i3 - September/October 2020 - 11
By Mark Chisholm
Tech
I N T E R N AT I O N A L FO C US
FRANCE
French
Startup Turns
TV on its Side
Clockwise from Top Left: Mika Baumeister/Unsplash (mobile phone), Courtesy of StopCovid App,
Panther Media GmbH/Alamy, Courtesy of Renault, Courtesy of Wildmoka, Kai Pilger/Unsplash.
French Contact Tracing
App Loses Steam
After getting off to a fast
start, France's COVID-19
contact tracing app has lost
momentum in both usage and
adoption. After the French
government released
StopCovid in early June,
1.9 million people downloaded
the app from the Google Play
and Apple App Store. Over that
same period, however, over
20,000 users deactivated the
app and nearly half a million
uninstalled it, according to
TechCrunch. Because of the
low number of people who had
marked themselves as positive
for COVID-19, the app had sent
only 14 notifications in the
three weeks after release.
RENAULT GIVES ELECTRIC
VEHICLES TO FRENCH
HOUSEHOLDS
French carmaker Renault has "loaned" electric
vehicles - at no cost - to every household in a
small town in the south of France. Hoping to
help consumers to understand the benefits of
electric vehicles, the carmaker gave every household in the small French town of Appy a Renault
Zoe EV for three years. Every household also
will be given a charger for home, and a public
charger will be installed in the town. Appy is one
of the most isolated towns in France, but
Renault assures residents that will not be a
problem, with the 394km range of the Zoe EV.
Wildmoka, a French
startup, has launched a
video solution that automatically transforms traditional horizontal TV
streams into a vertical format more easily viewed
on a smartphone. Live
Vertical, developed in collaboration with Altice
France, converts Altice's
BFMTV channels into a
vertical format when the
channels are viewed on a
smartphone. This method
avoids having to "shrink"
a horizontal image when
being viewed vertically,
allowing the stream to
make use of more screen
real estate.
Carrefour, Uber Eats to Bring
Service to all of France
French supermarket giant Carrefour announced in late July that it is
expanding its partnership with Uber Eats to bring the home delivery
grocery service to all of France, as well as parts of Belgium. The service, which began offering 30-minute delivery from roughly 15 stores
in Paris, has expanded to 330 stores across France.
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