Jun 10, 2014 | France, News
Enquire, an innovative new “local community” or “hood” Q&A app is now being rolled out in eighteen US cities and Paris. Enquire helps visitors and local users alike get “human” answers to questions such as “where’s the best place to take a photo of the skyline”...
May 29, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, France, News
East-West Digital News Yesterday, French mobile analytics startup Capptain, which so far had been funded by Moscow-based venture fund Runa Capital, announced it was being acquired by Microsoft. The amount of transaction has not been disclosed, but Runa’s PR...
May 22, 2014 | France, News
French startup TVTY raised $4.5 million from Partech Ventures, 360 Capital Partners and business angels. This is yet another sign that French companies’ efforts to advertise technology have been doing very well. TVTY provides an API for advertising companies to bridge...
May 22, 2014 | France, News
TechCrunch May 22, 2014 French startup accelerator TheFamily is raising up to $2 million from angel investors and Index Ventures. It’s an open round — so far investors have committed $1 million. Given the overall interest around the funding, the company should quickly...
May 19, 2014 | France, News
TechCrunch May 19, 2014 Dashlane came to life in 2011 as a somewhat stealthy startup out of Paris that promised a smart approach to the sometimes-frustrating art of consumers managing multiple passwords. Nearly three years on, with some key product iterations under...
May 16, 2014 | France, News
TechCrunch May 16, 2014 Arnaud Montebourg has a huge responsibility now. He’s France’s minister of the economy, industrial renewal, and the digital economy. He just signed a decree that allows the government to prevent acquisitions of French companies by foreign firms...