Voici le communiqué annonçant la réunion des activités de Respublica.fr et Chez.com, avec la création du pôle communautés du groupe LibertySurf.'Ce début d’année 2001 marque l’unification des activités de deux entités du Groupe : Respublica.fr, le premier site de communautés francophones et Chez.com, le spécialiste de l’hébergement de sites personnels francophones, se réunissent au sein du nouveau Pôle Communautés de LibertySurf Group.Deux facteurs clés ont motivé la création du Pôle : la recherche des meilleures synergies entre les différentes entités de LibertySurf Group et la très

Spécialiste des composants pour fibre optique à très haut débit, la société investit 100 millions de francs dans une usine de conception et de fabrication (400 emplois d'ici deux ans).

Tiscali, le nouveau propriétaire de LibertySurf, a choisi de regrouper en une même entité la plate-forme sophipolitaine de communautés virtuelles et le spécialiste de l'hébergement personnels.

A new session of the project holders 'school' of innovative companies with a round table on the internationalisation and workshops on the Web Agency and the high tech engineering was set up.

Launched at the Foundation of Sophia Antipolis, this incubator with a financial support is the first institution of this kind to gather banks of three countries : France, Germany, and Luxembourg.

The project of tax on computers, announced on Monday January 15th by Catherine Tacsa in an interview with the Figaro, didn't last long. In front of the strong opposition of the Treasury Department, backed-up by the Prime Minister, the Minister for the Arts preferred to renounce. So, on Tuesday January 16th, during the questions to the government at the National Assembly, she announced that there was no use to extend the tax of the private copy, that soon will be applied to blank CDs and DVDs, to computers as well as other types of digital memory unit.

A new website will soon come out on the cityguides market of Nice : VivaNice.fr, in the family of /www.vivalaville.com">vivalaville.com( don't mix up with /www.vianice.fr">vianice.fr, which was one of the precursor in Nice for this market). Vivalaville's group (Télégramme, Républicain Lorrain, L'Alsace and private investors), highly set up in the east and west, is coming in the south. After its opening in Marseille and Montpellier, it is planned for Toulouse and Nice.

During the first six month of the year, the weakness of the euro has noticeably favoured the performance of the Virbac laboratory in Carros. During that period, the results recently submitted to the Supervisory Board by Eric Marée, President of the board of directors, are true to what was expected : a double digit growth and an improvement of profitability.

A Sophia Antipolis, la bourse électronique des start-up avait porté les aspirations d'une génération de nouveaux entrepreneurs. Son sort va se jouer aujourd'hui au Tribunal de commerce.

In Sophia Antipolis, the start-up electronic stock exchange has hold the aspirations of a generation of new entrepreneurs. Today, its fate is going to be decided at the commercial Court.

Voici le communiqué de Trusted Logic.Deux ans après sa création, TRUSTED LOGIC, société spécialisée dans le domaine de la sécurité des logiciels pour cartes à puce et terminaux, ouvre un nouveau site à Biot (06), sur le parc d’activités de Sophia Antipolis.TRUSTED LOGIC est une start-up en forte expansion.

Madonna, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, U2, Eagle Eye Cherry, Ricky Martin. Mais aussi Mylène Farmer, Francis Cabrel, Patricia Kaas, Patrick Bruel, Pascal Obispo, Vanessa Paradis, Hélène Ségara, Louise Attaque. N'en jetez plus ! Les deuxièmes NRJ Awards, le 20 janvier à 19h30 au palais des Festivals de Cannes, s'annoncent impériaux. Une ouverture sur une pluie de stars pour le Midem 2001 qui a lieu du dimanche 21 au jeudi 25 janvier.Pendant cinq jours, aussi bien pour les variétés que pour le classique, quelle concentration !

The Sophia Start-up society, close to the Sophia Antipolis Foundation, eventually preferred to abandon the principle of an admission fee for members. Around 2.000 francs per year, the fee seemed to be too expensive for the project holders and the people in charge of start-ups. Only around ten people subscribe to it. Of course, president Dominique Pouliquen has specified that these subscribers will be paid back.

A sign of the rise in popularity of the Milia, the market of electronic publishing that will take place in Cannes from February 11th to 14th : Jean-Marie Messier (J6M), the boss of Vivendi Universal, will participate to the Think Tank Summit to open the exhibition from February 10th to 11th. On Sunday February 11th, in the end of the afternoon, he will talk about a theme he really knows : 'the contents in front of multi-diffusion'. Until now, he only came for the MIP.

The colloquium 'WAP, so what ? Internet and mobile phone : what's the deal ?' which would have taken place on Monday January 19th at the ESINSA of Sophia Antipolis is deferred to May (the date will be communicated later).

Pierre Taillardat was appointed director of Sophia Euro Lab, an incubator and financial support introduced to the Foundation of Sophia Antipolis. Engineer in applied arts and crafts, of the IEP of Paris, he has the technological and the financial competence at the same time and he knows the region very well.

Those who impatiently wait for the arrival of the GPRS to gamble on Internet and mobility will be less euphoric when they read a Reuters' article published by Boursorama. /www.boursorama.com/international/detail_societes_intern.phtml?news=331517"> 'Mobiles - Démarrage au ralenti pour la technologie GPRS', which focus on the experimentation of the GPRS calms down the ardour. The article focus on the first examples of GPRS use (General Packet Radio Service), launched in Sweden, Great-Britain and Finland since the end of 1999. The first tests proved to be disappointing.

With 1.6 billion francs (244 million euros) of turnover generated in the flower industry by some 1.100 exploitations, the Var ranks first among horticultural departments in France. Its main product remains the rose : 50% of the national production comes from exploitations in the Var. In order to consolidate this horticultural pole, Hyères Hortipole, a horticulturist pool, has decided to create a label for roses from the Var : Hortisud. The rose from the Var will be the first one to defend such a label.

Une nouvelle start-up parisienne vient s'installer à Sophia. Spécialisée dans la sécurité des logiciels pour cartes à puce et terminaux, elle implante un centre de recherche et développement.

Le 54ème Festival de Cannes qui aura lieu du 9 au 20 mai aura une présidente de charme en la personne de Jodie Foster. ' Jodie ou le charme et la séduction d'une des plus grandes comédiennes de sa génération, Jodie, la réalisatrice de talent, la francophone à la double culture et aux yeux myosotis, comme l'avait présentée Gilles Jacob, le président du Festival lors de l'annonce de cette nomination.La belle actrice et réalisatrice américaine connaît d'ailleurs bien Cannes et ses folies.