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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...

[Cloud][Contests][Events]

‘Temoignages du Cloud’ conference puts the spotlight on global cloud innovation

Mar 13, 2013 by Trista Bridges

This coming March 25th will see the first edition of ‘Temoignages du Cloud’, which will bring together several key actors in France’s Cloud ecosystem to discuss cloud driven innovation. As enterprises everywhere have either already moved their information, processes, etc to the Cloud or have plans to do so, the...

[European StartUp Scene]

JCDecaux bringing real Open Data for Paris bike riders

Feb 6, 2013 by Serge Versille

Paris, like many other French cities, has a network of bicycle stations called Velib, where people with (very cheap) subscriptions can take a bike for free for as long as a half-hour. However, up until now, the data of what stations are full of available bikes, and which have space...

[European StartUp Scene][TravelTech]

SNCF starts beta testing door-to-door service in Aix En Provence

Jan 3, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Over the holidays, France’s largest train service SNCF quietly announced a new service, named porte à porte, which allows travelers to book not only their train ticket, but a taxi to and from the departure and arrival train station. The service takes into account expected delays, and assures passengers that taxi’s will...

[eCommerce][Mobile][TravelTech]

SNCF iOS app now stores user info. Can Capitaine Train compete?

Dec 21, 2012 by LiamBoogar

I wrote a little while ago about a startup called Capitaine Train, which raised $2 Million in order to bring a unified train travel ticketing experience. I have been outspoken about my lack of conviction about this business model – it’s not quite the kayak of the train travel industry,...

[eCommerce][The Sharing Economy]

Zilok Auto snags €1.5M from Jaina & the new Ecomobilité Ventures

Oct 11, 2012 by LiamBoogar

ZIlok Auto announced yesterday a new round of funding from Marc Simoncini’s Jaina Capital & Ecomobilité Ventures, a Joint Venture fund by SNCF, Total & Orange. Zilok Auto is a peer-to-peer car rental service which hopes to help you monetize the 90% of the time you don’t use your car in...

[Data][eCommerce][TravelTech]

Capitaine Train raises €1.4M for European Train Ticketing

Sep 17, 2012 by LiamBoogar

At the end of last week, JDN reported that Capitaine Train, an eCommerce startup which aggregates train ticket sales for all major European train lines, had raised €1.4M from Index Venture, Fotolia CEO Oleg Tscheltzoff, and other investors. The startup, founded by three engineers, looks to make buying train tickets easy. Purchasing...

[Games][Virtual Reality]

MiddleVR brings 3D apps to Virtual Reality

Aug 2, 2012 by Louis Dorard

Two weeks ago I presented VRGeeks, an association promoting Virtual Reality (VR) among hackers and technology enthusiasts. Still on the VR topic, allow me to introduce I’m in VR, a Telecom ParisTech-incubated startup that develops software that aims to simplify the creation of VR applications. MiddleVR, their first realisation, is a Unity plugin...

[Events][French-Startup]

Check out the 16 startups competing at Web2day in Nantes!

May 14, 2012 by LiamBoogar

With Web2day just two weeks away, and the Rude Baguette excited to be attending both as a media partner and as a moderator, the details about the event are slipping out a bit at a time. This week, Web2day announced the sixteen startups who will be competing for a chance...

[European StartUp Scene][French-Startup]

Techstars Boston has a French flavor this year

Feb 2, 2012 by Robert Kelley

France’s last remaining territory in North America (not including the Caribbean) is Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, an archipelago off the coast of Newfoundland with just over 6,000 residents. But if recent developments are any indication, it seems that the French have designs on the startup hotbed of Cambridge, Massachusetts. That’s where two hot Gallic startups, DocTrackr and Psykosoft,...

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