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| Dec 10, 2013 | Fred Wilson On Bitcoin, Unbundling, Data Leakage And Health Care | During the 10th edition of the LeWeb conference in Paris today, New York-based investor Fred Wilson explained the “mega trends” that currently influence which companies he invests in.
Wilson stressed that he doesn’t so much look at technolo... |
| Dec 10, 2013 | Evernote’s Market For Physical Goods Now Accounts For 30% Of Its Monthly Sales | Evernote‘s CEO Phil Libin today disclosed some of the company’s latest revenue numbers at LeWeb in Paris. While it took Evernote about 16 months to get to the first $1 million in sales through its freemium model, he said, Evernote Business ... |
| May 14, 2012 | InZair raises USD570.000 | |
| Apr 19, 2012 | Le Web London Goes Faster Than Realtime – Grab Your TC Discount Here | ‘Allo my Breeteesh chums! If you have not been to Le Web before, zen zis is pour vous!
Le Web is possibly Europe’s oldest, and certainly its biggest tech startup conference, running for many years in December in Paris. Because of organiser ... |
| Mar 22, 2012 | All aboard the StartupBus: The pressure cooker startup incubator on wheels | Bottle the following ingredients: the electric buzz of a Red Bull fueled hackerspace, the interpersonal caterwauling of a reality show and pressure, loads of pressure. Now, let it loose on a bus travelling at 60 miles an hour and you get St... |
| Mar 22, 2012 | All aboard the StartupBus: The pressure cooker startup incubator on wheels | Bottle the following ingredients: the electric buzz of a Red Bull fueled hackerspace, the interpersonal caterwauling of a reality show and pressure, loads of pressure. Now, let it loose on a bus travelling at 60 miles an hour and you get St... |
| Mar 19, 2012 | Seedrs Wins London Web Summit, As Europeans Rock Their Ecosystem | London Web Summit crowned Seedrs the winner of its startup competition against a crowded field of 19 other competitors today. Managing to gain Financial Services Authority approval for its crowd funding model (in the UK) was deemed an incre... |
| Mar 2, 2012 | London’s Conference Drought Ends As Le Web, LWS and Digital London Turn Up | There’s an old saying in London. You wait an hour for a bus and then three come along at once. Thus, for the last few years people have been asking me when London would get a large technology conference which catered for startups. Admittedl... |
| Feb 6, 2012 | The Pioneers Festival joins a bumper crop of European tech events this year | Last year’s Startup Week in Vienna was a great event, but we’ve heard tell that they are “pivoting”.
Apart from re-naming it to The Pioneers Festival, part of the programme will be crowd-sourced and will be moving a bigger location which ha... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Babelverse To Offer Live Voice Translations For State Of The Union In Up To 7K Languages | Tonight, President Obama will give his 2012 State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. The annual address, which will take place Tuesday night at 9pm EST/6pm PST (watch it online at Whitehouse.gov here), is expected to i... |
| Jan 6, 2012 | When “Find My iPhone” Becomes An Adventure | TechCrunch reader Nikos Kakavoulis sent us the following amazing story earlier this week … The Daily Secret founder used “Find My iPhone” to catch an naive iPhone “thief” — turning on the Play Sound feature in Starbucks in order to locate h... |
| Dec 20, 2011 | Keen On… Carmine Gallo: The Innovation and Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs (TCTV) | It’s not every American who can wow Paris. But earlier this month at Le Web, the author and communications expert, Carmine Gallo, impressed a Gallic audience with a brilliant speech about the innovation secrets of Steve Jobs. But whatever L... |
| Dec 18, 2011 | Why Sound Will Be Bigger Than Video | Alex Ljung gave a talk at LeWeb 2011 in which he argued that sound will ultimately be bigger than video on the Internet. I am a big fan of contrarian thinking and argument and Alex does that very well in this talk. It's about 15 minute... |
| Dec 17, 2011 | Five European Startups To Watch | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Amit Shafrir is president of Badoo, a social network for meeting new people based in London with 130 million users.
