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In 2012, Mobile service prices dropped 11% due to Free Mobile (of course)
Free’s entry into the mobile space continues to profoundly transform the French mobile space. According to 2012 figures from ARCEP, mobile contract prices in France dropped 11,4% in 2012 pretty much entirely due to the Free effect. This drop was consistent when looking at mobile contract pricing (with engagement), which declined 12%. For mobile services […]
Orange ratchets up mobile battle with Free with launch of new Sosh quadruple play offer
Orange’s ultra-low cost mobile brand Sosh is now being extended into Free’s most profitable territory, fixed internet service. Orange announced this week that they will soon be launching a new quadruple play, non-engagement offer under the Sosh brand, including mobile, internet, TV and telephone service. The price of the offer will vary between 34.90€ – 54.90€ […]
Viadeo appoints Kewego founder Michel Meyer as new Managing Director
With over 50 million users worldwide, a big leap in traffic last year due to their success on mobile, their rapid expansion in emerging markets, and increased acquisition activity, Viadeo’s evolution has been looking a lot more interesting as of late. However, to finally break-out of LinkedIn’s shadow (200 million users to Viadeo’s 50 million) […]
Mobile ebook producer Gutenberg Technology raises another €2 miliion round
Breaking today in Journal du Net Gutenberg Technology, which is the parent company of digital book platform Lelivrescolaire.fr, announced that they just closed on a new €2 million round with a group of angel investors. This €2 million comes on the heels of a €2.2 million round that they raised last year. This additional funding […]
droidcon Paris’ inaugural edition coming on June 17/18th
droidcon, the “developer conference and B2B marketplace exposing the best of Android’, will be launching its first Paris edition this June 17th & 18th. droidcon already holds a prominent place in the Android developer community, having launched several successful droidcon installments across various cities in Europe and beyond, including such locations as Berlin (its original […]
International game leaders take stage at SNJV’s Webgame Conference on June 19-20th
For the fourth consecutive year, the Webgame conference will host leaders from the global gaming world here in Paris. Organized again this year by SNJV and taking place at Microsoft France’s campus, the length of the conference has been expanded this year to 2 days, offering more lectures, panels and networking panels than in previous […]
Uber B2B, bringing together the best of Europe’s B2B ecosystem in Berlin on June 17th
June 17th will see the first Uber B2B conference come to Berlin. Uber B2B seeks to bring together B2B software, web, IT and hardware entrepreneurs and executives from top mid-sized / multinational corporations to collaborate, network and identify new opportunities to work together. For startups, there’s lots of opportunity to get in front of big […]
“Social Collaboration” becoming more common in European companies, but still a ways to go
A study recently released by leading French IT consulting and analysis group Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), found that social collaboration has started to make significant inroads into the European corporate world. Some 60% of the companies they surveyed in Germany, France and the UK stated that their companies have taken a first step to launch […]
Government-backed Numergy finally launching its Cloud Offer aimed at startups and developers
Numergy, one of the two “French Cloud” providers that came out of Andromede, is finally launching a standard, direct-to-customer cloud offer. After having focused until now on custom offers available only via select partners/distributors, this new offer will be self-service, available directly on their site. The primary target for this new offer will be those […]
HotelTonight expanding in France and across Europe
Started in 2011, HotelTonight is a app that allows users to reserve in seconds hotel rooms at the last minute. They differentiate themselves from other last minute reservation services such as Last Minute and Late Rooms as well as direct competitors such as VeryLastRoom by their high-quality hotel and low price guarantees. As a pioneer […]