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French government may fund another useless Google competitor
Irrespective of the current acrimony between Google and the EU, French government, the French press, etc, Google still dominates search in France and can now boast of having France’s top browser in Chrome [FR]. All of this, of course, unnerves the government to no end. So, (perhaps) predictably, they’re now mulling over having another go at creating a successful “made […]
Stupeflix – videos customized on the fly (includes a sneak preview of their iPhone app!)
Stupeflix is a team of young technical minds that took it upon themselves to build a really cool technology where you render videos on-the-fly in a server-hosted environment, from a template, where you can drop custom texts and images into. An example: Say Coca-Cola has a video of a famous singer, you can upload an […]
I'm sorry, did you think French companies don't acquire?
It's true. French companies don't have the same acquisition culture as some of the American tech darlings, like Google or Facebook. And it definitely doesn't help the local exit market. French and other European companies often look across the Atlantic when it comes time to go public or get acquired.But just because there are more exit opportunities elsewhere doesn't mean there are none at home.