Liam Boogar
Let Mention’s iPhone app keep track of Social Media while you are on vacation
As Summer ramps up, you may be telling yourself you’re going to go dark, cut yourself off from the internet entirely, or just leave your smartphone in your bedroom and hop on a plane; that’s likely due in part to the fact that checking in once a week can easily turn into a full day’s […]
TvShow Time raises €500K & brings its mobile TV guide to the web
TvShow Time announced today that it has secured 500,000€ from Jean-David Blanc (Allociné), Daniel Marhely (Deezer), and Xavier Niel for its mobile TV guide app, which it also launched on the web today. Cofounded by Antonio Mendes Pinto & Talal Mazroui, the app allows you to track your favorite shows, receive notifications when new episodes are released, […]
KIMA-backed VidCoin helps free-to-play games monetize with targeted video ads
The ever-present KIMA Ventures have announced a seed investment in VidCoin, a Lyon-based startup that specializes in sponsored video content for video games. While they have not announced the amount of the investment, given KIMA’s typical investment size, the amount is likely between 100K and 500K€, so for the sake of having a number let’s call it […]
“UK dominance of EU VC slipping,” France picking up the slack, early & late stage
Ben Rooney of the WSJ published a great article yesterday on a study done by DFJ Espirit concerning Venture Capital in Europe. The entire article is worth a read – however, most is based off of the infographic below – but here is the tl;dr key figures version of the story. Europe has roughly 50% the […]
VLC’s iOS App pokes a giant hole in Apple’s walled garden ecosystem
Last Friday, VLC, the non-profit video player that has been used by pirates legal video viewers since its creation in 1998, relaunched an iPhone and iPad app for its video player. The association had previously launched an app in November 2010 which was pulled from the app store 10 weeks after its release, and the […]
Here are Twitter’s 5 Key Execs heading up expansion in Europe
In order for Twitter looks to scale up to a Facebook-like heights, the largely US-based team has begun to look abroad in order to both grow its user-base in non-Anglophone countries but also to begin monetizing outside of the US. It has become more or less fact that Twitter will never hire a country manager […]
WineTech gets a boost as Balderton invests $10M in the Danish “Yelp for Wine” app Vivino
Balderton announced today a $10.3M Investment in Vivino, a Danish startup that launched the now #1 wine app on iOS, Android, and Blackberry. The app, which allows users to leave reviews of wines by scanning the wine bottle, now counts over 2 Million scans per month, up from 80,000 scans when they launched in April […]
Hackathons are dead. Introducing Code in the Dark.
Let’s face it. Hackathons suck. I’ve been to about a dozen of them, as a developer, as a mentor, as a jury member, and as press. Here’s what I’ve noticed. Developers just want to code, but they have to pitch a business at the end. Juries just want to meet developers, but they get stuck […]
Criteo acquires AD-X, seals up the one concern around their IPO: Mobile Ad Tracking.
If you were wondering why Criteo was holding off on its IPO, it may not have just been because the process is very complicated: Criteo announced today the acquisition of Mobile Ad Tracking startup AD-X Tracking. The Ad re-targeting giant has been growing as fast as clients will let them, hailing in 202,100%+ growth in the […]
Twitter to cooperate with French Government concerning anti-Semitic tweets
Twitter announced last Friday that it will cooperate with the demands of the French Government, namely to hand over data concerning individuals and twitter accounts that tweeted #unbonjuif (“a good jew”) and #unjuifmort (“a dead jew”) back in October 2012. This comes have a 6 month process in which Twitter was pushed to make direct […]