Adrian Johnson was very at ease in Cannes at the MIP TV…but I assure you that he had back to back meetings. In 2003, he co-founded MrFootage, with his old friend from the Berlin days, Swedish former media executive and Strix Television CEO, Johan Sundberg. MrFootage ambitions to create one of the largest independent online […]
Mobile and 2.0 geeks met yesterday at the Hard Rock Cafe in Paris, France for Fanny’s party. A number of start-ups, bloggers and influencers were there: Parrott, Jubii, Wowwee and his Dragon Fly, Jerome Bouteiller, Gregory Pouy, Altaide, Moovement, Blue Kiwi, Pikeo etc. Networking was intense. And Fanny made sure everyone got a little present. […]
I wanted to know more aboutBabelgum, the new venture from Silvio Scaglia and Erik Lumer. They call it “The global internet TV network”. Scaglia is chairman of FastWeb, the second largest wireline telecommunication company in Italy. Previously, he was CEO of Omnitel, now Vodaphone Italy. He is known to be the 746th richest man in […]
Orange is about to launch Soundtribes : a new business model for self-produced artists. Soundtribe is a community for Music Lovers, artists and musicians to promote, to distribute and to sell their music as ringtones on mobile phones. The artist receives a revenue share from ringtones made from his own music. Price is around 3€ […]
Richard Menneveux, an internet wizard, and Jacques Froissant, a renowned expert in the hightech/start-up recrutments are the founders of Moovement , selected as BestInnov at Capital IT 2007. To make a long story short, Moovement is a google for job search. France is planning 1.22 million hires in 2007. Moovement is signing partnerships with the […]
As founders, Gilles Babinet and I are stepping up Eyeka’s international development in Europe. It is a turning point in our growth and a commitment to create value for our clients, our authors and our shareholders. Three leaders in their respective fields are joining Eyeka. Sadek Chekroun takes over as CEO. Sadek was a key […]
The CEO’s bloggers’ club met in Paris yesterday for an informal diner. Guillaume du Gardier is the president (showing the new Eyeka’s promotional leaflet following our recrutment campaign launched on April 2nd). You’ll also recognize Jacques Froissant right; Laurent Esposito, on the left launched YouVox last fall. Charles Nouyrit , author of the famous IpodNanoBlog […]
Paris’ last mobile monday, on April 2nd, focused on mobile paiements.. Tim Baker presented Inside ContactLess, a semiconducteur provider, also a 12 year old startup (yes!), developing technologies – NFC (Near Field Communication)– about to emerge in everyone’s day-to-day life. You’re about to use your phone to pay, travel, enter theaters etc. Nothing new about […]
Hard for me not to share with you our latest PR relase about EYEKA. We’re launching our recrutment campaign today, after a few months of Alpha and Beta testing. Some say that we could have launched before. I kind of agree…Our vision is to help define how will TV on mobile and web look like […]