Liam Boogar
Evernote passes 1 Million users in France, doubled in the past year
It seems like only yesterday that Evernote was launching Evernote Hello and announcing a partnership with Orange at LeWeb 2011, when I first got my hands on Evernote. This week, the company announced on their French blog that the company has passed one million users in France. The company counts more than 50 million users […]
March 6th, Rude Baguette invites you to its (re)Launch party
It’s been 1 Year, 5 Months, and 4 Days since we published our first articles, and we’ve been pretty happy with the results so far – namely, that you guys are happy. We’ve worked with the resources we have (i.e. none) to bring France an English-language news site that would add a new voice to […]
Stonehenge Telecom acquires French Software Vendor Supranetcom
At Mobile Web Congress in Barcelona this week, Stonehenge Telecom Holdings has announced the acquisition Supranetcom, a Paris-based software vendor who specializes in the design of telecom software platforms for delivering Value-Added Services (VAS) and Mobile Financial Services (MFS). The acquisition, which occurred last May 2012, has expanded Stonehenge’s offering in the Telecom space, and has […]
Quandora raises a seed round from KIMA Ventures for its white label Q&A platform
Quandora announced today that they have raised a $150K seed round from KIMA Ventures in order to continue growth of their white label solution for Q&A Platforms. We profiled Quandora‘s “Quora for Enterprise” last July, and it seems the company has been growing quite well since then. The company, which offers a white-label private Q&A-based […]
“Remember when you sucked my d*ck?” and other things not to do/say on Social Media
A while back I wrote a [rant] called Turning Angry Users into Users for Life – you may not have read it, because well, you didn’t know who we were back then, but the tl;dr version is thus: If someone takes the energy to tell you how much your product sucks, it’s the best opportunity to turn […]
CloudConf brings Heroku, Elastic Search, dotCloud, and Hadoop to Paris June 7th
The latest event brought to you by dotConferences, CloudConf brings together speakers form the world’s leading cloud startups to speak about the most important topics in Cloud Computing. The event will feature Noah Zoschke of Heroku, who came out to Paris last month as well for UXD4Startups, as well as Shay Banon, the creator of Elastic […]
With 20,000+ users on board, Sketchfab raises a 370K€ Angel round for its YouTube of 3D
Sketchfab, the YouTube of 3D content, has raised 370,000 euros from Oleg Tscheltzoff, Jacques-Antoine Granjon, Nicolas Rosset &Jerry Nieuviarts (Clubic), Sylvain Zimmer (Jamendo, Joshfire) and Andrew Lacy (Tapulous, LeCamping mentor). The startup, which just finished Season 3 of LeCamping, was one of the most well-taken to startups in the season, having attracted 20,000+ users to the platform. […]
Recommerce Solutions raises 7.1M€ from Seventure, 3T & more to go international
Recommerce Solutions announced today that they have raised 7.1 Million euros from Seventure Partners, 3T Capital, the FSN PME (managed by CDC Entreprises) in order to take its used products eCommerce international. The company, already #1 in France for its reselling solution, has had particular success in the mobile phone industry. The service allows individuals […]