#SeoTips Marc Andreessen, general partner at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, was on stage at the Ray Summit conference earlier this month, talking about AI. CFO.com has pulled out the best quotes so you don’t have to watch the full interview. “Maybe a...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Monday, October 14, 2024
Rerail is a new fintech-focused angel fund from Cocoa’s Anthony Danon #Ecommerce
#SeoTips If you’re starting a fintech company, there’s a new, small early-stage fund looking for investment opportunities. Founded by Anthony Danon (pictured above), Rerail could be called a micro-fund, a solo GP fund, or an angel fund. Danon has b...
Friday, October 11, 2024
Apple Intelligence features can also summarize breakup texts for you #Ecommerce
#SeoTips When Nick Spreen installed the beta of iOS 18.1 to try out upcoming Apple Intelligence features, he probably didn’t expect to receive an AI-generated summary of breakup texts from his then girlfriend. “No longer in a relationship; wants be...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Runware uses custom hardware and advanced orchestration for fast AI inference #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Sometimes, a demo is all you need to understand a product. And that’s the case with Runware. If you head over to Runware’s website, enter a prompt and hit enter to generate an image, you’ll be surprised by how quickly Runware generates the...
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Back Market lays out its plan to make refurbished phones go mainstream #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Back Market held a press conference on Thursday morning in Paris to talk about upcoming product launches and give an update on the company’s current situation. If you’re not familiar with the French startup it operates a marketplace of ref...
Thursday, September 5, 2024
E-bike maker Cowboy raises a small funding round as it targets profitability next year #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Cowboy has closed funding of around $5.5 million. With this recent funding round, Cowboy is now valued at €40 million on a pre-money basis. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Romai...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Xavier Niel replaces Coatue’s Laffont on board of TikTok parent ByteDance #Ecommerce
#SeoTips French billionaire Xavier Niel is joining the board of directors of TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, the company told the South China Morning Post. It’s an interesting move as Niel isn’t a name that comes up very often for high-profile board po...
Laptop-leasing startup Fleet wants to become the IT companion for small companies #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Fleet is launching several software services on top of its hardware-as-a-service proposition, from device management to cybersecurity and insurance. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.c...
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Sekai secures Naruto’s license to develop consumer apps for anime fans #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Just like in your favorite anime, this is the story of a young group of twenty-something who started with nothing, traveled the world and ended up with a global license to develop official Naruto consumer apps. Originally founded in early ...
Monday, June 24, 2024
Apple’s App Store breaches EU’s Digital Markets Act #Ecommerce
#SeoTips A few months after opening a non-compliance case on Apple and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission has shared its preliminary findings with Apple. And the bottom line is that the current App Store rules are in breach of t...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Société Générale to sell its freelancer challenger bank Shine to Ageras #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Four years after acquiring Shine, a French fintech startup that offers bank accounts to freelancers and very small companies, Société Générale has announced plans to sell Shine to Ageras. In 2020, TechCrunch reported that Société Générale ...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Raspberry Pi partners with Hailo for its AI extension kit #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The Raspberry Pi 5, the small-but-mighty computer that has become quite popular with tech hobbyists and industrial companies, is now also an AI computer. The company just released the AI Kit, a $70 extension kit with a neural network infer...
Samara is accelerating the energy transition in Spain one solar panel at a time #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Since the shock of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, solar energy has been having a moment in Europe. Electricity prices have been going up while the investment required to get solar panels installed on your roof has been going down. This...
Monday, May 27, 2024
Doly lets you generate 3D product videos from your iPhone #Ecommerce
#SeoTips AniML, the French startup behind a new 3D capture app called Doly, wants to create the PhotoRoom of product videos, sort of. If you’re selling sneakers on an online marketplace or need to create Instagram ads for your direct-to-consumer wa...
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Business planning startup Pigment raises $145M in rare French tech megaround #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Paris-based startup Pigment has raised a $145 million funding round just five years after its inception. The enterprise software company offers a business planning platform for large companies to visualize their past financial performance ...
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Consolidation continues in micromobility as Cooltra snaps up Cityscoot #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Paris’ commercial court has accepted Cooltra’s offer to acquire Cityscoot. These two companies provide shared electric mopeds that you can unlock and ride to go from one place to another. Cityscoot had been placed under court-ordered recei...
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Accounting software startup Pennylane becomes France’s latest unicorn #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Just like clockwork, Pennylane is raising another €40 million ($43 million at today’s exchange rate). This new funding round comes after the accounting startup raised €4 million in 2020, €15 million in 2021, another €15 million in 2021 aga...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
iPhone users should turn on Apple’s stolen device protection feature #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Apple released a new version of iOS yesterday with a handful of new features, such as collaborative playlists in Apple Music and a new Unity wallpaper for Black History Month. Another interesting new feature in iOS 17.3 is something called...
French regulator fines Amazon $35 million over its surveillance system of warehouse workers #Ecommerce
#SeoTips France’s data privacy watchdog, the CNIL, has fined Amazon’s logistics subsidiary in France €32 million, or $35 million at today’s exchange rate. The CNIL says that Amazon France Logistique has implemented a “surveillance system” that is “...
Monday, December 11, 2023
Mistral AI, a Paris-based OpenAI rival, closed its $415 million funding round #Ecommerce
#SeoTips French startup Mistral AI has officially closed its much anticipated Series A funding round. The company has raised €385 million, or $415 million at today’s exchange rate — according to Bloomberg, it values the company at roughly $2 billio...