Silicon Valley is famously, and rightly, proud of its place as the spiritual home for start... |
| Dec 13, 2011 | TaskRabbit Gets $17.8M For “Aggressive” Expansion, Wants To Grow Internationally And Beyond | Ebay for real world labor TaskRabbit has seen lightning fast growth in the past couple of months, and has taken advantage of that growth by raising another $17.8 million in Series B funding. Participating in the round are existing investors... |
| Dec 12, 2011 | Gowalla Went For $3M In Facebook Shares, And Many Investors Were Cool With That | What the headline says, basically, according to two sources. That and multiple sources are telling me that a majority of Gowalla investors were cool with the deal being entirely in Facebook shares, because those are likely to be more profit... |
| Dec 11, 2011 | Sean Parker And Shervin Pishevar At Le Web: “If You Don’t Fail, You Haven’t Tried Hard Enough” (Video) | Last week at Le Web, Alexia interviewed Sean Parker and Shervin Pishevar onstage in what turned out to be one of the most-buzzed about sessions. Here is the full video for your weekend watching pleasure. It’s a great discussion that ranges ... |
| Dec 9, 2011 | Sean Parker: “This Election, Social Media Will Determine The Outcome” | Every time Sean Parker goes onstage, someone asks him the inevitable question, “Where is the social web going.” Today at Le Web, where he was interviewed alongside VC Shervin Pishevar by TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis, he decided to talk about... |
| Dec 9, 2011 | Sean Parker: "There's something wrong with our music distribution system" | What’s the music industry’s biggest problem? Big questions for Sean Parker today, interviewed by TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis onstage at Le Web. His appearance attracted the biggest crowd of all sessions at the three day conference. As usual... |
| Dec 9, 2011 | Serial Entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda On Angel Investing, Brazil And Russia | Serial Internet entrepreneur and angel investor Fabrice Grinda took the stage at Le Web this morning to share his thoughts on investing in Russia, Brazil and other emerging markets and general lessons he’s learned as a global angel investor... |
| Dec 9, 2011 | Spotify announces Pandora-like radio function | With Spotify Radio's much bigger library and unlimited skipping, Pandora may go the way of the Dodo
The competition between streaming music sites Spotify and Pandora is about to get even more one-sided, as Spotify announced Friday a ne... |
| Dec 9, 2011 | LeWeb in an uncertain Europe offered a good reminder that bubbles burst | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Rob Jonas is vice president and managing director, Europe & Middle East, for mobile ad company Inmobi.
A grey and overcast industri... |
| Dec 8, 2011 | Evernote hits more than 20M users | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Multi-platform note-taking startup Evernote has now reached more than 20 million users, CEO Phil Libin said at the LeWeb conference thi... |
| Dec 8, 2011 | Marissa Mayer, Google’s “De Niro,” Reveals What She Asks Job Candidates | Marissa Mayer, perhaps the most famous Googler after Larry and Sergey, took the stage for the fourth time today at LeWeb to talk about well, Google. Starting off the conversation, Crunchfund Partner MG Siegler asked Mayer, whose own title w... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | Facebook aggressivly showing innovation, pre-IPO | From starting the Timeline rollout to adding reporter plug-ins, Facebook wants to show muscles
With IPO anticipation for the $100-billion-valued Facebook seemingly reaching new heights every week, the social networking mainstay is continual... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | Google’s Eric Schmidt: Google Is Not A Country | Despite the search engine’s aggressive growth and “manifest destiny”-type approach to its expansion, “Think of us a teenager,” Google Chairman Eric Schmidt replied, to an interesting question from audience member Jeremiah Owyang here at Le ... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | Evernote Launches Two New iPhone Apps: ‘Food’ And ‘Hello’ | Today at the Le Web conference in Paris, Evernote is debuting two new applications for iPhone and iPod touch devices. The first one is called Food, and is designed to help people easily save and ‘relive’ all of their favorite meals and food... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | Uber pulls in another $32M for app-based car service | Menlo, Bezos, Goldman, Benchmark see the value in personal car service for anyone with a phone
The sleek and convenient car service mobile app, Uber, has welcomed its 18 month in operation with an additional $32 million in Series B funding ... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | Deezer plans to launch music service in 200 countries by June 2012 (but not in the US and Japan) | Deezer, which in a press release quite literally claims to have “invented music streaming” four years ago (who knew!), is planning to roll out its music streaming services all across the globe in the next few months to reach a total of 200 ... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | Karl Lagerfeld And Net-A-Porter To Launch New Online Fashion Startup | Le Web kicked off today in Paris, though the show was opened not with a discussion about a tech issue or company of the day, but with a demonstration by fashion scion Karl Lagerfeld on how he uses the iPad and technology to enhance his work... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | Uber Gets $32M From Menlo Ventures, Jeff Bezos And Goldman Sachs | Just 18 months into operations, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced on stage at Le Web that the car service company has closed $32 million in Series B funding lead by Shervin Pishevar’s Menlo Ventures, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Goldman Sachs. ... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | Karl Lagerfeld and Net-A-Porter to launch new online fashion collection | Le Web kicked off today in Paris, though the show was opened not with a discussion about a tech issue or company of the day, but with a demonstration by fashion god Karl Lagerfeld on how he uses the iPad and technology to enhance his work. ... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | At Le Web, Crowley Hints At Foursquare’s Future In Recommendations For Everything | At Le Web Foursquare Co-Founder and CEO Dennis Crowley expanded on the future direction for the company and product, signalling how check-in data is becoming less important than the recommendations it is capable of producing for users.
