LeWeb 2010 Series – ReadWrite

Articles in LeWeb 2010

Wednesday, 8th December 2010

Mozilla in 2011: Focus on Performance, Video, Identity & App Stores

Yesterday, we also had a chance to interview Mozilla's chairperson Mitchell Baker at LeWeb in Paris. During this discussion, we talked about Mozilla's plans for the coming year, which involve a renewed focus on speed, app stores for the Web and open audio and video in the browser. We also touched upon Mozilla's vision for giving users the ability…

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Evernote Gets Down to Business: Launches Sponsored Accounts for Schools and Companies

Evernote just announced the launch of sponsored business accounts for organizations and businesses. These new account types will give schools, businesses and other organizations the option to pay for their members' and employees' accounts. As the company's CEO Phil Libin just told us during an interview at LeWeb in Paris, the majority of the tools…

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Tuesday, 7th December 2010

Twitter: We Need to Create a Better Consumption Experience for Our Users

Jason Goldman, Twitter's vice president of product, just joined TechCrunch's MG Siegler on stage at this year's LeWeb in Paris. During this interview, he noted that Twitter will ramp up its integration with third-party apps in the near future and roll out more partnerships shortly. Asked about Twitter's product plans for the future, Goldman noted…

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Facebook: We Spend More Time and Resources Thinking About Privacy Than Any Other Company in the World

During his keynote interview TechCrunch's editor Michael Arrington at LeWeb10 in Paris this morning, Facebook's director for the company's developer network Ethan Beard noted that "no other company in the world currently spends us much time and resources on privacy as Facebook." He also categorically denied the existence of a Facebook phone.

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Tuesday, 16th November 2010

Flea Market Unions and LeWeb: How Old Europe is Adapting to the Internet

They don't call Europe the Old World for nothing. Sometimes old European ways of doing things are not at all consistent with the realities of the Internet. Take France for example: There's a union for people who sell antiques and vintage stuff at flea markets professionally. To prevent unfair competition against these pros, the law says individuals…

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