SFR selects 10 winners of start-up competition

French mobile and broadband operator SFR has announced the ten winners of its 2012 SFR Jeunes Talents Start-up competition. They will be supported by the operator through its network of experts, partners and its technical and commercial expertise. The second annual competition focused on customers relations, network technologies, e-commerce, interactive TV and Wi-Fi/CRM solutions. The winners were 2Emotion with a video shopping solution, Axalot for a cloud-based storage system for mobile phone and tablet data, E-loue for a platform allowing users to rent any type of object online, CleverScale for a content delivery network service, Erdil for customer message semantic analysis, Synergiums for a voice command-based TV content search system, Shopmium for a webphone couponing app, Weblib for its service of loaning tablets, netbooks and smartphones to people at cafes, hotels and other establishments' hotspots, Lyatiss for a cloud-based corporate network design, deployment, testing and optimisation platform, and LivingObjects for a tablet application to monitor operator networks.