'Le Monde' Tag

• Moody Blues in France

  November 27, 2012

  It has been a demoralizing 10 days for France in its standing in the business world. A week ago Friday, The Economist published a damning report on the parlous state of France’s economy with a cheeky cover story calling the country The Time-Bomb at the Heart of Europe. Then on November 19th, Moody’s downgraded France’s […]

  posted in venture capital by mark bivens

• The content farms are coming !

  June 27, 2010

  The French intelligentsia has discovered the content farm model, and it’s not happy. Well-financed, maturing, and in some cases reaching the liquidity climax (Demand Media’s approaching IPO, Associated Content’s acquisition by Yahoo), the content farm model in the U.S. is not without its critics. But as evidenced by Yahoo’s commitment, AOL’s birth of a business […]

  posted in technology, venture capital by mark