Liam Boogar
Media for Equity fund 5MVentures launches with investments in YouBoox & JobAroundMe
The first Media for Equity fund in France has launched. With the support of ClearChannel and 20Minutes, 5MVentures announced investment in the subscription model eBook vendor YouBoox as well as local job board company JobAroundMe. We’ve already written about YouBoox’s success so far, and it will be interesting to see how their Media for Equity exchange will […]
The French Competition Authority’s latest target: Google, Apple & Amazon’s App Stores.
The French Authorité de la Concurrence is always looking to keep things balanced and safe for French consumers and professionals, and their most recent target lies in the mobile App Store. Last week, the regulatory body confirmed that a raid took place on Apple’s Paris office, though very little information about what, if anything was taken. […]
10 KPIs for the French Startup Scene delivered at France Digitale Day
Today, French startup & venture capital lobbying association France Digitale is holding its annual event France Digitale Day, and has welcomed 300+ of France’s digital elite to discuss the ecosystem – past, present and future. Last year’s event kicked off the launch of France Digitale and was accompanied by an Ernst & Young Study which showed […]
Paymill announces Shopify integration as European expansion continues
Paymill announced today an integration with e-commerce platform Shopify, which has helped more than 50,000 merchants sell products. The integration will allow Shopify users (merchants) the choice of using Paymill (in addition to other online payments options) to manage payments via Paymill. Paymill’s online payments system has been spreading across Europe like wildfire after the […]
10 Reasons to be proud to be working in Tech in France
Last week, Adobe bought Neolane, a marketing technology company, for $600M in order to beef up its Adobe Marketing Cloud offer. Sorry, let me repeat that. Six hundred million dollars, for a company that is twelve years old. Sure, maybe you hadn’t heard that much about Neolane before the day they got bought, and maybe […]
Mobile app Soundwave answers the question “What are you listening to?”
Earlier this month, Dublin-based Soundwave made a big splash when they launched their iPhone and Android app. With a launch event featuring Stephen Fry, the polished mobile app promises to change music discovery for the ages. A newsfeed that aggregates music that your friends listen to on popular music services like Spotify, Soundcloud, or YouTube, the […]
Adobe snatches up French marketing platform Neolane for $600M
Adobe announced this week that they have acquired French conversational marketing company Neolane for a whopping $600M this week. With more than 400 customers worldwide, Neolane will allow Adobe to beef up their Adobe Marketing Cloud offer to include their cross-channel campaign management technology. Among the investors of Neolane’s $27M in fundraising were Battery Ventures, […]
European Commission to lower roaming charges across Europe by up to 36% as of July 1st
Neelie Kroes announced today that a new price cap on roaming charges, which will take effect July 1st, will cut roaming by 36% across Europe, with countries like Croatia seeing as much as a 93% reduction (15 times cheaper). This comes as part of a greater effort by Neelie and the European Commission to make data and […]
Rocket Internet continues their eCommerce domination – JUMIA launches in the Ivory Coast
It seems every week a Rocket Internet product (they call them companies, but let’s be honest) is announcing some eight to nine figure fundraising and launching in a suite of countries. Today, the launch is in the Ivory Coast, with Jumia, which already established itself as an eCommerce leader in Nigeria (the #4 site with […]
With 100K users, Mention revamps its media-monitoring app & adds enterprise offer
“Google Alerts on steroids” Mention now counts over 100,000 users (as of last night around 11:00PM, I’m told), and has celebrated the milestone by launching a revamped version of its media-monitoring service today. The community management service allows users to track traditional account activity, as well as keyword and competitors mentions. “We built the new mention […]