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Deloitte opens applications for its Fast 50 Technology companies in France
Deloitte announced this week the opening of its annual Fast 50 Technology companies competition this week. French high-growth companies are invited to submit the free application for review. The annual competition is also coupled with Deloitte’s infamous Fast 500. Last year’s list included Criteo, Deezer, Viadeo & Dailymotion, as well as Sewan Communications and many other […]
Forgetbox’s Plug Kickstarter campaign raises $70K in 12 Hours to turn any hard drive into your cloud
Yesterday around 8PM, I was with two of the Forgetbox cofounders Gawen Arab and Severine Marcombes in the basement of a bar, where they had invited friends to announce the launch of their Kickstarter campaign for their flagship product Plug. In French tradition, we were a little late in kicking off the presentation, which consisted […]
Publicis Groupe’s latest acquisition of Chinese Social Media Agency Netalk reveals bigger plans
Publicis Groupe announced the acquisition of Netalk, a social media services group specializing in social media content, monitoring, & analytics for Chinese social plaforms like Weibo(Chinese Twitter clone), Renren(Chinese Facebook clone), Youku(Chinese YouTube Clone), Taobao(Chinese equivalent of eBay) and WeChat(Chinese equivalent of Viber/Line/WhatsApp). Evoked earlier this year in Adage, this acquisition is part of a more […]
Pearltrees launches its Android app as mobile adoption grows
UPDATE: In a previous version of this article, we suggested that the Android news was an update. While Pearltrees was previously accessibly by web browser, this is the version Android mobile app version of Pearltrees. Pearltrees announced today the launch of the Android version of their content library tool, bringing all of the company’s most recent features […]
With 30 startups in its program, has TheFamily cracked the code on European Accelerators?
TheFamily has announced a few figures in its first months since launching earlier this year. The accelerator now counts 30 startups under its roof – that’s up from 10 just 3 months ago – and, more importantly, says they have receive 800 applications to the program. The high application rate may be due to their minimal […]
Civilians may be indifferent to government spying, but Businesses will take a hit
Yesterday, an exclusive report from LeMonde brought to light a French program similar to that of the United States NSA program PRISM, which was revealed last month by former NSA employee Edward Snowden. Naturally, the program had many surprised, though admittedly less so than that of the US program, as we have also learned of a […]
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[SPONSORED] Don’t shoot your startup in the foot by settling for a second-rate domain name
Domain names are the real estate on which startups reside, and you know what they say about the three most important rules for real estate: location, location, location. For startup domains, “location” is all about having the right name – not too long, not too short, unique in its category,… the list goes on, but […]
LeCamping’s Smiirl launches Fliike, a real-time Facebook Counter for Brick & Mortar stores
At the very core of the Internet of Things is the idea of creating communications & synergies between two objects, normally your smart-phone and another piece of hardware; however, perhaps LeCamping startup Smiirl (“Social Media Integrated In Real Life”), whose ambition is to “build original & connected objects designed for businesses” has stumbled upon the […]
Deezer, LaPoste, VLC, and other sites taken offline after major Iliad Datacenter Outage
Yesterday, a major outage at the Iliad Datacenter located in the Paris region brought down many sites, including that of Rude Baguette’s, but more notably Deezer, LaPoste, VLC, and hosting provider Online.net. According to our logs, the outage started between ten and eleven thirty (we went offline at 11:23AM) and lasted until 4:30PM. UPDATE: Arnaud […]
Glossybox announces 200K subscribers & 4M boxes sent. Are Subscription Boxes here to stay?
Beauty subscription box Glossybox has now sent over 4 Million boxs to its 200,000+ subscribers – that’s a lot of beauty products. Based out of Germany, Glossybox currently operates in 15 countries, including France, where it competes with Joliebox (acquired by Birchbox in 2012), and employees more than 300 people. While the market is quite […]