We’ll take this weekend a decision about registering Eyeka to the Web and Communities Summit, organized as part of the 28th European Tech Tour Event, scheduled on November 14 -15th in Montreux, Switzerland. The top 25 companies from Europe are selected to meet with the leading US, European, and Asian venture capitalists and media companies. […]
Publicis développe agressivement sa présence dans le digital à travers une stratégie d’acquisitions. Après Digitas, Business Interactive et Phone Valley, Publicis annonce l’acquisition d’une des toutes dernières agences interactives indépendantes, Wcube. Fondée en 1995, l’agence a réalisé en 2006 4,5 millions d’Euros avec un résultat net de 400 000€. Le prix n’a pas […]
Kewego annonce lever 5 millions d’euros auprès de CDC Entreprises. La première levée de fonds en mai 2006 portait déjà sur 5 millions d’euros. Cela monte à 10 millions d’euros les investissements des fonds d’investissements avec sans doute un objectif de rentabilité à la clé. A la différence de Daily Motion qui vient d’annoncer une […]
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’ […]
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 […]
Thomas Crampton’s life is changing at the speed of the internet and he is cumulating with reasonable stoicism three of the most stressfull events in life : getting married, changing jobs – after 12 years in journalism, he will launch start-ups supported by Next Media, one of the largest media group in Asia – and […]
You love to write, conceive and animate comics but just don’t know how to sell them. Zuda Comics is for you and will launch in October 2007. DC Comics, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, announced yesterday that they will open up to new talents and let people upload and share their cartoons in a variety […]
Simultaneously to its acquisition strategy, Maurice Levy, predident of Publicis Groupe, is building its know-how in the web 2.0 through a couple of entrepreneurial projects. It is this unique combination – M&A and entrepreneurship – which, in my opinion, makes their web2.0 and interactive strategy more relevant. On June 28, in partnership with Dassault Systèmes […]
Blue Kiwi ‘CEO Carlos Diaz announced yesterday that Sofinnova invested €4 million ($5.3 million) in the company to speed up international development of the 1 year old start-up, founded in 2006. BlueKiwi sells an entreprise collaborative social software. The software enables collaborative work within entreprise social networks. An example : allowing a sales force spread […]