Liam Boogar
Yahoo! partners with PagesJaunes, the French Yellow Pages, to bring more local business info to search
It seems that Yahoo is looking to make a push in the French market – the popular search engine will not feature local business info in relevant results in France, pulled in from PagesJaunes. The French business directory already receives 100 million visits per year from a similar partnership with Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. Originally […]
Pack your bags: Applications for the French Tech Tour to the Silicon Valley are now open
Ubifrance has opened up applications for its annual French Tech Tour, which brings French startups out to the Silicon Valley to meet with key members of potential client, partner, supplier, and investor companies. The application, due in exactly one month (February 25th), is available here(download), and I would recommend that any startup that wants a […]
Will Twitter give into the French government’s request for hate speech account info?
Yesterday the French court ruled that Twitter has two weeks to put in place a system by which the French government can easily track and identify users who post hate speech, specifically antisemitic and racist speech. This announcement comes after twitter trends like #SiMonFilsEstGay (“If My son is Gay”) and #UnBonJuif (“A good jew”) were trending in France, […]
Not content with abusing users, now Free is holding its employees hostage as well
After Bouygues made a formal request to convert its 1800MHz 2G network into 4G in order to have a iPhone 5 compatible 4G network (the only one), a relatively quick and inexpensive process, Bouygues has been patiently awaiting the TelCo regulatory committee (ARCEP)’s response, which was expected to come in the beginning of 2013. In […]
Paris to get a 1500m² central startup space thanks to 1M€ from Google
The Silicon Sentier, the association behind LeCamping, La Cantine & more, has presented a lovely gift to the Paris startup scene, announcing recently that it will be moving into a new 1500m² space in the middle of Paris’ well-defined startup neighborhood (UPDATE: It will be located at 39 rue de Caire, 75002 Paris). The space, which […]
And then there were two | Netflix to delay entrance into the French Market
Netflix announced its fourth quarter results from 2012, which outperformed all market expectations. The video streaming company saw a 30% rise in its stock after hours yesterday, as it was originally expected to see massive losses from the Nordic market ($112 Million, to be exact), and instead performed quite well internationally. As TNW reported, this […]
WriteThatName now updates your Outlook address book so you don’t have to.
WriteThatName announced today that their automatic contact-updating service is now available on Outlook for enterprise and individual users. Launched in June 2011, WriteThatName has been quietly keeping my contacts up to date for years, and they’ve scanned more than 600 Million emails since then. Outlook is just the latest of address books and CRMs that […]
Orange offers Deezer-competitor Spotify to under 27 users in Switzerland
This week Orange & Spotify announced a partnership in which Orange customers in Switzerland with a “Orange Young” plan would receive Spotify premium for free, in addition to unlimited texting & calling as well as a sizeable data plan. Orange Young is Orange’s cell phone plan offered to anyone 27 or under, and Orange’s VP […]
How did France do in The Europas last night?
Last night in Berlin, the guys at Web Summit hosted The Europas for its 4th edition, awarding European startups, VCs, and entrepreneurs in various categories. We’ll see what the word is on how the event itself went, but Mike Butcher broke a record for being the first person to finish an award show 20 minutes […]
Toulouse-based BuyBox raised 1.7M€ for its SaaS payment solution for eMerchants
BuyBox announced today that they have raised 1.7 Million euros from Iris Capital and Midi Capital in order to brings its social payments soluion for eMerchants to international markets. Founded in 2010, BuyBox has had a fair amount of traction and interest, having already added Celio, Wonderbox.fr and Micromania as clients. Essentially, BuyBox provides a white label solution […]