Jean-Philippe Encausse

 After raising $30 million in August , Fiverr, the low-cost online marketplace for services of any stripe, is making it rain. The company is spending money to roll out new international sites. Starting with Spanish, French, Dutch, and Portuguese website versions, the US-based company wants to take its network of professional and creative service providers global — without them having… Read More

The engineers behind Project Ara are trying to make the last smartphone you'll ever need. Their design for a modular device has users slotting components — a camera, extra storage space, a Wi-Fi connector — into their phones, as and when they need them. It's an ambitious scheme, but engineers working at NK Labs in Boston have already produced a working prototype, which they showed off to modular smartphone evangelist Dave Hakkens during a recent visit.

The early model, called Spiral 1, is creamy white and boxy, and a far shot from the beautiful modular models shown earlier this year. But unlike those mock-ups, it actually works, and it looks to be more stable than the prototype shown at Google I/O in June, loading its Android OS past...

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ReadMe - The owl covers her eyes while you type your password.

/via Jeremy Lefebvre

A law passed in France, which takes effect November 1st, will require companies with less than 250 employees to inform employees of any intention to sell the company (or a majority stake in the company). This law will certainly have a ripple effect to startups, where deals are often made fast and furious, with the biggest acquisitions in the past 3 years often happening in a matter of weeks.

Specifically, the law states that, two months before cession of the company, employees who have opted in to be informed about such activity must be informed of the intent or pending action. While it’s not clear whether a workaround to this may include signing a deal that takes effect two months down the road, it certainly could make things difficult – a close friend of mine recently, in trying to have his company acquired, so one buyer walk away due to employee response to the buyer in question.

Employees who opt in will have to sign a confidentiality agreement, and, if they are not properly informed, may take action no more than two months after said cession is official. In taking action, they can potentially overturn the acquisition decision in court – I really can’t wait for the first example of that to come into play.

Keeping high-level decisions out of prying ears can be tough - the law seems to imply that only employees who actively announce their desire to remain informed must be informed, however it’s hard to tell what precedent this law might set for future legislation.

Startups move fast, and pitching your acquisition to your investors, your board & your cofounders is hard enough without having to make sure your employees are on board.

"French companies must now inform employees of potential acquisitions" by Liam Boogar originally appeared on Rude Baguette

Le câblo-opérateur a reçu lundi 27 octobre le feu vert conditionnel de l'Autorité de la concurrence pour le rachat de SFR.

The post Numericable veut lever 4,7 milliards d’euros pour racheter SFR appeared first on FrenchWeb.fr.

One of the single greatest animes ever made according to just about everyone in existence, Cowboy Bebop, will see release on high-def Blu-ray on December 16th. That means any lover of jazz, science fiction, westerns, and robots needs this in their home as soon as humanly possible. Etiquette dictates that I inform you that Bebop takes place in a not-so-distant future where a technological mishap left Earth nigh-uninhabitable and the rest of human society just short of lawless. But you know that. You know the critically-acclaimed, genre-spanning soundtrack. You know the story and its characters. You know that this is art. So just preorder the thing already. See you, space cowboy.

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La société édite une solution de gestion de maison connectée depuis un smartphone.

The post Maison connectée : Nest rachète Revolv, l’un de ses concurrents appeared first on FrenchWeb.fr.

La SNCF teste les Google Glass pour contrôler la validité des billets sur les lignes iDTGV.

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© Rédigé par, Sebastien Veyrier pour Be Geek le ven, 24 oct 2014 à 14h30

Malgré un engouement plutôt mesuré à l'égard de Kinect, Microsoft n'a pas encore abandonné son bébé. La firme vient de repasser à l'offensive en publiant son nouveau SDK, en ouvrant le Windows Store aux applications des développeurs et en proposant un adaptateur pour les possesseurs d'un Kinect en version Xbox One. Kinect finira-t-il par s'imposer dans les usages ? En dépit...

