BERLIN - the update thread

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Strausberger Platz, Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg by Caputtnik, on Flickr


Berlin Skyline (Dusty) by claudecastor, on Flickr

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BBC NEWS BUSINESS

Berlin is the home of choice for many new hi-tech entrepreneurs from around the world.

Berlin has always been fashionable, edgy, artistic and in search of a role for itself. Sliced in two by communism and then re-united when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, it is now re-inventing itself as one of Europe's leading hi-tech hubs. Cheap property plus a young, talented workforce are attracting entrepreneurs from all over Europe and even the US.

"Berlin is a fantastic city. It's an old city, it's culturally and historically really rich, but it's also very young," says David Noel, head of community at SoundCloud, an audio sharing website.

Berlin became one of coolest places in the world to live and that attracted an entirely different crowd, creative people, people who were willing to try something new and most of these people were also from other countries,"” - Ciaran O'Leary Earlybird Venture Capital

GlobalBiz: Start Up City: 17 Nov 12 - BBC Podcast (27 min.)

Every city wants to become a high technology business hub, but ambitious entrepreneurs from all over Europe are rushing to set up shop in Berlin.

Berlin Skyline (Dusty) by claudecastor, on Flickr

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Berlin, Fernsehturm por el.manuelito, en Flickr


Guten Abend Berlin por el.manuelito, en Flickr

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How poor but sexy Berlin has tapped talent to be Europe's startup capital - The Guardian

Startups are springing up all over Berlin, as the once 'poor but sexy' German capital expands into a creative technology hub

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