Lagardere SCA continues to build its expertise in sports management. After Sportfive and Newsweb, the acquisition of 100% of IEC strenghtens Lagardere Sports in production of events, products and sports rights management. EC had sales of €17 million in the fiscal year ended last Aug 31 with strong profitability (€4.1m).The acquisition package plans for an […]
Jean Paul Sanchez, VP of Mobile, MySpace / Fox Interactive, discussed how to transfer the Success of Web Communities to Mobile Communities. He allowed me to film and share the presentation he recently gave at the Mobile Entertainment Market (MEM) in Monte-Carlo. Jean Paul Sanchez, VP of Mobile, MySpace – June 5th
48 hours to write, shoot and edit a short film: Mark Ruppert tells us more on “48 hour film project”
Mark Ruppert created the 48 Hour Film Project in 2001 and his concept is taking off all around the world : it will take place in 60 cities this year. 3000 films have been produced since the beginning and an additional 1 500 films just this year.The concept is to write, shoot and edit a […]
The Apple iPhone will hit “ATT’s shelves” on June 29th in the US. It will be sold $499 or $599, depending on the storage capacity and distributed exclusively by ATT in the United States. It will be released end of 2007, before Christmas, in Europe, and in 2008 in Asia. Let’s have fun and go […]
According to the 2007 PMA U.S. Digital Imaging Survey, 20% of digital camera owners use their digital camera for artistic purposes, for moonlighting job, or to master photography skills. This segment of photo customers is called the advanced amateur or prosumer segment and has been generating much of the business at camera stores around the […]
What I really appreciated in London’s ability to secure the 2012 Olympic games – winning against Paris – was how they thought, selected and packaged their vision. I recall that that vision was around youth : how the young generation today would make the athletes of 2012. It is then quite coherent to select a […]
The belgium web agency, Emakina, listed on Alternext, announced May 31st, 2007 the acquisition of 50,1 % of Groupe Reflect. Manuel Diaz CEO of Groupe Reflect tells the story behind it. The value of the company was estimated to euro 2,4 million plus an undiscosed amount tied to performance over the next 3 years. Manuel […]
Google confirmed its acquisition of Feedburner, where excitement reaches its peak. Feedburner provides (free) feed distribution and management tools so that any reader can reach directly the publisher. You can use it on this weblog, for example! The terms were not disclosed ($100 million?) but the acquisition brings Google much closer to the publishers. […]
Monte-Carlo will welcome about 2000 visitors for the 2007 Mobile Entertainment Market, the official annual event of the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) on the 5 and 6 June. It’s the place to be if you want to network at high level with the mobile industry experts and leaders. During the event, the organization will elect […]