La séance de rentrée de l'Institut du Droit de la Paix et du Développement a permis de rendre hommage à ceux qui, de 1933 à aujourd'hui, se sont battus pour imposer le concept d'humanitaire.

'Comment concilier malgré tout le e-business et le field-business ? C'est tout le sens de la démarche 'e-com' de Philippe Daniel', explique Dag Merino à propos de ce site.

A surprise on Monday morning on the very sober and respectful CICA job site, used by every high tech companies in the Telecom Valley : pornographic images were displayed. Obviously that was not the work of the CICOM organisation which manages a site rewarded by the European Community in the past. The site, which was protected by filtering systems nevertheless, has simply been the victim of computer hackers.As soon as the webmasters have been alerted, the offending images have been immediately cancelled.

Great reorganization of the investment fund following the agreement between Bernard Arnault and Suez-Lyonnaise. This fund owns two of the greatest start-ups on the French Riviera, Aucland and Respublica.fr.

The prologue of The race won't occur in Monaco; this non-stop race with no crew, no support and no limits, is a real challenge which has been done by Bruno Peyron, the organizer who greatly crossed oceans several times. The Principality, which has invest 10 million francs to be starting place of the event, has had to cancel this prologue because of bad weather.

A progress in the creation of a new geographic extension that would indicate the European Union membership and would tend to compete with the 'dot com' that cannot be ignored.

Grande réorganisation du fonds d'investissement suite à l'accord Bernard Arnault et Suez-Lyonnaise. Un fonds qui détient deux des plus belles start-up azuréennes, Aucland et Respublica.fr.

Il n'y aura pas à Monaco de prologue de 'The race', cette course avec équipage, sans escale, sans assistance et sans limite, véritable défi qu'a lancé Bruno Peyron, l'organisateur et lui même grand coureur des océans. La Principauté, qui avait investi 10 millions de francs pour accueillir la première épreuve a dû annuler ce prologue en raison du mauvais temps.

Une surprise lundi matin sur le très sobre et respectueux site emploi du CICA, utilisé par toutes les entreprises high tech de la Telecom Valley : des images pornographiques du plus mauvais effet s'y affichaient. Ce n'était évidemment pas là le fait de CI Com organisation qui gère un site primé en son temps par la Communauté européenne. Tout simplement le site, sur lequel pourtant avaient été mis en place des systèmes de filtrage, a subi les attaques d'un pirate informatique.Dès que les webmasters ont été alertés, les images incriminées ont été immédiatement retirées.

Deux des patrons les plus emblèmatiques de l'économie régionale animeront le dernier petit-déjeuner débat de l'année des '7 jeudis du management', réunion qui aura lieu jeudi 14 décembre 2000 à 9 heures au Ceram de Sophia Antipolis. Charles Manni, administrateur délégué de plusieurs S.A.M. dont la grande entreprise monégasque Mecaplast, et Jean M. Mane, président du directoire de V. Mane Fils S.A. (parfumerie et arômes alimentaires) interviendront sur le thème de 'L'entreprise familiale dans une économie mondialiste'.

From the firewall tester to the virtual cemetary sellor, the teleactor, the forum presentor, the information broker or the cybercustomers profiler : a new range of jobs.

Listed on the Stock Market on November 29th with a value of 13.65 euros, the lowest price of the range, the council and engineering company of Sophia has nearly lost 16% the first day of its quotation.

'The European conference in Nice is historic', announced Jacques Chirac after the last night of negociations. However, comments among the media were less enthusiastic.

Deux leaders académiques de la haute technologie en Europe, le Centre des Entrepreneurs de l'Université de Cambridge et le CERAM Sophia Antipolis signent un accord de collaboration autour de l'entrepreneuriat high tech.

Listed on the Stock Market on November 29th with a value of 13.65 euros, the lowest price of the range, the council and engineering company of Sophia has nearly lost 16% the first day of its quotation.

Looking for 4 up to 150 million francs for immediate take-off! On December 4th and 5th in Sophia, 40 projects and among them, 12 from the French Riviera, expecting to meet 200 capital venturers and business angels.

Nice 'restera dans l'histoire comme un grand sommet' a déclaré Jacques Chirac après une dernière nuit de négociations. Les commentaires des médias sont toutefois moins enthousiastes.

About fifteen students of Sophia Antipolis will go in California as trainees, while Telecom Valley members have opened about twenty training courses for students coming from the Silicon Valley.

After some ups and downs (listing delayed twice and a listing range reduced by around 25%) Gemplus finally succeeded in being listed on the stock exchange. It was even a clamorous listing since on Monday December 11th December, the day of the first quotation, the share increased by 25% on the stock exchange in Paris, from 6 euros to 7.50 euros. As well, the world chip leader managed to be listed on the American Nasdaq, as the share was up by 20% at half-session ($12.75).

The international conference on venture capital has hesitated for long to announce that it would take place at the Agora of France Telecom, as on the previous years. The reason : the historic operator has decided to restructure its property a few months ago. The Agora was put on sale before summer at a price approximating 120 million francs. Apparently, it didn’t work. France Telecom intends to use a building of 10 years existence.