Samsung does not want to depend on Apple

 

Action Samsung lost nearly 18% in three trading days. Involved? A decision by Apple. The U.S. has chosen to change supplier for certain processors. Moreover, according to many rumors, Apple, which is the largest customer of Samsung is reportedly soliciting Taiwanese companies to further diversify its sources of supply. Bad news for Korean, a measure of wisdom for the American who does not want to depend on its main competitor. Samsung and Apple combine the trial, thirty between them in the world. They accuse each other of copying or infringement of patents. Both companies also try to end the dispute by signing an agreement that they would not divorce. Paradoxically because Apple is more dependent than the other Samsung. The U.S. represents 5% of sales of its competitor, while Samsung is about 25% of the production cost of an iPhone, according to Citigroup check cash advance.

In addition, the two groups are fighting to win the leadership in the smartphone market. For now, Samsung is leading. It should maintain its lead with the launch of Galaxy SIII, its flagship terminal, unveiled in early May. Source of satisfaction, Korean has recorded 9 million pre-orders for the SIII. A victory for any advise him "enjoy". Already last year, Samsung was gone very quickly, before their hair done on the wire by Apple and its iPhone 4S. However, the firm at the apple should market its next iPhone next fall. What boost its sales.

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Accor focuses on education to promote its businesses

 

When companies come to the aid of National Education to better support youth in their future educational and vocational guidance. It is the sense of partnership on Wednesday that the sign of the global giant Accor hotels and restaurants with the Minister of National Education, Luc Chatel.

"The group is engaged since 1993 with the Ministry of Education since it was the first French company to sign the foreground job. But today it is a partnership with a major action plan and quantified over five years, "said Christophe Alaux, CEO of Accor in France.

Often highlighted for its ability to set foot in the door for young or unskilled, through comprehensive training courses and tutorials, Accor's commitment revolves around three main areas: promoting the attractiveness of trades hotels and restaurants (it develops over a hundred through its seven brands) among young school students, enhance the employability of its employees and increase the effectiveness of teacher professional sector.

Each of these areas is accompanied by targets. Accor is committed to welcoming and 3500 youth courses each year. The group will also invite every thirty years of college and high school classes to spend a day in a hotel, while half days in the individual hotels will be offered to college students in fourth and third to help orientation. "A measure aimed at young and unskilled in Ile trouble employability provides Accor organizes a week of immersion in a hotel in France followed by a 13-week stay in Britain including four weeks of language preparation and 9 weeks of training in hospitality, "says Antony Recher, the new HR group, stressing that" the group can give opportunities to public school in big trouble. "

Train teachers

Teacher training side of Trades Catering, Accor plans to take several initiatives. For it is true that innovation is a poor cousin of the present teachings. "We will offer two days of training on revenue management and distribution to the Accor Academy, for 30 teachers each year to train for new jobs in the hotel," says Christophe Alaux. The group also make available educational materials teams and teaching tools (including e-learning software). Professors of the third class will also be greeted by complete immersion for a period of 4 days to discover the hotel trades and receive lights on profiles and skills needed in the sector.

The last part of the agreement, the employability of employees of the group, it will be characterized by the rise of APEL (accreditation of prior experience), puisqu'Accor agrees to accompany each year 100 employees in this process. Each brand group will choose a particular function: Novotel for example decided to help its managers accommodation and restaurant in the VAE for obtaining a BTS housing and tableware. Pullman could commit to careers in housekeeper and maids while watching the IBIS technical track maintenance. In 2011, Etap Hotel, Hotel F1 renewed its device VAE for a group of nine directors, who obtained the Bachelor program of Rouen Business School.

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China's growth at its lowest for three years

 

China's growth slowed in the first quarter to 8.1%, year on year, confirming the end of the runaway Chinese engine. The Middle Kingdom and shows its lowest growth rate in three years. The country is hit by falling exports due to the debt crisis in Europe.

The gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 8.9% in the last quarter of 2011. Figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday, expected to bolster the central government in its choices. In March, Chinese Premier set the objective of growth of 7.5% in 2012, advocating a rebalancing of GDP, still driven by exports and investment in favor of domestic demand. Consumption is doing well: the pace of retail sales accelerated to 15.2% for the month of March. Industrial production grew, meanwhile, 11.9%.  

The World Bank expects a soft landing for the Chinese economy, she sees grow 8.2% this year and 8.6% in 2013. But Beijing remains cautious about the risk of an abrupt slowdown of the economy too. The Government therefore continues to ease monetary policy. Last month, the volume of bank lending surged to $ 160.1 billion, their highest level in over a year.

Inflation, although more moderate than last year, remains under surveillance. The index of consumer prices rose 3.6% last month. Political leaders, fearing that soaring prices will feed social discontent, should continue to ensure that it is controlled.

