France

Message to French Presidential Candidates: Do More To Support Start-ups

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on April 16, 2012

The eighth annual “Truffle 100” index, the benchmark ranking of France’s top 100 software companies compiled by Truffle Capital with support from Eric Besson, the French Minister for Industry, Energy and the Digital Economy, and in partnership with analysts at the CXP Centre for Software Evaluation, ought to be of great concern to the leading candidates in the French presidential race.Read more

Cloud Computing With Borders May Be On Horizon in Europe

Submitted by Jennifer L. Schenker on May 18, 2010

A proposal to build a national federation of interconnected computing clouds in France, funded in part by government in order to protect the country's sovereignty, data privacy and local jobs, is gaining favor. Some fear that the idea, which is in part a backlash against American companies like Google, will spread to other parts of the Continent, potentially undermining the promised benefits to Europeans of  cloud computing.Read more

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