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How & Why Box acquired Martin Destagnol’s Folders pre-launch and What is coming next

May 23, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Allow me to introduce you the French startup Reedian, run by and owned solely by Martin Destagnol, founder and former CEO of Plyce. Reedian is a software company which has one flagship app, Folders. The unlaunched product calls itself “the most elegant client for your cloud storage,” which included a...

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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...

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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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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 –...

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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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Bunkr launches its Powerpoint killer to get rid of the ‘blank page’ syndrome

May 3, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Goodbye PowerPoint Bunkr is going beyond presentation Collect Organize Present

Last week, a new startup Bunkr launched the beta version of its presentation software, which hopes to solve the “blank page” problem. While its cloud presentation technology is similar to that of startups like swipe.to, which recently wowed judges at The Next Web Conference, where it really stands apart is...

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Google+ Sign will now enable in-app activities to appear in Google search results

May 2, 2013 by LiamBoogar

What’s cooler than being a social network? Being a Sign-in button. It seems these days that I don’t have any accounts anymore – and I love it – I just connect my social networks and boom, they know my name, my photo, and probably a few things I wouldn’t have...

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