Justice condemns the free Google Maps for Enterprise

The Commercial Court of Paris condemned Google for abuse of dominance at the expense of the French company directory mapping who accused him of offering free services to integrate maps on websites. Google Maps, widescreen version.
While the antitrust authorities in Brussels and the United of States have launched investigations into possible abuse of dominant [...]

Cash lenders will loan anything from a couple of hundred dollars to around $1500, which generally must be paid back in full, along with the interest, within two to four weeks.

Compass publishes an annual operating profit up 9%

The world of catering Compass reported Wednesday a 9% increase in operating income underlying annual, thanks to improved margins and growth through acquisitions.
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.
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The Tokyo Stock Exchange ended down 0.39% Monday, uncertainties related to the evolution of the debt crisis weighed on investor sentiment, which also took profits after strong gains on Friday.
The Nikkei lost 34.31 points to 8,769.09 and the Topix, larger yielded 1.57 points (-0.21%) to 750.45.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou concluded [...]

Default, return to the drachma, massive devaluation, hyperinflation, recession … out of the euro would lead the Greek economy to disaster. Demonstration. Of "indignation" burn Greek euro banknotes to the Bank of Greece in Athens, October 17, 2011
The euro area, you love it or leave it. This was essentially the message from Nicolas Sarkozy [...]

New CO2 tax for manufacturers in 2012

The government will create a windfall tax in 2012 for manufacturers subject to the quotas of carbon dioxide (CO2), a government source said Tuesday, confirming a report in the daily Le Figaro.
This tax will be sitting on their sales-tax at a rate of between 0.08% and 0.12% and is expected to bring nearly [...]

Groupama postponed its IPO in 2015

The mutual insurer Groupama will give priority to profitability rather than market share gains during the implementation of its new savings plan 2012-2015, after which the group plans to put its new stock exchange, said its director general daily Les Echos.
Standard & Poor's downgraded Friday the long-term rating of Groupama, a decision to [...]

The Tokyo Stock Exchange declined by U.S. employment

The Tokyo Stock Exchange ended Friday down 1.21%, plunging below 9,000 points after profit-taking driven by six consecutive sessions of gains.
Japanese equity markets also fell in anticipation of the statistics of job creation in the United States, expected in fall.
The Nikkei lost 110.06 points to 8,950.74 and the Topix, broader, sold [...]

The euro returns to the helm of $ 1.45

The rise of the euro is not a sign of confidence in the economy of the Old Continent. It is mainly driven by dollar weakness and renewed appetite for risk.
The euro continued to rise Monday above the threshold of $ 1.45, benefiting from a reflux of the risk aversion of the operators, after the [...]

Why plan anti-government deficit is poorly calibrated

After the growth recorded by the ghost French economy in the second quarter, the forecast of the Centre Expansion does not exceed 1.5% of GDP growth in 2011 and 1% in 2012. As a result, nearly 13 billion euros it will find more to solve the budget equation. Baroin was appointed Minister of Finance and [...]

What Nicolas Sarkozy wrote to parliamentarians

For the first time a President sent a letter to MPs and senators. In the letter signed by him, Nicolas Sarkozy praised the European decisions on Greece and calls for hidden words the opposition to vote the golden rule budget. Nicolas Sarkozy sent a letter signed by him to Parliament to review the plan of [...]