Dust restores "La Jetée" of Chris Marker
Nice: 1st national meeting for local governments and Internet
Collectivité «on line» is the first forum of the Net and the NTIC (New technologies of information and communication) dedicated to local governments. It will gather on April 18th and 19th 2001 in Nice Acropolis about a thousand of local decision-makers. This forum is organised by the network association IDEAL called Réseau IDEAL set up in 1985 with the mission to encourage the exchange of “savoir-faire” between local governments.
Start-up : Right Vision raises 17.5 million euros
Tourism website: carnavaldenice.net well ranked in February
Toutsurlacom.com, from a NetValue survey, reviewed the audience of tourism websites in February 2001 and noticed that “Nearly 30% of French Internet users visited a tourism website in February 2001". In this category (it gathers travel, tourism and transport of persons websites), the website of Nice carnival, carnavaldenice.net has been one of the French websites the most visited reaching a number of 179 000 visitors.
AOM-Air Liberté : grève sur le Nice-Paris
La grève du personnel d'Air Liberté et d'AOM a été particulièrement suivie à Nice où les vols des deux compagnies sur Paris Orly ont été annulés (la liaison aérienne avec la capitale a continué d'être assurée par Air France). Les deux compagnies aériennes, qui appartiennent à SAirGroup sont sous la menace d'un plan drastique de restructuration qui devrait être annoncé le 25 avril, date de l'assemblée générale de leur propriétaire, le SAirGroup en pleine déconfiture. Les salariés qui ont entamé une phase d'action ont manifesté dans l'après-midi sous les fenêtre du Medef.
Nice : Capital Gestion investit dans CLL Pharma
Si Sud Capital Gestion, à Marseille, n'a guère été présente dans le financement des start-up sophipolitaines, en revanche, cette société de capital-risque vient d'investir une dizaine de millions de francs dans CLL Pharma, une entreprise niçoise spécialisée dans la conception de médicaments génériques. Créée en 1995 par Claude Laruelle, ancien chercheur des départements médecines humaines de Virbac et Arkopharma, CLL Pharma (une trentaine de personnes) cherchait des fonds pour son développement et son regroupement sur Sophia Antipolis.
Start-up : Right Vision lève 17,5 millions d'euros
Sophia: the HealthCenter closed
This is the last action before the Easter weekend for Healthcenter Services. The company of Sophia, subsidiary of an American start-up specialised in medical scanning closed. The furniture was sent to the United States on Friday, April 13th. The company, which didn't succeed to be listed on the stock exchange as it wished, had removed its French subsidiary set up on the research park (35 people) in two times. A first social plan came up in December 2000. A second mass lay-off plan for the staff left took place in March 2001.
La Tribune : le Monopoly de Nice en euros
"Promenade des Anglais, j'achète à 400 euros. Place Massena, j'hypothèque à 300 euros!". Depuis un an comme le note La Tribune, le Monopoly se décline dans les grandes villes. Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lille, Nantes et la région Alsace ont déjà été "localisés". Mais le Monopoly de Nice comportera une innovation de plus.
Monéo, the European electronic portfolio is launched
It is the city of Tours which welcomed today for the first time the European electronic portfolio, "Monéo". It isn't the first of this type -people from Strasbourg already have a mean of payment which is nearly similar, named "Mondex"-, but its difference with others lays on its function of fast recharging. Details can be found in La Tribune.
Sophia : HealthCenter a fermé
Dernier acte juste avant le week-end pascal pour Healthcenter Services. La société sophipolitaine, filiale d'une start-up américaine spécialisée dans l'imagerie médicale, a fermé. Le mobilier a été expédié aux Etats-Unis vendredi 13 avril. L'entreprise, qui n'avait pas pu s'introduire en bourse comme elle l'avait souhaité, avait supprimé sa filiale française installée sur la technopole (35 personnes) en deux temps. Un premier plan social était intervenu en décembre 2000. Un second licenciement collectif, pour le personnel restant, avait eu lieu en mars 2001.
A former Ceram student, vice-president of Siebel Systems
A former Ceram student, Fred Hessabi, from Cannes, has experienced two successes in a row. He is at the origin of the first congress of Siebel users which takes place in Cannes late this week and he has just been nominated Vice-President and General Manager for the EMEA region (Europe Middle-East & Africa) of Siebel Systems.Fred Hessabi, 39, graduated from the Ceram and holder of the MBA from Concordia, Canada, has started his career as a business engineer at CCMC.
Jeudi du CICA : coaching pour champions de l'économie
Great Britain: venture-capital on-line
British people go further. The on-line Stock Exchange is facing a rapid development, via websites such as Boursorama, Direct Finance, I-bourse, Self Trade, etc…which enable to buy shares in real time and to administer a stock exchange portfolio via Internet. However, it isn't easy to invest via the Net in start-ups which are not already listed on the stock exchange. It is this service that a British investment bank has just introduced on the market.
USA: young?and billionaires by the Web
Fortunes by the Web: the new sign of the incredible rise of the Web in the American economy lays in the list of American personalities under forty years old the most fortunate. The lords of the Net, founders of start-ups which became big such as Dell, amazon.com, yahoo, e-bay, and others are taking the lion's share, very far ahead the stars of the show-biz. To read and meditate in Fortune.
Sophia: ISDNet bought out by Cable & Wireless
ISDNet, Internet Service Provider (ISP) was bought out by Cable & Wireless. The telecom operator took out eleven ISP at the same time in nine countries of continental Europe for 1 billion euros. Second Internet French provider after France Telecom, ISDNet is the only French ISP among them. Managed by Jean-Luc Nahon, this company not very well known by the general public (it is specialized in bulk sales) is strongly implanted in Sophia Antipolis at the World Trade Centre. It is one of the only French, with the historic operator, which has a backbone serving about fifty cities.
The group of business angels in telecoms
The first French network of business angels specialized in telecommunications and the Internet has just been set up. The association, named "Le Cercle des Business Angels d'Innovacom" (The group of Business Angels of Innovacom) was created by France Telecom, via its subsidiary of venture capital, Innovacom. The group gathers twenty five French entrepreneurs all having succeeded to create companies of an international size in the sectors of telecommunication and the Internet. These entrepreneurs are now ready to invest in young innovative companies and to advise their founders.
Secondary residences: British people prefer the French Riviera
The French Riviera became the French region the most popular in 1999 for the purchase of a secondary home in France by British people. This is what comes up from a survey conducted by the British bank, Abbey National for purchases of property in France by citizens of Great Britain. Five hundred thousands of British people are then owners of a studio flat, a flat, a house, or even a castle in France.