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French billionaire Xavier Niel pledges to invest up to $210 million in AI

Xavier Niel, the founder, CEO and majority shareholder of telecom company Iliad, has announced several new projects around AI and told the AFP that he plans to conduct strategic investments in artific

Iliad launches its own payments processing platform Stancer

Iliad, the telecom company owned by French billionaire and startup investor Xavier Niel, is launching a payment subsidiary called Stancer. The team has focused on one thing in particular — lowering

Blobr, the ‘no-code’ company turning APIs into products, raises €1.2M pre-seed

Blobr, a Paris-based startup operating in the no-code space with tech to make it easier for companies to expose and monetise their existing APIs, has raised €1.2 million in pre-seed funding. The rou

Scaleway releases cloud GPU instances for €1 per hour

French cloud-hosting company Scaleway is rolling out new instances with an Nvidia Tesla P100 GPU. The company is opting for simple pricing with a single configuration that costs €1 per hour ($1.13).

Scaleway launches updated cloud servers for $2.40 per month

Scaleway doubles down on ARM-based cloud servers

Iliad’s cloud hosting division Scaleway has been betting on ARM chipsets for years because they believe the future of hosting is going to be based on ARM’s processor architecture. The company ju

Scaleway thinks the future of cloud hosting is ARM-based servers

Iliad’s cloud hosting division Scaleway is launching a new type of server today. In just a minute, you can launch your server with 2 ARMv8 cores, 2GB of RAM, 50GB of SSD storage and unlimited bandwi

Numericable-SFR Bids To Acquire Bouygues Telecom For $11.4 Billion As French Telecom Market Consolidates

Numericable acquired France’s second biggest telecom company SFR just last year, but the new telecom giant is back on the acquisition market. This time, its target is Bouygues Telecom, the wanin

Online Labs Designed Its Own ARM Servers To Take On AWS, DigitalOcean

A couple of years ago, the team behind Online Labs started a long ambitious project — instead of building a virtual cloud hosting infrastructure that competes directly with Amazon Web Services,

Free, France’s T-Mobile, Wants To Acquire T-Mobile For $15 Billion

France’s disruptive telecom company, Free, just announced that it wanted to acquire T-Mobile US. The WSJ first broke the story. Free then confirmed the bid in a press release. Sprint was already

With Project Miami, Bouygues Telecom Partners With Google To Reinvent Its Innovation Strategy

In the fascinating French telecommunications industry, Bouygues Telecom has had a rough year. Now, the company has no choice but to rethink everything from the ground up. And this is exactly what the

How Telecom Company Free Nearly Disrupted The French Mobile Landscape All Over Again

Last week, everything was very different in the mobile landscape in France. France’s disruptive telecom company Free was about to make the best strategic move I had ever seen. Yet, it all fell a

How The Telecom Company Free Disrupted The Mobile Landscape In France

Imagine a mobile phone plan, such as the one from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.free.fr/">Free</a> in France, with unlimited talk, unlimited SMS and MMS messages, tethering and, even more import