For its part, Deliveroo says that it will hit 200 cities next week, when it launches in Cannes, France, as the latest city in its French footprint.
"He came to the launch party in Cannes, but I don't know why he didn't do a piece of music".
P Diddy, AKA Sean Combs, who was in Cannes to launch a new music TV channel, told a festival session earlier this week: "I don't have a Samsung.
After Djinn's Cannes launch in 2010 hailing the country's entry into the commercial fast-lane and the early rash of publicity in government-sponsored publications, the silence was deafening.
Liberty filed a lawsuit seeking the removal of Barry Diller as IAC's boss, which IAC described as "preposterous", maintaining that "Liberty does not control" the company.Qtrax, a company promising free legal music-downloads on its website, launched its service with much ceremony in Cannes, but was soon embarrassed when the big recording labels said they had not negotiated licensing deals.
Streaming music firm We7 announced at the recent MidemNet event in Cannes that it will launch advertising-free premium services on 1 February, but today it's released the prices for its two packages.
Although its marketing campaign launched in time for Cannes was disappointingly soulless (Spiegel's promo definitely doesn't exemplify the sort of messages that have made him a billionaire), Snapchat excites ad types largely because of its popularity among "centennials", a term for under-18s just as hideous as "millennial".
DRG, which launched the revamped Catchphrase format at the Mipcom international programming market in Cannes this week, said that it is close to confirming deals in several other countries.
She told the Guardian she's in Cannes simply in support of the event, which she credits for launching her career in 2011 by screening her two breakthrough features, The Tree of Life and Take Shelter.