Xbox One owners with a Kinect could soon get more use out of Microsoft's powerful camera — assuming those same people are also Windows users. Today Microsoft launched a $49.99 adapter that will make the Xbox One version of Kinect fully compatible with Windows 8 and 8.1 PCs and tablets. Performance is identical between the repurposed Xbox sensor and the standalone Kinect v2 for Windows unit, but this option could save you some money if you bought Microsoft's console before the big decoupling. And if we're being honest, that Kinect's probably not seeing much activity right now aside from receiving your voice commands and maybe handling some Skype calls. Why not give it a new lease on life?

Microsoft has also announced version 2.0 of the...

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Magic Leap, cela vous dit quelque chose?

Cette start-up américaine est en train de faire beaucoup de bruit dans la Silicon Valley!

Magic Leap aurait créer une nouvelle technologie: la réalité cinématique. On ne sait pas très bien ce que c’est mais le nom est imposant. Rony Abovitz, son fondateur affirme:

« Quand vous verrez notre invention, vous découvrirez l’informatique des 30 ou 40 prochaines années »

On sait déjà qu’il s’agit d’un produit wearable capable de créer des images dynamiques avec lesquelles l’homme pourrait interagir.

#SCOOP (ou pas) : Google aurait prévu d’investir 500 millions de dollars dans la start-up pour occuper une place de choix dans le domaine de la réalité virtuelle – ou de la virtualité réelle on ne sait plus très bien. Bien sûr le Géant est sur tous les bons coups!

Qui n’a jamais rêvé de faire voler un bébé éléphant dans le creux de ses mains?

Comme ça:

Dans le cadre de son point développement, Ikea annonce l'arrivée prochaine d'une application Flash&Get permettant de reconnaître des meubles pris en photo pour les acheter en ligne. La technologie au service de la vente, voilà comment Ikea entend trouver de nouveaux relais de croissance et pallier l'éloignement de ses boutiques, souvent situées en périphérie des villes. Le principe est simple...

Alana Jones-Mann réalise de ses mains de fabuleux cupcakes en forme de cactus. Des plantes de toutes sortes qu’elle conçoit avec une grande finesse. Elle explique également son procédé en illustrant les différentes étapes du déroulement de ses créations. Une idée originale à découvrir dans la suite.

Salut tout le monde, j’ai finalement pris le temps de sortir une première version du plugin MyFox pour SARAH en V2.0 La version est disponible sur le market SARAH. Cette version s’appuie sur l’API officielle, ce coup-ci nous sommes donc dans les clous pour profiter pleinement de la possibilité de piloter votre centrale d’alarme MyFox […]

Cet article Sortie du plugin MyFox pour SARAH est apparu en premier sur Hotfirenet.com.

Anonabox est un projet de boitier open source à petit prix qui permet de naviguer librement et de manière anonyme sur le web.

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© Rédigé par, Nicolas Catard pour Be Geek le mar, 14 oct 2014 à 11h00

["Noster" The Dancer | Via Neatorama]

Afin de promouvoir sa mini canette, Coca-Cola a fait appel à l’agence Ogilvy et Mather Berlin dans le but de mettre au point une opération mémorable. C’est dans les rues de cinq grandes villes allemandes que les passants ont découvert des kiosques et des distributeurs de canettes miniatures. À découvrir en images et vidéo.

A beautifully animated recap of the first four seasons of “Game of Thrones” by directors Blackmeal and Baptiste Pagani.

Don’t forget to put this one in full screen after hitting play!

[BlackMeal | Via TA]

C'était mieux avant, seul les vrais connaissent, t'es pas un vrai rôliste si tu fais du mmorpg,… D'accord avec ça ou pas, on en parle dans le débat. World of Warcraft a t'il tué D&D?

NEWS
-Windows 10
-Nightwing la webserie
-Orange annonce Homelive
-Pebble avec tracker et baisse de prix.

