Liam Boogar
Samsung announces investment in SIGFOX's IoT Network
This week, Samsung & Sigfox organized a VIP Event in Paris, where a much-anticipated “big partnership” was expected to be announced. The event comes just one month after SIGFOX revealed at Samsung’s San Francisco event that they would be a partner on the new ARTIK platform. In addition, swirling rumors propelled by SIGFOX CEO & […]
I built a Connected Home from scratch. Here's what I learned
Everyone talks about the Connected Home, the opportunity to build the next great platform (after the smartphone), and yet, not many people have built one. I spent three months putting one together for Connected Conference, and I can tell you – we’re not there yet. The rules were pretty simple: we wanted to build a […]
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[Video] UberPop driver taken hostage in Marseille within 24 hours of launch
Uber rolled out in even more cities in France this week – among those cities, Marseille, where gang violence is common due to drug trafficking. Within 24 hours of Uber’s launch, a video has surfaced on Facebook showing an UberPop driver being stopped by a group of men – we learn later in the video that […]
Sen.se, Mother & her Cookies acquired by Eridanis
French IoT Startup Sen.se announced that Eridanis, an consulting & strategy firm specialized in IoT product development, has taken a majority stake in its startup, a partnership which the two hope will enable them to provide B2B companies with IoT services in the future. The news comes on the back of rumors concerning Sen.se’s lack […]
The latest French plot to kill Google is hiding in plain sight
In this week’s episode of “How France tries to hurt Google,” the French government has come up with a great plan around making sure that search engine users are aware of alternatives: by forcing all search engines who “have a significant impact on the digital economy” to provide links to three other search engines, of […]
Sensorwake's olfactory alarm clock smells success on Kickstarter
Launched by the 18 year-old Guillaume Rolland, SensorWake calls itself the world’s first olfactory alarm clock, “Invented to make your mornings happy.” The product doubled its 50,000€ goal in less than a week, making it the most successful hardware project launched in last week’s big Kickstarter France launch. The project has been launched by Guillaume […]
Artificial Intelligence: Techno-Xenophobia or the next Atom Bomb?
Another day, another new technology, service, website, or app that is somehow destroying our lives as we know it. When I was a kid, video games melted your brain (except they don’t), and up until it wasn’t ‘cool’ anymore, Facebook was making us less social (which may actually be true). Uberization is bad if your sector is […]
When Industry & Internet Collide: Hardware + Internet = Unicorn
Disruption is inevitable, Uberization is a fact of life. In the last 10 years, the Internet has slowly creeped into our physical world. At first, it was just Warby Parker opening up a retail store (now a chain of retail stores), or real-world Like Buttons; however, the Internet is being infused into everything. The magical […]
Algolia, the Trojan Horse that is eating away at Google's search business.
Across the street from the entrance to the Arts et Metiers Museum, where two of three of Paris’ Statue of Liberty replicas lie, Nicolas Dessaigne welcomes me into the office that he moved into at the beginning of this year. Dessaigne is the cofounder & CEO of Algolia, alongside CTO & Cofounder Julien Lemoine, and in just 3 years they […]
Dataiku's overhauls Data Science Studio, bringing data teams the product they need
At the front of the Data Scientist movement, a Zuckbergian Florian Douetteau poises himself to do for big data teams what Salesforce did for sales teams. At only two years old, Dataiku has already built up a powerful team of experienced data professionals (Douetteau himself is a member of the Exalead-mafia), and is seeing %5.5 user growth week over […]