Liam Boogar
French government invests in SFR & Bull to offer Cloud Computing
Les Echos reported this morning that French telecom provider SFR & computing hardware company Bull will be teaming up to offer cloud computing services. With SFR having recently changed CEO’s, likely as a response to their drastic loss of users since Free Mobile’s launch earlier this year, this seems to be ex-Vodafone CEO Michel Combes’ first action as […]
Brussels says CheckThis and the US says "Yes, Sir!"
Aptly described as being in between a blog post and nothing, CheckThis has been on a roller coaster ride ever since it was accepted into Seedcamp earlier this year. Find out about its imminent fund-raising, it's Brussels history, and it's New York future!
We've got two tickets to Web2Day in Nantes | May31st-1st
A while back, the Rude Baguette announced a partnership with Web2Day, a two-day tech event in Nantes, and today our readers will be seeing the fruits of that partnership. Web2Day is offering two free tickets (a €100 value) to Rude Baguette readers. Two of our writers will be there during the event – I might […]
HeyCrowd has seen 400% growth since LeWeb with 30K+ Polls created
Social polling platform HeyCrowd has always been a pasttime favorite of mine – upon launching the application, I am instantly posed questions. When I like them, I answer, and try to see whether my answer was the most voted. When I don’t like the question, I just skip it and go to the next one […]
Twitter's developer series "Tea Time" comes to Paris June 16th
The twitter developer series “Tea time” has lined up Paris as its next target in a ‘world tour’ of developer courting. The event, occurring June 16th, will feature Parisian startups who have integrated twitter into their product, and will also be giving the rundown on how to best make use of the twitter API, and […]
LeBridge announces 10 startups it will be Caravaning from Paris to London
This past week, LeBridge announced that it will be introducing ten French startups to the London startup scene for two days at the end of may. The startups will be introduced to top London accelerators (Seedcamp and Springboard), coworking spaces (Campus London and Innovation Warehouse), and VCs (Index Ventures and ProFounders Capital). LeBridge quietly opened […]
The Tech All Stars competition is sending European startups to LeWeb, Founders Forum, and more!
The EU Commission is the latest to announce a competition for European Startups. A two-day program in London, Tech All Stars will pick twelve startups to receive all the benefits and connections that the EU Commission has in the tech/finance industry.
Line politicians up side-by-side on every issue with Voxe.org
With the Second round of voting just around the corner, the more the forty percent of French voters who voted for neither Hollande nor Sarkozy in the first round of voting may be wondering which candidate best lines up with their views. Voxe, a politics platform, thinks it has the solution, by offering users the […]
Envivio announces IPO to stream video to every screen
Envivio, a San Francisco-based company, announced its IPOyesterday for its video-streaming solution. Founded back in 2000 by ex-France Telecom Julien Signes, Envivio has been working for 12 years on streaming streaming Video over IP, and currently offers B2B solutions for mobile, PC, and TV, including On-Demand, Over-the-top, and multi-screen delivery. While Envivio is headquartered in the […]
FactWatchers helps you keep track of which French candidate is honest, and which is lying
With the first round of voting done, the numbers are pretty even for Sarkozy and Hollande. These next two weeks will be critical for both candidates, but more important, critical for French voters. With Hollande & Sarkozy taking only a combined 55% of the votes in the first round of voting, that leaves 45% of […]