Liam Boogar
Meet the 50+ startups recruiting at the Paris Startup Job Fair on September 13th
We’re just one week away from the third edition of the Paris Startup Job Fair – sponsored by Scality & Mobiskill – on September 13th, and we’re excited to announce that we’ve already got 50 startups signed up to recruit. We’re on our way to have 1,000 job seekers – developers, designers, product managers, salesmen & marketers, and communication specialists […]
Withings launches Home, its most secure connected object yet
Photo Credit: Engadget This week at IFA, the Berlin consumer electronics forum that gathers top connected hardware & electronics companies each year, Withings announced the launch of its latest connected home device, Home. The startup describes home an “elegant HD camera” which can be used to livestream video to family, or keep an eye on the […]
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[RudePretzel] German Taxi app MyTaxi acquired by Daimler
According to reports on German news site Netzwertig, German taxi-hailing app MyTaxi has been acquired by automotive company and previous investor Daimler for an undisclosed amount. The Hamburg-based startup was founded in 2009, and counts Hailo & Uber among its competitors. Expanding across Europe and eyeing the US market, myTaxi raised €10 Million in 2012 from T-Ventures (Deutsche […]
French Developers can earn double in Silicon Valley
Photo: The Rocketspace incubator in San Francisco Developer salaries are increasing in Paris, according to a recent study by IT recruitment firm Urbanlinker, who looked at expected salaries for varying experience levels across different technologies/roles, including: PHP, Java, .NET, Ruby, Front-/Back-End (HTML, Node.js, Angular), Big Data, Mobile (native & hybrid), as well as UX & UI […]
French TV channel in hot water with gamers for Twitch teardown piece
French TV Channel Canal+ (a premium channel with a model similar to HBO) is in hot water with the gaming community after one of its shows- Le Grand Journal – ran a piece on Twitch, the live streaming video platform which is popular among hardcore video gamers. The piece (available here on YouTube), in just two minutes, refers to Twitch as the “latest […]
Ornikar will launch its 100% online driving school in 2015
Although they launched their company only last December, Ornikar has already received quite a bit of attention for their Paris-based driving school. After their initial application for a license received an unfavorable recommendation from the Auto Ecole (“driving school”) license committee, Ornikar dug their feet in and began fighting to get approval to launch the first 100% online driving school, […]
Iliad to announce improved bid for T-Mobile acquisition
After its initial offer was refused by parent company Deutsche Telekom, Xavier Niel & ISP Free are set to announce a renewed offer that could value US telecom company T-Mobile’s shares at 10% higher than the previous offer, up from $33/share to $36/share. That new offer is set to be announced at a press conference today, according […]
After failed Omnicom merger, Publicis could acquire Criteo
All eyes are on the advertising sector in France after LesEchos reported that Publicis was in discussions to acquire Criteo last Friday. While acquisition talks are said to be ailing over an inability to agree on a price, the news sent Criteo’s stock up 25%, closing trading above $36.00 per share. As we noted last month, Criteo has been largely […]
Minutebuzz, the French Buzzfeed, raises €1 Million from Seventure Partners
Earlier this Summer, Buzzfeed raised $50 Million from a slew of investors who swore they’d never invest in content, ushering in claims of a new generation of publishers. I weighed in with my thoughts on the Buzzfeed model, and earlier this week Minutebuzz announced they’d raised €1 Million from Seventure Partners (Tigerlily, Prestashop, TalentSoft, MedEye) in order to scale up their […]
The Talent War will be the next World War
I have been speaking casually to colleagues & friends about “Lean Government” – the idea of a Government adopting best practices for quick & efficient decision making – for the past year or two. Given the recent Government Shuffle in France, I’ve formalized those thoughts. I pose to you, reader, a hypothesis: the increase in “global mobility” will […]