The news has been spreading like wildfire all over the web: online media, blogs, Twitter, Facebook are all buzzing about the public $ 44.6 billion bid by Microsoft to acquire all of Yahoo!’s assets (or $ 31 per share).
While everyone is wondering what to name the married couple - Mahoosoft, Microsoft!, Microhoo, Yahoosoft!, Yasoft, [fill [...]

Patrick De Schutter, co-founder and CEO of ContactOffice, was interviewed by web enthusiast Philippe Nieuwbourg. As of this morning, the audio interview is up at Econotique (French only).

We are pleased to announce a new ContactOffice customer : PME-KMO is the monthly Belgian magazine for SME leaders, published in 30.000 copies per month.

Are you interested in a free test of ContactOffice via the Club PME-KMO ? Surf to their site in order to subscribe to the “Virtual PME” club.
You will be able [...]

Reinforced by the bag of feedback from the Office 2.0 Conference, we have decided to pursue one of our goals by expanding our presence into the United States, more specifically to Silicon Valley (where else?) as reported by Datanews (link in Dutch).
As one of the key players in the online office space (which is [...]

L’atelier, a daughter company of BNP Paribas, active in tracking and studying new technologies was present at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Out of the more than 50 companies it selected ContactOffice for a video inteview (in french) and a dossier.

It’s been more than 2 weeks since ContactOffice went to San Francisco to attend the annual Office 2.0 Conference. We presented our new public beta and met a bunch of interesting people, ranging from industry analysts, members of the press, competitors, bloggers, Office 2.0 pundits and potential customers / business partners. We basically had a [...]

Listen to one of the co-founders about ContactOffice and the Beta launch (french - 4′ 30″).

Exciting news!
We have just launched our new public beta, after months of development and a lot of coffee. We issued a press release to announce the release which you can find below.
We’re going to present the new version (v1.1.006) at the annual Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, which we have agreed to sponsor.
Don’t [...]

From the website:
What is Blognation?
Blognation is a network of professional bloggers brought together to report on the latest Web 2.0 technology, mobile and enterprise start-ups from around the world, but only written in English.
One or more editors cover a country, and I’m proud to be a member of the team, as blogging reporter for Belgium [...]

Article in French from Tendances, Belgium’s leading business magazine :
L’agenda ContactOffice a bien grandi
Some time ago the editor of Tendances has written about the ContactOffice virtual office. In this article he states he really is surprised about the leap forward we have made in a short period of time and explains the functionality.

Article in Dutch from Belgian weekly news magazine “Knack” :
Is ContactOffice de ideale agenda voor u?
Very positive article about our virtual office. In case your wondering… they do consider ContactOffice as “the ideal calendar” for collaborative use.

Dutch e-business Magazine E-merce about ContactOffice : Maandelijks honderdduizenden gebruikers ‘weboffice’
The people @ E-merce are confident that the market for virtual offices will continue to grow. Even the next version of the Firefox browser will offer new functionalities to facilitate synchronization between mobile devices and online applications.

It’s obvious that video on blogs and websites is becoming the trend for 2007.
Jean Michel Billaut, a famous French Internet pioneer, has posted an interview with Patrick De Schutter on his blog.

The network for entrepreneurs Join2Grow.biz published a video interview with ContactOffice co-founder Patrick De Schutter.
You can read a transcript of the interview here.