Trista Bridges
AppCooker: Whipping up a better app
App Cooker helps developers to do everything from defining the vision of the app, determining the right type of interface style based on the developer's vision, and creating mock-ups, to, via their Price Cooker tool, figuring out the app's economics.
The 'Ville' Wars: Zynga attacking Kobojo over use of the word 'Ville'
Trademark and IP infringement are serious and are things that many startups deal with at some stage during their development. However, this case to seems particularly questionable. Trista Bridges explores the "Ville" wars, as Kynga sues French Kobojo for using "ville" in their PyramidVille game
The French Cloud – It's the cloud, but French.
Andromède is an effort led by the French government and funded via "le grand emprunt" at a cost of 75€million to create a French cloud computing solution. The initial rationale for the project was rooted in national security issues, namely that under French law certain types of information must be held within France - this rationale has since evolved.
France falls below average on Internet contribution to GDP
It’s evident that over the last 15 years or so the Internet has completely transformed the way we lead our lives, but how has it affected our economies? This question has been looked at in several studies and articles over the years, but one conducted recently by BCG provided some perspective on just how far […]
Game On: France's games industry
The market for online, social-network, and mobile games has been on fire over the last several years. It has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry and is expected to continue its rapid growth for the foreseeable future, particularly in Europe (see recent studies on the sector here and here). Of course the key questions we […]
A Better Mousetrap: Analysis of the Startup Genome Project
Digging into the Startup Genome Project's recentl publication, Trista Bridges explores the implication behind the statistics, as well as the implications, necessities, advantages and woes of copycatting in Europe.