Curioos + Augment team up with an Augmented Reality art exhibition
Last week, during the Journee Patrimoine des Startups, an event organized by Cup of Teach during which several startups – social payments’ Leetchi.com, wine subscription service Le Petit Ballon, Uber, and more – I chose to attend my nearest startup’s open-door event, which happened to be independent digital art eCommerce startup Curioos. The startup, which […]
PR mistake 101: The unfindable patent of the Gamepad Android tablet
Archos suffers from a reputation as a somewhat unimaginative manufacturer, despite its strong growth. Their latest patent, filed in 2010, is about an electronic device (read: tablet) that can accommodate a removable accessory (read: 3G USB key), so nothing earth-shattering there. So it is great that Archos has now come out with a new product, […]
France will have a 4G Network for the iPhone 5
We don’t often cover Apple news on the Rude Baguette – we leave that to bloggers who have no more interesting topics to write about. When Apple announced the specs on its latest iPhone 5, all the headlines read like this one from Reuters “Apple’s iPhone 5 puts Europe in 4G Slow lane.” How come? […]
LePetitBallon's Wine Subscription Box raises 1st seed round
This morning, Frenchweb reported that Le Petit Ballon raised an undisclosed seed round from a group of business angels, including Marc Ménasé, president of Meninvest, and co-chair of France Digitale, the French startup/VC advocacy group. Le Petit Ballon’s service launched in January of this year and offers subscribers two bottles of wine for twenty euros per month. […]
Game Connection Europe 2012 announces reduced rates for French startups!
Game Connection has just announced that, for the first time, they will offer French startups reduced rate pricing for this year’s instalment of Game Connection Europe. As noted by Pierre Carde, the founder of Game Connection, providing these special rates as well as other initiatives such as “Selected Projects“, reinforces Game Connection’s commitment to supporting France’s games sector more […]
Rude VC: Year of the Draghi
It appears that rumors of the death of the Euro have been greatly exaggerated, at least for now. This is thanks in large part to the efforts of the President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi. Mr. Draghi seems to have made all the right moves so far. He successfully convinced Germany to accept the […]
100 new App Cooker features for app developers
Earlier this year we introduced you to Hot Apps Factory’s App Cooker (aka the App-conceiving App), and took a particularly close look at what they had planned for their flagship product. Hot Apps Factory have come a long way over the last several months towards their goal of making App Cooker even better and, as a result, […]
Stupeflix – videos customized on the fly (includes a sneak preview of their iPhone app!)
Stupeflix is a team of young technical minds that took it upon themselves to build a really cool technology where you render videos on-the-fly in a server-hosted environment, from a template, where you can drop custom texts and images into. An example: Say Coca-Cola has a video of a famous singer, you can upload an […]
Consumer electronics market weakening across Europe, but some positive trends
Berlin’s mega consumer electronics show, IFA, is still underway where companies such as Samsung (still reeling from its legal woes with Apple), Microsoft, Philips, Sony, Logitech, etc, are exhibiting all their exciting new gadgets to much fanfare. However, it looks like the electronics sector is being acutely affected by the ongoing financial crisis as the […]
5 Entrepreneurial Lessons from Neil Armstrong's Legacy
Here at RudeBaguette, what drives staff columnists and subscribers alike is the shared glory and dream of entrepreneurship. Whether you’ve launched a brick-and-mortar startup or mobile app, the conception of an idea is a miraculous one. Nearly three decades ago, a man exited a spacecraft and planted both his feet on the surface of the […]