Following Bouygues, Orange’s and SFR’s low-cost offers both hit 1 million subscribers
Although Free threw them for a loop when they launched their mobile offer last year, the three ‘old school’ mobile operators look to finally be adapting to a radically altered space. Last month Bouygues was the first ‘old school’ telco to reach the 1 million subscriber market with their B&You low-cost offer late 2012. Now […]
Rumor confirmed: Xavier Niel launches tuition-free developer school named ’42’
We reported yesterday on a rumor, originating from Olivier Ezratty that Xavier Niel would be launching a tuition-free (see update below) developer school. The rumor was confirmed today in a press conference by Niel himself, who announced that the new school would be opening in November and would be called ’42’ in reference to science fiction author […]
Ebuzzing and Schibsted climbing quickly towards the top of France’s most visited sites
Comscore has just released their latest figures and, not surprisingly, the ranking of top general and video sites doesn’t show much movement. When looking at top (general) internet properties, Google sites, Microsoft and Facebook are still far in front of the competition, including Yahoo who remains a distant fourth and virtually tied with Orange, Wikimedia, and […]
Seedcamp’s Sush.io to demo their Mint.com competitor at The Next Web Startup Rally
Yesterday, TheNextWeb announced the 16 finalists for their TNW European Conference Startup Rally. The competition, which includes the likes of Infogr.am & PeerIndex, also includes a French startup, Sush.io. The Paris-based startup has spent a little over a year working on their finance tool which seems to be meant to rival the American Mint.com. The startup recently […]
Xavier Niel to cofound a new tuition-free Paris developer school with former EpiTech Founder
Rumors have begun circulating that Xavier Niel will announce a “ecole de programmation” tomorrow morning. Journalists received invitations to a press conference for tomorrow morning, but, like all things with Niel, this launch has been months in the making. While the news that Niel will launch a school dedicated to IT is interesting – the […]
Check out ZapTravel’s virtual Travel Agent for your next weekend trip!
It’s easy to find the cheapest tickets for your vacation – Kayak has always been my weapon of choice – but what if you don’t even know where you want to go? Where is the ‘recommendation’ in travel? Where’s the Passive? I recently got to meet former Tapulous founder Andrew Lacy to talk about his latest […]
Deezer may be avoiding the US market, but Spotify is starving French users
The war between Deezer and Spotify has begun, and it seems there’s no country that’s safe. Spotify announced earlier this week that they would be removing the five-play cap per song for free users in the UK; however, it was Numerama that figured out that, with Spain, Finland, Norway, The Netherlands and Sweden having had this […]
Yahoo reportedly in discussions with Orange to buy big stake in Dailymotion
Yahoo is reportedly in talks with Orange to buy what could potentially be a big stake in Dailymotion. According to sources familiar with the discussions, Dailymotion may be valued at as much as $300 million and Yahoo could ultimately buy up to 75% of the French online video site This move by Yahoo would help […]
Currently raising a round of funding, Fleex’s video Language-learning startup rolls out a premium service
After wrapping up LeCamping, EduTech startup Fleex has launched a premium version of its video language-learning service. Taking advantage of the international tendency for TV viewers to watch US TV Shows in VO (Original Language), Fleex hopes to help users learn English by providing dual subtitles – 1st language and English. Fleex launched its free beta […]
The Race to become a real Platform for Music is on between Deezer & Spotify, but neither are there yet.
You may consider Deezer or Spotify to be an online music streaming “platform,” but a quick look at the wikipedia definition of a ‘platform’ – “a technology that enables the creation of products and processes that support present or future development” – would let you know that it’s still early days for the two in […]