Inte... |
| Dec 7, 2011 | At Le Web, Crowley hints at Foursquare's future in recommendations for everything | At Le Web Foursquare Co-Founder and CEO Dennis Crowley expanded on the future direction for the company and product, signalling how check-in data is becoming less important than the recommendations it is capable of producing for users.
Inte... |
| Dec 6, 2011 | SoundTracking’s New Android App Has Spotify And Rdio Integration (So Yes, You Can Listen To Full Songs) | Salut a tous! Launching today at the LeWeb 2011 conference in Paris is the long-awaited SoundTracking Android app. What makes this app special is that goes above and beyond the SoundTracking iPhone app — taking full advantage of Android cap... |
| Dec 5, 2011 | Eat Smarter: Foodie.fm Debuts Personalized Grocery Shopping Platform | This week at the Le Web conference in Paris, Foodie.fm will be formally launching its personalized social shopping platform for groceries. The Finnish startup basically aims to better inform shoppers about the food they buy, and help retail... |
| Dec 5, 2011 | Uber Launches Its First International Efforts In Paris | Uber, the private car share service that allows you to summon town cars via an iPhone, has opened up shop in Paris in time for international Internet conference LeWeb. Adding context to the jumpy video of the very first Parisian Uber ride a... |
| Dec 2, 2011 | Going To Le Web? Maybe Get A Roaming SIM Card | Lord knows cellphone cross-border roaming is a nightmare, especially when Americans visit Europe only to find their data bill has exploded. Add iPads and smartphone and you have a recipe for a financial headache. It’s not something you want... |
| Dec 1, 2011 | TechCrunch Moscow, 5th December | I’m looking forward to TechCrunch Moscow, on 5th December. Conveniently it is just before Le Web in Paris. Hope to see you there.
Here’s the schedule:
Schedule, 5 December 2011
9:00
Welcome coffee
10:00
Intro
Mike Butcher , Edward Shenderov... |
| Nov 30, 2011 | TechCrunch Giveaway: Last Chance To Win A Ticket To LeWeb’11 | LeWeb’11 is right around the corner. For those who do not know what LeWeb is — it is Europe’s number one tech event. This year they already have some amazing speakers lined up. Some of those include ones we’ve even seen at our very own Disr... |
| Nov 22, 2011 | Hojoki aims to solve 'information fragmentation', raises $620,000 | Hojoki this morning announced that it has raised $620,000 in seed funding as the German startup gears up for the launch of its public beta on the 7th of December (coinciding with the Le Web conference in Paris). The round was led by Kizoo T... |
| Nov 22, 2011 | Hojoki Aims To Solve ‘Information Fragmentation’, Raises $620,000 | Hojoki this morning announced that it has raised $620,000 in seed funding as the German startup gears up for the launch of its public beta on the 7th of December (coinciding with the Le Web conference in Paris). The round was led by Kizoo T... |
| Nov 16, 2011 | InZair is LeWeb Finalist | |
| Nov 16, 2011 | TechCrunch Giveaway: Free Ticket To LeWeb’11 #TechCrunch | If the words Path and Milk mean something to you in more ways than one, or you happen to have heard of a few little companies called Airbnb, Flipboard or Instagram, boy do we have a treat for you. For this week’s TechCrunch Giveaway, we’ll ... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Crowdsourced website translator Easyling wins How to Web startup competition in Romania | At How to Web today I got to be invited to judge its startup competition. One of the judges was nowhere to be found and I was considered a suitable replacement. My rookie level of judging experience has not skewed the results dramatically, ... |
| Sep 13, 2011 | Mobile Roadie Brings Self Service Mobile App Development Platform To China | Mobile Roadie, which allows anyone develop and create sleek, rich media iPhone and Android apps, is launching today in China.
