in the economically developed European region, countless technology start-ups are also rising.

Europe is no less so than America's big, global-expansion start-ups. The popular game of the whole platform "Angry Birds" is from the famous Finnish game manufacturer Rovio hand. Rovio was founded in 2003, the iphone version of "Angry Birds" was launched at the end of 2009 and was successful, earning a lot of money after a series of sequel games. According to analysts, Rovio's value reached $6 billion trillion to $9 billion trillion, almost as much as Nokia, the country's handset maker.

Another big shot is Spotify, a streaming media music service company. Spotify, founded in Sweden in 2006, has been in the U.S. market in the last year and is now offering services in 17 countries, valued at $3 billion trillion. Spotify's business model is moving in the right direction-users can enjoy free streaming music resources with advertising, spend 5 of dollars to enjoy the free web version of music resources, and spend 10 of dollars to enjoy the mobile music resources without advertising. According to the current growth rate, the company's revenue this year is expected to exceed 500 million U.S. dollars.

Still, compared to America's familiar start-ups, Europe as a whole is too low-key, most companies are still in the wall flowering stage, still afraid of the alley deep, Tencent technology is taking stock of the current most popular in Europe's top ten start-up companies.

Wooga

Wooga, a game developer in Berlin, was founded in 2009, and founder and CEO Jens Begemann, who initially started with just five employees, is now Facebook's third-largest social gaming maker, trying to break up Zynga, Eminence, a Californian social-game developer, has a situation. Its iOS game Diamond Dash has downloaded more than 30 million times a day, adding 100,000 users each, and Wooga's main game also includes Monster World, Bubble Island, Happy Shetty and Brain Buddies.

Shazam

Watch TV, listen to the radio and hear a nice song, but don't know the name? Shazam can help you. It is a music recognition application that can recognize music information simply by opening it. As early as 1999, Shazam had been established in London, England, and knew that it was Shazam to launch a song recognition application on Apple's iOS platform. The Shazam team announced that their number of users had exceeded 250 million, adding 2 million users a week. Recently Shazam has increased the recognition of television programs and advertisements. When you open the Shazam, you can mark anything on the TV show. With the advent of devices such as Apple Tv,google TV, and interactive television applications such as Zeebox,boxfish, the future of interactive television is likely to become the next battleground, and Shazam to use its existing advantages to enter this field will surely bring new vitality to this field.

GetJar

Getjar was founded in Lithuania in 2003, earlier than the App Store in Apple, and just online, Getjar is a Web site for software programmers testing software across devices and is now the world's largest independent cross-platform application store. Thanks to its open model, developers can distribute apps on mainstream mobile platforms on Getjar to compete with stores in companies such as Google (Weibo), Apple, Samsung, Nokia, BlackBerry and Microsoft. Not tied to any carriers or phones, Getjar supports more than 2300 models, which allow developers to quickly publish applications to the marketplace. At present, the application store total download volume has exceeded 2 billion times.

Wonga.com

Founded in 2007 by Errol Damelin and Jonty Hurwitz, headquartered in London, Wonga.com offers a small online loan business ranging from 50 to 750 pounds, unlike traditional banks, where Wonga can offer 24/7/365 online services. Wonga.com is currently dependent on the interest earned on the loan, and the proceeds are determined by the loan amount and repayment period. In the 11-month period since its inception, nearly 100,000 loans were provided.

Supercell

Supercell is another Finnish mobile game development team, founded only two years ago, the product includes Hay Day and Clash of Clans, the company is often shortlisted to the App Store grossing chart rankings. The speed at which the 60-member gaming company is generating revenue dwarfs many Silicon Valley application developers, and the New York Times said in October this year that supercell accounted for about $500,000 trillion a day, and venture-capital firms have valued $600 million for supercell, which is expected to overtake Zynga within two years.

Klarna

Klarna is an E-commerce payment service provider, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 2005, the founder is three students in economics, they are Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth) and Victor Jacobsson. Currently, Klarna has more than 8 million customers, and the company is also one of the next 1 billion dollar startups targeted by Saul Klein, the partner of Index Ventures and co-founder.

Ozon

Ozon is Russia's largest E-commerce company, founded in 1998, was originally an online bookstore, now known as the "Russian version of Amazon." The company sold 303 million dollars last year, almost doubling its $165 million trillion in 2010, and is expected to reach $1 billion trillion within 3-5 years.

SoundCloud

SoundCloud is an audio start-up company in Berlin, Germany, created in 2008 by sound designer Alex Ljung and artist Eric Wahlforss, who can record or upload any voice online to SoundCloud to share with others, Known as the audio field of YouTube. At the end of February 2012, the number of registered users SoundCloud tens of millions. Recently, its mobile applications in the Android and iOS platform download volume has exceeded the 10 million mark.

Fon

Founded in 2006 in Madrid, Spain, Fon hopes to create a global wireless network by sharing personal wireless networks, enabling people all over the world to benefit from cheaper and even free Wi-Fi. The number of hot spots in the world has exceeded 5 million, and the number of hot spots in the year is expected to increase by 50%. After a one-time purchase, Fon users have the right to access the wireless network for free in other places where they use Fon, and the user will also share some of the bandwidth of the hotspot to others. FON's partners include BT, SFR and other European telecommunications operators.

Badoo

Badoo was born in London in May 2006 and was created by a young team of founders called "Nightclubs in mobile phones." Monthly active users reached 35 million, the total number of users close to 150 million, the world's fourth-largest social networking site, last year's revenue of 100 million U.S. dollars. The main user groups are distributed in Southern Europe and Latin America, and 50% of sessions will implement offline dating. Badoo has different characteristics in different countries and regions, it will be adjusted according to local needs. In the UK, it is a casual dating site in the Czech Republic, and it is a marriage-seeking website in Indonesia, which provides a way for women wearing the burqa to express themselves.