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U.S.: CEOs have pocketed $ 2 billion in 2011

 

Some 757,515 iPad (at $ 499 each) or even 33 years of compensation of Jeffrey Immelt, the boss of General Electric: The New York Timess'est amused to calculate the envelope that represented outstanding $ 378 million, attributed to Tim Cook, Apple chief executive in 2011, the equivalent of 42,000 dollars an hour. Given the recent surge in Apple stock, this package, largely in restricted shares for at least five years-would be $ 634 million

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Needless to say, the successor to the boss Steve Jobs is the most spoiled of the United States by its board of directors. According to research firm Equilar for The New York Times, the 100 best-paid bosses of the United States have pocketed a total of last year's $ 2.1 billion. An amount up 2%. On average, each CEO earned $ 14.4 million.

The second, used the charts, Lawrence Ellison of Oracle, has earned $ 77.6 million. The third with $ 53.3 million, Ronald Johnson, who arrived this fall at the head of department stores JC Penney, is a newcomer. In fact, the distributor, for debauch the star of Apple, had to compensate by offering shares JC Penney instead of securities of electronics giant that it could reach if he resigned. A bad deal, so far: the Apple shares would be worth nearly $ 160 million, against less than 60 million worth of JC Penney.

To combat the excesses that contributed to the financial crisis of 2008, Congress passed a reform that pushes for more transparency on the remuneration of bosses and gives shareholders more weight on the determination of these envelopes, containing cash, bonus and stock options.

Spain could lead the European Relief Fund

 

Spain hopes to get the chairmanship of the Permanent Mechanism of rescue of the euro area (SS) and seems well positioned to succeed, according to an EU official interviewed on Sunday by Agence France-Presse. "It's a real possibility" for Madrid to recover this function to be assigned soon, he said, on condition of anonymity on the sidelines of a meeting of EU leaders in Finland.

The permanent emergency mechanism to protect the countries of the monetary union of the debt crisis must be activated in July. Until recently it was taken for granted that the current President of the Temporary Relief Fund in the euro area (EFSF), the German Klaus Regling, head of the MES. But several key positions must be free by this summer in major European institutions (Eurogroup EFSF, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) and the negotiations are going well.

Unable cumulation of Germany

But the hackneyed Germany itself cards by campaigning for his Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble will become the next president of the Eurogroup when the mandate of the current incumbent, Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker, will arrive due this summer. Given the economic weight of Germany, Schäuble is well positioned to obtain the direction of this forum of finance ministers of the monetary union, said two officials of the euro area also on condition of anonymity no checking account payday advance. "It is the favorite," said one of them. In these circumstances it would be very difficult for Germany to get more of MY president.

So Spain seriously eyeing this function. Because at the same time Madrid has little chance of securing a position in the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, also at stake and for which she has applied. This is a Luxembourg, Yves Mersch, who is best placed, the sources said. "Of two things, if Schäuble was appointed to the Euro, Spain can expect the MES as compensation. And finally if Juncker was to remain in the Eurogroup, Spain will get the job at the ECB as the Luxembourg can claim the two portfolios, "said one official.

In Finland, the Spanish Secretary of State to the European Union, Inigo Mendez de Vigo, would not comment on details of ongoing negotiations. "I can tell you that ultimately we will not be losers" of history, he said at a news conference. "We are a family, a family and sometimes you do not get everything you want but ultimately you should feel at ease and I am confident that ultimately we will be at ease" with the result, he said.

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Barack Obama's Energy Revolution

 

The price of a gallon of gasoline at the pump exceeded $ 4 in many parts of the United States. It is a trauma for Americans who drive a lot and often in vehicles big bike.

Pay more than $ 1 per liter, or 17% more than last year, imposed on their budget. The seasonal nature of gasoline demand likely makes one gallon for $ 5 by summer.

54% of Americans believe that their president could do much to combat this trend trim their buying power and weakening growth. The popularity of Barack Obama suffers 65% of voters are unhappy with how it handles this issue. In this busy electoral context, the presidential candidate began a two-day tour in Nevada and New Mexico. His message: "We operate oil fields everywhere: this is why our dependence on imported energy has fallen every year since I was in power."

Barack Obama has abandoned the slogan that has long repeated: "Oil is the energy of the past." It now claims to support all forms of energy production, not just renewables.

"As long as I am president, I will not give the promise of clean energy," he said Wednesday in Nevada on the occasion of his visit to a field of solar panels. Bankruptcy Solyndra, a manufacturer of solar panels, which received $ 535 million of subsidies, however, undermined the credibility of the presidential message. His promises of thousands of jobs created by "green energy" were not held cheap payday advance.

600,000 jobs created

However, the boom hydraulic fracturing since 2008 has pushed gas production in the United States and depressing prices. Applying this technique to oil shale helps boost crude output at its highest in eight years. Manufacturers responsible for these innovations feel they owe anything to Obama.

Instead, they feel unfairly targeted by the White House. "The Obama administration says it supports the increased production of oil and gas. But it blocked the Keystone XL (which was to supply the Gulf of Mexico oil shale Canadian). It claims to boost domestic production, but permits drilling in federal areas have plunged 44%, "says Jack N. Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute. "Many more jobs have been created by the boom in oil and gas as" green economy, '"says Daniel Yergin, head of Cambridge Energy Research Associates. It amounts to 600,000 the number of jobs created by this revolution. These figures are echoed by Obama today, marking a dramatic conversion of the President of the benefits of a sector that has long disdained.