HIGH TECH
Cedric : LAPA

SERIES TV
Sophie : Gotham

SERIES TV
Timo : Star Wars Rebels

DEBAT :
Sébastien, Jeff et Cédric : Les MMORPG ont-ils tué le JDR papier...

Alexis Decelle, Cyril Declercq, Vincent Defour et Pierre Jury (tous étudiants à l’école d’animation Isart Digital), ont réalisé le court-métrage animé « L3.0 ». Le film raconte l’histoire d’un robot « de compagnie » nommé Leo qui erre seul dans un Paris post-apocalyptique et ennuyeux, jusqu’au jour où il rencontre un nouvel être vivant.

Music & Sound Design : Victor Battaglia, Nicolas De Ferran, Rémi Haentjens, Matthieu Ferrieu.

You'd be excused for thinking Elon Musk is crazy. Even with his unlikely successes in rethinking electric vehicles and commercial spaceflight, the man's steadfast beliefs in the face of incredible challenges can make him seem like a blind visionary. If you're of that mindset, Musk's latest interview — published as part of an excellent feature story on Aeon this week — will do little to change your mind.

In it, Musk says that he's fighting to colonize Mars not for aspirational purposes or advances in R&D that could be used here on earth, but because he feels he must do all he can to keep the flame of humanity alive. "I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness, to make sure it continues into the future," he says, adding...

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 Today, Evernote — the note-taking and storage app now with 100 million users — announced one of its latest and biggest steps forward in its bid to develop services that will not just keep people using its app to store notes and thoughts regularly, but to use it for ever more purposes: it’s launching Evernote Context — an AI play that will see it surfacing and… Read More

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When you’re crafting websites, web apps, and mobile apps at a professional level, it makes sense to recruit the best tools on the market, those that are certain to help you achieve your purpose and do a great job, time and time again. Below is a list with some of the finest resources for passionate web developers and web designers, who make it their pleasure to prototype and create websites or apps on a regular basis.

Apper

The brainchild of IGenApps Inc. derives its identity from the concept of creative professionals not having to program while they devise fantastic apps. Hence, the name of Apper was chosen to reflect a do-it-yourself mobile app that enables web designers to make, share, and publish top quality apps, in a process that does not involve a single line of coding. Truth be told, Apper may well be the only solution in the industry to ‘codelessly’ let users strike up mobile web apps that come across as identical to native apps.

Apper’s singularity is most evident with its intelligent URL feature, which automatically adapts apps to have a distinct UI/UX, depending on various modern devices, such as iOS, Windows Phone, Amazon Fire, and Android. Besides, Apper does not force its users into an overpaid service, but lets them pay only for what they need. Other than that, Apper charges as little as $4.99/month to host the apps and maintain their compatibility with the above-mentioned devices.

Siberian CMS

Siberian CMS would be a worthy choice if you’re after excellent app building software. It stands out from the other tools in more than one way. To begin with, this is an open-source app builder that falls along the same lines as WordPress, in the sense that it’s incredibly easy to customize everything and organize your own modules. Needless to say, manual coding is not a tedious reality with this resource.

What is more, Siberian CMS is not actually an online app creation platform, which brings forward several benefits. You are free to install it on your own server, and you are also provided with all the source code, so you won’t be subjected to additional subscription fees. And most importantly, Siberian CMS sports two commercial versions, which enable you to launch your own online app building platform in exchange for $250.

InVision

InVision is a magnificent prototyping app that takes great pride in its 400K-strong retinue of users. A huge number of web designers, UX researchers, and marketers are counting on this tool to help them prototype various products without sacrificing any aspect of their design quality. Some of the most prominent clients include renowned companies like Adobe, LinkedIn, and Evernote.

The first thing I need to mention is that InVision is a cost-free and code-free platform that unites prototyping and design-specific elements in an uncompromising manner. The extra emphasis on design translates to integration with Photoshop, Sketch, and other creative programs. Therefore, you will be able to build realistic prototypes that completely express your vision, share them with your teammates/clients, and easily test the soundness of their UX capabilities.

