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With 3 Million players on Facebook, Adictiz releases Laboratz on iOS & Android

Casual gaming startup Adictiz, maker of Paf! Le Chien (Space Dog), “Il est Con, le Pigeon” & Duck It, is bringing its latest title Laboratz to iOS & Android. Laboratz, originally released on Facebook, already counts 3 Million users, and, as a virtual card collecting game, is shaping up to be a potentially big hit […]

After the success of Space Dog, Adictiz releases Duck it!

Fresh off a round of funding, Adictiz has released its latest game “Duck It“, following up the success of Space Dog (Paf Le Chien in France). The new game follows the life of a rambunctious toddler and his ongoing dispute with his sister, which is apparently tested by their apparent ability to kill rubber duckies. […]

Boostrapping: the Steady Strategy of Adictiz

  Adictiz is a mobile and social games developper based in Lille, France. They have been bootstrapping for 4 years now, and they have grown into a profitable company that has managed to balance out a product strategy with a real service strategy. Product start-ups usually need a breadwinner on the side if they’re bootstrapping. […]

Kickstarter, MyMajorCompany and other big names headline Videogame Economics Forum on May 16-17th

There’s a solid line-up planned for this year’s Videogame Economics Forum (VEF). As financing in the gaming sector continues to be a major challenge, particularly in social gaming where Zynga’s problems seem to have complicated things for everyone, new financing models have now become all the rage. Crowdfunding has been at the center of this revolution, where […]

The Mobile World Congress French Pavillion shows the world what France can do in Mobile

Smack dab in the middle of the monstrous Mobile World Congress’ Hall 5, sits France’s French Pavillion. As with other big, developed markets, Ubifrance (for the 7th consecutive year) works to put some of France’s most interesting mobile companies on display and organizes business meetings for them with potential partners in other markets.  Many of […]

Mobile World Congress: What you can expect for the French Market this week

Mobile World Congress is going on all week in Barcelona, and it seems the entire news world is watching to see what will come out of it. Last night, a few press conferences were held already – Mozilla announced Firefox OS, which stole the evening, despite the fact that Huawei announced the Ascend P2 – […]

Indian Giant Tata to open office in Euratechnologies for its consulting arm

Indian Giant Tata has announced it will be opening up an office in the Euratechnologies ICT Cluster in Lille for its consulting subsidiary, Tata Consulting Services. TCS has been operating in France for five years already, and, according to Invest in France, “its choice reflectsits confidence in France, the buoyancy of the market and France’s […]

All 19 of the French People's Choice nominees for The Europas

The Europas have announced their list of nominees for the people’s choice award. For those who don’t know about The Europas, it is the European equivalent of the Crunchies, a startup award show hosted by TechCrunch in San Francisco. Startups from all around Europe have already submitted their nominations for a shot at one of the […]

10 French entrepreneurs who attended Stanford

Since arriving in France, I’ve noticed a very strange phenomenon. You see, whenever I introduce myself, it inevitably comes up that I was born in Menlo Park, just up the road from Stanford University, and that’s always been a way for me to gauge someone’s experience in the Silicon Valley – if they recognize “Menlo […]