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Saturday, February 18th, 2012
Facebook has learned from the case "Salman Rushdie". In November 2011, the social network profile was deleted by the author of The Satanic Verses, doubting the real identity of its author. Then when Facebook found, copy of passport in support, that this was the novelist, the start-up asked him ...
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Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan pulls no punches. "EU leaders are economic criminals" who are trying to rush the Greek people in a "total chaos," he said Wednesday, during the presentation of its 37 proposals for the 2012 presidential election. Before adding that Greece is doomed to leave the eurozone such as ...
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Saturday, November 26th, 2011
Valérie Pécresse, Minister for the Budget, put in the footsteps of its predecessors, Eric Woerth. From 2007 to 2009, he had conducted a comprehensive policy to fight against tax evasion abroad, including creating a tax police, obtaining a list of French 3000 with hidden accounts at HSBC in Switzerland ...
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Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Facebook is a rounded back face to U.S. authorities. According to reports the Wall Street Journal, the social network is about to conclude an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, FTC, to guide its privacy practices. At the end of the agreement, Facebook will undertake not to make any ...
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
The effect of the crisis was immediate for the television market and particularly for TF1. The first French commercial channel just announced for the first nine months of the year, a decline of 1.6% of its advertising revenue to 1.054 billion euros. The decline is even more pronounced for ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
After resisting the morning, the Paris index has increased its losses Tuesday mid-day, finishing down 1.43% to 3174.29 points. Parisian investors have expressed a wait-and very excited at the eve of an EU summit in crisis considered major. Sign of a strong wait-and trading volumes did not exceed 2.6 ...
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
The euro still waiting 72 hours for his fate. At an EU summit which took the warm-up lap, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel Sunday near their positions on the fateful question of European bailout fund and its clout in the marketplace. But, at the repeated request of Germany, the ...
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
All eyes will be on the Sarkozy-Merkel duo on Saturday. But it's Silvio Berlusconi will be most under pressure. While all of Europe is concerned about the Italian debt, which could quickly become illiquid if interest rates continue to rise in the markets, the Italian Prime Minister finds himself ...
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
In a ruling last Thursday, October 13, the Court of Appeal of Montpellier turned the tables by invalidating the revocation of Jean-Michel Germa. Previous Episodes: 27 May 2011, GDF Suez, majority 56.8% of the Compagnie du Vent, revoke Jean-Michel Germa at a general meeting which he challenges the ...
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Sunday, October 9th, 2011
The French, Belgian and Luxembourg governments announced Sunday mid-day they had found a solution for the bank Dexia, about to be dismantled. Their proposals were still to be considered by the Board of Directors of the bank has been meeting for 15 hours in Brussels. In a statement, ...
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