Real, false … and a suspicion of bad faith to test your tech culture
This April 1, we voluntarily blur the lines between verified info, digital myth and plausible invention. It is up to you to unravel what is strategic watch … or well -dressed fish.
🧠 Answers and Fact-Check at the end of the day. In the meantime, keep the critical thinking sharp – and an eye on the pigeons.
🏦 Zebank, Bernard Arnault’s online bank, ready to shoot 20 hours a day
LVMH enters the online bank with an extensive accessibility promise, but not unlimited.
Zebank, supported by Bernard Arnault, announces a daily operation of 20 hours, against 24 for its digital competitors. Positioned as a premium alternative, the platform intends to offer a fluid, reactive and personalized banking experience – but with a night break imposed during its sleeping hours, so as not to lose its control.
🧾 Lelsy forced to change its name for the 4th time … at the request of Selly Sy, daughter of Omar Sy
The French startup Lelsy, editor of commercial management software, would be summoned to change its name due to an assumed confusion with that of Selly Sy, daughter of Omar Sy.
According to the lawyers of the latter, the use of the name “Lelsy” is involved in its digital identity, especially on social networks and research results. The young woman claims to regularly receive messages intended for society. A procedure would have been initiated to defend “the integrity of its online presence”.
The context: a saga of the naming that has lasted for more than a decade.
Lelsy is not at his first rebound. After having operated under the names Myfate Then Invokitthe company thought it had found a stable brand. This new legal twist forces the company to consider a fourth rebranding. Several options are being studied, of which Faktura,, Bizly or Tolance.
🎵 My Way: After real estate, Xavier Niel relies on musical rights
The founder of Free diversifies his assets and bets on a timeless classic: “My Way”.
After the datacenters, newspapers, digital campuses and real estate, Xavier Niel is now attacking musical rights. According to several concordant sources, he has invested in the catalog of Claude François, including the world -known English version My Way. A strategic operation aimed at “rebalancing the wallet between bandwidth and soundtrack”.
The context: a song that reports more than a Parisian apartment.
With more than 1,000 interpretations around the world, My Way would generate nearly a million euros in annual income – the equivalent, according to a loved one, of 22 studios rented in Montparnasse “. After digitizing Internet access, Xavier Niel intends to “democratize access to royalties”. Next step mentioned: the acquisition of the rights of “Champs-Élysées”, “for reasons of image”, the siege of Iliad being a few steps away.
🔁 Outbrain plans to relaunch the Wikio project after the repurchase of teads
With the acquisition of teams, Outbrain plans to put an old content aggregator online: Wikio.
Initially designed as a news recommendation engine, Wikio could reappear in a version adapted to current standards. Objective: to reinvest the world of editorial information through a owner platform, in addition to its advertising activity. Pierre CHAPPAZ would have been released from his retirement to work confidentially on the file.
The context: a homecoming in the universe of content.
Wikio, one of the first European projects combining aggregation and prioritization of online information, had been abandoned for the benefit of an advertising strategy. With the potential revival of the project, Outbrain could reactivate a strategic tool to capture the audience on integrated editorial formats, and strengthen its presence on the open web in front of closed platforms.
🎨 Mark Zuckerberg would have paid $ 200 million a wall fresco in Facebook offices
David Choe, Californian graffiti artist, was asked to paint the Facebook offices. The artist, not very enthusiastic about painting for a social network “not really cool”, accepts despite everything in the face of an offer difficult to decline.
🎙️ Suzanne Vega works on a new standard that could revolutionize digital music
After Hedy Lamarr and Wi-Fi, it is Suzanne Vega’s turn to lend her voice to technological innovation.
The New York singer-interpreter, known for her title Tom’s dinneris currently collaborating with a team of audio engineers on the development of a new musical compression format. Its pure timbre, its millimeter diction and its perfectly controlled breathing would make, according to the researchers, “the zero point of any sound fidelity”.
🖼️ A student creates a website and sells it, pixel per pixel, for $ 1 million
A student without budget but lots of ideas would have monked … A blank page.
Faced with the cost of his studies, he launched a completely empty site, divided into a million pixels. He offers to sell them a dollar piece to who wants to display an image or a link. In less than an hour, the page turns into a chaotic mosaic of logos, pubs and absurd winks. Objective reached: one million pixels sold, one million dollars collected.
🔍 Google tests it in its search bar, SEO experts discover the breach
Simple requests would trigger dynamic engine reactions, revealing a hidden experimental mode.
Type “Do a Barrel Roll”, enter “Askew” or enter “The Answer to Life the Universe and Everything”: the page reacts instantly, without clickable, or traditional Serp. Behind these visual effects, Google engineers would test a new mode of natural language treatment integrated directly into the search bar.
🍞 Do you know after Dark: the startup of “Flying Toasters” which has weighed $ 5 billion in turnover for two decades?
Originally a simple graphic software publisher, After Dark was able to transform a cult product-its “Flying Toasters” screen saver-into a global brand available in the running, connected objects and interface micro-elements embedded in many industrial bones. A case of a school of monetization of a cultural artefact.
The context: winged toaster become discreet empire of the interface.
Born in the 1990s with its animated screen savingers, After Dark gradually pivoted towards the design of on -board visual experiences for manufacturers of computer equipment, vehicles and domestic devices. The visual signature of “Flying Toasters” remains a strong differentiating element of the brand, presents today in several hundred millions of terminals worldwide.
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📉 Bessemer Venture Partners would have refused to invest during the Google, Apple, Facebook and Airbnb Seed
Four of the largest world technology companies have seen their file failed by the same fund.
According to a recently revealed internal compilation, Bessemer Venture Partners has declined investment opportunities in Google, Apple, Facebook and Airbnb, all during their Seed tricks. Too risky, too early, or simply “not convincing”, according to the initial evaluation notes. Theoretical cost of these refusals: several hundred billion dollars.
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🥖 Wand “Artificial intelligence at the service of the baker tradition. »»
Wand.ai offers a SaaS platform for artisans-boulangers who wish to optimize The crisp rate of their baguettes using Deep Learning algorithms. Thanks to thermal sensors integrated into the ovens and connected cameras analyzing the color of the crust in real time, the startup promises “increased cooking”, standardized and Data-Driven.
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🧠 Two brothers hack the whole world … and leave their telephone number by mistake.
A virus spreads at high speed … with the coordinates of its authors in the code.
A message is displayed on infected screens: names, full address, telephone number. The incident intrigues the Tech community. Would the authors have forgotten to clean their draft? Police authorities in Bangalore, contacted by local victims, had only to compose the number to identify them
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🥐 previous edition of the Good Morning Frenchweb:
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- The GPUs of Openai found under requests / Parcoursup poses bad questions / clay you clone
- Alexis Renard and Laura Pallier are launching a new startup / Omaj recovery / Facebook is trying to become again… Facebook
- 40 billion more for Openai / The real KPI forgotten in the IA / Le Comex race is still in office, but the AI is already in charge
- UK – USA: The GAFA tax in exchange money / vinter entered luxury / national intelligence does not outsource
🚀 To read on Frenchweb.fr:
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- Zestmeup and Supermood unite to build a European player in employee engagement
- Will European technological independence go through the HPC RHEA HPC microprocessor of Sipearl?
- Towards increased resilience of critical infrastructure: France wants to strengthen its cybersecurity
- Does Mirakl really be worth $ 3.5 billion?
- Trapped by its own economic model, mention is put into receivership.
