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With Yahoo in the rear-view, Dailymotion’s got plenty of new suitors. All of them French.

May 22, 2013 by LiamBoogar

From this side of the Atlantic, you can almost see what could have been a huge win for French startups – Tumblr’s been purchased for $1.1 Billion and, while no one’s sure whether Yahoo! will make a Flickr out of Tumblr, or a Tumblr out of Flickr, the fact remains...

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Did the French government put the breaks on the Dailymotion – Yahoo deal?

Apr 25, 2013 by Trista Bridges

As was widely reported last month, Yahoo had supposedly been in ongoing talks with Orange to take a majority stake of 75% in Dailymotion, the 31st ranked site globally. However, now comes the news from Le Monde that the talks have abruptly come to an end. It’s well-known that Orange...

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S&P highlights French mobile operator troubles, takes France Telecom down a grade

Apr 24, 2013 by Trista Bridges

Citing concerns about mobile pricing pressure in the French market and an anticipated big drop in France Telecom / Orange’s earnings, S&P has decided to follow Fitch’s lead and cut France Telecom’s debt rating to BBB+, the third lowest investment grade. This cut puts France Telecom somewhere in the middle...

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Is Bouygues automatically signing you up to a 20€/month service?

Apr 16, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Reports are coming in on internet forums that Bouygues subscribers are receiving confirmation emails for a service called CellPass, which offers “each week 5 downloadable products to choose from among 50,000 ringtones, images, videos & applications.” The service, which costs an appalling 5€ per week, is even more appalling when you take into account...

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Orange’s all-in-one communications app Libon launches on Android

Apr 15, 2013 by Trista Bridges

Following its highly successful iOS launch last November which has hit over 1 million downloads and is available in over 100 countries, Libon is launching on Android today. Available to download for free from Google Play, Libon will now offer Android users free calls, smart messaging, and personalized visual voicemail....

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Orange Fab: 5 Things you need to know about Orange’s new “accelerator”

Apr 5, 2013 by LiamBoogar

During my trip home to California, I took the opportunity to meet up with some French companies & organizations doing cool things in the Silicon Valley – one of them, was Orange Fab. Run by mobile carrier Orange‘s silicon valley subsidiary Orange Silicon Valley (OSV), Orange Fab self-identifies as “ a...

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Alcatel-Lucent venture Nuage Networks unveils its SDN to compete with Cisco & VMWare

Apr 3, 2013 by LiamBoogar

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In recent months, there’s been a lot of buzz around the topic of Software-defined Networked (SDN), which, in short, allows admins to control networks of computers (like a fleet of Virtual Machines on,say, Amazon Web Services) “on the fly,” in order to manage where traffic is sent in this network....

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Bouygues gearing up for its big 4G launch later this year

Apr 3, 2013 by Trista Bridges

Having received the go ahead from ARCEP in mid-March to launch and commercialize their 4G network at 1,800 MHz across France, Bouygues is gearing up for its big launch later this year. In order to be prepared to help consumers with the transition, Director General Olivier Roussat confirmed in an...

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Consumer complaints about mobile services skyrocketing in France

Apr 2, 2013 by Trista Bridges

In 2012, Afutt (the French association for telcoms users) registered a record number of official complaints from subscribers about their mobile service. Although mobile contracts are getting cheaper and cheaper thanks to newbie Free Mobile as well as the incumbents who’ve been playing catch-up, consumers don’t look to any happier with...

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TelCo.

With Yahoo in the rear-view, Dailymotion’s got plenty of new suitors. All of them French.

Did the French government put the breaks on the Dailymotion – Yahoo deal?

S&P highlights French mobile operator troubles, takes France Telecom down a grade

Is Bouygues automatically signing you up to a 20€/month service?

Orange’s all-in-one communications app Libon launches on Android

Orange Fab: 5 Things you need to know about Orange’s new “accelerator”

Alcatel-Lucent venture Nuage Networks unveils its SDN to compete with Cisco & VMWare

Bouygues gearing up for its big 4G launch later this year

Consumer complaints about mobile services skyrocketing in France

Mobile in France

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