Articles by Trista Bridges

International game leaders take stage at SNJV’s Webgame Conference on June 19-20th

May 23, 2013 by Trista Bridges

For the fourth consecutive year, the Webgame conference will host leaders from the global gaming world here in Paris. Organized again this year by SNJV and taking place at Microsoft France’s campus, the length of the conference has been expanded this year to 2 days, offering more lectures, panels and...

[European StartUp Scene][Events]

Uber B2B, bringing together the best of Europe’s B2B ecosystem in Berlin on June 17th

May 22, 2013 by Trista Bridges

June 17th will see the first Uber B2B conference come to Berlin. Uber B2B seeks to bring together B2B software, web, IT and hardware entrepreneurs and executives from top mid-sized / multinational corporations to collaborate, network and identify new opportunities to work together. For startups, there’s lots of opportunity to...

[.Gov][Cloud]

Government-backed Numergy finally launching its Cloud Offer aimed at startups and developers

May 20, 2013 by Trista Bridges

Numergy, one of the two “French Cloud” providers that came out of Andromede, is finally launching a standard, direct-to-customer cloud offer. After having focused until now on custom offers available only via select partners/distributors, this new offer will be self-service, available directly on their site. The primary target for this...

[eCommerce][TravelTech]

HotelTonight expanding in France and across Europe

May 17, 2013 by Trista Bridges

Started in 2011, HotelTonight is a app that allows users to reserve in seconds hotel rooms at the last minute. They differentiate themselves from other last minute reservation services such as Last Minute and Late Rooms as well as direct competitors such as VeryLastRoom by their high-quality hotel and low...

[eCommerce][The Sharing Economy]

With the Sharing Economy booming in France, La Belle Assiette brings professional cooks to your kitchen

May 16, 2013 by Trista Bridges

The sharing economy has been on the top of the tech agenda in recent years. With sharing giants such as Airbnb, ZipCar, Blablacar, etc as well as various events centered on it, including Le Web London in June and the recent Ouisharefest.com, this continues to be a growing area that’s...

[Cloud][Enterprise][Social]

With France in recession, 56% of IT directors expect 2013 to be a dud year

May 15, 2013 by Trista Bridges

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A recent study conducted by IT Research in conjunction with the Club Decision DSI (French / European IT director association) found that most French IT directors expect that 2013 will be a difficult year for IT investments. In study, which was conducted with 150 top IT decision makers in France, 56%...

[European StartUp Scene][Events][French-Startup]

iX Paris connecting startups and top international investors on June 18-19th – apply by May 18th!

May 13, 2013 by Trista Bridges

June 18 – 19th one of the top international events with the specific objective of getting promising startups in front of high-quality, international investors is coming to Paris for the first time. We introduced iX Paris, which is run by Bootcamp Ventures, last month to you here. If you’re at the...

[Contests][European StartUp Scene][Events]

Apply by May 12th for hy! Berlin’s startup competition

May 9, 2013 by Trista Bridges

Applications are now open to hy! Berlin’s pitch competition. hy! is an event series which addressing all those who are enthusiastic about pioneering products and their designers. hy! Berlin, whose last installment took place in January and we covered extensively here and here, is emerging as one of the top...

[Contests][Data][Events][Mobile][Society]

City of Paris launches Moov’In in the City open data competition with info from Vélib’

May 8, 2013 by Trista Bridges

Late last week JC Decaux and the City of Paris launched a french and english site to coincide with the announcement that the two would be opening up key Vélib’ data, which includes statistics on stations (ie location) as well as real-time data. Now comes the announcement that the two will...

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