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Stopping Megaupload benefits to VOD and Peer-to-peer

Monday, February 6th, 2012

  Closing Megaupload, who claimed in a video using 4% of bandwidth - the flow of information - the worldwide web, has eased 10% of traffic at a leading French ISPs, interviewed by lefigaro . fr. However, consumers of online videos have managed, in part, find their way and be ...

The UFC-Que Choisir attack video game publishers

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Practices "ineligible" for video game publishers exasperated UFC-Que Choisir. Challenged by the players 'angry', the association wants to restore order in an area hit by a series of "failures". The UFC-Que Choisir, which launched a call for evidence and collected 560 responses identified three grievances. The main key ...

Bercy stimulus fight against serious tax fraud

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 ...

Monday, November 7th, 2011

Make an impression. Take strong measures. Address permanently to the expense and do not simply stack "bits" of tax revenue. Above all, show that nothing, not even faltering growth, will deviate from the objective of reducing public deficits. Even if it means taking a big political risk and to ...

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

From our correspondent in London The City blues. The second world market in competition with Wall Street, is under attack from all sides. Of anti-capitalist camp outraged at his door on the steps of St. Paul is the symbol of a deep crisis. The finance sector in ...

Europe will put pressure on Italy Silvio Berlusconi

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 ...

CanalPlay Infinity, the "Netflix of French" Canal +

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Canal + launches. Thursday, the group encrypted television announced with great fanfare the creation of CanalPlay Infinity, the first service of French demand video subscription (SVOD). Very inspired by the example of the owner and publisher of American Internet video that Netflix has 24.5 million subscribers, the headquarters of ...

Paris and Berlin are seeking a solution for banks

Saturday, October 8th, 2011

New stage in the European debt crisis, and new tensions between France and Germany. While European banks are under attack by the markets, in turn infected by the debt crisis, the solutions to help them appear to divide France and Germany. To resolve this dispute, the German Chancellor Angela ...

The soundness of banks will be considered without stress tests

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

A new operation for banks organized truth. The European Banking Authority on Thursday confirmed a report in the Financial Times: it will look much the level of bank capital of the Old Continent. The regulator, however, refutes any new stress tests, these series of tests designed to test the ...

Crisis: CEOs more pessimistic than in 2008

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Worse than the fall of 2008, "58% of business leaders consider an inevitable deterioration in the economic situation," according to the survey conducted in 2011 by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris (CCIP). This survey was conducted during September, with 5000 businesses with fewer than 500 employees, ...