While the antitrust authorities in Brussels and the United of States have launched investigations into possible abuse of dominant position of Google, which is the French court on Wednesday pulled out the first conviction for that reason. The reason: the free supply of services Google Maps for businesses. The Commercial Court of Paris ruled on the Internet giant guilty of unfair competition to the detriment of the small French company directory Cartographers and imposed a penalty of 500,000 euros in damages and 15,000 euros in fines. Google announced it would appeal the ruling.

"This will trigger the wrath of all other applications Google"

"It's the end of a fight two years is an unprecedented decision," welcomed Jean-David Scemama, a lawyer for the company directory Cartographers that Google had assigned to court in 2009. According to counsel, "is the first time that Google is condemned for its Google Maps application." "Today, all the market needs to know. Google will not stay on a free market and this will trigger the wrath of all the other Google applications," said the lawyer. And he said, the ruling of the Commercial Court opens way for Google's competitors, large groups, but also to other small SMEs to attack the American and force it to market its services.

The Google Maps service are not those referred to the general public, but those developed for companies that integrate maps on their websites. "The map products created by the company directory Cartographies happen to be very similar to those offered by Google free Google Maps API (or application programming interface)," the court noted in its ruling.

"Since the creation of Google Maps, the group's strategy was to say the markets of search engines, I am in a state of abuse of dominant position, but instead on the rest as the Google Maps, I'm on an isolated market, "said Me Scemama. "But the connection between the two markets, and Google directory mapping was demonstrated by the Commercial Court." It also recognizes that a directory Cartographers "underwent a series of injuries is characterized by an undeniable loss of customer and revenue." The court also added that "the practice of free clearly intended to optimize the marketing terms of targeted ads."

Clearly, Google would seek to eliminate competition by providing free services to companies relatively expensive, in order to further capture maximum publicity.

For its part, Google said on Wednesday France "remain convinced that a mapping tool free, high quality benefits both users and for website owners. Competition in this sector remains real for us, both in France and abroad, "according to a statement from a spokesman.

The court also ordered the publication of the sentence in the daily Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, Le Figaro, La Tribune and Les Echos.

L counsel argues that Google Directory Cartographers "tried to maintain the service until the end, so much that they have tried just before the hearing to change their methods of sale".

Bouygues was competing with Vinci for this major project, to be confirmed by the signing of the PPP expected by February 2012, says in a statement.

This signature will then make public the architectural design of the book, which will be built on the ZAC Clichy-Batignolles, north of the capital, said the board of the Public Corporation of the courthouse in Paris (EPPJP ).

The project, presented as the window of a modern justice in France, was announced by Nicolas Sarkozy in April 2009 as part of his speech to the Greater Paris.

It will be completed before the end of 2016 for a 2017 start-up current, said the EPPJP.

The state and the city of Paris for a long time felt that the current courthouse in Paris, located in the Ile de la Cité in the heart of the capital, had become too dilapidated.

In addition, the premises of the High Court of Paris and the regional judicial police are now scattered over six different sites.

At a height of 160 meters, the new building will bring together on a single site all services of the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris and the police court.

The British, French Sodexo's main competitor, displays the full year operating income (Rex) from 1.09 billion pounds (1.26 billion euros), according to 12 analysts' forecasts a study provided by it.

Its sales rose by nearly 10%, with organic growth of over 5%.

The action Compass, which has outperformed the FTSE 100 by 10% since the beginning of the year, opened Wednesday down more than 3% before reducing its losses.

Germany was sought on all sides Friday to find a solution to the crisis of the euro which extends dangerously threatening the most stable countries in the area, with a visit by British Prime Minister in Berlin and a call from Japan to act. European shares opened lower in the wake of Wall Street the day before and the Tokyo Stock Exchange, also sharply lower at the close Friday (-1.23%). "Markets should be penalized again by fears about the contagion of the crisis of sovereign debt," analysts have estimated the Saxo Bank.Chancellor Angela Merkel refuses steadfastly calls to relax the policy of the ECB to let him play the role of lender of last resort to the Europeans the most indebted. According to many economists, this calm speculation about the debt of European countries, which are dangerously increase the cost of borrowing. But it is considered unthinkable in Germany, viscerally attached to the independence of the European Central Bank, for fear of inflation. By receiving early afternoon British Prime Minister David Cameron supports greater involvement of the ECB, Merkel should renew his calls for fiscal discipline and structural reforms in the countries affected by the crisis.

These will begin in the evening and will begin with interviews with the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, Gianfranco Fini and Renato Schifano, sources said political sources.

In a brief speech following his nomination, Mario Monti said that Italy had "overcome the challenge of redemption" in a "troubled European and global context."

"The country must become a pillar of strength, not a weak link in the European Union that we were among the founders," said the former European Commissioner.

The euro area, you love it or leave it. This was essentially the message from Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel George Papandreou yesterday evening after a mini-crisis summit in Cannes. French President and German Chancellor had laid their conditions in the referendum decided by the Greek Prime Minister: consultation should not include the bailout of the euro but on the desire to remain or not in the euro area. And it should take place before Christmas.

