This morning I attended an interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook at Startup Fest Europe in Amsterdam. Tim said lots of things, which we all already knew, but he also started off with an interesting anecdote, which is cute enough to share with you. He was being accompanied by the former European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam the evening before. As Neelie

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Google Google may be readying an Evernote rival as ‘Keep’ makes a brief appearance online Google might be about to get into the note-taking game after an Evernote-like service sprang up on its Google Drive service, only to disappear as quietly as it arrived less than half an hour later. Android Police earlier discovered a source code that suggested Google was planning the service at drive.google.c

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Opera has just announced its intentions to deliver Opera Mini for the iPhone, and will unveil the browser at Mobile World Congress on February 15th in Barcelona. Promising to be “fast, easy to use, and packed with favorite Opera features”, the browser will reportedly come with tabs and Speed Dial. Jon von Tetzchner, Opera’s Co-founder said, “We have not submitted it yet to the Apple App Store. How