Apsalar, a leading mobile advertising and analytics company, today announced that it has closed a $9 million Series B round of financing. The round was led by DCM, with participation from Correlation Ventures and existing investors, including Thomvest Ventures and DN Capital.Apsalar’s data-powered mobile advertising product, a mobile Demand-Side Platform (DSP), helps mobile app marketers and agencies buy high-ROI mobile ads for their apps across over 70 networks and real-time bidding (RTB) exchanges, using one centralized platform. The company taps into the power of behavioral targeting, using its anonymized first-party data on over 800 Million mobile app users to help advertisers more effectively acquire and retarget profitable and engaged users.
Last month (7/2013) Apple quietly acquired [1] a relatively unknown but highly innovative electronics company called Passif Semiconductor Corporation. The Oakland California company was formed in early 2007 with the aim to create extreamly low power chipsets that directly relate to local adhoc communication networks. One example is Bluetooth and another example in limited form is NFC. Nerd Detour The name Passif is a play on the word passive. In electronics, active components have the ability to produce gain, or amplify a signal, and passive components do not. The basis on how Passif’s primary devices work is using Capacitors and they are passive electronic devices. Founder Inventors, True Innovation Passif Semiconductor has been quietly innovating and have been applying for US patents by founders Benjamin W. Cook, Axel D .Berny with Jason A. Trachewsky. The company had discovered a very novel and potentially spectacular way to “harvest” energy from all of the wireless signals around us, including WiFi and Cellular signals and to use this to power small and very inexpensive devices. Batteries Not Included And Not Needed This means that quite complex nano devices can sit out there and not need to have a true battery and will never need to be charged just by harvesting the huge amount of energy that is floating around us in just about every environment. Costs drop to almost zero if batteries and charging systems are not needed for these nano devices.
Reconnaître Paris comme métropole numérique, améliorer la fiscalité des business angels, sélectionner 5 à 10 entreprises prometteuses à l'international, ce sont les recommandations du rapport de la Caisse des dépôts au gouvernement.
Jean-Pierre Jouyet, directeur général de la Caisse des Dépôts, avait remis le 28 juin au Premier ministre le rapport de la mission de préfiguration des « Quartiers numériques ». Le Gouvernement vient de le rendre public.
Le conseil des ministres du 10 octobre 2012 a été l’occasion pour le gouvernement d’affirmer sa volonté d’asseoir l’attractivité internationale de la France dans le numérique. La préfiguration d'un projet de Quartiers numériques a été confiée au directeur général de la Caisse des Dépôts par une lettre de mission du Premier ministre en date du 8 février 2013. Cette mission, présidée par Catherine Mayenobe et dirigée par Philippe Dewost, a été conduite en mode projet, et a remis au gouvernement son rapport fin juin comme prévu.
Les 8 recommandations de ce rapport s’appuient sur une consultation publique mise au point par la mission et lancée le 8 février 2013 sur le site du ministère du redressement productif ; cette consultation a recueilli près de sept cents réponses et propositions dont une cinquantaine en provenance de l’étranger. Ces réponses ont permis de mieux cerner les besoins des entreprises du secteur et de dessiner les contours et le contenu d’un Quartier numérique.
The Telecom Council of Silicon Valley connects companies and individuals involved in the Communications Technology industry with one another for business development, collaboration, and education.
Every year, the council organizes the TC3, Telecom Council Carrier Connections. This 2-day executive summit highlights the relationship between the companies building communication networks, with the companies and new ideas that are fueling its growth.
This event is also the opportunity for the Telecom Council to highlight innovative telecom companies with the SPIFFY Awards. And this year, SIGFOX has been invited as a nominee in the category Edison Award for Most Innnovative Start-Up.
By now, you've no doubt heard and/or read something about Google's clever new Chromecast HDMI device, a $35 media streamer introduced yesterday (Google's intro/demo video embedded below). Chromecast has a lot going for it, and could well become Google's first big hit product in the living room. If it does, there will be at least one significant consequence: instead of TVs continuing to become "Smart TVs," they are going to become dumb yet again. This would be a huge blow to TV manufacturers who have labored to convince consumers to spend extra to derive the benefits a Smart TV offers.
GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland's leading telecommunications company says its chief executive has been found dead in an apparent suicide. Swisscom says the body of 49-year-old Carsten Schloter was found Tuesday morning at the CEO's home in the Swiss...
TechOnMap, propulsé par la Fonderie, propose des modes de navigation et de visualisation étonnants, et surtout une base de donnees très à jour et déjà segmentée. Votre Startup n'y figure pas encore? Ajoutez la en 2 coups de cuiller a pot !
Video of a great talk given by BT's Schneier at USI conference on June 25th 2013 in Paris.
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Society doesn't work without trust
Human being is the only species with trust. We trust hundreds of strangers without even thinking about it.
How do we enable trust?
How does security enable trust. How do we induce trust?
