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Grenoble startup Bonitasoft raises another $13M proving that there is a market for Open Source

May 21, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Grenoble-based Bonitasoft announced last week that it has raised $13M from FSN PME, Ventech, Auriga Partners, and Serena Capital in order to continue the growth of its Open Source Business Process Management (BPM) solution for enterprises. As TechCrunch reports, the company has offices in Paris as well as San Francsico...

[Cloud][Enterprise][Video]

IDInvest drops another $3 Million into Weemo for their WebRTC API – do they see something I don’t?

May 21, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Founded by Thomas Cottereau, video collaboration solution for businesses Weemo has raised $3 Million from IDInvest, according to Venturebeat. Founded in 2007, Weemo allows businesses to plug video conferencing directly into their applications with a few lines of code, and thus is pitting itself directly against competitors like Vidyo, Avaya, Cisco...

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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...

[Cloud][Events][Hardware]

Connected objects may be Web 3.0, but I still can’t control my home from my smartphone

May 16, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Today at Web2Day, I had the pleasure to talk about the world of connected objects with Thomas Nicholls of Sigfox, Benoit Guennec of Connected Object, and Frédéric Boisdron of Planète Robots. Talking about connected hardware (homes, cars, etc.), quantified self, and the future of smart objects is always exciting in France,...

[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%...

[Cloud][Enterprise]

Orange CEO Announces first class of startups at Orange Fab

May 14, 2013 by Nora Poggi

Orange CEO Stephane Richard flew from Paris to San Francisco on Monday 13th, to kick off the first class of Orange Fab, the startup accelerator launched in March by the European telecom giant. The 3 months program, as we reported last month, “supports U.S.-based start-ups with an existing product which...

[Cloud][Data][Developer]

Optimizely brings its A/B testing service to Europe

May 7, 2013 by LiamBoogar

In late April in Amsterdam, I met up with Optimizely CEO Dan Siroker to talk about Optimizely’s arrival in Europe. Fresh off a $28M round of fundraising announced last month, Optimizely is bringing its A/B testing web application to Europe, having just opened up its European office in Amsterdam –...

[Cloud][Data][Mobile]

Mobile payments provider Flashiz hedges bets with its NFC- and QR-compatible technology

May 6, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Back in April, I met up with Luxembourg-based startup Flashiz during The NextWeb conference to talk about how they were going to squeeze into the tightly fit online payments space. As one of the first certified electronic money institutes in Europe (admittedly, like 50% of online payments startups), Flashiz’ solution...

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