For the 16th meeting, on Monday April 9th, 6.30 pm, at the ESSI of Sophia Antipolis, the club will tackle the theme of relationships between start-ups and research institutes. With illustrations into the bargain.

The first cinematographic complex in the department, the one of the Australian group Village Roadshow (ten theatres, 1.499 seats) opens on December 6th in the Nice Lingostière business area.

Pour sa 16ème réunion, lundi 9 avril à 18h30 à l'ESSI de Sophia Antipolis, le club abordera le thème des relations entre les start-up et les instituts de recherche. Avec illustrations à la clé.

The channel will broadcast on Canal Satellite from November 4th. It will work like American style : small mobile team, digitally equipped, for covering the French Riviera.

The SAN World IBM will be held at the 'Sofitel Royal Hôtel' in Mandelieu-La-Napoule on April 8th and 9th. Organized on the theme of 'Data storage': today's solutions, tomorrow's solutions', this event will start on Sunday April 8th at 8.00 PM with a dinner in presence of Dietmar Wendt, Vice-President of IBM SSG EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) with Terry Keene, President Enabling Technologies as the special guest.

The Greta Antipolis, an organisation of the Department of Education for continuous formation, is realizing a European project : /www.civfrance.com/corponet">CORPONET, in the framework of the ADAPT program. This project aims at adapting small and medium sized companies and craftsmen to technical mutations, particularly for the creation of an Internet site, analysed, designed, realized and updated by craftsmen themselves. This project is realized in partnership with the Alpes-Maritimes Capeb (Confédération des artisans du bâtiment, confederation of building trade craftsmen).

Initially announced on April 5th, the works council's exceptional meeting of the two airline companies AOM and Air Liberté was postponed to April 9th. It is an important meeting for the employees of the two French subsidiaries of SAirGroup, after the decision of the Swiss holding. This decision was announced at the beginning of the week, to stop financing within two months.

Maud Poulard, a ESC student (Ecole supérieure de commerce) in the CERAM, has been awarded the 2001 Excellence Grant of the Association of former elected members of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Nice Côte d'Azur. Maud Poulard, who holds a high school diploma in social and economic sciences grade B and who comes from an art class which prepares to students for the entry exams to the Grandes Ecoles at Pothier high school in Orléans, has been picked by a commission of former elected members of the CCI NCA.

Do you want to buy two hundred T-shirts for sale prices? Or one hundred and fifty pens for an unbeatable price? A set of lighters, or bags? It is now possible, via the Internet, thanks to the partnership established between two companies of services on the Net in Sophia: PromoRepublic and Aucland. The first one, leader in sales of advertisement products and business gifts and the second, leader in auction sales, set up a service of auction sales for sets of Advertisement Products and Business Gifts dedicated to companies.

European portal of general purchases, the start-up of Sophia finalized an investment with an initial payment which is in line with an investment strategy in several steps.

Specialist in wavelet technologies, one of the most developed techniques in image compression, the start-up of Sophia is attempting to create a new standard.

Liberty Surf, dont la start-up sophipolitaine Respublica.fr est l'une des filiales, a fait état de fortes pertes lors de la présentation de ses comptes jeudi 5 avril. Le deuxième fournisseur d'accès Internet en France a ainsi annoncé 229,9 millions d'euros de pertes. Dix fois plus que l'année précédente et plus de trois fois son chiffre d'affaires 2000 (61,2 millions d'euros, soit là aussi dix fois plus qu'en 1999). Racheté récemment par l'Italien Tiscali, Liberty Surf n'en reste pas moins optimiste.

Liberty Surf, whose one of the subsidiaries is the start-up in Sophia Respublica.fr, has stated heavy losses during the presentation of its accounts on Thursday April 5th. Thus, the second Internet access provider in France has announced losses of 229.9 million euros. Ten times as much as the previous year and more than three times higher than its turnover 2000 (61.2 million euros, that's to say ten times as much as in 1999). Recently bought out by the Italian Tiscaly, Liberty Surf is still optimistic.

Le SAN World IBM se tiendra au Sofitel Royal Hôtel de Mandelieu-La Napoule du 8 a u 11avril. Organisé sur le thème de 'Stockage de données : solutions d'aujourd'hui, solutions de demain' cet événement démarrera dimanche 8 avril à 20 heures par un dîner en présence de Dietmar Wendt, Vice-Président d'IBM SSG EMEA (Europe, Moyen-Orient et Afrique) avec comme invité d'honneur, Terry Keene, Président Enabling Technologies.

Un équipage entièrement féminin pour le voilier Chacok qui participe du 7 au 14 avril à la course de voile Spi Dauphine. Le bateau aux couleurs de la marque azuréenne de prêt à porter haut de gamme, a ainsi réuni un équipage recruté au sein de l'Institut supérieur de communication, ISCOM Paris. Constance, Camille, Laurence, Fanny, Louise, Ombline qui embarqueront sur le Jod 35 de Chacok sont toutes étudiantes de cet institut. C'est une azuréenne de l'équipe, Camille Beauchène, qui a eu l'idée et su convaincre l'entreprise de se jeter à l'eau.

Le Greta Antipolis, organisme de formation continu du ministère de l'Education Nationale réalise un projet européen : /www.civfrance.com/corponet">CORPONET, dans le cadre du programme ADAPT. Ce projet vise à adapter les petites et moyennes entreprises et les artisans aux mutations technologiques, en particulier par la création d'un site internet, analysé, conçu, réalisé et maintenu par les artisans eux-mêmes. Ce projet est conçu en partenariat avec la Capeb des Alpes-Maritimes (Confédération des artisans du bâtiment).

The former CEO of Espri Concept, André Labat has been nominated CEO of Simulog. This software company located in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and in Sophia Antipolis is composed of 200 engineers and has generated a turnover of more than 100 million francs in 2000. Simulog founded by Eric Bantegnie, bought up the company the Espri Concept company in Sophia in 1999.

L'arrivée de Pierre Guérin au poste de Pdg de Façonnable marque une nouvelle étape pour cette entreprise créée en 1950 à Nice et devenue, avec 1,85 milliard de francs de chiffres d'affaires en 2000, l'un des leaders du sportwear haut de gamme. A un management plus 'familial' assuré par les fondateurs, Jean-Pierre Benaym et Arthur Goldberg, se substitue un management 'professionnel'. Pierre Guérin, 48 ans, diplômé de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris et de l'I.S.A.

The Nasdaq fall endangers many American information websites. The correspondent in Los Angeles of the daily newspaper, Libérationgives a very interesting review on this new US press through an article /www.liberation.fr/multi/actu/20000612/20000612lunu.html">On-line information depends on the NASDAQ variations. We can learn that one of the star securities, /www.salon.com">Salon.comwill have to lay off 13 out of its 150 employees.

The French Riviera takes an active part in the third Internet festival with two beachheads in Nice and Grasse.