Do not open unknown links on Skype. There has been an effective and malicious attack with the new variant worm targeting Skype. It comes in a chat message as a .pif file, that poses as “photos”. It targets anyone on your contact list using AIM,ICQ,Messenger,Miranda,MSN,Trillian (which uses all of the above) and Yahoo. You’ll find […]
The blogs have heavily commented the recent acquisition of aQuantive by Microsoft, as part of a move in strategic businesses. They have been put back in perspective of the great number of acquisitions of advertising companies over the past 8 weeks. All of it seems to be based on future earnings in online advertsiing. All […]
Mediaset, of Silvio Berlusconi, joined by former Endemol’s founder John de Mol, one of the top 500 richest man in the world, and Goldman Sachs Group bought Endemol from Telefonica for a deal valued at €3.4 billion. Telefonica’s 75% shares amount to €2.63 billion. Endemol produced more than 300 shows in 2006, including Big […]
If you are in Paris on Thursday may 24th, if you love Egypt, are sensible to new media and techologies, to innovative theories, run to attend this show at La Geode at 8pm.. It’s one time only; it’s a 3D computer demo on their gigantic screen; it’s live presented by Jean-Pierre Houdin, who spent the […]
Joost , the internet broadcast quality television platform, annouced on May 10th that they raised $45 million from 5 leading firms : Sequoia, Index, Li Ka Shing Foundation, CBS and Viacom I think that the founders’ choice of firms is very smart. Combining leading venture firms in the US and in Asia gives Joost windows […]
Barcamp is a good way to get an overview of the start-ups. In Paris, the ones i’ve covered in earlier posts are The Tokeda Project and Moovement. The full list is here. Richard tells us more about some of the players here. Logistics : Meet at Yahoo! 17 rue Guillaume Tell 75017 Paris. On May […]
If you read this post, you’re likely to be a blogger. And if you are, you’re likely to measure traffic and use Google Analytics. I do and I like it. Can’t compare though, i have never used anything else ! On May 8th at Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Google announced a new version which […]
Just a thought reading and listening to all that buzz about Microsoft possible acquisition of Yahoo!. Microsoft is from the inside towards the outside : that’s web 1.0 Google! is from the outside towards the inside : that’s web 2.0 Both companies are outstanding, with great people, performing products, top notch marketing and amazingly strong […]
I remember chatting with Charles Nouyrit at a recent CEO bloggers dinner. He had joined Groupe Reflect a few months back and enjoyed business development for this web agency. I thought he was pretty settled and committed not to “fly from a tree to the other”. And there he was, announcing the Tokeda Project. Charles […]