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5 French startups that fit the bill for LeWeb London’s “Sharing Economy” program.

Apr 23, 2013 by LiamBoogar

This week Loic & Geraldine LeMeur announced the program for LeWeb London (June 5th & 6th), which includes marketplace giants Etsy, Airbnb, ZipCar & TaskRabbit. This will be the 2nd LeWeb London, and the first LeWeb event since Leweb was acquired by Reed MIDEM at the end of last year, so...

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Evernote passes 1 Million users in France, doubled in the past year

Feb 28, 2013 by LiamBoogar

It seems like only yesterday that Evernote was launching Evernote Hello and announcing a partnership with Orange at LeWeb 2011, when I first got my hands on Evernote. This week, the company announced on their French blog that the company has passed one million users in France. The company counts...

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Loic & Geraldine announce the LeWeb London theme: The Digital Hippies & The Sharing Economy

Feb 5, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Via a new video posted to the LeWeb YouTube account yesterday, Loic & Geraldine Le Meur have announced the theme for LeWeb London: The Digital Hippies & The Sharing Economy. The event, set to take place on June 5th & 6th in central London, will be their second event in London,...

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Vacances à volonté, a rising trend of unlimited vacation days

Jan 22, 2013 by Mark Bivens

“Impossible, that would never work in France; don’t be so idealistic,” chided my friend with a dismissive wave of the hand. With a storied career rising through the ranks of a CAC40 firm and more recently a business owner, my friend knew a lot about managing people in a French...

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Everything must go! Loic sells LeWeb to Reed MIDEM

Dec 13, 2012 by LiamBoogar

Yesterday afternoon,a surprise announcement dropped into email inboxes around the world, that the LeWeb conference series, started by Loic and Geraldine Le Meur in 2004, has been acquired by Reed MIDEM, a leading organizer of professional, international tradeshows and conferences. Loic and Geraldine declined to comment on the acquisition amount, according to TheNextWeb, though...

[The Sharing Economy]

Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to launch in France, now accepts €/£

Dec 10, 2012 by LiamBoogar

Speaking at LeWeb last week, co-founder of crowdfunding platform Indiegogo Danae Ringelmann spoke about Indiegogo’s progress in helping projects get funded. With Kickstarter having announced their launch in the UK, Indiegogo looks to get ahead of them on continental Europe, and announced today that they would be soon accepting euros & pounds...

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LeWeb gets back to its Roots – A Review

Dec 7, 2012 by LiamBoogar

With LeWeb safely under wraps, I think it’s about that time that we take a look at what we can learn from Paris’ biggest web event of the year, and one of Europe’s largest tech events. The three day event saw plenty of announcements - some of them we’ve already covered, many...

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European Commission strategy for tech startups: Start in Europe, Stay in Europe

Dec 5, 2012 by LiamBoogar

Neelie Kroes, Vice-President for the Digital Agenda of the European Commission, ended the second day of LeWeb, talking about the European Commission’s strategy for supproting European tech startups. The talk was part of an ambitious action plan by the European Commission, currently being studied with input from the European startup scene,...

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Fleur Pellerin appoints Tariq Krim to map the Paris startup scene

Dec 5, 2012 by LiamBoogar

On the first day of LeWeb, Fleur Pellerin, Minister of the Numerique in France, spoke alongside the new head of UK Tech City Joanna Shields and Katia Gaika, who heads up Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation. The talk, moderated by TNW‘s UK Editor Jamillah Knowles, discussed the role of government in the startup ecosystem. While the conversation...

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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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