From that moment, George Papandreou began successive setbacks leading to consider later in the day to withdraw its proposed referendum."One of the benefits for Greece out of the euro area is to default on its debt of 100%, but funding needs remain still very important," Jesus Castillo analysis, an economist at Natixis. Indeed, if it defaulted on its debt unilaterally and not coordinated with its creditors, Greece will be banned for a long time in financial markets. But the Greek public deficit, excluding debt burden, reached another 2.5% of GDP. To provide for turning the machine, the Greek state will have to reduce spending by 3 billion euros.

Moreover, the main losers of a total failure would not be French or German banks, but banks Hellenic, which hold a total of 52 billion Greek bonds, 15% of the debt. But the margin of Greek banks is very limited, if not nonexistent.

On the Nymex, the December contract on the U.S. light crude (WTI) ended on a loss of a dollar, or 1.07% to 92.19 dollars a barrel.

Meanwhile, Brent yielded 0.33%, 0.3 dollar to 109.23 dollars.

The announcement of a further slowdown in manufacturing activity in China and the United States has accentuated the negative sentiment in the markets. and

Research firm, which also reported a slowdown in activity in the third quarter, does not mention in its press release of a forecast growth in sales for 2011.

The group had said previously a target organic growth of over 6%.

"However, this reduction in growth prospects do not undermine the objective of Ipsos – Synovate out – to reach a record operating margin of at least 11% in 2011," the company said in a statement .

Ipsos, which became the third largest global market research industry by closing early October the acquisition of Synovate, said that the activity of the new entity should return to a normal rhythm "no later than summer 2012 ".

The third quarter sales of Ipsos, Synovate out to be consolidated from 1 October 2011, was $ 287.6 million, up 5.4% at constant scope and exchange rates, while Analyst estimates ranged from 5.6% to 6.0%.

It reflects a slowdown after growth of 6.4% announced in the second quarter and increased 6.2% over the first three months of the year.

The first nine months of the year, organic growth stood at 6.0% for sales to 845.8 million euros.

"The operating margin was up compared to the same period of 2010," said the company in a statement, without providing any figure indicated.

The French research company was particularly penalized in the third quarter by the slowdown in its business market research and advertising associated with a reduction in the number of client projects, Ipsos said.

Emerging economies, however, take the pace, with organic growth of 17% over nine months.

In its statement, the company said that the merger of the teams Synovate and Ipsos should be effective from January next year before the launch of a new integrated offering scheduled for February 15.

The two French car manufacturers have made inventory management a priority in order to avoid ending up in case of weaker demand in the same situation in 2008 when they accumulated levels of 80 to 90 days.

Renault wants to reduce its inventory from 50 to 60 days while the PSA is 60 days of inventory at the end of the year, against 76 days in late June.

"The days not worked must not be seen as heralding a fall in demand is a classic fit two months of the end of the year," said a Reuters spokeswoman for Renault.

She cites as evidence that Douai had experienced longer closures in 2009 and 2010.

"If demand was strong, particularly in France, we would not need to reduce the activity, ask instead how we supply the plants," said one union leader of the group in diamond.

The press reported on Monday and Tuesday as work at the Renault plant in Douai (Nord), which is produced Scenic, stop from Wednesday for nearly a week, while in Sandouville (Seine-Maritime) , Flins (Yvelines) and Novo Mesto (Slovenia), the teams would make the bridge from November 1.

In contrast, sites of Maubeuge (Nord) and Batilly (Moselle), respectively, out of which the utilities Kangoo and Master, are not affected by such measures.

Unlike the real short time, the teams concerned retain their full salary, as in the automotive sector, the "days not worked" are drawn from a capital established at time of peak activity.

EUROPEAN MARKET MORE UNCERTAIN

PSA Peugeot Citroën has set up its part of short days on several sites, and up to a week of closing the plant in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) is produced when the Citroen C3.

PSA also suspend production at its plant in Slovakia to the end and mid-November, a decision in this case attributed to lower orders in Europe.

"Apart from Aulnay and Trnava (Slovakia), on the other sites it comes to fine tuning," said a spokesman for SAP.

Plants Aulnay and Trnava are both specialized in small cars, the most affected by the end of scrappage. The Slovak site, the 207 reaches the end of life as her replacement, the 208 will be unveiled to the public next month.

The chief executive of the group, Philippe Varin, warned in September that the European market had become more uncertain in the climate of sovereign debt crisis.He added that if nothing appeared again in the order books, we had to prepare for more difficult times.

PSA and Renault expect a slight relapse of the French automotive market in 2011 and 2012, and an overall stable European market on each of two years. Both manufacturers will release their sales for the third quarter Wednesday and Thursday respectively.

President Barack Obama said Monday, Sept. 19 that the richest Americans and corporations should pay their "fair share" of taxes, with a plan to further reduce the deficit of 3.000 billion over ten years.

"We can not get out of this abyss only by reducing spending," Obama said in a speech in the Rose Garden of the White House."It is normal that we ask everyone to pay their fair share," added the president, the plan would be funded half by an increase in taxes for the rich.

The tax "Buffett", named after the investor Warren Buffett who proposed, would cover taxpayers earning over one million euros (about 725,000 euros). The goal, said Obama is the tax rate for the wealthiest U.S. taxpayers back to the level of the 1990s and the middle class pays no more, proportionately, than millionaires.

"This is not the class struggle is mathematical," quipped a very combative president, facing criticism from his Republican opponents who accuse him of wanting to punish those who have succeeded and discourage "creators jobs ". "Any reform plan will increase revenues to help reduce our deficit.