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Yahoo reportedly in discussions with Orange to buy big stake in Dailymotion
Yahoo is reportedly in talks with Orange to buy what could potentially be a big stake in Dailymotion. According to sources familiar with the discussions, Dailymotion may be valued at as much as $300 million and Yahoo could ultimately buy up to 75% of the French online video site This move by Yahoo would help […]
Startup Career Launchpad conference set to take-off on April 18-19th in London
The second edition of the Startup Career Launchpad is set to take-off on April 18-19th in London. Organized by NACUE, the UK’s principal association for college and university entrepreneurs, and supported by the BVCA, the conference aims to bring together the European startup community in an effort to “connect the biggest names in entrepreneurship, investment and […]
Startup Academy Day showcases France’s rising startups on April 2nd
On April 2nd, 360 webmarketing firm Poweron will host its 6th edition of Startup Academy Day at which 40 of France’s rising startups will have the opportunity to pitch in front of a jury of 20+ key players in France’s tech ecosystem (members of jury noted here). Poweron’s Startup Academy actually started in 2008 by Jean-François […]
Azendoo launches new interface based on feedback from their 20k users
Rising star in the world of productivity and project management solutions, Azendoo, has just launched a big redesign of their interface which was largely based on the feedback of their 19k users across 160 countries. Following the recent big news of their Evernote partnership as well as their Google integration late last year, Azendoo views […]
‘Temoignages du Cloud’ conference puts the spotlight on global cloud innovation
This coming March 25th will see the first edition of ‘Temoignages du Cloud’, which will bring together several key actors in France’s Cloud ecosystem to discuss cloud driven innovation. As enterprises everywhere have either already moved their information, processes, etc to the Cloud or have plans to do so, the organizers felt the time was […]
Tariq Krim explains the move to Jolidrive and its benefits for the tech ecosystem
Last week Jolicloud took a big leap forward by announcing that Jolicloud is now being relaunched as Jolidrive, a newly redesigned and updated service enabling users to effectively manage their ‘personal cloud’. The new Jolidrive now supports a more extensive range of cloud-based services and, due to their decision to move from a mobile app to a HTML5 […]
After raising 25M€, Spartoo.com expands beyond shoes and handbags to clothing
Grenoble-based, online footwear and handbag retailer Spartoo, which was founded in 2006 by new grads Jérémie Touchard, Boris Saragaglia, and Paul Lorne, has been on a whirlwind ride over the last few years. Following on news of their having reached 12M unique visitors per month, achieved a 20 fold increase in sales over three years and raised a 25M€ series […]
eBuzzing-owned Beezik to shut down – employees to join eBuzzing team
After having launched 2009 and grown to over 3 million subscribers last year, the music download service Beezik will be ceasing its operations. The owners of the Beezik platform, BeeAd, decided to voluntarily shut down Beezik principally because their model, which was based on advertising supported downloads, was deemed not to be viable outside of […]
French government reveals plans to build “world-class” incubator for 1,000 startups in Paris
In what seems to be a never-ending trickle of announcements from the government about their digital agenda, Fleur Pellerin announced in an interview this week with Liberation that she wants to create a ‘world-class’ incubator in Paris. The incubator would have space for 1k startups and would be located either in the Hall Freyssinet in the 13th […]
Why 2012 was “The Year of the Internet” in France, and what the future holds.
Médiamétrie recently released the results of its annual internet study confirming that the French lifestyle is becoming increasingly digital. Based on their findings, they hailed 2012 the ‘Year of the Internet’, where there were more users than ever before accessing all types of content in a ‘multi-screen’ environment. In France last year, more people than […]