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France Loves Tech, but Not Amazon, or Uber, or Google, or ...
If France wants to have successful technology companies, it has to embrace failure.
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If you had to summarize France's official position on technological change, it would go like this: Progress is great and we love it -- just so long as it isn't too disruptive.
Francois Hollande, the French president, probably won't put it quite so bluntly when he meets with Internet industry leaders in San Francisco today, at the end of his state visit to the U.S. But over the past few weeks, his administration has been broadcasting this mixed message at an increasingly loud volume.