Mobile Roadie offers a self-serve app development platform that integrates with YouTube, Brightcove, Flickr, Twitp... |
| Sep 4, 2011 | The European Startup Summer Of Love – London, Berlin And Beyond | LONDON, Summer, 2011: When you can gather 1,500 startup people into a car park on a warm summer evening in London, you know something is going on. When you can tell 800 people at a joint startup party in Berlin that they will have to PAY if... |
| Aug 23, 2011 | Ustream Shutters Live Mobilizer, Partners With Mobile Roadie To Allow Broadcasters To Create Mobile Apps | Last year, popular live video platform Ustream launched a mobile app development platform called Ustream Live Mobilizer that offered brands, celebrities, and bands a customizable iPhone application that featured Ustream’s live steaming capa... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Loic Needs To Get His Head Out Of His Silicon Valley | I have the hugest respect for Loic Le Meur. Years before anyone was organising a major tech conference in Europe (outside of the dull corporate IT ones) Loic was charging ahead with first Les Blogs, which became the juggernaut of Le Web. It... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | Is There A European Tech Incubator Bubble? | Something is happening in Europe. The tectonic plates in the startup ecosystem are moving and, like penguins on ice-flows, we all are slithering around trying to get a handle on how things will play out over the next couple of years.
We’re ... |
| Apr 8, 2011 | The Seven Most Interesting Startups At 500 Startups Demo Day (TCTV) | 500 Startups first Demo Day sprint is over and people are trickling out their rankings lists of the 23 startups, or “little monsters” as co-founder Dave McClure calls them. McClure, with a background in marketing, has a unique curator’s eye... |
| Feb 27, 2011 | LeWeb tickets are half price through February 28th (yes, tomorrow) | It kind of feels like it was only yesterday that we were all watching Loïc Le Meur parade across the stage at LeWeb dressed up in Angry Bird gear. Yet, Géraldine and Loïc Le Meur have already announced the dates for year’s edition of the in... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Mobile Roadie And Sony Partner To Launch Mobile Apps For Music Artists | Mobile Roadie, a startup that helps anyone develop and create iPhone and Android apps, has landed a major partner—Sony Music Entertainment.
The startup is now helping Sony develop interactive mobile apps for the music label’s network of art... |
| Jan 6, 2011 | French Groupon clone Bon-Privé scores €1.5 million to conquer more French territory | Perhaps now that Groupon is happily being valued at $4.75 billion, investors all over the world are getting all the more interested in the local group daily deal platforms. Brand new Moroccan clone MyDeal is rumored to be raising a round an... |
| Dec 23, 2010 | Tinypay.me: The E-commerce Long Tail is Still Twitching | In February of this year, TinyPay.me, a bootstrapped Dutch startup, launched the simplest tool around for selling goods online. It had a clean, single-page interface and didn’t even require account creation. At LeWeb in Paris this month, wh... |
| Dec 22, 2010 | Uber CEO "Super Pumped" About Being Replaced By Founder | Know about Uber yet? It’s one of those startups that I’ve been fascinated with since I first heard about it last summer. It lets you call for black car service via a mobile application, watch it come to you via GPS, and all charges are auto... |
| Dec 14, 2010 | Toshl wants to become the Mint.com of Europe, if the banks will let them | While attending an exhausting, snowy yet insightful LeWeb in Paris, the TechCrunch Europe team met with a variety of startups and founders. One of them is a recently launched Slovenian company called Toshl, which gives people a well-designe... |
| Dec 13, 2010 | An American iPhone In Paris | For the past 10 days, I’ve been in Paris. A few of us were there to cover the LeWeb conference, which was great, but I decided to stick around for a little while longer as I heard the city is amazing. Spoiler alert: it is. But I wasn’t on v... |
| Dec 13, 2010 | Hailing Assange as free-press hero is crap | Reflections on LeWeb and WikiLeaks
I’m flying home from beautiful Paris, with its exquisite architecture, glorious cuisine, amazing shopping, its plethora of art museums, and heart-stopping views along the Seine, to go home to Sacramento, a... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | Automattic Hits 300 Million Unique Visitors, Roughly $10 Million In Revenue | Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and CEO Toni Schneider were interviewed by our own Alexia Tsotsis at Le Web 10 today. Our live notes (paraphrased):
Can you talk about your vision from blogging and how it changed from 2003 to 2010?
