France24 – the round the clock TV & Internet news network touted as the “French CNN” – online since December has released figures claiming 3 million visits were made to their website during the last 3 weeks of 2006. Announcing the numbers, Alain de Pouzilhac, France 24′s chairman, said “I’m not happy with those figures, [...]
With less than 100 days to go to the first round of the French Presidential elections, France2 along with Google Vidéo France has opened a website elections.france2.fr dedicated to the campaign. Along with a selection of the main stories from the biggest public daily news channel here in France, the site will also be showing [...]
The first week of 2007 was the week that saw the world’s oldest newspaper (361 years) cease to exist…in print that is. That’s right, the Swedish daily – Post-och Inrikes Tidningar, lives on…on-line. This was posted by Jeff Jarvis on his popular media blog Buzzmachine whose b&w header photo of rolling mill-type machinery from the [...]
Wikio continues its international development this Monday by launching an English version – Wikio.com, und German – Wikio.de and Spanish – Wikio.es, también. Pierre Chappaz, who founded the popular (600,000 users in Fr, 100,000 in Italy) user-contributed news company, admits that while Wikio intends to stay a European focused news site, with a UK version [...]
The France24 website was launched Wednesday night followed by the TV station – available on cable and satellite (list of satellite and cable service providers) as of Thursday. The News website is in French, English and Arabic and will dedicate 20% of its programming to culture & lifestyle, the TV station has Arabic previewed for [...]
DailyMotion will have seen a sharp increase in page views over the weekend as over a 100,000 people in France, turned to the video sharing site, after watching the evening news. Which gives me, by the same occasion, the opportunity to mention the French start up, that receives more than 4.000 videos every day, adding [...]