Michael Arrington appears to be pulling the strings at TechCrunch again. But now that he is an investor, is it appropriate for the blog's founder to be silently passing scoops to an influential news source? More »
The mobile payments space is in desperate need of innovation. There are currently 20 million small businesses in Europe that only accept cash or invoices. Swedish start-up iZettle is trying to change this, discovers Jason Hesse. More »
Milo Yiannopoulos has agreed to give Silicon Valley blog PandoDaily a second chance, on the condition the site fixes the grammatical howler in its tagline. More »
Exclusively for members of The Kernel, join us at a Digital Shoreditch roundtable on May 24 to discuss whether European VCs can ever make money. More »
What is the most important factor that stops people buying goods off the internet? Delivery. Jason Hesse discovers how Shutl is making online delivery more consumer-friendly. More »
Ben Tompkins says that being a venture capitalist in Europe today is a bit like being an entrepreneur, but it's way too early to count European VCs out of the game just yet. More »
A Twitter spat at the end of last week threw fresh light on the disreputable practices of companies who claim to deliver Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest followers for a fee. Milo Yiannopoulos reports. More »
Fred Destin says that while venture capital is being disrupted there are still significant opportunities out there, provided VCs are willing to embrace the wave of change that is approaching them. More »
A report published on Friday by Coutts, which concluded that venture capitalists in Europe are incompetent and poorly regarded by entrepreneurs, is 'bizarre and convoluted', according to investors. More »
The Kernel has been criticised in some quarters for our obsession with Tech City and its chief executive, Eric van der Kleij. Fair enough: as ever, we are receptive to criticism. So here are ten other people we can't stand. More »
