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Micropayments on the rise in Europe
Hi-Media Group and Harris Interactive have released their “Micropayment Barometer” which seeks to measure the progression of micropayments globally and, particularly, in Europe. For the European part of the barometer, 4k internet users across France, Germany, Italy, and Spain were included. The main finding of the study was that micropayments are pretty widely and increasingly […]
France says goodbye to Minitel
This article was meant to go out on June 30th, but was delayed due to our servers being down.Read more about it here. June 30th marked the end of an era here in France. It was the day that Minitel permanently went off-line. For those readers who are unfamiliar with Minitel (basically those outside of France) […]
Wrap-up of the Webgame Conference
As mentioned a couple weeks back, the Rude Baguette had the distinct pleasure of being selected as a media partner for the third instalment of the annual Webgame Conference. Olivier Issaly, co-founder of the online games group Owlient (now a part of Ubisoft), had the wisdom to start the conference a few years back and […]
Vesalis, Raising the Bar in Facial Recognition
Most of you have probably heard of Face.com, a leading facial recognition company acquired early this week by Facebook. One of Face’s competitors that’s starting to get an increasing amount of recognition is a French, Clerrmont-Ferrand based start-up called Vesalis. Vesalis is expanding internationally and gaining visibility, having been selected to participate in the annual […]
EU releases annual Digital Agenda Scoreboard
The EU released it’s annual digital agenda scoreboard this week. The report highlighted several positive trends, such as that consumers and business are quickly moving to mobile (62% growth in mobile internet use and 217 million mobile broadband subscriptions), internet usage is widespread as 68% of Europeans are online regularly and 170 million use social […]
Lagardère is finally buying Leguide.com
It looks like the on-going back-and-forth[FR] between Lagardère and Leguide.com is finally coming to a close. After having their first and second offers rejected by Leguide.com (at 24€/share and 28€/share respectively), Lefigaro reported today[FR] that Lagardère have now managed to acquire a controlling, majority stake in Leguide.com at 28€/share. The transaction values Leguide.com, which is […]
Orange expected to finalise buy-out of Dailymotion
Back in January 2011, Orange purchased 49% of Dailymotion for approximately €60million in a “two-part transaction”. As reported in Les Echos this week , Orange has now decided to go all in and buy the remaining 51% for €72million. They plan to involve a partner in the deal, potentially Qualcom, and expect to close the […]
Get ready for the Webgame Conference on June 21st!
Only 10 days to go until this year’s Webgame conference, which will take place on June 21st in Paris at Gaité Lyrique. The conference is an annual event and brings together leaders and innovators in web, mobile, social games to discuss the trends, challenges and opportunities in the sector. This will be the third installation […]
Jahia to Introduce Jahia Wise at Upcoming CMSDay
Jahia will be presenting for the first time their new collaborative document management product Jahia Wise at the upcoming CMSDay on June 14. CMSDay, organised by Smile a France-based market leader in integrated open source solutions, is the first event in France and Europe dedicated to opensource content management. Jahia seeks to deliver “next-generation, open source CMS” […]
Amazon setting up shop in Burgundy
Reported in LeMonde, Amazon has decided to set up a fulfillment center in Burgundy which is projected to create approximately 1,000 jobs. The center will reinforce Amazon’s strong presence outside the Paris region, as it already has two other logistic centers in Montelimar and Saran (Orléans). The planned expansion was confirmed this week by France […]