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Home, Health & Payments – Orange CEO Stephane Richard’s 5 big announcements
Positioning themselves as the Open Innovation leader Orange has just announced several initiatives to establish new platforms of innovation. Stéphane Richard himself took the stage at the Orange Hello Show to make some very bold announcements on how will Orange take advantage of its global presence and expertise in mobile networks to push new services […]
How to reach a global audience and get Orange as your first client
We have previously covered Orange Fab – the insanely attractive acceleration program for US based startups. The first season of the program has just finished and Orange is already preparing to launch Season 2 with applications opening in just a few weeks from now. During the first season over a 100 companies applied, of […]
Taking Windows apps by storm Allmyapps boasts over 1 million monthly users
The popular service from allmyapps has just announced their latest milestone of 1.2 million users every month. Since their revamp of the service to V2 roughly one year ago they’ve come a long way and their monthly users are here to prove it. According to their latest data, allmyapps’ users have now downloaded an astonishing […]
Get paid for your food recipes, a disruptive model in the food business
After Youmiam’s innovative approach to recipe sharing, the new company Recipay aims to revolutionize the cookery applications market. The new service brings a business model innovation to this recently revived market. By creating a win-win platform, Recipay can reward users with 15€ or 10€ for every recipe that they add to the platform, depending on […]
The next billion euro business in the music industry
If your startup relates in any way to the music industry then this is for you. The accelerator program dedicated to the music industry and hosted by Midemlab is now accepting applications until November 7. This is the 7th edition of the start-up competition which takes place in Cannes next February 1-4. In a nutshell, […]
Soundcloud for Food, a fresh approach to the cookbook
Youmiam is looking to revolutionize how we share recipes with friends, and they might as well succeed doing it. The recently launched service from Youmiam aims at all the foodies out there, an astounding 120 million people worldwide who say they like cooking. Speaking with founder Théo, I was inspired by the way they came […]
Netatmo releases a connected thermostat, a European ‘Nest’ with French Design
French company Netatmo is going full force this year. After their debut at CES 2013 and the launch of their personal weather station, the company just launched a new connected Thermostat for the home. Built from a plexiglass block, the Thermostat was designed by Philippe Starck and strikes as a beautiful piece of hardware. The […]
Vivendi’s SFR spinoff & company restructure announcement fails to inspire shareholders.
In the past weeks the European Telco industry hasn’t been short of big news. After Vodafone Group Plc. agreed to sell its U.S. wireless business, and Microsoft Corp acquired Nokia’s Devices and Services division, the long-expected overhaul of Vivendi’s structure has taken a further step towards a more competitive group. Vivendi will divest in SFR […]
Simplicity in the workplace with a new Audioffice from Invoxia
After pre-launching earlier this year at CES the French Invoxia has finally publicly released their latest product – the Audioffice. The guys at Invoxia really worked hard to make a beautiful device – and it shows! It’s a beautiful piece of hardware that aims to bring simplicity to telephony in the workplace. Building on the […]
With $500K fundraising, Infinit’s integrated file sharing service moves to private beta
The Paris based startup Infinit hits today a new milestone after announcing the opening of their private beta for their new P2P sharing software, along with a $500K round of funding from Alive Ideas, a fund held by the cofounders Clubic (now M6Web), as well as two early employees Sun Microsystems (bought by Oracle in 2009). […]