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Study suggests France’s IT sector will shrink in 2013
Although weathering the downturn better than other sectors, France’s IT sector hasn’t entirely escaped unscathed in 2013. Syntec Numérique, a leading association representing France’s tech sector, just released their annual report on the state of play in France, which projected that France’s tech sector will end the year down -0.3% from 2012. The hardest hit in […]
Criminal Case: 1 year later & 100 Million players
We’ve been covering the spectacular rise of Criminal Case since its launch just one year ago. Having integrated fun and accessible game play, high quality game design and integrated and deep storylines, they’ve managed to take the genre of hidden object games to a whole new level. To date, an impressive 100 million […]
Azendoo makes work even more collaborative with Skype integration
Azendoo has been innovating at a fast pace, actively enhancing the Azendoo experience for its now 135k users. Over the past year they’ve had at least one big announcement each quarter, including their Evernote integration to kick the year off, roll-out of their new and improved platform last spring, their Box integration this past summer and many […]
Le Camping kicks off its Season 5 in new home NUMA
After a successful launch of its new home NUMA which welcomed 8,000 people last week, yesterday Silicon Sentier launched the new class of its accelerator program Le Camping, which is already on its 5th season. During the introduction, Silicon Sentier president Adrien Schmidt, spoke about how in its early years, many startups entering Le Camping […]
Smartphones and tablets set to top French consumers’ gift lists this holiday season
After enjoying bumper sales over the last few holiday seasons in France, tablet and smartphone will have even more reason to rejoice this year. According to a study just released by GfK French consumers are anticipated to spend €460 million on smartphones and €450 million on tablets this holiday season despite the tough economic environment. […]
4G off to a roaring start in France
1.5 million. That’s the number of mobile customers that have jumped to 4G in just a little over a month. After struggling for some time to respond to Free’s shakeup of the mobile market just under two years ago, France’s established telco giants are responding more adeptly as of late. While they all moved to […]
The 4 pronged approach France is taking to Open Data
Back at the last G8 summit in June of this year, the G8 member states signed on to the Open Data Charter, whereby all of the member states pledged their commitment to “open economies, open societies and open governments as the basis of lasting growth and stability”. France has moved quite quickly to demonstrate their strong […]
Mobile eBook specialist Gutenberg Technology raises €3 million; new sectors & the US in sight
Hot on the heels of their big fundraising announcement in May, mobile ebook specialist Gutenberg Technology has finalised their second round with another big investment. This time €3 million, which brings the total money they’ve closed on this year to €5 million. The additional investment which came from BNP Paribas Développement and their existing investors. This […]
Mobile’s role in retail continues to rise across Europe
Although showing signs of growth in recent years, Mobile’s role in retail and e-commerce has been fairly limited in Europe versus other markets such as South Korea, China and Japan, where mobile penetration has long been off the charts and m-commerce is becoming the preferred mode of shopping for many (here and here). However, comScore recently […]
Smart connectivity, video as a service and more take center stage at DigiWorld Summit November 19-21st
One of Europe’s longest running (35 years!) and most impactful conferences is getting ready to kick-off this November 19th in Montpellier. The DigiWorld Summit is organized each year by iDATE, one of the world’s leading think tanks and research organizations focusing on telecoms, media and internet technology. Having focused on the theme ‘Game changers’ – Mobile-Cloud-Big […]