September 2014

Sep 27

How to make a stellar coffee?

Well, that's what I was asking myself as well. About a month ago I was getting my daily shot of caffeine and I bumped into Sebastiaan Hooft. Sebastiaan founded Amsterdam Coffee Roasters about 2 years ago and his hobby got out of hand. I invited him to come to TNW HQ and tell us about coffee, his passion and afterwards he'll teach us how to make the ultimate espresso on our brand new old Faema e61! If you're really into coffee, ping us and we can save you a seat.

TNW brings in two heavyweights ahead of ambitious productivity plans

With pride we'd like to introduce you to our two fresh hires at TNW. Although fresh at TNW, the industry heavyweights bring in over 90 years of experience. Albeit against company policy, TNW decided to offer permanent contract to the new hires from the start. At TNW, our vision is to build a hundred year startup, the new team members bring in 90 years of experience and are set to stay with the company throughout the whole 21st century (@Boris) Without further ado, here are Faema e61 and Quick...
Sep 22

Tencent is bringing TNW to China

The Chinese public internet company Tencent inked a deal with The Next Web (TNW) to host a technology portal with the best content from TNW translated into Mandarin on their most popular portal QQ.com. QQ.com is China's largest portal in Chinese, integrating news, online communities, entertainment products and widely-used basic services. The website serves hundreds of millions of Chinese users around the world through its broad real-time news coverage and full range of information and entert...
Sep 04

Where All Kinds Of Original Programs Appear

It was the fall of 2006, a rainy Amsterdam day, Boris and I were working from our office, or at least something that should look like one, when two 21-year-old dudes walked in to pitch an idea to us. It was like Last.fm for applications the guys enthusiastically told us. We had no idea if this Last.fm for apps would work and if it could be a viable business and this was before the smartphone era and the big boom of apps, but the two young blokes made a super intelligent and a bit nerdy impre...

July 2014

Jul 15

Say hello to TNW's new HQ

We felt it was time for a change, time for a new TNW HQ. We found ourselves a new home right in the city center of Amsterdam at the Fredriksplein 42. The building is called 42, which is not only the address' number, but also the answer to life, the universe and everything as you probably know.  We're very excited about our new home and our new neighbours (Amsterdam Internet Exchange). It's a lot bigger than our previous office (480m2 vs 180m2 previously), it has meeting rooms, a lunch area...

June 2014

Jun 04

What happens in Vierhouten...?

Warning! This message contains a fair amount of office jargon. Any self-respecting tech company nowadays goes on a company retreat, in order to recharge, rework, check in and circle the wagons. I mean, re-group, touch base with the team, really dive deeper and think outside the box to come up with some game-changing, paradigm shifting new value add for the business that creates a win-win-win. That's a no-brainer, right? So, we moved the Amsterdam office for 24 hours to the middle of nowher...

May 2014

May 03

Thanks! It was a blast #TNWeurope

We're still shaky, have trouble sleeping or being awake. You could say that the team is in limbo after the TNW Europe Conference. But hey, it was fantastic! The stage, the people (each of the 2500 participants), the speakers, the looks, the Belgium fries, the parties, the business, the weather, it all couldn't be better. Next year it will be our 10th anniversary and oooff, that's going to be insane. Can't wait to see you there. Make sure to reserve your voucher for a 1 + 1 ticket. Below a ...
May 01

We've got shirts! Gorgeous, provoking, fun.

Our new t-shirt collection came in and boy oh boy, look at the fancy designs we've got in store today. If you want to show off your skills and eagerness, you might want to rock our "Can't stop, won't stop" tee. We dare you wearing the 'Team Snowden' shirt when traveling across borders (share your border police stories with us on Twitter, Vine or Instagram). If you're a fan off Nike+, Runkeeper and other quantified self apps, like us here at TNW, you should try the regular TNW shirt. It's b...

April 2014

ABOUT INSIDE TNW

Here you can get a sneak peak inside TNW, the stuff we don't publish on our media platform. In case you have missed it... We're a technology focused media company founded in 2008. TheNextWeb.com is one of the world’s largest online publications that delivers an international perspective on Internet technology, business and culture.