HotGloo

HotGloo truly deserves to be in our top five list offering the most advanced wireframe UX prototyping solution I have stumbled upon. HotGloo has a feature rich editor, is easy to use and getting started is really easy. A huge wireframe widget library is there to support you and you will get started in almost no time. Add your colleagues, so you can work together to build a responsive prototype, then save it in different versions and send a preview link to your client(s). Whether you are wireframing for desktop, tablet or mobile, this tool would be a great choice.

Proto.io

You might also like to consider using Proto.io the next time you’re trying to perfect the prototype of a mobile app to be fully interactive. This resource lets you use exquisite animations, spares you from coding, and has an effective drag-and-drop user interface. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a better way to share an interactive prototype that comes very close to the final form. The prototype can be viewed through a short URL,or over the player app of iOS and Android devices.

AppMachine

AppMachine is a reliable sidekick for building native or web apps. Building your app doesn’t cost a thing; you only pay once you decide to publish the app to the stores. With over 35 pre-coded building blocks at your disposal from the very start, you can have an app ready in just a matter of hours. Apart from that, you can import your own data, connect to web services, and use CustomJS to code independently and add your own features.

PowerMockup

If you’re intent on delivering a winning presentation of your wireframe, go with PowerMockup. It’s safe to state that it’s quite affordable, seeing as a single-user license is only $59.95. PowerMockup is an amazing add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint, versions 2007, 2010, and 2013. Make a comprehensive slideshow for your customers by searching and taking hundreds of wireframe stencils and icons from an extra large library. On top of that, you may even come up with new stencils using ordinary PowerPoint shapes.

DRONA Mobile

DRONA Mobile is the height of simplicity. It caters to non-technical users who want to set up mobile apps for their organizations. Indeed, literally anyone can take a few minutes and use it to achieve this purpose in just three easy steps. One need only choose a layout, then import relevant data, and finally publish the app and invite other users.

Antetype

It wouldn’t do to leave out Antetype from my list of favorite app creation and prototyping tools. I liked the fact that this solution allows you to create and re-use your own widgets, apart from giving you a sturdy library of more than 400 pre-designed widgets to choose from.

GameSalad

The Creator platform from GameSalad is an ideal solution when it comes to developing and designing addicting games that get along famously with all mobile and web platforms. It will help you devise, publish, and distribute complex games. Since 2009, GameSalad has facilitated the creation of no less than 180K awesome games. 

ProtoShare

Few people know that ProtoShare was the first ever cloud-based tool for wireframing and prototyping. It’s particularly recommended for team efforts and currently sports an enticing 30-day trial that does not require any credit card information. You can use it to collaborate simply, and join forces to create mockups, prototypes, and website wireframes in real time.

Bizness Apps

I recommend Bizness Apps for easy projects with a fast turnaround. It’s inexpensive, and it will help you save plenty of time when creating mobile websites or native apps for Android, iPhone, and iPad. Specifically, it gives you the opportunity to take your pick from myriad templates depending on your client’s area of interest.

Gridset

As the name aptly suggests, Gridset responds to the needs of web designers who are looking for a fine tool to help them build simple or sophisticated layout grids for the web. It only takes a few minutes to customize a unique grid, and you won’t have any issues managing, saving and reusing the same grids again.

ShoutEm

ShoutEm earned its place in my exclusive list of designer go-to resources and tools for prototyping and app creation. You will grow to appreciate the fact that you need only spend $19.90 per month for HTML5 apps (the Basic plan), $49-a-month for the additional iPhone and Android apps (Advanced plan), or $119.90 for the extended Unlimited plan.

FlairBuilder

Last but not least, I would like to introduce you to an accomplished prototyping solution named FlairBuilder. It’s complete with many useful features, and won’t require too much of your precious energy to learn how to make the best of it. Feel free to trust this platform to create interactive wireframes for mobile apps and websites.

