Liam Boogar
Delayed Renault Zoe to launch in Spring without universal electric car charger
Renault announced recently that their flagship electric car Zoe, which has been late coming out, will be launching in Spring, but is not allowed to plug into the standard electric car charger. There is no explanation as to why Zoe will not be adaptable to standard electric car chargers, which can easily be installed in […]
Startups: The best way to help your local ecosystem is to make $1 Billion
It’s always great when you go to a tech event and see that local and global tech companies are sponsoring it – Google & Microsoft are no stranger to this, but in France Orange, Bouygues, BNP Paribas and even SNCF have contributed sizeable amounts of money to the French ecosystem. It’s great: from an external […]
Google settles with French press: will create 60 Million € “press fund”
Today Google’s Eric Schmidt met with French President François Hollande to announce an agreement after a battle that has gone on for months between Google and the French press/government. The press, who were hoping to propose a law requiring Google to pay royalties each time they cite their article headlines/descriptions in Google News, will have […]
Three Storytelling Tips For French Startups When Pitching
The following post is a guest post by Alexis Niki, a Paris-based founder & CEO of StoryNova, which provides concept and story strategy and development support. You can follow her at @AlexisNiki. In a pitch, you have a short amount of time to engage your audience, and who knows more about audience engagement than storytellers? I […]
The Five Must-Know people of Germany’s biggest startup city
I’ve had the fortune of spending the last two weeks in Germany, learning and exploring the startup scene, and I thought i’d share a little bit about what I’ve learned along the way. I know we normally cover the French tech scene, but as Germany is right next door, consider it a “know thy enemy” […]
It’s True. German startups officially received more funding than French in 2012
I’ve been quite confident thee past few weeks boasting France’s 93% increase in VC funding to French startups from 2011 to 2012 – I mean, 93% that’s amazing. And so, you can imagine my disappointment as I come across this VentureVillage article about investment in Germany to find the following quote: New figures, published yesterday, […]
In France, company creation is going up, but job creation is going down
In an effort to stave off unemployment, President Sarkozy created the ‘auto-entrepreneur’ status in 2008. Seen by some as a new wave of pro-business politics in France, by others as a simple way for Sarkozy to create a fasle dip in unemployment (auto-entrepreneurs are not technically unemployed, despite the fact that, as we know now, […]
French Government looks timid on Twitter’s Transparency report, but not for long.
This past week, Twitter released their second Transparency Report, a public report about requests by governments concerning user information, content removal, etc. The report cited 1858 information request, 46 removal requests, and 6,646 Copyright Notices, and as Twitter continues to grow in France and abroad, this report will become more & more interesting. As of […]
What’s the deal with TheNextWeb’s Startup Awards?
I’m a pretty big fan of TNW. So much so that I’ve been syndicating RB Content on their site for the past few months, and they’re pretty much involved with everything cool going on in the European Startup Scene; however, for the past few weeks I’ve been scratching my head trying to figure our their […]
Orange now (reluctantly) owns 100% of Dailymotion. What’s next?
This past week Orange purchased the remaining 49% of Dailymotion, after having purchased 51% of the video site nearly two years ago, with a clause in its acquisition to allow it to buy the remaining 49% later. After trying to find a US partner to take the remaining 49% of the company for the past […]