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Great companies to watch at Game Paris Week
Game Paris Week, which is run by the Paris region video game cluster Capital Games, has now officially kicked-off. The first event, Game Paris Talent which place last Friday and the only event open to the general public, offered high school students the opportunity to learn about the video games sector and network with several leaders in the […]
European Commission seeks ideas to improve startup ecosystem
The European Commission has launched an initiative to reinforce one of its key Digital Agenda Priorities – to strengthen the environment for web-entpreneurs in Europe. What they’re looking to do is gather ideas directly from web-entrepreneurs on “any actions in the area of ICT innovation for the benefit of web based entrepreneurship / web businesses, which could be […]
Amazon continues to hire in France despite tax evasion claims
After announcing the opening of a new fulfillment center last June in Chalons-sur-Saone (the region of Bourgogne and, coincidentally the previous district of the current Minister of Industrial Renewal, Arnaud Montebourg), it has been announced that in the 2nd half of 2013, Amazon will open yet another fulfillment center in France, this time in the […]
SFR closes its chic concept store 'Le Studio'
SFR and its partner SFD (the company managing Le Studio) have announced that they will be closing their concept store, “Le Studio”, located in Paris’ upscale 8th arrondissement. Le Studio opened is doors in 2008 and was, above all, about offering their customers an unsurpassed ‘luxury’ service experience. It was unique in the sense that […]
Vevo launches in France, Spain and Italy with 50K new videos
Vevo, the #2 video site in the US, broadened its European expansion with launches in France, Spain and Italy after kicking-off its expansion last year in the UK. Given that Vevo was founded out of a partnership between the music majors Universal and Sony, YouTube and Abu Dhabi Media Company, their positioning focuses on licensed music […]
Actiplay (ConcoursMania Group) acquires leading French game publisher Telaxo
NYSE listed and French online games specialist Actiplay (ConcoursManiaGroup), announced this week that they acquired game publisher Telaxo. Telaxo is France’s #1 games publisher and one of the top 10 global games publisher on Facebook. This acquisition was rooted in Actiplay’s strategy to establish a significant business on social media. Increasing their presence on Facebook will help […]
Lekiosk raises 5.6M€ to go international
Lekiosk, the self-professed ‘World’s first 3D newstand’, has just announced that they closed a series B round, raising 2.85M€ from CM-CIC (who also invested in Deezer) and 2.75M€ from CDC Entreprises (Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations). They plan to leverage their newly raised funding to extend their geographic reach beyond France and (recently launched) UK […]
France launches its own fiber optic internet project. Nationwide.
Late last week, the French government finally kicked-off its highly anticipated “ultra high-speed internet’ (i.e. greater than 30Mb/s) project which centers on the extending fiber optic networking across all of France (ideally) by 2020. This 2020 timing is actually an objective that was set at the EU level. The government has selected Antoine Darodes, the currrent […]
La Fête de l'Entrepreneur, tonight at ESCP
The fourth annual ‘Fête de l’Entrepreneur’, which is organised by L’ESCP Europe, will be taking place tonight starting at 18h and is expected to attract 2k attendees. A free event that is open to all those in the entrepreneurial community, La Fête de l’Entrepreneur will offer the opportunity to network, participate in various informative events […]
Etalab & The future of Open Data in France
In this week’s newsletter, we discussed the government’s apparent decision to reorganize and potentially put the breaks on Etalab, France’s Open Data project. After about week of confusion about what really was going on with Etalab, it seems that project is not ending, but transforming into something else that is not yet completely defined. According to their […]