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Mobile World Congress Day 1 Highlights – Connected Living, Samsung, Mobile Connect & Zuckerberg
The king of all mobile trade events got underway yesterday in Barcelona. Each year the Mobile World Congress (MWC) seems to get bigger and more unwieldy than the last, but it remains one of the tech world’s can’t miss events. It’s hard to ignore though how major shifts in the mobile ecosystem have fundamentally changed […]
After acquiring Viber, Rakuten announces new European R&D center in Paris
With Asian tech leaders like Gumi and Samsung and French stars like Criteo setting up tech centers in Paris, is France finally starting to build a name for itself as one of the top places in Europe for international companies to put their R&D operations? Yesterday’s announcement that ecommerce giant Rakuten has selected Paris as the […]
‘4YFN’ Event to put the spotlight on mobile entrepreneurship during Mobile World Congress on Feb 24th
Mobile World Congress, the world’s biggest can’t miss event about everything mobile, seems to move in more of an entrepreneurial direction each year. Over the last few years, an increasing number of startups have been joining the Congress with stands, side events, start-up competions, etc. This year Mobile World Capital Barcelona, orangizers of the Congress, […]
Leetchi’s marketplace payment solution MangoPay goes international
Having launched just 10 months ago, MangoPay has rapidly grown its client list to 150 of France’s top marketplace, collaborative consumption, and crowdfunding players, including La Fourchette, Cookening, Payplug, and Vestiare Collective. Now the Leetchi team have announced that they’ll be taking MangoPay international and are launching a whole host of new features. As Leetchi […]
Mobile and smart devices set to drive turnaround in France’s tech device market
Across Europe, 2013 was a very bad year for the tech device market according to a study published today by GfK. While sales of tablets and smartphones continue to be on a roll (17.5 smartphones sold alone in France), sales of other tech-oriented/electronics devices such as tvs, digital cameras, PCs, etc continued to founder. France […]
Lift14, continuing to push the envelope on the innovation debate
Each year in February the center of gravity of innovation discussion and debate shifts to Geneva for the annual Lift Conference. The Lift experience is quite different the one you may have at other well-known tech oriented conferences in that it fully immerses its attendees in the question of how to make ‘innovation happen’. Sometimes […]
’15-Minute’ law against Chauffeur Apps suspended in France
France’s Conseil d’Etat (top judiciary handling administrative matters) took up its role as arbiter this week of the now internationally infamous dispute between taxis and chauffeur services over the 15-minute law (actually a presidential decree), which came into effect this past January. The ruling came down today, as reported in LeFigaro, that the decree would […]
Japan’s NTT acquires unified communications specialist Arkadin International
NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within global telco giant NTT, has closed on its acquisition of French unified communications specialist (UCaaS) Arkadin International for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of Arkadin, who are the third largest specialist globally in internet-based collaborative audio, video, web and unified communications, will not […]
When it comes to CleanTech, Audi can’t help but choose “Made in France”
France’s Global Bioenergies, a rising star in the renewable energy space, has just announced a milestone deal with German automaker Audi. Global Bioenergies has started to build a name for themselves through their work on transforming renewable resources into light olefins, namely the foundation of the petrochemical industry. Their work with Audi will go through 2016 […]
Spain is now Orange’s 3rd largest market as it overtakes Vodafone; eyes Telefonica
Although Spain’s difficult economy has proved troublesome for many companies operating there, Orange’s Spanish fortunes continue to grow. With 14 million customers, Orange has again outperformed the Spanish market to establish itself as the #2 mobile and fixed telco in the Spain. This now puts Orange just ahead of Vodafone (whose Enterprise business Orange has […]