Liam Boogar
With 3.1M€ lead by Ventech, find out how StickyAdsTV became a Top 10 video property in France overnight
Comscore released their monthly report on web traffic and video property traffic from April 2013, and it seems that there is quite a bit of fluctuation in the video traffic space. Dailymotion’s month got even more rough – fresh off a severe rejection by Yahoo who in-turn acquired Tumblr (rebound acquisition much?) – the French […]
With Yahoo in the rear-view, Dailymotion’s got plenty of new suitors. All of them French.
From this side of the Atlantic, you can almost see what could have been a huge win for French startups – Tumblr’s been purchased for $1.1 Billion and, while no one’s sure whether Yahoo! will make a Flickr out of Tumblr, or a Tumblr out of Flickr, the fact remains that Dailymotion has been left […]
Grenoble startup Bonitasoft raises another $13M proving that there is a market for Open Source
Grenoble-based Bonitasoft announced last week that it has raised $13M from FSN PME, Ventech, Auriga Partners, and Serena Capital in order to continue the growth of its Open Source Business Process Management (BPM) solution for enterprises. As TechCrunch reports, the company has offices in Paris as well as San Francsico – it has raised $28 […]
IDInvest drops another $3 Million into Weemo for their WebRTC API – do they see something I don’t?
Founded by Thomas Cottereau, video collaboration solution for businesses Weemo has raised $3 Million from IDInvest, according to Venturebeat. Founded in 2007, Weemo allows businesses to plug video conferencing directly into their applications with a few lines of code, and thus is pitting itself directly against competitors like Vidyo, Avaya, Cisco and Microsoft, as VB points […]
Web2Day allures Parisians with countryside prices and LeWeb-worthy speakers
Last Week, all of France headed to the city of Nantes for Web2Day, a two-day conference organized by Atlantic 2.0, the Nantes-arm of LeCamping parent association Silicon Sentier. During two days, business Angels, VCs, entrepreneurs, developers, and the Nantes web community gathered on the city’s “Machine Island” where abandoned factories and utilitarian architecture pave the […]
Meet Twilio in Paris June 12th and start supercharging your apps with VoIP
For Paris Startups, Christmas has come early – Cloud Communications startup Twilio is coming to Paris on June 12th. I have long been a big fan of Twilio – most people are a fan of Twilio without evening knowing it – their services power communications for awesome apps like Uber, Airbnb, Intuit, Hulu, and 1000s […]
Connected objects may be Web 3.0, but I still can’t control my home from my smartphone
Today at Web2Day, I had the pleasure to talk about the world of connected objects with Thomas Nicholls of Sigfox, Benoit Guennec of Connected Object, and Frédéric Boisdron of Planète Robots. Talking about connected hardware (homes, cars, etc.), quantified self, and the future of smart objects is always exciting in France, where so many successful hardware […]
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[SPONSORED] Entrepreneurs: Why some emails get read, and why others don’t
In the beginning of a startup’s life-cycle the most important asset is time, and thus time management and time optimization become key. For the internet entrepreneur, nothing has optimized life more in the past 20 years than email, which allows instant communication between two individuals, whether close friends or a prospective client/partner; just like my grammar […]
Anonymous targets the Belgium Government with accusations of government censorship
As if the Belgian government didn’t have enough people against its very existence, yesterday a site claiming to be linked to Anonymous, censorthis.be sent out a mass email declaring cyber war on the Belgian government. Claiming that the government is “actively blocking internet sites on the web, without even a trace of transparency,” Anonymous says that, […]
Uber pops up in Cannes for the Cannes Film Festival – is “pop-up service” the new model?
Uber announced via email this week that it will have a fleet of black car private chauffeurs at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off tomorrow in Cannes, France. The world-renowned film festival regularly attracts A-list celebrities, along with some of the greatest films of the season. In addition, as a part of Uber’s […]