Here are 5 companies operating in the new media environments – TV, mobile, Advertising and IT – which have reinforced their funding over the past few days. Kontera, the Israel-based developer of in-text advertising technology, announced $10.3m funding on August 13, 2007. Kontera develops “contextual analysis technology that finds relevant keywords on a publisher’s web […]
Selon MacScoop, Orange distribuerait l’iPhone en France. Selon leurs sources, 50 000 iPhones seraient achetés pour le marché français, les équipes internes d’Orange plancheraient sur les campagnes de lancement, la FNAC serait associée à la distribution avec un modèle de boutique Apple à l’intérieur de ses magasins. La sortie est fxée avant la fin de […]
Le succès et la visibilité stimulant plus facilement le gout des défis, une partie du code PHP de l’index page de Facebook s’est retrouvée en ligne sur Facebook Secrets , un weblog spécialement crée à cette occasion. Cela met en avant la question de la protection des codes car, à défaut de penser qu’il ait […]
De retour après deux semaines en Turquie, je fais un petit tour des weblogs et suis tombé sur quelques messages d’absence sympas. Voici donc un panorama de vos blogueurs préférés et de leur histoires on-et-off line pendant leurs vacances. Pour ma part, j’ai gardé le mobile pour raisons professionnelles, mais totalement coupé avec le digital […]
Thomas Crampton’s life is changing at the speed of the internet and he is cumulating with reasonable stoicism three of the most stressfull events in life : getting married, changing jobs – after 12 years in journalism, he will launch start-ups supported by Next Media, one of the largest media group in Asia – and […]
The Future Film Summit organized by Screen Daily was taking place in London on July 11th and 12th, and focusing on emerging opportunities for film content, distribution and marketing. I was invited to participate on a panel focusing on HARNESSING SOCIAL NETWORKS. With young people flocking to join social networks, how best should filmmakers plug […]
Google is now mostly focusing on giving its corporate users a better and secured experience in search and related web services. The recent acquisition of Postini for $625 million confirms that strategy. I am not an expert in Spam prevention and here is an interesting point of view of a venture capitalist who knows […]
Sanjay Kapoor, a Chicago based serial entrepreneur and now consultant in computing applications, was in Paris a few weeks ago. He discusses Ruby and its framework “Ruby on Rails”, created by these guys, which benefit from a growing popularity. As PHP and Java, Ruby allows to develop quickly. Many start-ups are considering Ruby and ROR […]