Liam Boogar
Is Bouygues automatically signing you up to a 20€/month service?
Reports are coming in on internet forums that Bouygues subscribers are receiving confirmation emails for a service called CellPass, which offers “each week 5 downloadable products to choose from among 50,000 ringtones, images, videos & applications.” The service, which costs an appalling 5€ per week, is even more appalling when you take into account the fact that users receiving […]
Bootcamp ventures brings its Investor/Startup event to Paris June 18th-19th
Bootcamp Ventures is bringing its iX Event series to France, hosting iX Paris on Jue 18th & 19th. A global innovation platform for aligning game changing technology start-ups with international investors, partners and customers, Bootcamp Ventures has hosted several iX Event series already in Tel Aviv & Istanbul, bringing together international and local investors to meet, […]
Why Polestar’s indoor GPS Technology – 10 years in the making – is the future of local commerce
A little while ago we announced that Google had rolled out its indoor mapping feature to Google Maps in key Paris areas, like Charles De Gaulle Airport and Forum Les Halles. This came after the initial 2011 roll-out that Google did, starting with indoor mapping in the Mall of America. Now, in the past month, we’ve […]
16 Startups selected for Ubifrance’s French Tech Tour to the Silicon Valley, including DocTrackr, Sush.io & Wimi
UbiFrance’s 7th annual French Tech Tour has released the names of the 16 startups that have been selected for a one week trip to the Silicon Valley. For those unfamiliar with the French Tech Tour, the tour’s finalists are selected by the very companies who will see the startups: this year’s companies include Amazon, AT&T, BT, […]
3 Things Fleur Pellerin could be doing instead of fighting AppGratis’ battles for them
We wrote this week about AppGratis being pulled from the Apple App Store unexpectedly last weekend. CEO Simon Dawlat later came out and said that he was utterly confused as to why Apple would do this, and that there was zero communication around the subject. If you’d like to catch up on the other side […]
Augment raises 220K€ to take its 3D Augmented Reality app to the US
3D Augmented reality app Augment has raised 220K€ from Paris investors, including PriceMinister cofounder Olivier Mathiot(1001Pharmacies), LeGuide COO Nicolas Vauvilliez, Laurent Therezien & Tristan Vyskoc (who also recently invested in TheFamily). Created in 2011, the company’s cofounders, JF Chianetta, Cyril Champier, and Mickael Jordan were part of Paris Accelerator LeCamping‘s 3rd batch of startups in 2012. The app, which allows […]
In alternate reality where Windows 8 was called XboxOS….
While the Rude Baguette tends to stick to covering the French tech market, I couldn’t resist speaking about a topic which has been bugging me for quite some time. Imagine for a moment, if you will, that Microsoft had decided to call Windows 8 “XboxOS” instead of Metro, or Windows RT, or whatever it’s called […]
Join Rude Baguette at Failcon Zurich as we discuss “failure by omission”
April 16th, the legendary Failcon Conference series comes to Zurich, Switzerland, and I’m very excited to be speaking at it. The conference has already happened 3 times in Paris, and I’m happy to finally have something to talk about at the conference – “Failure by omission.” Failure By Omission for me is the idea that […]
With AppGratis on the chopping block, Ouriel Ohayon explains why Appsfire isn’t going anywhere
It’s been a rough week for App Discovery apps everywhere – perhaps no more so than AppGratis, whose founder got off a 12 hour plane last weekend to find that his app, which has 12 million users, had been pulled from the Apple App Store. While other App Recommendation apps are quick to say “oh, […]
Captain Dash’s new iPad app dashboard for CMOs tops the App Store charts as #5 Business App
Well, I’ll be the first one to admit that I was wrong about Captain Dash being acquired by Microsoft – all the signs (i.e: one) pointed to it, and I admit that I went chasing wild geese for a bit. Nonetheless, the good news is that Captain Dash is moving forward, and most recently they have […]