So my portfolio of investments/ companies (co-)founded is not that impressive (non has gone IPO yet) however they all are making interesting news recently:

- Good old Newtron announces a landmark deal with Daimler-Chrysler:

The global contract for the newtron SRM-solution includes all worldwide purchasing units of Daimler Chrysler. The locations in Stuttgart (Germany) and Auburn Hills (USA) already started to establish the newtron purchasing portal for the negotiation of products and services, other locations world-wide will follow shortly.

- 21Publish announces the launch of its new slick interface:

The most important changes include a new user interface which is now fully IE 7 compatible and various usability improvements. From the technical perspective, we have a new XSLT process in place which allows us to keep our menus more consistent, rather than having the same functionality accessible in various different ways. You should notice an improved ease-of-use once you get familiar with the changed interface. Java-wise we have switched to Java SE 6, which includes many improvements and now also contains localized data for the Philippines.

- Creative Weblogging launches it's blog number 107 (!) - http://www.b2b-marketing-blog.de and we are in the process of announcing our newest senior hire that will boost our sales and business development team

- Kinkaa has gotten a slightly prettier look and now boost quite impressive number of sites it crawls. 83 Flight, 38 Hotel, 17 Car Rental and 24 Package Trip Websites are now being crawled if you search at Kinkaa - that is a total of 162! Searches for flights within Germany now often bring 1000 and more results - which give you a wide overview about what options are in store if you travel in Europe.