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Deutsche Telekom to rival OVH in France with new hosting offer
Deutsche Telekom is moving to take on hosting leader OVH on their home turf, France. Deutsche Telekom’s hosting unit Strato has just launched its first offer in France with 25k .fr domain names free for one year, with no engagement and hosting services starting 1,19€/month, beating OVH’s entry-level pricepoint of 1,99€ . At the entry level […]
Don’t miss out on applying to the Hello TOMORROW Challenge by January 29th!
Last week saw the official, public launch of the SIE Network‘s Hello Tomorrow Challenge which seeks to connect, promote and accelerate European entrepreneurs looking to leverage science and technology to develop truly innovative, disruptive products and services. As such, the challenge will focus on innovations in the following five areas: biotech and medical technology, energy, big […]
M2M Revenue in Europe to exceed the United States & Asia by 2017, report says
It’s a good time to be in Connected Objects… European digital think tank IDATE has concluded their annual M2M study which this year forecasts that the M2M market is set to take off in a big way, reaching €40 billion in 2017 on the back of 30% volume growth and 10% value growth over the period. While the […]
Enterprise 2.0 Summit getting ‘social enterprise ready’ on Feb 11th/12th
Arguably Europe’s top conference on the social enterprise, Enterprise 2.0 Summit, comes back to Paris next month. Keeping with the spirit of last year’s edition, this year’s conference will continue to focus on how the social enterprise can (finally) be fully embraced by and adopted across organizations of all sizes. The Enterprise 2.0 Summit, which […]
Geeklist again leading the charge to #Hack4good on February 7-9th
Geeklist will again be holding its mega, global event where the focus is to Hack a better world™. This edition of Hack4good, aka #Hack4Good 0.5, will welcome 5k developers working in tandem across 50 cities around the world on February 7th – 9th. Hack4good has quickly grown into a global hacker movement with 3 editions alone […]
ReputationWar digs into how digital has changed the way we manage our Reputation
Reputation management has always been a subject that has caused many a corporate leader to lose sleep. In the old school model, corporations would task corporate communication managers and contract PR firms to help tightly ‘control’ the messages they conveyed to the external world. In a pre-digital world, this worked fairly well, however with the […]
“Les Soldes” continue to trend digital
According to a study conducted by CSA for FEVAD, France’s leading e-commerce and mail order trade association, 7 out of 10 of internet users plan to either prepare for or make their actual purchases on-line during “les soldes” (bi-annual sales), which equates to 30 million people. Perhaps reflecting the apparent slow-down in France e-commerce sector […]
Rude Baguette’s 2014 New Year’s Wishes for the French Startup Scene
In the spirit of France’s tradition of offering one’s hopes for what the New Year will bring, the Rude Baguette writing team figured we’d follow President Hollande’s lead and offer ours. However our wishes will, of course, focus squarely on France’s tech ecosystem. Feel free to offer yours as well in the comments section. Enjoy! […]
Take Off Conference is back for its 2nd edition 30-31 January
Having launched a highly successful first edition in 2013, Take Off Conference is back and better than ever. As with last year’s edition, Take Off will again be held at Euratechnologies, Lille’s rising tech hub. Squarely focused on techies and digital innovators,Take-off seeks to bring together engineers, creators and technology managers to meet and learn […]
3W Academy takes an alternative path to getting aspiring developers job-ready
Like many other markets, France struggles to have sufficient developer resource to meet demand. Over the course of 2012/2013 France’s unemployment agency Pole Emploi received 16k offers alone for the job of web developer, of which 75% of the roles were for full-time, permanent hires (ie the infamous CDI status). While most of these roles […]