Europe: This Week’s Top Stories // November 8, 2015

ProtonMail On Battling A Sustained DDoS Attack | Skype Co-Founders Launch The Starship ‘Ground Drone’ For Deliveries | Drone Maker DJI Takes Minority Stake In Iconic Swedish Camera Company Hasselblad | Our Pick Of 21 Interesting Startups From Web Summit | Sweden’s Anoto Buys Digital Pen Maker Livescribe For $15M | Uniplaces Raises $24M In Series A Funding From Atomico And Angels | U.K. Users’ Online Activity To Be Logged Under New Surveillance Law |

EUROPE WEEK IN REVIEW SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 2015 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Natasha Lomas ProtonMail On Battling A Sustained DDoS Attack Encrypted webmail provider, ProtonMail, has been fighting a wave of DDoS attacks since November 3 that, by last Friday, had taken its service offline for more... Read More… Mike Butcher Skype Co-Founders Launch The Starship ‘Ground Drone’ For Deliveries To date most of the talk around drones has been about how flying drones will disrupt the delivery industry. But for some bizarre reason the whole idea of a... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Reminder: Get Your Discounted Student Tickets To Disrupt London Disrupt London 2015 is fast approaching, and we still have some student tickets available for the show available at the hugely discounted price of just £100 plus VAT. those who graduated in the spring of 2015 (May-June 2015) can get in on the action. To get your discounted Disrupt student tickets, just send an email to students@techcrunch.com for more info. Learn More… Ingrid Lunden Drone Maker DJI Takes Minority Stake In Iconic Swedish Camera Company Hasselblad On the heels of a $75 million investment from Accel, Chinese drone king DJI is putting some of its funding to use by making some investments of its own. The... Read More… Mike Butcher Our Pick Of 21 Interesting Startups From Web Summit As Web Summit in Dublin wraps up another gang-busting year of packing out the pubs and bars, and bringing the traffic to a halt (some 30,000 people attended... Read More… Ingrid Lunden Sweden’s Anoto Buys Digital Pen Maker Livescribe For $15M The writing is on the wall for more consolidation in the world of startups… both literally and figuratively. Today Anoto, a digital writing company based... Read More… Mike Butcher Uniplaces Raises $24M In Series A Funding From Atomico And Angels Last year Uniplaces, startup founded back in 2012 which runs an online booking platform focused on student accommodation, pulled in £2.2 million ($3.5 million)... Read More… Natasha Lomas U.K. Users’ Online Activity To Be Logged Under New Surveillance Law The U.K. government has today published a draft bill setting out new surveillance powers that if passed into law will allow the security and intelligence... 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