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[VIDEO] “Hello Startups!” – Neelie Kroes tells European entrepreneurs to make their voices heard
This week Neelie Kroes, VP of the European Commission and in charge of the EC Digital Agenda, addressed European entrepreneurs in a YouTube video posted to her official YouTube Page. The video calls upon European entrepreneurs as an essential part of the European economic recovery, saying that “your professors and politicians need to remember you are […]
Jolidrive rolls out Search and says Dropbox, Google Drive & YouTube among most popular services
When Tariq Krim and the Jolicloud team announced the move to Jolidrive, they promised many more new services and enhancements in the coming months. Earlier this month, the team announced the Jolidrive integration with CloudApp with a nice 20% discount on CloudAppPro. Now comes the addition of one of the most sought after services by Jolidrive users, […]
It’s not just Free that’s ratcheting bandwidth from YouTube and other sites. It’s a global issue.
Earlier this year, things got a little crazy when ISP and Mobile operator Free put in place a ISP-level opt-out ad blocker which mysteriously blocked mainly Google Ad properties. In the end, this became part of a bigger story, that of the ISP war against Google, which has included many ongoing accusations that Free “ratchets,” or […]
PressKing revamps its platform to become the first full-service online media relations agency
Launched in 2010 by serial entrepreneur Thibaud Elzière (Fotolia, Mailjet, Textmaster) with the goal of offering the same quality of service of a traditional PR agency but at 1/10th the price, PressKing has already made its mark on the PR world having enabled 25,000 press releases to date. Today they’re stepping it up a notch […]
Orange’s all-in-one communications app Libon launches on Android
Following its highly successful iOS launch last November which has hit over 1 million downloads and is available in over 100 countries, Libon is launching on Android today. Available to download for free from Google Play, Libon will now offer Android users free calls, smart messaging, and personalized visual voicemail. As a reminder, Libon is […]
Why Polestar’s indoor GPS Technology – 10 years in the making – is the future of local commerce
A little while ago we announced that Google had rolled out its indoor mapping feature to Google Maps in key Paris areas, like Charles De Gaulle Airport and Forum Les Halles. This came after the initial 2011 roll-out that Google did, starting with indoor mapping in the Mall of America. Now, in the past month, we’ve […]
3 Things Fleur Pellerin could be doing instead of fighting AppGratis’ battles for them
We wrote this week about AppGratis being pulled from the Apple App Store unexpectedly last weekend. CEO Simon Dawlat later came out and said that he was utterly confused as to why Apple would do this, and that there was zero communication around the subject. If you’d like to catch up on the other side […]
In alternate reality where Windows 8 was called XboxOS….
While the Rude Baguette tends to stick to covering the French tech market, I couldn’t resist speaking about a topic which has been bugging me for quite some time. Imagine for a moment, if you will, that Microsoft had decided to call Windows 8 “XboxOS” instead of Metro, or Windows RT, or whatever it’s called […]
Can CNIL Make Google More Transparent?
CNIL, the French data protection agency, is leading an investigation on Google along with 5 other European countries to probe data protection violations. On March 19 a delegation of Google representatives worked alongside German, Spanish, French, Dutch, British and Italian agents to implement changes in Google’s new privacy rules. Much like settling dispute resolutions between […]
With AppGratis on the chopping block, Ouriel Ohayon explains why Appsfire isn’t going anywhere
It’s been a rough week for App Discovery apps everywhere – perhaps no more so than AppGratis, whose founder got off a 12 hour plane last weekend to find that his app, which has 12 million users, had been pulled from the Apple App Store. While other App Recommendation apps are quick to say “oh, […]