Great news for online education. Mike Butcher, editor of TechCrunch Europe created a category for learning startups at this year’s The Europas Awards in London.
I think, this is a great statement Mike and the TechCrunch Europe team make here, showing that online learning is more than just a feature.
As these are the first Europas of TechCrunch in Europe I can understand that not everything is working at 100%. But adding companies at the last days of voting seems a bit odd to me.
Yesterday Myngle was added to the list of The Europas: Best Web Application Or Service (EMEA) but by now everybody should have voted anyway.
The same happened to Busuu.com, btw. They were added to the list on monday.
So right now it is a vote of “who has the fastest, biggest and most active community”.
The two european based language learning communities Busuu.com (Spain) and Babbel.com (Germany) are nominated in different categories at the Europas, the european TechCrunch Awards in London.
I will be there, too and hope to get some “insider info” out of those guys. And some free cocktails, of course.
If you want to vote for your favourite platform, here are the links.
Busuu.com is nominated as
The Europas: Best Web Application Or Service (EMEA)
The Europas: Best Bootstrapped Startup (less than 3 years old)
Babbel.com is nominated as
The Europas: Best Web Application Or Service (EMEA)
The Europas: Best Design
Votes are open until wednesday (July 2nd). So, go vote 
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First of all the news that started this affair about “hot teachers”. Myngle.com got a backing from Radobank about 1.000.000 Euros. I first heard about it via Twitter and yesterday Myngle got a post on techcrunch.com. Well, just another post you might think. But no, one sentence in this very post started the fire:
Unfortunately, we were unable to confirm if all the female teachers are as hot as Milagros.
It’s all about the word “hot” of course.
