Europe: This Week’s Top Stories // November 15, 2015

With CodinGame, Learning To Code Becomes A Game | NextBank Aims To Be The First All-Bitcoin Financial Institution | GetYourGuide Bags $50M To Grow Its Travel Activities Booking Platform | Uber Adds TomTom Navigation Data To Its Driver App, Not Replacing Google Maps | With One Cash, Tip $1 To People You Love, Or Make It Rain | AOL CEO Tim Armstrong To Speak At Disrupt London | Sir Alex Ferguson And Sequoia’s Mike Moritz To Speak At Disrupt London |

EUROPE WEEK IN REVIEW SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15 2015 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Romain Dillet With CodinGame, Learning To Code Becomes A Game French startup CodinGame just raised $1.6 million from Isai for its innovative code learning platform. As the name suggests, CodinGame is all about games -- not... Read More… John Biggs NextBank Aims To Be The First All-Bitcoin Financial Institution Woe betide traditional banking because Dimitry Voloshinskiy and his team are on the prowl. Voloshinskiy is the founder of the NextBank Project, an attempt to... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Sir Alex Ferguson And Sequoia's Mike Moritz To Speak At Disrupt London This will be the first time Sir Mike Moritz, the renowned tech investor, has interviewed Sir Alex Ferguson, the legendary coach of Manchester United, in the UK. As Harvard Business Review put it, if "Steve Jobs was Apple" then "Sir Alex Ferguson is Manchester United." Don't miss your chance to see this. Learn More… Natasha Lomas GetYourGuide Bags $50M To Grow Its Travel Activities Booking Platform GetYourGuide, which plays in the global travel space with a desktop and mobile platform for finding and booking holiday activities, has announced it's closed a... Read More… Ingrid Lunden Uber Adds TomTom Navigation Data To Its Driver App, Not Replacing Google Maps On-demand transportation service Uber lost out on its joint bid for Nokia’s Here mapping unit, so it’s moving ahead with putting together its own... Read More… Romain Dillet With One Cash, Tip $1 To People You Love, Or Make It Rain From the team who brought you Mindie, One Cash is a new payment app for iOS, but with a twist. This time, it isn't about paying back your friends like countless... Read More… Romain Dillet AOL CEO Tim Armstrong To Speak At Disrupt London Tim Armstong has had a busy year. Back in May, AOL (owner of TechCrunch) got acquired by giant U.S. carrier Verizon for $4.4 billion. While AOL is now a... Read More… Mike Butcher Sir Alex Ferguson And Sequoia’s Mike Moritz To Speak At Disrupt London The speakers for our TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015 are many and varied. However, perhaps only two can boast living legend status at... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2015 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service