Liam Boogar
LiveMinutes raises $1.4M from US investors as it pushes into the crowded real-time collaboration space
LiveMinutes has raised $1.4M from Great Oaks Venture Capital & New World Ventures this week. First covered on Presse Citron, the real-time collaboration service, founded in France, has gone west in search of funding, and has succeeded. The fundraising announcement comes hand in hand with the release of a new version of their web platform, […]
The French Government’s (feasible) 8-step plan to turn Paris into an international startup hub
The French government has announced their intentions to build “Digital neighborhoods” (in French, Quartier Numeriques) in Paris as part of a plan to turn Paris into an international startup hub. The brief of the official report by France’s Minister of ‘fix the industrial sector and get us out of the economic depression’ Jean-Marc Ayrault, details eight concrete steps that the […]
Before you go on break, grab your ticket to the next Paris Founders Event, September 3rd!
Your bags are packed and you’re ready to disconnect for the next few weeks: before you do so, you may want to grab your ticket to the next Paris Founders Event. Our July edition saw nearly 100 founders & investors come out, and we’re looking to make a big splash in September. We’ve already got […]
A spare room, empty chairs at the kitchen table & my car on weekends: the Sharing Economy fights the economic crisis
Say what you want about the sharing economy, but it’s having an impact on the economy – a tangible impact. The idea of unused stock, space, property or time is slowly disappearing, as those who are willing to commit to putting their spare X online are finding it easier and easier to monetize it. In […]
Two months after launch, Bunkr switches to Freemium model with data-backed conviction
Two months ago, we announced the “Powerpoint-killer” Bunkr had launched their all-web presentation software. Their key element lied in their desire to eliminate the ‘white page’ syndrome – namely, when you first start a presentation, what are the first steps to creating an engaging presentation. In order to do so ,they offer a bookmarklet “collect it” where […]
And so the cards start stacking up against the Publicis-Omnicom merger
This weekend saw one of the most exciting pieces of news coming straight out of Paris & New York, namely the leak on Saturday and subsequent announcement on Sunday that Publicis & Omnicom, respectively the 3rd and 2nd largest ad agencies, would be filing for a 50-50 merger of the two companies; however before the […]
Carla Bruni in hot water over 400K€ in presidential funds spent on a single web site
Since the end of Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidency last year, he’s been in hot water over a variety of accusations regarding use of government funds, corruption, and all the usual attacks that come from opposing parties. In France, Presidents can not be tried during their presidency – this same rule once led a former consul named […]
Silicon Sentier’s #cobatissons 70K€ crowdfunding campaign succeeds… well, sort of.
Earlier this year, we announced that Google would put 1 Million euros into the Silicon Sentier in order to open a new building that would combine its coworking space, La Cantine, and its accelerator, LeCamping, along with a FabLab, conference space, and a few other buzzers and whistles. Given that La Cantine is down the […]
Deezer to host Code in the Dark, Carlsberg & AlloResto will pick up the tab!
Last week, we announced a new era in developer events – Code in the Dark – and the reactions have been phenomenal. We’ve received emails from 17 year-old coders, from startups, from universities, and had buzz all over the world around the event, and we’re excited today to reveal just a little more about this […]
Tax witchhunt in France takes a dark turn as the bulls eye finds Linkedin-competitor Viadeo
It’s no surprise that a search for “tax” brings up quite a number of results in the Rude Baguette. If it’s not a tax on tablets, or inquisitions about taxes on Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, or LinkedIn, it seems there’s always something the Government’s got cooking up. This week, however, French tech news took […]