According to Jupiter Research, the total online expenditures by small businesses is expected to top $70 billion by the year 2012, up from $47 billion in 2006…. “In addition, 82 percent of small business decision makers research products or services for their business online, monthly or more frequently. Increasing competition, better prices, convenience create significant […]
If you want to know it all, trends, players, movers in the internet and mobile environment, it will be at le Web 3’07 on December 11 and 12 in Paris staged by Loic. It’s also a great place to network. I’ll be there. Let’s meet! Speakers i will listen to : Andrew Keen Cult of […]
I heard that Amazon has developed great services to help companies manage some of their infrastructure, online-software services such as storage or access to computing power. I can’t evaluate the benefits from a business standpoint. Anyhow, to get these services known by entrepreneurs, Amazon is launching a contest : the start-up challenge . The top […]
74 jours après son lancement le 29 juin, Apple annonce la vente du millionième iPhone. Souvenez-vous, il avait fallu près de 2 ans à Apple pour vendre 1 000 000 d’iPods. Pour Steve Job, CEO d’Apple, le ventes de Noël s’annoncent prometteuses : “One million iPhones in 74 days—it took almost two years to achieve […]
While in Perpignan at the Festival of Photojournalism, negotiations were going on yesterday by phone between the News wire agencies against the International Rugby Board (IRB). In the afternoon, Reuters, AFP, Getty, AP and PressSport (L’Equipe) all agreed to boycott the media coverage – text and photos – of the Rugby world cup which starts […]
Maurice Levy, chairmain of Publicis Group announced on September 6th the acquisition of PhoneValley founded by Alexandre Mars in 2000. The acquisition price was not disclosed. PhoneValley published 2006 numbers: revenues of €6.7 milllion, net result 600 000€ for a staff of 60. The start-up will be part of Publicis Media Group, which includes Publicis’ […]
La semaine dernière a vu un grand nombre de sorties qui permettent aux fabricants de préparer le boom des ventes du weekend de Thanksgiving aux Etats-Unis, avant celui de Noël. Avec Visa pour l’Image qui démarre ce jour, c’est l’occasion de parler photo! Je trouve 4 segments de marché pour les fabricants : le […]
Broken is a young association of a dozen artists : directors, writers, sound and video makers. Here is their perception of how technology sneaks into our lifes and how we forget about it, about where and who it comes from.
Although it has been on their roadmap for quite sometime, the momentum is stronger than ever. A numbers of factors are pushing for it : Apple’s iPhone success has led the way, the mobile advertising market promises wonders ($14 billion by 2011 according to eMarketer) and Google could upload a great number of applications on […]