Brash Entertainment LLC announced on June 4th 2007 that they raised $400 million from investors including ABRY Partners LLC, New York Life Capital Partners, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance and PPM America. Brash is in the videogame industry, competing against Electronic Arts Inc. Activision Inc and others. For many years, companies in the gaming industry developed […]
When you are a photographer or a videomaker, the key question you end up asking very early on in any conversation is “How can my images be protected from piracy?. Toronto based Idees Inc, founded by Leila Boujnane and Paul Bloore develops advanced image recognition and visual search software. Their clients include the world’s largest […]
How to secure the highest audience? Tough job! Tony Parker got the MVP title, will marry on 7/7/7 Linda Longoria, one of the stars of “Desperate housewives” and has a hit music record in France…but that’s not enough when the outcome is clear for basketball fans. The San Antonio Spurs beat the Cleveland Cavalier 4 […]
Eyeka is at “Salon de la Télé” Porte de Versailles in Paris for 2 more days this weekend June 16 and 17. You can’t miss it…we have a beautiful booth next to Orange and Europe 1. Our editors will welcome you; you’ll be able to showcase you work or just discover our platform and team. […]
Maurice Levy , Publicis CEO continues to build its group’s leadership in digital communications. The acquisition of Digitas at the beginning of the year was a major strategic turning point for our Groupe, and this repositioning has increased our momentum towards the digital revolution. Our ambition is to bring our clients the most advanced […]
Look at the guy in the pink shirt. Here is the value of this picture. (To illustrate this post, the picture below is captured from a video (c) Vatican TV/AP) Rome, Saint Peter’s Place, June 6th, 2007, a 27 years old man throws himself above the barriers on the Pope’s car to grab the Jeep. […]
I attended Nokia‘s Nseries launch event on monday night in Paris where they also presented their corporate objectives and strategies. They agreed to share the following 2 speeches from Florence Douroux-Chatellier, Marketing Director, and from Thierry Peignard, sales director. Florence presented Nokia’s extensive “socio-style” research conducted in 21 countries, identifying a dozen profiles of mobile […]
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