The French government is looking for money. And sale of radio frequencies is one of the fastest and most effective ways to find. Last month, the Defense Council gathered around the president and the prime minister has decided to sell telecom operators the 700 MHz frequency band currently occupied by DTT, as revealed by [...]
May
18
May
14
The audio disc refuses to die. In a world that seems entirely devoted to MP3 and streaming, Universal Music Tuesday presented a UFO: a new audio disc format that outputs sounds with unparalleled finesse. "For the first time, we will be able to listen to the work as it was recorded by the artist [...]
May
13
Pierre Lescure1 calls Monday to Hollande's report on the necessary adaptations of the French cultural exception. Three proposals – on nearly eighty – of attention. The most important is for a radical change in the mode of financing of culture. Since the invention of the cultural exception in the early 1980s, distributors of cultural [...]
Mar
4
5,040,222 unemployed. For the first time, the number of registered Spanish Public Employment Services (PES, equivalent to Pôle emploi) has passed the 5 million mark. The indicator, in addition, is the most conservative official figures. The National Statistics Institute (INE), working from surveys of very large samples, speaks for its share of 6 million [...]
Mar
3
A million applications per year. This is the number of requests that are sent each year to Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. These applications, it is estimated that only 1 application of 30 leads to a job. Like many companies that are popular – especially among young people – such as Google, Apple, [...]
Feb
25
A main house of 840 square feet, four bedrooms, no less than five bathrooms, plus a "guest house" suite, swimming pool and a tennis court: the most expensive property ever sold in the United States has appealing. Located in California, "Mountain Home Road" was negotiated to $ 117.5 million (approximately EUR 90 million). According [...]
Jan
23
It is a "smooth transition". For over a year, Jean-Marie Dru, the "chairman" of TBWA Worldwide, a subsidiary of Omnicom U.S. prepares succession of Nicolas Bordas head of TBWA France. It was William who will replace Pannaud while keeping his position as president of TBWA Paris, the main sign of the group. Nicolas Bordas, [...]
Dec
30
75% Tax is not the only measure that has been censored by the Constitutional Council. It has "examined whether the new level of certain charges posed on taxpayers concerned an excessive burden in terms of their ability to pay." He found that several measures did not meet this criterion.
"It can be inferred [...]
Dec
27
GHM (La Provence, Nice-Matin, Corse-Matin, France Antilles …) has been bought at par by Bernard Tapie and family Hersant for 51 million euros.
LE FIGARO. – What do you think the member's request PS Bouches-du-Rhône Patrick Mennucci create a commission on the purchase conditions of the DRG-Hersant tandem Tapie?
Dominique BERNARD. – [...]
Dec
25
This year, despite increasing competition of social networks like Twitter or Facebook, SMS should remain the preferred form for send greetings: 65% of French should use at the end of the year (against 60% a year earlier), according to a TNS Sofres.
In 2011, the French had a record on New Year's Day: [...]