Liberationis focusing on the air-operated car that Guy Nègre, a engine engineer will introduce the production in a factory of Carros. In an article untitled /www.liberation.fr/quotidien/semaine/20001209samza.html"> 'Le plein d'air comprimé, SVP', the daily paper is introducing a question without answer. Do we have to be sceptic for a car that works with compressed air (an old process in reality) and that nobody has really tested yet its autonomy and its speed in real conditions ? Or is it the car of the future that is going to be created in Carros?

Azur Entreprises, the CCI NCA magazine (Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Nice Côte d'Azur) is going to be a weekly from January 2001. In the same time 70.000 copies will be issued (as against 60.000 before), what would allow to increase particularly the distribution at the Nice Côted'Azur international airport. For the moment 12.000 copies are at the disposal of passengers, the number will be up to 20.000 (40.000 other copies are distributed to the Chamber's nationals, 5.000 are placed in the Department of companies of the CCI).Until now the newspaper was issued twice in a month.

L'ex Focus Graphics, qui voulait devenir le cyberCarrier de l'e-santé, avait dû reporter une entrée au Nouveau Marché prévue en septembre. La start-up doit maintenant réduire la voilure.

In order to face the recover, the satellites manufacturer in Cannes has recruited some 500 people since March and has started a site redevelopment plan of almost 500 million francs.

Le projet de multiplexe (12 salles, 1.860 fauteuils et 620 places de stationnement) au nord de la ZAC Saint-Martin à Mougins ne pourra pas se faire. Faute d'avoir pu obtenir en juillet dernier l'autorisation de la commission d'équipement commercial des Alpes-Maritimes, la municipalité en avait appelé à l'échelon supérieur : la commission nationale d'équipement cinématographique. Le dernier recours.

Pour faire face à la reprise, le constructeur cannois de satellites a recruté près de 500 personnes depuis mars et a lancé un plan de réaménagement du site de près de 500 millions de francs.

Elles ont un projet, une équipe, sont installées sur la Côte et cherchent des capitaux pour décollage immédiat. Flash sur les treize sociétés que le show international de Sophia avait retenues.

Two of the most emblematic managers of the regional economy will conduct the last breakfast-debate of the '7 Thursdays of Management'; such a meeting will take place on Thursday December 14th 2000, 9.00 am, at the Sophia Antipolis CERAM. Charles Manni, managing director of several S.A.M., including the big Monegasque company Mecaplast, and Jean M. Manne, president of the V. Mane Fils S.A. board of directors (perfumery and food flavouring) will talk about the theme of 'The Family company in a global economy'.

Un pas vers la création d'un nouveau suffixe géographique qui viendrait signaler l'appartenance à l'Union européenne et serait appelé à rivaliser avec l'incontournable 'dot com'.

The new session of the Institute for the Right of Peace and Development has allowed to tribute those who, from 1933 to nowadays, have struggled in order to impose the humanitarian concept.

'At 45 years old, there is another 40 years to live', mentions the preamble of the association's Website, 'The Second Life'. /www.deuxiemevie.org">Deuxiemevie.org, which has been launched last week, is opening on an editorial by Dominique Pagès, one of the founders who explains the stakes. It is a matter of 'encouraging, organizing, institutionalizing, -socially, financially, legally and fiscally- the promotion of personal dreams of people about 50, whatever their social status'.

Respublica.fr, la start-up sophipolitaine poursuit sa série de Live Chat ! Emploi. Un nouveau rendez-vous est donné le mercredi 13 décembre, 21 heures avec Step Stone, portail européen des carrières. Trois DRH et leurs responsables recrutement viendront rencontrer les internautes sur le chat ! Les DRH converseront en chat sur tous les thèmes liés au recrutement et à la politique RH de leur entreprise. Les responsables de recrutement effectueront une sélection en ligne des candidats (suite à l'envoi de 'mini-cv').

NicOx, the start-up of Sophia has made public new encouraging pre-clinical results, obtained thanks to its drug NCX-2216 for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. A research carried out by the University of Arizona has proved that this medicine can be efficient in moderating the neuroinflammation on animals as well as the protection of cholinergic neurons. 'The new results of Professor Wenk, as it was announced in the press release, could allow to create an efficient therapy, moderating significantly the progression of demantia in Alzheimer's Disease.

It was one of the most important meetings of the French Riviera's new economy a year ago. Start-up@Riviera was gathering project designers and invertors every first Thursday of the month along a round table followed by a very convivial cocktail. In December, the meeting wasn't on. The organizor of this 'first Thursday' of Sophia, the company Up-e, was questioned and answered that it was only postponed, and they will do their best to reschedule this meeting from January.However, Up-e has other matters to deal with at the moment.

The /quotidien.nouvelobs.com">Nouvel Observateur, in its edition of Thursday November 14th, will focus on Nice in a long file. So, five pages have been dedicated for a special file about 'Nice and business'. The weekly also conducted a Sofres survey in order to know the voting intentions of electors in Nice during the municipal elections in March 2001.

'How can e-business go with field-business ? That's explained by Philippe Daniel's 'e-com' approach' Dag Merino explains about this site.

Le /quotidien.nouvelobs.com">Nouvel Observateur, dans son édition de jeudi 14 décembre, consacre un long dossier à Nice. Cinq pages ont ainsi été réservées à un dossier spécial sur 'Nice et les affaires'. Tandis que l'hebdomadaire a fait réaliser un sondage Sofres pour cerner les intentions de vote des électeurs niçois lors des élections municipales de mars 2001.

Kahn and associates business lawyers international chambers specialized in new technologies creates a branch at the CICA. The promoter, lawyer for Yahoo! among others, explains.

Marc Berthod, le directeur de l'INRIA Sophia Antipolis (Institut national de la Recherche en informatique et automatique) ne changera pas de poste en janvier comme cela avait été initialement prévu et comme la nouvelle en avait circulé sur la technopole. Nommé à une fonction nationale de directeur scientifique de l'INRIA, il restera à la tête de la seconde unité française de l'INRIA (après le siège de Rocquencourt dans la région parisienne) jusqu'à la fin de l'année scolaire.

A nice birthday present for the ten years existence of the MBDS in Sophia Antipolis : Compaq has decided to give 50 IPAQ Pocket PCs to students registered in the Database Master. Eric Augis, Compaq's representative has announced it on the special day of the Database Forum on December 6th. It is a nice present since the new Compaq personal assistant is becoming a reference in the same way as the Palm Pilot 3Com.It is also a gift of a great value : about 250 000 francs. The students are now in charge of using the IPAQ and develop new applications for the most powerful Pocket PC.