Archive for March 2013
Pearltrees prepares overhaul of its collaborative library app with new “Boticelli” release
Today, Pearltrees announced a new version of their collaborative library will be released soon. Available on iPad and iPhone for free, the app “transforms organized collections into beautiful illustrated libraries.” The self-proclaimed largest collaboratively library is currently home to 50 million web pages organized into 6 million pearltrees. Pearltrees also had a premium version for $4.99, […]
Rude Baguette hosts the Paris Pub Summit March 22nd
With one successful event behind us, we’re getting quite cocky, so we’ve teamed up with the Web Summit guys to bring you the Paris Pub Summit. We’ll bring in some people from out-of-town, you bring your awesome ideas (and a pitch deck, why not?) and meet us at DelaVille Café on March 22nd at 19:30. The […]
Introducing the new Rude Baguette website!
Last night, Trista & I, along with a few of our writers, hosted a (re)launch party at the wonderful 50 Partners space. We invited 120 of our closest friends – especially you readers who have supported us from day one – to share a few drinks, some great food, and talk about the future of the […]
Why 2012 was “The Year of the Internet” in France, and what the future holds.
Médiamétrie recently released the results of its annual internet study confirming that the French lifestyle is becoming increasingly digital. Based on their findings, they hailed 2012 the ‘Year of the Internet’, where there were more users than ever before accessing all types of content in a ‘multi-screen’ environment. In France last year, more people than […]
Can Neelie Kroes & the European Commission really fight the developer crunch?
It’s hard times for a startup in 2013 – with the barrier to entry significantly lowered to actually starting your company (or at least, launching a website), it seems that barrier has been replaced by another – a barrier to hiring. As many startups begin to scale up all over the world, a ‘developer crunch’ […]
DrinkOnMe’s Groupon for drinks closes, with Lydia born from its ashes
While it may not be as big of news as Groupon CEO Andrew Mason’s firing earlier this week, it comes as no surprise that DrinkOnMe, a “Groupon for Happy Hour,” has sent an email out to users annoucing that it will disctontinue its service, which alloewd users to buy 20€ worth of drinks at select […]
Is Twitter being too picky about who heads up Twitter France?
Spring is just around the corner, and all of us are patiently waiting for the end of snow, and the arrival, not just of sun, but of Twitter France. Word broke last year that the social network would be opening up a subsidiary, which may be a smart play, given all the government grief that […]
Rude VC: Copying Silicon Valley
A couple weeks ago I provided a very succinct recap of the Silicon Valley narrative. For a more in-depth review, A History of Silicon Valley by Piero Scaruffi and Arun Rao might well be the most comprehensive, and Robert Cringely’s Accidental Empires focuses on the pc industry empire-building during the pre-web era. Understanding the Silicon […]
LinkedIn France gets a visit from the taxman
The French tax authority is definitely earning its money this year! Hot on the heels of the tax reclamations from pretty much every other big US tech player in France (Ebay/Paypal, Facebook, Amazon,Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo), now comes news of another; This time its LinkedIn. The news of a visit by the French taxman to LinkedIn’s Paris […]
After DocTrackr, LeCamping’s qunb accepted into TechStars Boston
Techstars Boston announced last week the 14 companies who have been accepted into the Spring edition of Techstars Boston, among them French startup qunb. The data visualzation company recently won Best French startup at The Europas as well as the LeWeb Paris startup competition – they’ve really been on fire since they launched last year. […]