UppSite offers a free service that any website to go mobile in just two minutes. It also adds a number of useful mobile-only features, from typeface customisation to additional monetisation options. We chat to the founder and CEO Gal ...
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LeWeb 2013: VIBER: 200 million downloads and counting
Talmon Marco, founder and CEO of instant messaging service Viber, tells TechWeekEurope that 200 million users are not enough.
LeWeb 2013: Cookening Is “Come Dine With Me” On An Industrial Scale
Cedrik Georgi, CEO and co-founder of Cookening, thinks everyone should have a choice between a restaurant and home cooking, even when far away from home. His start-up links good food enthusiasts into a network that sounds a lot like "C ...
LeWeb 2013: AdTelligence – Personalising The Internet In Real-Time
Thor Angelo, vice president of AdTelligence for Northern Europe, thinks the Internet is going to get more and more personalised in the future. We already have targeted ads and recommendations based on our habits, but what if a more c ...
LeWeb 2013: Paytrail – The Problems With Modern Day Payments
Payment systems on the Internet are too complicated, says CEO of start-up Paytrail, Lennu Keinanen. The Finnish firm thinks its model, based on a PIN system, is simpler and better. How will it take on the likes of PayPal though? And ...
LeWeb 2013: DataSift – Social Analytics Is Going To Be Huge
DataSift is one of the more exciting British start-ups at LeWeb. It is looking to help organisations mine information not just from within their own network, but across all their related networks, especially those in the social space. ...
LeWeb 2013: GoodBarber: Start-Up Trouble In France?
France, under President Francois Hollande, might become an increasingly hostile environment for businesses in the coming years. As yet unfulfilled promises of higher corporate tax rates are worrying many, whilst the UK is telling start ...
LeWeb 2013: EasyBring – Crowdsourcing Mail
EasyBring is like an Airbnb for mail. If you're heading somewhere, advertise that fact on EasyBring and if you're picked to take a package somewhere, you can earn some money. That relies on a lot of user trust, so can EasyBring reall ...
LeWeb 2013: Robert Scoble: How Rackspace Plans To Exploit Wearable Computing Craze
You'd be forgiven for thinking Robert Scoble led two separate professional lives - one as a globe-trotting blogger, one as a Rackspace "racker", spreading the good word on the cloudy company. But the two are linked. Take his Google G ...
LeWeb 2013: MyPermissions – Giving Devs And Users Privacy
As market forces start to make privacy better for end users, as seen in Microsoft's major marketing push designed to show it is a company people can trust with their data, start-ups are forming to exploit the trend. MyPermissions is on ...
LeWeb 2013: MyJobCompany: Money For Job Recommendations
MyJobCompany is a French start-up and has a familiar concept that it is taking into the recruitment sphere. Whilst it looks like a social/business networking service, it also rewards those who help companies find employees. Any user wh ...
LeWeb 2013: Level39’s Eric van der Kleij: Say No To EU Exit
Head of fintech accelerator Level39, Eric van der Kleij, thinks the UK tech scene will suffer if the country leaves the EU. Companies need talent and much of that comes from migrants, says van der Kleij. But the UK government is gett ...