Web, Internet and the Economy
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Fashion Photography: When Computers Turns Mannequins into Models
The world of fashion photography for e-commerce is facing a problem: consumers. They are looking for more visuals (about ten in the Chinese market, and around five in Europe) to reassure themselves about the products they are about to purchase. The problem is that these visuals are expensive. People and…
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Real Estate: can you imagine buying your house online?
Buying your new house online? You must be thinking I’m kidding you? Real estate and digital seem so far away from each other. Buying a house online is so absurd for some of you. We buy shoes, electronics, or earphones online – and if we’re feeling too adventurous, maybe a couch. But…
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Online sales, fashion retail and digital: The Burberry case
What can we learn from Burberry in Fashion online sales ? I recently came across a study done by ContactLab which reveals some amazing facts about Fashion Retail merging with Digital. According to their study “Digitally driven in-store sales already account for 1/4 of retail revenues already. The study anticipates that by…
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The *real* Internet of Things Isn’t The One You Think
The Internet of things is, in my honest to God opinion, a very weird topic. First and foremost, it’s as old a theme as the Internet itself. I first started to hear about connected fridges in 1996, even though it never quite happened[1] and the subject has re-emerged a few…
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Infographic: The path to Big Data – Challenges and Opportunities
The New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Online MBA program sent me this infographic entitled “Data Mining and Decision Support Systems“, in which the university describes big data and data mining as the new way of carrying out market research. As a matter of fact, data mining isn’t new – I…
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The Man Who Wants To Teach The Web To The Whole World
There is a man in California, who wants to teach the Web to the whole world. November 2013, a very important event, named Web2connect is about to take place in Paris, France. Web2connect, as the name goes, is the place to be for all start-ups and Internet professionals in France…
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Infographic: Understanding Credit how Card Numbers work
I tend to bitch about infographics every now and then, but sometimes you find something which is really valuable. Like the following diagram by Jess.net about how credit card numbers work. Obviously, it’s meant for you to understand the nomenclature and not actually crack the codes. Goes without saying. Legend:…
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The love-hate relationship of Governments with Cyberspace
A few weeks ago I started contributing to the innovation generation blogs, an initiative sponsored by Alcatel. Here is my first piece entitled: Governments Ease Into Cyberspace. In October 2012 I took part in the Conference on Cyberspace, an event put together by the Hungarian government on behalf of the international…
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Kwarter founders talking about entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley isn’t as easy as it may seem. On day 4 of our Blogger Bus Tour, we met with Carlos Diaz, the CEO and founder of Kwarter and Guillaume de Cugis, CEO and co-founder of Scoop’it, two French entrepreneurs who left their country in order to take their…
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Rocketspace: even Russian companies go to the US to conquer the world!
Duncan Logan, founder of Rocketspace is originally Scottish and moved to San Francisco some time ago. His first venture didn’t work but 20 months ago, he then decided to found Rocketspace. Rocketspace could be described as “offices as a service” Logan said. He confided to our team of bloggers that…
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UK payment fraud: NFA says the devil is in your details!
Stephen Harrison (photo), Chief Executive , Nation Fraud Authority (NFA) delivered a presentation on June 28 regarding the importance of fraud in advanced payment methods in the UK at the marketforce future of cards & payments conference: the National Fraud Authority was set up by a response to fraud by…
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Chinese Internet: the global battle has begun
The Chinese Internet is now conquering the world. In a previous series, Alban Fournier, a young French professional who fell in love with Asia warned us that China was the next worldwide International giant in the making. In this piece, he is expatiating on this previous report and delving into…
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