I reall... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | Three startups, not just one, win the Le Web startup competition | The Le Web startup competition filtered over 400 startups down to a final 16. We covered a few of the companies here, here, here and here. Today the last three finalists got the opportunity to pitch their startups to the assembled crowd at ... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | Three startups, not just one, win the Le Web startup competition | The Le Web startup competition filtered over 400 startups down to a final 16. We covered a few of the companies here, here, here and here. Today the last three finalists got the opportunity to pitch their startups to the assembled crowd at ... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | Everyone at Le Web is Wrong: Wikileaks Should be Condemned not Celebrated | Le Web. I’m still unclear on the unique selling point of Europe’s “leading technology conference”, and yet here I am, for the third year in a row, hanging out in a snow-bound venue four hundred miles from the centre of Paris, watching a suc... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | Zynga's CityVille Game Already At 3 Million Daily Active Users (Le Web) | Zynga SVP of Mobile David Ko just took the stage at Le Web 10, where he was interviewed by our very own MG Siegler. Here are our notes (paraphrased and cut short):
You’ve been with Zynga for a month now, and you’ve already got to announce a... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Rovio CEO: We Have 40 People Working On Angry Birds (Le Web) | In an on-stage interview at Le Web 10 in Paris, Rovio CEO Mikael Hed talked about one of the most popular games ever to hit mobile phones all around the world: Angry Birds.
Our notes:
What’s the story behind Angry Birds?
It started off with... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | The Media Comes To The Defense Of WikiLeaks At LeWeb: "The Leakers Will Win" | Today during the Media Panel at LeWeb ’10 in Paris, France, there was one thing on everyones’ mind: WikiLeaks.
“This is a turning point for the Internet — it’s not just about WikiLeaks anymore,” Weblogs SL’s Julio Alonso said. “What happens... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Live From Le Web 2010, Day Two [Video] | Day two of Europe’s largest tech conference, Loic Le Meur’s Le Web 10 kicks off today in a couple minutes. Le Web brings in over 3,000 attendees from 26 countries worldwide and today’s talks include such notables as Zynga’s David Ko, Automa... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Can Mike Jones save MySpace? | Jones says MySpace is targeting the under-35 crowd and getting into entertainment news
Tech blogger extraordinaire Robert Scoble interviewed Mike Jones, CEO of MySpace, on stage at LeWeb and had to bring up the obvious: “MySpace is like a p... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Marissa Mayer's Next Big Thing: "Contextual Discovery" — Google Results Without Search | Today at LeWeb ’10 in Paris, France, our own Michael Arrington took the stage to talk with Google’s Marissa Mayer. Mayer recently took a new job within Google. Technically, she’s now the head of consumer products for the company. So what’s ... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Live From Le Web 2010, Day One [Video] | Europe’s largest tech conference, Loic Le Meur’s Le Web 10 kicks off today in a couple minutes. Le Web brings in over 3,000 attendees from 26 countries worldwide and today’s talks include such notables as Twitter’s Jason Goldman, Foursquare... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Microsoft's WP7 Platform Guy Won't Talk Sales Numbers Either (Le Web) | We’re here at Le Web 2010 in Paris, where organizer Loic Le Meur is doing an on-stage Q&A with Charlie Kindel, General Manager for the Windows Phone Developer Ecosystem at Microsoft.
