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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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Rude VC: Losing Our Religion

Apr 23, 2013 by Mark Bivens

Your Rude VC returns following a week off the grid with family. Part of my travels took me through New York, during which I indulged on two of my favorite weaknesses: authentic New York bagels, and pastrami on rye from a Brooklyn deli. Of course, nowadays I don’t have to...

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3 Things Fleur Pellerin could be doing instead of fighting AppGratis’ battles for them

Apr 12, 2013 by LiamBoogar

We wrote this week about AppGratis being pulled from the Apple App Store unexpectedly last weekend. CEO Simon Dawlat later came out and said that he was utterly confused as to why Apple would do this, and that there was zero communication around the subject. If you’d like to catch...

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With AppGratis on the chopping block, Ouriel Ohayon explains why Appsfire isn’t going anywhere

Apr 11, 2013 by LiamBoogar

It’s been a rough week for App Discovery apps everywhere – perhaps no more so than AppGratis, whose founder got off a 12 hour plane last weekend to find that his app, which has 12 million users, had been pulled from the Apple App Store. While other App Recommendation apps...

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Pulled from Apple’s App Store, does AppGratis have a future?

Apr 8, 2013 by LiamBoogar

You’d think with $13.5 Million in the bank, everything was going the way AppGratis wanted it to. The App recommendation company announced 10 Million users back in February just weeks after a massive fundraising with Iris Capital; however, news was buzzing this week after Pocketgamer announced that Apple had pulled...

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Les Trois Elles – the Education App featured in Apple’s latest iPad ad campaign

Mar 29, 2013 by LiamBoogar

If you’re travelling in the metro in Paris in the next few months, you may pass Apple’s latest iPad Campaign, which features Educational App producer Les Trois Elles. The French startup, which produces apps based on the Montessori educational style for English, Math, and other primary school subjects, has had...

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Paris Apple store robbed on NYE by 4 armed individuals

Jan 1, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Waking up after a long evening, it seems no one had a better New Year’s Eve party than the four masked individuals who broke into the Apple Store at Opéra last night around 9:00PM. Having subdued a security guard, the four men spent forty minutes loading the entire store stock...

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Xavier Niel interviews Nest founder Tony Fadell

Dec 4, 2012 by LiamBoogar

LeWeb is in full swing today, and the event kicked off powerfully with Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad (the company behind 4th biggest Telecom giant Free Mobile), interviewing Nest founder Tony Fadell. Prior to founding Nest, Tony Fadell worked at Apple, where he was deeply involved with the development of...

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Appsfire 4.0 – finally mobile app discovery the way it should be

Nov 19, 2012 by LiamBoogar

This week news was buzzing that over 1 million apps had been approved in the app store since its launch (as reported by Appsfire); what better a time for someone to come along and dethrone it as the go-to place for finding new apps. Appsfire announced today the release of...

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