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The French Government’s (feasible) 8-step plan to turn Paris into an international startup hub
The French government has announced their intentions to build “Digital neighborhoods” (in French, Quartier Numeriques) in Paris as part of a plan to turn Paris into an international startup hub. The brief of the official report by France’s Minister of ‘fix the industrial sector and get us out of the economic depression’ Jean-Marc Ayrault, details eight concrete steps that the […]
Silicon Sentier’s #cobatissons 70K€ crowdfunding campaign succeeds… well, sort of.
Earlier this year, we announced that Google would put 1 Million euros into the Silicon Sentier in order to open a new building that would combine its coworking space, La Cantine, and its accelerator, LeCamping, along with a FabLab, conference space, and a few other buzzers and whistles. Given that La Cantine is down the […]
Here are Twitter’s 5 Key Execs heading up expansion in Europe
In order for Twitter looks to scale up to a Facebook-like heights, the largely US-based team has begun to look abroad in order to both grow its user-base in non-Anglophone countries but also to begin monetizing outside of the US. It has become more or less fact that Twitter will never hire a country manager […]
Five reasons why the Vogue Paris iPad app sucks
Let me start by saying that I enjoy reading on my iPad. I also like Vogue magazine for their great content and awesome fashion editorials, to my mind better than Vogue Us ones. From this point of view Emmanuelle Alt and her team are doing a great job! Where Vogue Paris is not doing such […]
The worst appears to be over as seed and early stage investments jump dramatically in first half 2013
After a dismal Q4 2012 for startup investing in France due to the ill-conceived tax hikes and ‘reforms’, things turned around significantly in the first half of 2013 for seed and early stage investments with a 80% jump in the total amount raised and 108% in the number of announced fundraising events. This encouraging news […]
The French Competition Authority’s latest target: Google, Apple & Amazon’s App Stores.
The French Authorité de la Concurrence is always looking to keep things balanced and safe for French consumers and professionals, and their most recent target lies in the mobile App Store. Last week, the regulatory body confirmed that a raid took place on Apple’s Paris office, though very little information about what, if anything was taken. […]
Paris 2014 VS London Tech City: The Battle (& the fact-checking).
The following is a guest post by Jeanne Dussueil, which originally appeared in French on Challenges.fr – you can follow her on twitter at @jdussueil Will Paris soon be more attractive for startups than London? Since 2010, London has been making a song and dance about its “Tech City” in the area of the old […]
10 Reasons to be proud to be working in Tech in France
Last week, Adobe bought Neolane, a marketing technology company, for $600M in order to beef up its Adobe Marketing Cloud offer. Sorry, let me repeat that. Six hundred million dollars, for a company that is twelve years old. Sure, maybe you hadn’t heard that much about Neolane before the day they got bought, and maybe […]
Adobe snatches up French marketing platform Neolane for $600M
Adobe announced this week that they have acquired French conversational marketing company Neolane for a whopping $600M this week. With more than 400 customers worldwide, Neolane will allow Adobe to beef up their Adobe Marketing Cloud offer to include their cross-channel campaign management technology. Among the investors of Neolane’s $27M in fundraising were Battery Ventures, […]
These 2 SNCF changes demonstrate how threatened they are by incoming competition
Earlier this year, we wrote about SNCF’s Porte-à-Porte service (literally, “door-to-door”), which the train company began testing in Aix-en-Provence, allowing train travelers to order a taxi to the departing train station, as well as from the arriving train station. One of many ways in which SNCF has been preparing for the incoming competition later this […]