Liam Boogar
After New York & London, all-in-one public transit guide Citymapper launches in Paris
New to Paris and looking to get around using public transportation? You may want to give Citymapper a try. The all-in-one travel planner, which previously has been available in New York City & London, combines all form of transit – Buses, Metro, RER, Velib (public bikes) – to provide a comprehensive, one-stop A-to-B travel planner. […]
Whyd raises $700K & launches the public beta of its Music Social Network
Music social network Whyd has raised $700,000 from angel investors, including business angel & entrepreneur Serge Alleyne, and opened up their network to the public, after a year-long private beta. Allowing users to share songs from video services like YouTube, Vimeo & Dailymotion, as well as audio services like Soundcloud, Whyd finds itself at the intersection […]
Startup Wars Episode 5: France Strikes Back
You may not even have bothered reading the Newsweek article which ran last Friday, entitled “The Fall of France.” Indeed, you wouldn’t have seen anything different in the article, which borrows its name from a phrase coined during World War II for France’s surrender to Nazis six weeks after invasion, that you haven’t already read in […]
Next to Instagram, Tumblr & ask.fm, Melty.fr reaches Top 10 sites for Generation Y in France
Facebook may be bleeding young users – not that we care – but Instagram & Tumblr are still holding strong in France and around the world; however, in November, melty.fr became the only news media site to enter Mediametre’s list of the Top 10 sites most frequented by youth aged 15-24. Coming in at 8th […]
![[CES 2014] Parrot shows off its yet-to-launch low-cost Mini Drone & Two-Wheeler](https://www.rudebaguette.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbs/parrot-drones7_1020_verge_super_wide_large_verge_medium_landscape-3j18wpy38hyc4ew141is5m.jpg)
[CES 2014] Parrot shows off its yet-to-launch low-cost Mini Drone & Two-Wheeler
During demo sessions, Parrot’s AR Drone has become a fan favorite, and a leader in the quadcopter space. Able to be piloted by an iPhone, a leap-motion, a Myo, or almost any other controller on the market today, the quadcopters like the AR Drone have been used to shoot live performances at Versailles, to shoot […]
![[CES 2014] Netatmo’s June UV-sensor wristband tells you how much sun is too much.](https://www.rudebaguette.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbs/20140106-0907461-3j18wnt6xiw4vl77kbdmve.jpg)
[CES 2014] Netatmo’s June UV-sensor wristband tells you how much sun is too much.
Connected objects startup Netatmo has been using hardware to take care of your home for the past few years, with its connected smoke detector & its air-quality detector; however, it seems Netatmo was really looking to make life easier for families. In Las Vegas this week at CES, you’ll find founder Fred Potter and the Netatmo team […]
The “15-minute law”: Past, Present & Future
January 1st, 2014, it would seem as though the Taxi Commissions have won. The dreaded ’15-minute law’ will take effect, requiring smartphone chauffeur apps to wait 15 minutes after customers order a ride before picking them up, in order to — well, we can’t claim to understand what the intended ‘balanced’ result is meant to […]
Eightly co-founder Andy Grignon “I’m addicted to creating Platforms”
Sitting in the Hotel Vendome bar with Andy Grignon, a man whose title ‘fuckchop’ at Apple comes second in awesome-ness only to his position as one of the original iPhone team members, the phrase ‘moving the needle’ comes up quite a lot. I met with Andy during LeWeb in December to discuss his most recent […]
Going public & Growing Up – inside Criteo HQ
Across from the Theatre de Paris, Criteo’s Paris headquarters sits just blocks from Google & Facebook, as well as fellow French successes Deezer & Dailymotion. After their successful IPO in October, the company has a wealth of cash that will likely be spent on M&A – the question on everybody’s mind, of course, is who […]
Why 2014 will be the year of Connected
Last year around this time I wrote that 2013 would be the year of “Passive.” The main reasoning I used to argue this point was the number of apps that I had encountered which needed me to commit to a certain level of activity in order to ‘learn’ about me. This past year, I can safely […]