Qosmos, a Paris, France-based network intelligence technology company, has raised close to €20 million euros (approximately $28.5 million) in a deal that was co-led by DFJ Esprit and FSI, a French government fund. The deal, which closed at the end of last month, is a combination of primary equity and debt and a secondary...
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Location-sharing over smartphones still faces challenges, whether it’s privacy concerns, the limitations of check-in services or more practical worries about battery life draining from services that constantly broadcast your location. But Echoecho, a Los Angeles-based start-up, thinks it’s got the issue solved with a simple service that lets people request location updates from friends...
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When I was in college pursuing a degree in multimedia, I had taken a course in photography. There, I was introduced to the wonderful concept of depth of field (DoF), which refers to how much of the shot is in clear focus. Good photographers can take a shot with a wide aperture to produce...
Let nobody say that Seedcamp lacks ambition. Since launching in 2007, the organization has become Europe’s premier training grounds for startups, linking some of the continent’s top young companies to a broad network of advisers and investors. It’s already invested in dozens of businesses, and this week pushed forward with more as it brought...
Image: AP A new poll in France says 7 out of 10 people think Microsoft did more to change the world than Apple. We think we would have similar results in other countries, if only because a lot more people (still!) use Microsoft products than Apple products, at least for personal computing which is...
Call hold deferral app FastCustomer is announcing that it has raised $750K worth of seed funding from 500 Startups, Bullet Time Ventures, Andrew Warner, Maneesh Arora, Fortify.vc, Carnet Williams, Tom Kulzer and Henry Parry-Okeden. Attempting to finally alleviate long hold times for people who have better things to do than wait on hold (um, all...
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has started investigating a complaint filed by a customer in June this year against Apple for its anticompetitive practices in India, reports The Economic Times. The suit alleged that the company was engaging in anticompetitive behaviour by restricting the iPhone to just two carriers—Aircel and Bharti Airtel—in India...