Good news, laptop hunters! No, not those laptop hunters ….

Spartoo.com, the European version of Zappos.com, has closed a $17.4 million Series B round of funding round led by Highland Capital Partners and Endeavour Vision with A Plus Finance and CM-CIC Capital Privé participating. This brings the online shoe retailer’s total funding to $25.4 million.

Need a relatively respectable DAP to shove in your next pair of gym shorts, huh? Yeah, we’ve all been there.

We’ll be honest — before today, we had never heard of Simon Aldous, but it sure seems as if he’s trying hard to get his name out there. Mr. Aldous, a group manager at Microsoft, recently sat down for a rather lengthy talk with PCR .

When Nokia talks about the future it’s generally a good idea to pay attention. After all, even with diminishing market share , a split Maemo and Symbian smartphone strategy, and less than stellar financials , the company remains the world’s leading supplier of handsets with a proven ability to innovate. So take notice when Nokia’s head of corporate strategy, Heikki Norta, describes what life will be like in 2015 in a video littered with high-tech devices driven by finger-based UIs