Trista Bridges
Game Connection announces Selected Projects contest
Each year Game Connection hosts three must-attend games industry conferences in Asia, Europe and the US. More recently, Game Connection has added a new element to their conferences by sponsoring a game contest called Selected Projects, where game developers with a project at any stage of development can apply. The contest is not restricted in […]
Gaming giant GREE partners with MobPartner
As Zynga continues to toil over out how to successfully expand into mobile, Japan’s billion euro mobile gaming behemoths and bitter rivals GREE, and DeNA each continue in their quest to dominate the global mobile social games market. Over the past couple years, both companies have made significant advances toward this goal by executing various […]
Boursorama launching mobile offer…well, maybe
After successfully launching its mobile phone and tablet applications, which are currently being promoted via an interesting offer with Phone House, online banking leader and Société Générale subsidiary Boursorama is considering jumping into the mobile fray with its own offer. Bousorama’s management will decide in September whether they will move forward, which similar to La Poste Mobile or […]
France's Cloud Startups (series): Meet Hedera Technology
This series of articles exploring the various innovations going on in the Cloud by French startups. In our last installment, Quentin Adam, co-founder of Clever Cloud took us through the innovation he’s looking to bring to the cloud space with his company. This week, we look to do the same with French cloud management software […]
Rakuten's Global eCommerce study on eShoppers
As discussed previously, eCommerce has grown astronomically here in France in recent years, with sales of online goods now reaching approximately €40+ billion annually. With so many consumers now shopping online, the French market has, not surprisingly, been inundated with eCommerce sites. One of the most important ways for these vendors to set themselves apart from the pack […]
Social Network study shows ~%100 penetration in France.
Late last week, Médiamétrie published their annual survey of social network usage, which found that the French have flocked in droves to social media. Approximately 99% of internet users (as of mid-2011, there were just under 40 million in France) are aware of at least one social network, 77% are now signed up to one […]
Google Play now contains eBooks – France to Finance Competitor
Early last month, Google came to an agreement with various book publishers and authors, ending a 6-year dispute which centered on the digitisation of out of print French works. In return for getting the publishers’ and authors agreement to bring hundreds of thousands of previously out of print French works to the market, Google also agreed […]
France's Mobile Market…the Drama Continues
As widely covered in the media earlier this month, Orange (mobile) experienced a massive technical failure 6-7 july, which lasted approximately 12 hours and affected a substantial number of its 26 million customers. Given Orange’s approx 40% market share , the failure was, not surprisingly, big news here and even caused the government to immediately jump into […]
11 French Business Associations urge French Senate to innovate now!
Eleven business associations, many of which represent the interests of the tech sector, published and presented yesterday to the French Senate their ‘Three urgent measures for innovative companies’. One of their principal propositions is the establishment of the EIC classification (Entreprise d’Innovation et de Croissance, in English, Innovative Growth Company), which would bring together the […]
European Games Group: Partnering with Developers to Create Successful Games
Securing investment and achieving successful commercialisation are two of the major challenges that are often hotly debated in the games sector. Although securing funding is always a challenge for any entrepreneur, the problem is particularly acute in games where the development process can often be long and costly, causing traditional tech investors (ie VCs) to […]