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The 66th Cannes Festival has got off to a cracking start, with an outstanding film and a jury packed with people you would only dream of meeting on the famous Croisette. Orange is partnering this international event. From supplying the infrastructure for journalists and participants to running Orange Beach, a meet-up and discussion space for [...]

On Sunday 5th of May, Linkedin celebrated its 10th birthday! From the founding of the company in 2003 to the first shares traded in 2011, let’s take a look at the rise of the world’s most popular professional social network. Today, just like Facebook in our private lives, Linkedin has become an essential component in [...]

After a compelling experience last year, we’re heading back to London this week to attend the 2013 edition of the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit. For some time now, Adobe has been at the forefront of innovation in terms of Internet application software development, and every year, the American firm organises an international gathering in London [...]

Linkedin is the leading professional social network with over 200 million members. As Laurence Bret Stern explains in her opening speech at the LeWeb11 conference ‘Two new members register on Linkedin every second’. The three main reasons for using Linkedin are to look for professional opportunities, to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in a [...]

After part one on Monday, it’s time for the second part of our interview with Christian Radmilovitch looking at the social network Pinterest. After presenting the platform and talking about his success story (read the first part of the interview here), he explains the marketing challenges involved, particularly for brands, and shares his vision of [...]

Pinterest is generating a lot of interest at the moment, with its new look, its 200 million dollar round of fundraising, the launch of its webanalytics tool for verified business accounts …The photo social network is looking to effectively monetize its business model and become essential browsing within a profitable social web! Very popular for [...]

I’ve been using mobile telephones since the very early days. My first mobile phone, if you can call it that, was a Motorola 4500X from the late 80s. This beast had a handset resembling a contemporary desktop phone and was connected to a hefty battery pack by a curly cord. Despite the massive battery, resulting [...]

A recent study has seen the Orange Poland fan page on Facebook ranked 5th in a worldwide ranking of the most “socially devoted” companies. The study, conducted by Socialbakers, focused on the efficiency of global commercial brands in their communication via Facebook pages or profiles. Today, the battle for visibility and customer care has shifted [...]

Isabelle Spanu, press officer at Orange France, is a big fan of social media sites, where she can let her creativity run free. Under the alias PrincessZaza, Isabelle spends her time tweeting, instagramming, liking, checking, plussing… and pinning. That’s right, our Princess has become very fond of Pinterest, the design-focused social network where users share [...]

As the quarter-finals of the Orange AFCON, SOUTH AFRICA 2013 are looming, the fans seem to be having a great time in South Africa, as we can see from all the photos flooding in. Besides the traditional action snapshots of players fighting for the ball, our photographer on site has done a great job capturing [...]

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