Asked how many phones Microsoft has sold to date, Kin... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Dennis Crowley: Foursquare now has 5M users | Crowley discusses why he created Foursquare and how merchants helped make it what it is today
Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare, demonstrated his location savvy Wednesday at LeWeb: his cab dropped him off on the wrong side of Paris, ... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Foursquare: 5 million users, 25,000 new ones a day | Foursquare cofounder and chief executive Dennis Crowley just took the stage at Le Web, an Internet conference held in Paris, France, and noted the company now has 5 million users, is adding 25,000 new users daily, and is seeing more than 2 ... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Foursquare: 5 million users, 25,000 new ones a day | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Foursquare cofounder and chief executive Dennis Crowley just took the stage at Le Web, an Internet conference held in Paris, France, an... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Twitter VP Of Product Jason Goldman Steps Down (At Le Web) | Our very own MG Siegler interviewed Jason Goldman, VP of Product at Twitter, at Le Web 10.
Our notes:
Siegler started off by asking about the new integrations Twitter launched yesterday.
Goldman went over the enhancements, which include int... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Twitter: We Need to Create a Better Consumption Experience for Our Users | Jason Goldman, Twitter’s vice president of product, just joined TechCrunch’s MG Siegler on stage at this year’s LeWeb in Paris. During this interview, he noted that Twitter will ramp up its integration with third-party apps in the near futu... |
| Dec 7, 2010 | What's your PeerIndex at Le Web? | Who are the superstars of this year’s LeWeb? We’ll it’s hard to pick from the pretty awesome line-up. However, one startup has attempted to sift the list, coming up with the top 10 “titans of LeWeb”. PeerIndex has a technology similar in so... |
| Dec 7, 2010 | PayPal: Decision to Drop Wikileaks Was “Straightforward” | Over the weekend, PayPal announced that it would no longer handle donations to whistleblower site Wikileaks. In a late night statement, the company said that the site had violated its terms of service and the account would be immediately sh... |
| Dec 7, 2010 | Who needs Whuffie – What's your PeerIndex at Le Web? | Who are the superstars of this year’s LeWeb? We’ll it’s hard to pick from the pretty awesome line-up. However, one startup has attempted to sift the list, coming up with the top 10 “titans of LeWeb”. PeerIndex has a technology similar in so... |
| Dec 6, 2010 | Pearltrees Dives Into Social Curating With Pearltrees Team | Content curation and mapping service Pearltrees has decided to focus on the fact that people want to do things in groups and has as of today upgraded its core product with a groups functionality, called Pearltrees Team. Now accesible just b... |
| Dec 2, 2010 | See Who Is On Your Flight And At Your Airport With Planely | Flying out to attend TCDisrupt in New York, a bunch of us were delighted to discover we were all on the same plane together, the infamous #VX22. Let’s face it, being on the same flight with someone you know is pretty fun most of the time, a... |
| Nov 29, 2010 | Famous French blogger Korben releases a new version of his real-time tech job board RemixJobs | In France, the excitement is already building up. LeWeb, the famous conference that pretty much transforms Paris into Silicon Valley, is only 1 week away.
