Liam Boogar
Twitter promises Promoted Tweets and Trends to combat hate speech in France
At the end of last week, representatives from Twitter sat down with the French Government and some of the anti-hate speech associations in France to discuss how Twitter could enable these associations to have priority access to alerting Twitter of any hate speech, which is illegal in France. The overall theme behind these proceedings is […]
1001Pharmacies closes €600K angel round to bring the pharmacy online
1001Pharmacies, the first marketplace for pharmacies in France, has announced this morning that they have closed a €600K Angel round, which includes Priciminister Co-Founder Olivier Mathiot, MenLook CoFounder & France Digitale VP Marc Menasé, Wyde cofounder Jean Renée Lyon, LAB cofounder Gilles Emmanuel Bernard, Scoop.it cofounder Marc Rougier, and Happyview’s Marc Adamowicz. With this monster line-up of investors, […]
Ventech goes Russian, invests $3 Million in TrendsBrands
Ventech has invested $3 Million in Russian fashion startup TrendsBrands, GoalEurope reported today. Trends Brands is a global online fashion retailer that offers over 10 000 branded items across womenswear, menswear, footwear, accessories, and jewellery, with approximately 1500 new product items being introduced each month. The company reportedly did $10 Million in revenue since its […]
Orange & Alcatel Lucent lay down the fastest internet connection (400G/sec) from Paris to Lyon
This past week, a joint effort between French telecom company Orange and Alcatel Lucent has led to the fastest internet connection in the world, a 400 gigabyte/second connection, being set up between Paris and Lyon (450km or 275 miles). The connection, which uses Alcatel Lucent’s latest optical fiber technology, will consist of 44 wavelengths, and […]
TakeOff conference: A technical review of an international tech conference in Lille.
The following post is a guest review by an attendee, Quentin Adam, and speaker, Thomas Parisot, of the TakeOff Conference, which took place two weeks ago in Lille as one of the first international tech conferences in France taking place outside of Paris. Enjoy. The TakeOff conference just ended for the first time in Lille (you know, […]
Orange and Deutsche Telekom poised make billions off of EE in 2013
Reports have been trickling in since last November that Orange and Deutsche Telekom are planning an initial public offering for Everything Everywhere (EE), their wholely owned joint subsidiary in the UK. Most of the conversation was sparked by Orange’s CFO Gervais Pellissier, who stated last November that “there could be a place for an EE IPO […]
Investors & Entrepreneurs: forget everything you’ve heard about taxes in France in the last 6 months.
In the past 6 months, there have been a lot of new tax ideas thrown out around France, most of which has resulted in smoke & a bad reputation for French businesses & entrepreneurs. Paris went from 6th to 10th in ‘attractiveness for investment’ in just one year according to a recent study reported on […]
Salesforce.com acquires & kills the French ECM Entropysoft
This week, Salesforce.com acquired Entropysoft, a French Enterprise Content Management(ECM) system that was being used by IBM, Symanetc, IDS Sheer & over 25 US Vendors, according to Venturebeat’s Christina Farr, who broke the story. Since the announcement broke, the only evidence of which at the time was an updated LinkedIn profile, Salesforce.com has shut down […]
Loic & Geraldine announce the LeWeb London theme: The Digital Hippies & The Sharing Economy
Via a new video posted to the LeWeb YouTube account yesterday, Loic & Geraldine Le Meur have announced the theme for LeWeb London: The Digital Hippies & The Sharing Economy. The event, set to take place on June 5th & 6th in central London, will be their second event in London, after last year’s “Faster than […]
Today I’m pitching the European Commission for 80 Billion Euros for my startup, Europe.
This afternoon I’m making my way north from Paris to Brussels, the capital of the European Union and home of the European Commission. There I’ll be giving a workshop to Neelie Kroes, the very outspoken Vice President of the European Commission who has spoken about Europe’s need to build startups that stay in Europe. “Start […]