Archive for December 2012
Game Connection Europe – still the "games industry meeting place"
We spent a good part of last week attending Game Connection Europe 2012, which took place on the 28th – 30th at Paris’ Porte de Versailles. This year’s installement saw the launch of several great new elements including, new content via a games marketing track, more workshops, and awards for the industry’s best games […]
Yelp for taxi drivers, Greek Taxibeat launches in France for LeWeb
The world of smartphone-based intercity transportation has really been shook up, but Taxibeat’s Yelp for Taxi’s app puts a new spin on it, launching in Paris this week during LeWeb. While most players in this space – Uber, SnapCar, Chauffeur Privé – are working with a fleet of freelanced private drivers, Taxibeat is working directly […]
Here are 5 startups on the Digital Tech Tour in New York this week
For the past few months, I’ve been looking a bit into Ubifrance, the organization responsible for helping French companies export themselves and build international sales. Year round, the partially government funded organizations’s TCIS division puts tech startups in contact with decision-makers and key partners at companies that could be potential clients or partners for those […]
TextMaster Launches Mobile Dictate-and-Translate App
TextMaster, an online marketplace for translations and transcriptions, is launching its mobile app today, called Transcript.io. With this app, you can simply record any talk, dictation, conversation, or your neighbors, and it will send you back a translation in a reasonable amount of time. TextMaster previously announced its web based marketplace for translation and transcription […]