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Google settles with French press: will create 60 Million € “press fund”
Today Google’s Eric Schmidt met with French President François Hollande to announce an agreement after a battle that has gone on for months between Google and the French press/government. The press, who were hoping to propose a law requiring Google to pay royalties each time they cite their article headlines/descriptions in Google News, will have […]
The Five Must-Know people of Germany’s biggest startup city
I’ve had the fortune of spending the last two weeks in Germany, learning and exploring the startup scene, and I thought i’d share a little bit about what I’ve learned along the way. I know we normally cover the French tech scene, but as Germany is right next door, consider it a “know thy enemy” […]
As France welcomes MIDEM, its music industry still faces big challenges
This past Saturday saw the kick-off of MIDEM, one of the world’s biggest and best conferences and tradeshows focusing on the music industry. This year’s edition, which will be running through tomorrow,has had a particularly strong emphasis on digital. It’s evident that digital still continues to be both a blessing and curse for the sector, which is still […]
And then there were two | Netflix to delay entrance into the French Market
Netflix announced its fourth quarter results from 2012, which outperformed all market expectations. The video streaming company saw a 30% rise in its stock after hours yesterday, as it was originally expected to see massive losses from the Nordic market ($112 Million, to be exact), and instead performed quite well internationally. As TNW reported, this […]
French Startups are getting invested in, just not by French VCs
In the beginning of the year, we reported on the state of investment in France -more money went to startups in 2012 than 2011, a total of 543 million euros, or a 93% year-to-year growth. It was made very apparent that this funding was concentrated, with “Deezer(€100M), Criteo(€30M), Spartoo(€25M), Viadeo(€24M), Fotolia(€117M) and Sensee(€17M)’s impressively large […]
Government announces new members of the influential Conseil National du Numérique
Created under Nicolas Sarkozy, the CNN (Conseil National du Numérique, roughly the National Digital Council), was initially conceived as a body that would give advice and recommendations favoring the development of the internet sector in France. Seeing this initial remit as too limited in scope, the new government decided to broaden the mission of the […]
BlueKiwi founder and Pigeon movement co-creator Carlos Diaz raises $4M for Kwarter
Carlos Diaz, one of France’s most prominent serial entrepreneurs, will be adding a bit of cash to his most recent venture’s bank account. Kwarter, a social TV startup which works with brands to engage their viewers on the “second screen,” has raised $4 Million from T-Venture (Deutsche Telekom), as well as Kinetic Ventures. Diaz previously […]
European Commission report places French innovation as ‘average’
The European Commission’s Eurostat published figures this week on what percentage of companies in the various EU27 countries are, and the results were quite telling of the future of Europe. With an average of 53% of enterprises reporting innovative activity, Germany (79.3%), Luxembourg(68%) and Belgium(61%) scored highest, while France stumbled in at the average, 53%. […]
Facebook’s head of sales in France to quit – trouble in paradise?
Former head of sales for MySpace in France, Damien Vincent will be leaving Facebook France as the end of March, according to JDN. Facebook has not announced Damien’s successor, but has noted that Carolyn Everson, Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions based in London, will not be taking the role, so it seems that will be […]
Free’s “declaration of war” AdBlocker to be “neutralized” today
As Minister of the Digital Economy Fleur Pellerin gets ready to meet with Free in response to what is now being called #AdGate, a source close to the the ISP has confirmed that the ad blocker, which we explained blocks primarily Google properties, will be “neutralized” in the next few days, l’Expansion reported this weekend. […]