For everyone who is coming from abroad to attend, I thought it’d be a great time to i... |
| Nov 27, 2010 | Those Two LeWeb Tickets Now Include Lodging Thanks To Airbnb. Tell Us Why You Need To Go | Yesterday, I noted that we were giving away two free tickets to LeWeb ’10. But I was quick to point out that while the free tickets, normally priced at around 2,000 euros, are a great deal, you would still have to pay for your own travel to... |
| Nov 26, 2010 | LeWeb '10 Nears. Want To Go? Tell Us Why, We're Giving Away Two Tickets | On December 8 and 9, the LeWeb conference will descend upon the city of Paris for two days of non-stop tech. This year, the event will have a bit more TechCrunch flavor, as several of us are going, and the startup competition has been tweak... |
| Nov 22, 2010 | UpTeching – Upcoming tech events of interest | It’s been a while since we published about upcoming events here, so here’s a little stab at it. We don’t tend to major on this kind of post, but if you want to get a regular heads up about upcoming events in London and the rest of Europe’s ... |
| Nov 16, 2010 | Flea Market Unions and LeWeb: How Old Europe is Adapting to the Internet | They don’t call Europe the Old World for nothing. Sometimes old European ways of doing things are not at all consistent with the realities of the Internet. Take France for example: There’s a union for people who sell antiques and vintage st... |
| Nov 12, 2010 | *AD HERE* TripAdvisor: Plan *AD HERE* Your Vacation *AD HERE* Here *AD HERE* Please | So, LeWeb ’10 is coming up. Let’s say you’re looking for some good ideas of where to stay and what to do in Paris while you’re there. Where are you most likely to turn on the web? Google. A search for “paris vacation” yields TripAdvisor as ... |
| Nov 11, 2010 | Some 16 Startups are selected to compete at LeWeb | We’re less than a month away from LeWeb ’10, still to date the biggest tech conference in Europe, put on each year by Geraldine and Loic Le Meur. This year’s agenda features a whole lot of TechCrunch as several of us will not only be on sta... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | The 16 Startups Competing At LeWeb '10 (Only 1 Sort Of From The U.S.) | We’re now less than a month away from LeWeb ’10, the giant tech conference in Paris, France put on each year by Geraldine and Loic Le Meur. This year’s agenda features a whole lot of TechCrunch as several of us will not only be on stage at ... |
| Nov 2, 2010 | F.ounders becomes an overnight must-attend, as the European startup circuit accelerates | Something has been happening to the European startup scene in the last couple of years, and it is starting to manifest itself in an upswell of networking the likes of which I have not seen since I started blogging full time for TechCrunch w... |
| Oct 31, 2010 | LeWeb '10 Program Revealed — With A Whole Lot Of TechCrunch | About a month ago, we noted that LeWeb would be getting a bit more TechCrunch flavor this year. For the seventh iteration of the popular tech conference based in Paris, France, organizers Geraldine and Loic Le Meur decided to make their sta... |
| Oct 28, 2010 | Yes, we're bringing the TechCrunch partybus to Europe right before LeWeb | On the other side of the Atlantic, TechCrunch events have been causing all kinds of disruption (yes, lame joke, I know) this year. Back in May, Disrupt unleashed the infamous linguistic talent of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and just last month, t... |
| Oct 4, 2010 | LeWeb '10: Now with a Disrupt element, and free to enter and pitch | LeWeb is the largest tech innovation conference in Europe. Last year, the Paris-based event attracted some 2,500 participants from 50 countries. LeWeb will be held December 8 and 9 this year in Paris. TechCrunch has happily been a partner s... |
| Oct 3, 2010 | LeWeb '10: Now With A Little More TechCrunch Disrupt Flavor | Now that the craziness of the week is over, we can sit back and reflect on how great TechCrunch Disrupt was once again. And yes, even in the post-AOL acquisition world, we’ll keep on holding them — though sadly, not until next year at a pla... |
| Sep 2, 2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Paris | If you’re capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you’ll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country – more so in some areas. Not only does the country... |
| Aug 20, 2010 | Guest post: Can Malta become Europe's Silicon Island? | This is a guest post by Geert Claes, a Business Improvement consultant, Information Architect, User Experience Designer and Business Analyst with extensive international experience. He’s lived and worked in Australia for most of the last 10... |
| Jul 28, 2010 | Mobile Roadie Goes Pro; Launches New Version Of Customizable App Builder | Mobile Roadie, a startup that helps anyone develop and create iPhone and Android apps, has launched a more customizable version of their app builder today, called Mobile Roadie Pro.
The idea Mobile Roadie Pro is to offers clients more creat... |
| Jun 13, 2010 | Le Web 2010 Speakers Announced | Le Web, in Paris on December 8-9 2010, has announced their initial speaker list. It has clearly emerged as the largest and most important Internet and technology conference in Europe and is becoming a must attend event despite the miserable... |
| Mar 19, 2010 | Skype legend Morten Lund to rock GeeknRolla, April 20, London | We’ve just confirmed that Morten Lund, possibly the quintessential European tech entrepreneur/investor – will be keynoting at this year’s GeeknRolla in London on April 20.
An entrepreneur from Copenhagen, Denmark, Lund is a talismanic figur... |