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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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Apple, Google, Amazon & Netflix in France’s radar with new smartphone/tablet tax

May 13, 2013 by LiamBoogar

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François Hollande will receive a report today resulting from nine months of studying how the digital economy can contribute to cultural funding in France. This report will detail a plan to add a tax on smartphones and tablets, a tax which will go to pay for art & culture in...

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Euro-Centric: A review of The Next Web Conference

Apr 29, 2013 by LiamBoogar

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Walking out of the Hotel V in Frederiksplein last Thursday morning, I rode the line 10 tram to the end of the line, passing canals, the newly reopened Rijksmuseum, the Heineken Factory, and plenty of construction sites putting up stands for the upcoming Queen’s Day. When I arrived to TheNextWeb...

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After eliminating the competition with help from the government, Amazon to "harmonize" commission rates in France

Feb 14, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Amazon has been welcomed with open arms by the government. They bought their tapis rouge on Amazon, rolled it out from them on top of FNAC, Darty, Surcouf, and Virgin Megastore, and let them walk right in. To give a brief summary, in the past year Amazon has opened new offices...

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More tablets will be sold than laptop PCs in France this year

Feb 8, 2013 by Trista Bridges

France will soon reach a major digital milestone…2013 will be the year that tablet sales, projected to easily reach 5.1million this year, will officially surpass those of laptop PCs. With the number of tablets sold in France more than doubling in a year (up from 1.5 million in 2011 to...

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And then there were two | Netflix to delay entrance into the French Market

Jan 24, 2013 by LiamBoogar

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...

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Amazon continues to hire in France despite tax evasion claims

Nov 23, 2012 by Trista Bridges

After announcing the opening of a new fulfillment center last June in Chalons-sur-Saone (the region of Bourgogne and, coincidentally the previous district of the current Minister of Industrial Renewal, Arnaud Montebourg), it has been announced that in the 2nd half of 2013, Amazon will open yet another fulfillment center in...

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After Google and Amazon, French tax authorities target Facebook

Nov 15, 2012 by LiamBoogar

In recent weeks, we’ve been covering quite extensively Google and their quarrels with the French government. An attempt to re-instate the Google Tax led to French media banding together to propose a law forcing Google to pay royalties for snippets used on Google sites. This all happened as French tax authorities...

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Forget Google – France just hit Amazon with $252M in back taxes

Nov 13, 2012 by LiamBoogar

These days in France, all we read about in France is the French government’s ongoing pursuit of the coffers of Google, who pay as little as 2% taxes on the revenue generated by French customers; however, Reuters shifted the attention towards another tax-optimized giant, Amazon, who has been hit with...

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