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Holidays and whatnot are pretty much about 3 things: delicious food, canceled flights (especially if you’re in Western Europe) and spending time with loved ones…right? And while the weather may…

When companies like Zynga release a new game and muster up some 6 million daily users in 8 days, it apparently gets other companies thinking about social gaming as well.…

It’s December 14th. The holidays are getting closer…and closer…And with only 10 days until Christmas, I am sure there are tons of parents still frantically searching for something for their…

If Pablo Picasso or Belgian surrealist, René Magritte, were alive and on Facebook, their profiles would probably be a terrific work of art. Yes, that’s right, Magritte is the one…

The French entrepreneurs’ fund, ISAI, has just announced that its investing in Commerce Guys, a Franco-American company that develops open source Drupal e-commerce solutions. This is the third investment for…

Just like every other country, France has its share of Groupon clones, including the likes of Bon Privé, Zanytude (now closed) and Dealissime. This last one has probably caught the…

In France, the excitement is already building up. LeWeb, the famous conference that pretty much transforms Paris into Silicon Valley, is only 1 week away. For everyone who is coming…

If you were one of those people that watched the iPhone4 v. HTC Evo Xtranormal videos made by Brian Maupin and caught yourself thinking that today’s mobile phones are just…

Smartdate announced a €2 million round in February of this year so that you could stop poking and start actually dating the friends of your Facebook friends. But now the…

Pretty much everything is going social these days  and getting a kick of real-time – whether it’s for discovering music via Playlistnow or following stocks via StockTwits, etc. Everyone’s adding…

Back in August, rumors started surfacing about a potential French Y Combinator. Since then, the tweets of several well-known French entrepreneurs and investors have made it clear that they have…

Sandbox, a London-based international network of entrepreneurs under the age of 30, announced this week that it would be launching in France. Funny coincidence, this announcement comes just 1 week…

Likiwi is pretty much Skype – but on Facebook. This morning, the Paris-based startup announced that they are launching a new texting service, enabling Facebook’s 500 million users to send…

Seems like France is kind of full of dating sites. And that’s probably not so surprising given that the country is often considered one of the most romantic. Hopefully everyone has…

Switzerland-based SmallRivers made headlines earlier this year when it scored funding with Kima Ventures and Econa to turn your Twitter feed into an online newspaper via Paper.li. And now for…

Ok, maybe not all of Europe just yet – but definitely 2 of its most important markets. The Nantes-based startup specializing in e-commerce optimization solutions is announcing its official launch in…

The first time we talked about Leetchi on TechCrunch was back in February – only 3 months after its official launch in November 2009. At the time, the young company…

On the other side of the Atlantic, TechCrunch events have been causing all kinds of disruption (yes, lame joke, I know) this year. Back in May, Disrupt unleashed the infamous linguistic…

Part of the YCombinator class of 2006, Xobni only recently launched its first non-English language version in German after partnering with the German Linkedin, Xing. Yet, given the high number…

So, that whole France.fr fiasco this summer was pretty embarrassing for France. But hey, at least the local entrepreneurs got the last laugh. Still, I would’ve thought France would be…

I’m not going to lie, Bonitasoft’s success could probably give a lot of American entrepreneurs a run for their money. Based out of Grenoble, France, the 30-person team that specializes…

Uhhh…now I know what you’re thinking : social network meets dressing room = scary and perhaps slightly perverted. But trust me, it’s definitely not. Now, I’m sure that you’ve wondered…

For anyone that has ever struggled to string together a music playlist – whether it be for listening to at the gym, a party, at work or just casually -…

Apparently today the French equivalent of Black Friday for the local hi-tech market – everyone’s out on a shopping spree. Ok, that’s perhaps a bit of an overstatement, but still.…

At a time when French entrepreneurs were starting to get all anxious about there being so few acquisitions by French companies in the local hi-tech market, Voyages-SNCF.com kicked it up a…

After investing some 15 million euros in France-based OneDirect a few weeks ago, Belgian VC fund Gimv has just announced that it is dropping 4.9 million euros on a Vente-Privée…

Earlier this week was the first European edition of the Founder Conference, the conference put on by Adeo Ressi’s Founder Institute. And just as the Founder Institute made its European…

In April, we announced that French startup fund, ISAI, officially launched with some 24 million euros. The “French entrepreneurs fund” brings together some of the 60 hottest names in French…

A trusted source has confirmed that French-blogging platform, Overblog, will soon be part of the Wikio family. Rumor has it that the growing Luxembourg-based news portal is apparently trying to…

Belgium’s Gimv – the investment firm that is behind companies like Inside Contactless, Openbravo and Telenet – has just put some 15 million euros into Onedirect, which specializes in e-commerce…