I did what I could to compile an updated list of prototyping and app creation tools that you can use. Hopefully, here, you will have found some of the solutions that are most capable of complementing your requirements. If you have any thoughts related to either of the resources mentioned in this article, or would like to suggest some of your own favorite ones, then you are welcome to leave a comment.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have just confirmed that the first-ever case of Ebola has been diagnosed in the US. The patient had already been placed in isolation because of his symptoms and because he had recently traveled to Liberia, which is experiencing an epidemic, before two tests confirmed the disease.

This patient is the first to be diagnosed outside Africa with the strain that is currently epidemic there, said CDC director Thomas Frieden, during a conference call with reporters. The outbreak has largely been concentrated in three countries: Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, where 6,574 have been sickened and 3,091 have died so far.

"I have no doubt we will control this importation of Ebola so it does not...

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This robot from Showa University in Japan has a silicone mouth that looks and feels almost like the..(Read...)

 Kano Computing, a startup that plays in the learn to code space by adding a step-by-step hand-holding layer atop the Raspberry Pi single-board microcomputer to make hacking around with code and learning about computational thinking child’s play, has shipped all the hardware kits in its first batch of crowdfunded orders and pre-orders. That’s around 18,000 kits in all,… Read More

PayPal has partnered with three leading bitcoin payments processors in order to enable limited support for the digital currency, the company announced today.

Merchants in North America selling intangibles such as music, games, and ringtones may now accept bitcoin through PayPal Payments Hub, the company's service for digital goods retailers. The company says it is "giving our digital goods merchants an easy, one-stop way to test the waters with this new form of payment."

PayPal is working with Coinbase, which has raised funding from Silicon Valley investors including Andreessen Horowitz; BitPay, which is backed by Richard Branson, among others; and GoCoin, the smallest of the three, which is backed by angel investors and bitcoin...

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Audi vient d'annoncer sur son site que l'Etat de la Californie vient de lui délivrer le premier permis de conduire pour sa voiture autonome. L'Audi A7 est donc la première voiture à être autorisée à circuler dans cet état américain. Des nouvelles lois concernant la conduite de voiture autonome sont entrées en vigueur mardi 16 septembre en Californie. C'est ainsi qu'en présentant une caution de 5 millions de dollars par véhicule circulant, qu'Audi a pu obtenir le premier permis autonome délivré en Californie. En 2012, Audi était déjà le premier constructeur à obtenir la driving license dans l'Etat du Nevada. Cet été, Audi a récidivé en devenant la première marque à tester un véhicule sur une autoroute connectée en Floride. Mais, selon le communiqué d'Audi, la Californie est un Etat clé pour la marque, car elle y a implanté son Electronics Research Lab, un laboratoire qui développe les interfaces de commande dans l'habitacle. Autre fait important : l'Université de Stanford, située également dans cet Etat, a collaboré dans le projet d'Audi, souvenez-vous.

Audi est une forcce motrice pour la recherche, en amenant la conduite autonome de la science-fiction vers la phase de pré-production, a déclaré Scott Keogh, président de la marque aux Etats-Unis. L'obtention du premier permis délivré par l'État de Californie montre que nous avons l'intention de rester les chef de file de cette rupture technologique vitale.

Au cours des dix dernières années, Audi a multiplié les tests de ses propotypes autonomes sur des dizaines de milliers de kilomètres en Europe et aux Etats-Unis (Nevada, Floride et Californie). La société espère que sa technologie sera mise en service pour le grand public d'ici les cinq prochaines années. Lire le communiqué de presse d'Audi

 JW Player, the company behind the video player of the same name, is announcing that it has raised $20 million in Series C funding. Even if you haven’t heard of the company, you’ve probably watched videos delivered through its player, as its customers include TripAdvisor, IMDB, The Guardian, and EA, among many others. JW Player says it’s used on 2 million sites, and its videos… Read More