- Jobs marketplace startup beWanted raised €600,000 from business angels. It’s not by any means the first Spanish company with the objective of making finding jobs easier, but the company claims to differentiate itself by focusing on entry level positions and internships.
- Propel Venture Partners, the fund which counts BBVA as its main LP, led €13 million Series B round in US-based company benefits startup Hixme.
- Fond-ICO announced the results of it’s 9th call for applications. JME Ventures, Inveready and SeedRocket’s new investment vehicle will receive public money from the institution.
- Conector Barcelona announced the name of the startups that will participate in its newest batch: Aureum Gold, Inveslar, My Beweeg, Planomi, Nectar Company, Playeek, Sellers n’ Bloggers.
- Interview with HundredRooms CEO Juan Luis Martínez. Hundredrooms is one of the bigger Spanish metasearch engines for apartment rentals, along with Apartum.
- MasMovil to postpone its listing on the Spanish Stock Exchange. It currently floats on the MAB.
- Azahara García is Crowdcube’s new COO in Spain.
- Interesting article on Sabemos by Miguel Uriondo: Why there’s no unlimited data mobile plans in Spain?
- El Confidencial looks at energy and battery systems for the home that will soon be available in Spain: Tesla, Nissan and Solar Rocket.
- Spain’s AVE trains will start offering WiFi on November 3rd. This feature will be temporarily limited to trains connecting Madrid and Sevilla.
- Spanish police authorities are upset with WhatsApp because it won’t deliver the messages received and sent by Diana Quer the night she disappeared. WhatsApp implemented end-to-end encryption a few months ago, so in theory they don’t have any kind of access to messages exchanged by its users.