Trusting friends is about who they are as persons.
Trusting strangers is about their actions
Trust: confidence, consistence, compliancy. It's about cooperation.
We trust people, companies and systems
We trust systems to produce expected behaviors
All complex ecosystems require cooperation. In any cooperative system, there is a way to subvert the system for personal interests.
These are called defectors in game theory. They are parasites. They can survive if they are contained. If too many parasites the body dies and the parasites die too.
Society doesn't work if everybody steals. Security can be defined as a tax on the honests.
European Commission - Press Release - European Commission Press release Brussels, 8 July 2013 Internet speed is emerging as a top issue for internet users according to the latest EU-wide survey of how Europeans use the internet.
Yahoo's Increasing Irrelevance In One Chart While the first year of Marissa Mayer's tenure as CEO has seen the company's stock rise, it has also seen the decline of the company's relevance. This chart made for us by BI Intelligence shows time spent on Yahoo relative to the rest of the Internet is in serious decline.
(Hype)Rloop ? Need to read the memo before drawing any conclusion, but thanks to Elon Musk to bring some forward looks in the middle of a depleted european summer.
On June 13th, 2013, the AeroVelo Atlas Human-Powered Helicopter captured the long standing AHS Sikorsky Prize with a flight lasting 64.1 seconds and reaching...
Scoop.it, a leading social curation publishing hub, today announced it has raised $2.6 million. Visited by more than 75 million people worldwide in just 18 months since its launch in 2011, Scoop.it's success has led to the appointment of a new executive, Andrew Federici, as vice president of monetization to increase Scoop.it's growing base of paid customers.
Scoop.it pivoted two and a half years ago from an application mobile technology called Goojet, which received the initial funding of a seed and partial Series A round. Altogether, Goojet and Scoop.it have raised $13.6 million including the recent addition of$2.6 million from Partech International, Elaia Partners, IXO Private Equity and Orkos Capital.
"Since launch 18 months ago, we have seen our user traction grow on our platform and freemium services," said Scoop.it co-founder and CEO, Guillaume Decugis. "We felt it was time to accelerate the delivery of value-added premium features to our paid users, and we hired Andrew Federici because of his expertise in product monetization and his impressive media background."
Jean-Pierre Jouyet, directeur général de la Caisse des dépôts et consignations (CDC), a remis au Premier ministre le rapport de la mission de préfiguration des quartiers numériques qui lui avait été confiée sur la proposition de Mme Fleur Pellerin, ministre déléguée en charge des Petites et moyennes entreprises, de l'Innovation et de l'Economie numérique
The tech industry maxim that "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" is a testament to how Big Blue has been the gold standard in computing services for decades.
But IBM faces an unlikely challenger in Amazon.com Inc, the e-commerce retail giant that is becoming a force in the booming business of cloud computing, even winning backing from America's top spy agency.
After years of being dismissed as a supplier of online computer services to startups and small businesses, Amazon Web Services (AWS) beat out International Business Machines this year to snag a $600 million contract with the Central Intelligence Agency.
AWS generates at least $2 billion a year in revenue now from a total pie of more than $60 billion, according to analysts who expect that to quintuple to more than $10 billion in coming years, partly driven by higher government cloud spending.
Verizon Communications Inc., the second-largest U.S. telephone company, is boosting its FiOS Internet speeds to 500 megabits a second, faster than Comcast Corp.’s speediest service and half that of Google Inc.’s.
A fascinating 40 minutes documentary which aired on NHK Saturday May 4th 2013. Titled Robot Revolution: Will machines surpass humans? Features Honda Asimov, Hubo, Big Dog from Boston Dynamics, Baxter from Rethink Robotics, Nextage and other Humanoids.
Health gadget company Withings will announce in a few minutes a new funding round from Bpifrance, Idinvest Partners, 360 Capital Partners and existing investor Ventech. Out of the $30 million, $15 million comes fromBpifrance, the newly created public entity — BPI means Public Investment Bank in French. It is one of its first traditional VC deal.
Withings is perhaps best known for its series of smart scales and body analyzers (along with curious one-off devices like a baby monitor), but the company has recently decided to take a stab at creating yet another sort of fitness gadget: a wearable activity tracker. Calling that particular market crowded is putting it awfully mildly. Devices from the likes of Nike, Jawbone, and Fitbit have put an approachable face on the quantified self movement and have garnered plenty of attention from press and health-conscious consumers.
Massive deal for this side of the pond. Totally impressed and supportive of what Eric Carreel has been achieving in starting 3 companies after his successful Inventel exit !
(This talk was written for an audience of investors.) Y Combinator has now funded 564 startups including the current batch, which has 53. The total valuation of the 287 that have valuations (either by raising an equity round, getting acquired, or dying) is about $11.7 billion, and the 511 prior to the current batch have collectively raised about $1.7 billion.
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Congrats To Fazal and Michael !