Background
Haladjian, Rafi was born in 1961 in Lebanon.
entrepreneur computer scientist
Haladjian, Rafi was born in 1961 in Lebanon.
Attended Semiology, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1984.
Among others, he is known as the co-creator of the wireless-connected rabbit Nabaztag one of the pioneering smart objects of the Internet of Things. Rafi Haladjian starts his professional career by producing filmed interviews with Eugène Ionesco and Federico Fellini. In 1986 he is recruited by the publishing company Publications Nouvelles to develop its emerging Minitel activities.
He becomes the chief operating officer of the company in 1987.
He then creates very successful subsidiaries in Italy 1989 and Spain 1991. In 1992 Rafi Haladjian buys the company he has been working foreign
In 1999, he sells all his French Minitel businesses to the Neocom Multimedia Group. On 8 June 1994, Rafi Haladjian founds FranceNet one of the first Internet companies in France.
FranceNet offers dialup Internet Connection using the POTN as well as access through the French voice services network (Audiotel) allowing users to pay by the minute without signing for a subscription.
He also creates FranceWeb, an online directory of the French Web allowing all the new users of the network to find their way on the Internet. In 1995, he diversifies his offer, creating a second Internet service provider, Micronet, specialized in low cost connection offers. Besides being an Internet service provider, FranceNet offers web hosting and web development services.
The company created its own eCommerce software (used by the largest mail order company in France, Louisiana Redoute), site traffic measurement systems (along with BVA), graphical chat systems and more.
