To your pens! A one month holiday season, the start of "Operation Santa's Mail" was given last Tuesday. In 2010, almost 1.5 million letters were sent to Santa Claus, including 160,000 e-mails. And the 2011 starts strong. In just four days, the mailbox of the famous man in red has already approved 133,350 letters [...]
Oct
19
The boss of NextRadioTV, Alain Weill, encounters some obstacles to form the new division Next Interactive Media (NIM), which should consolidate the press, the computer sites and high-tech (Group 01) and the websites of radio stations RMC and BFM the TV BFMTV.
The reason: the reorganization of press titles Micro Hebdo and the [...]
Oct
7
"The news of my death are greatly exaggerated," joked Steve Jobs when Bloomberg had his obituary published in error in August 2008. Nevertheless: the stock market, Apple had lost the title on the day 2.42%.
Announced tonight the death of the charismatic leader will Apple does the same concerns in the markets? It [...]
Sep
26
The McCafe want to invite in everyday French. Since Monday, the cafes in the U.S. fast food chain McDonald's offer a new range of breakfast at the French, as announced in August the Figarofin. With the "Spread McCafé" chain now offers two rolls, a jar of jam, a pat of butter and a hot [...]
Sep
23
Lefigaro.fr – Is this a good thing that the weight of banking stocks in the CAC 40 decreased (from 12% to 7% in less than a year)?
Lionel Heurtin – I do not know if it's a good thing but I see that the composition of the CAC 40 reflects the French industry [...]
Sep
20
This is a session that will open at risk on the Paris market. After closing down 3% below 3000 points to 2940 points, the CAC 40 can expect another busy day after the deterioration of the Italian debt rating by Standard & Poor's. And in the wake of the Nikkei, which appears clearly in [...]
Jul
23
Of atypical or history. Some buyers are willing to think outside the box to find an original property. And why not a church? Faced with the costs of maintenance and restoration, to declining attendance at places of worship in the geographic isolation of some buildings, dioceses and communities may have no choice but to [...]
Jul
16
Paris is well worth to put themselves in Mandarin. Recognizing the growing power of Chinese customers in the capital, the group will launch Figaro Paris Chic, a free quarterly premium for the Chinese visit to Paris.
In the format of Figaro, thirty-two pages, business people and tourists from the Middle Kingdom will discover, [...]
Jul
6
From our correspondent in Washington
The signing of the employment contract that binds the IMF is only a formality in a schedule also responsible for Christine Lagarde. The high point of his first day will be his speaking before hundreds of employees of the fund, meeting in the Great Hall of the headquarters [...]
Jun
22
The Paris Bourse tries a timid rebound on Tuesday. Tensions remain very strong in Europe as it is now the Greek Parliament will decide whether to grant its confidence in the new government formed by George Papandreou. Greek Prime Minister called for a national agreement of political parties to adopt its austerity plan and [...]