Yes we can - i Europa

Europa haler ind på USA, når det gælder nye Web-start-ups, skriver New York Times:

It’s also illustrated throughout Europe with the dozens of start-ups that are successfully becoming part of the wider cultural fabric. For example, Angry Birds, Spotify, SoundCloud, Last.fm and Cut the Rope are all incredibly successful start-ups that began in Europe and are dominating in the United States.

Yet until recently, there were very few technology products that made their way across the pond to the United States. Most innovations only traveled in the opposite direction.

“There has been a dramatic shift in the last few years with European entrepreneurs who are no longer trying to be copycats of American tech, which was pretty sad. Europeans are now really innovating on their own.” said Loïc Le Meur, a co-founder of the LeWeb conference, during a phone interview from Paris. For several years, European start-ups tried to emulate Silicon Valley, he said, creating products similar to Twitter, Facebook and the whatever was the hot new tech theme of the year in the United States.