Hot on the heels of SoundCloud's public launch of a completely redesigned product, Ivo Spigel releases his recent interview with SoundCloud co-founder Alexander Ljung. More »

Pioneers Festival, taking place in Vienna later this month, should be on your radar, says Ivo Spigel. More »

Three academic types decided they'd had enough of the academic publishing industry stifling knowledge. Ivo Spigel sits down with Victor Henning, co-founder and chief executive of Mendeley. More »

Startup events are taking Central and Eastern Europe by storm, from Tirana to Novosibirsk and beyond to Africa and China. Ivo Spigel explores similarities with traveling salesmen from the American Old West. More »

Ivo Spigel is excited by an electric supercar designed and built in Croatia. More »

What does LeWeb plan for the future? Ivo Spigel interviews its founder, Loic Le Meur. More »

More than two billion apps have been downloaded from GetJar's free app store. Could this be the mobile industry's least-well known start-up, asks Ivo Spigel. More »

Ivo Spigel says that more must be done to provide start-ups in New Europe with the ecosystem support they need. More »

The Kernel's central and eastern Europe columnist Ivo Spigel explains why these regions deserve a bit more attention, giving a rough guide to the countries producing exciting start-ups. In the coming months, he's going to give the area the in-depth coverage it deserves. More »

Over the next few months, The Kernel will publish extracts from Ivo Spigel's upcoming book, Eurogeeks. In this first interview in the series, Ivo catches up with Saul Klein, of Index Ventures and Seedcamp. More »

In his debut piece, The Kernel's central and eastern European columnist, Ivo Spigel, explains why the region deserves to be taken seriously in tech. More »