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 […]
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 […]
French President Sarkozy’s government members can’t used their Blackberry’s anymore! For this younger generation, used to email, mobile text message , it’s a handicap in their daily business. Just think about yourself! The French General Secretariat for National Defence (SGDN) assessed that the BlackBerry system is based on servers located in the US and the […]
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 […]
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. […]