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Presidential: spending cuts in sham

 

So far, Francois Hollande was very talkative on controlling public spending. To prove his seriousness in budgetary matters, the PS argued the EUR 49 billion of tax increases planned – both graded increases to fund new measures and to reduce the public deficit to 3% in 2013. Change in tone Thursday on France 2. The Socialist candidate was more explicit result: the return to balance accounts in 2017 will also "by 50 billion savings on public spending," he said, highlighting a point that appears from the origin, but discreetly, in its program.

In fact, in a country where public expenditure accounts for 56.6% of GDP, while fiscal consolidation achieved through an action on the charges. Except as we stay in France. Unlike the choices made in the UK and measures imposed in Portugal or Greece, or Francois Hollande nor Nicolas Sarkozy proposed to actually reduce government spending, that is to say, the return of 100 euros a year to 95 next year. The two main candidates simply promise to slow the rise.

From 1978 to 2008, public spending grew on average by 2.6% per year, plus inflation. "We will limit their increases to 1% per year," said Francois Hollande. Right, this government promised in Brussels an increase of 0.4% per year until 2016. Then where are the savings put forward by both sides? This is actually a smaller increase in expenses, compared to their natural tendency (which is explained by the increase in salaries of civil servants, the increase in health spending, the rising number of retirees, etc.. ). This is supposed to be parallel to that of GDP. Example project with Holland. Without special measures, the approximately 1 trillion of government spending should increase as the national wealth (1.7% per year initially, 2.25% at the end, according to forecasts of the candidate). An average increase of about 2% per year during the future five-year-around 20 billion euros each year free credit report and score. The PS wants to limit their growth to 1% per year. The economy compared to the natural drift is 10 billion per year and $ 50 billion in the five year term. The weight of public expenditure in GDP would decline to 53.9% while in 2017 the government is 52.8% in 2016. In both cases, the action will inevitably unpopular.

Divisive options

Social benefits-health costs, pensions, family allowances or unemployment … – indeed absorb 45% of public expenditure. Just to bring growth in public spending to 0.7% in 2011, the current government had to reform pensions, act on Medicare and not to replace staff on two retiring.

Thursday, Francois Hollande suggested avenues for savings: lower prices and consumption of drugs, focus on health prevention, cuts in aid to enterprises, decentralization. Displaying its objective of stabilizing the size of the public, he admitted that there would be job cuts in all departments except Education, Justice and Home Affairs. "The salary policy will be serious," said Michel Sapin, program officer of the applicant, being careful not to promise any pay rise. And state transfers to local (one hundred billion a year) "will not progress." Not to mention that if economic growth is not at the rendezvous, the scheme collapses. Michel Sapin no plans yet not to intensify efforts in this case: "A real spending cuts could destabilize the economy," he retorts.

Advocating a greater effort, Nicolas Sarkozy announced the continuation of "one in two." The UMP also wants to cut $ 2 billion per year transfers to communities. Magnitude of the cuts, selected sectors: these options are politically divisive. But in a camp like in the other, the information disclosed so far are not enough.

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Google better understand the issues of Internet

 

The Wall Street Journal, Google will soon be able to understand the meaning of the words searched by the user and to provide "direct responses", in addition to the traditional ties linking to other websites. These responses, semantic analysis results, will be displayed directly below the search form, as is already the case during a search on the term "weather" for example.

With Answers service, closed in 2006, Google had already tried to semantic analysis by the only means then available: human responses. People were then paid to answer questions from users. Today, the issues will be analyzed directly by algorithms. To recognize the user's request, Google will index all the information available online, relevant to the topic, rather than just keywords. The Wall Street Journal takes the example of a search for "Lake Tahoe" that will display directly the characteristics of the lake at the top of the results. If the user wishes to know the ten largest lakes in California, Google will display the list of lakes in addition to simple links.

Keep users on Google

By posting relevant content directly on the results page, Google users will no longer need to visit the pages indexed. Specialized site for The Verge, "provide direct answers instead of links to other pages to meet the new Google strategy, which seeks to keep its users within its walls, as it does with Google + quick payday loans." Google's interest is to increase the visibility of ads by keywords on the pages of results. This activity represents "the majority of $ 37 billion in annual revenues of Google," says the Wall Street Journal.

This innovation features reminiscent of Wolfram Alpha, a search engine capable of aggregating and format of information available elsewhere on the Internet. Wolfram Alpha is at the heart of the wizard voice of the iPhone 4S, Siri, who can ask a question to his mobile and get an answer directly, without needing to click a link or to seek self- same information on a web page. To do this, the software combines speech recognition and semantic analysis to recognize the words of the user and the meaning of his question. Recently, Anthony DiClemente, chief of the division of Internet and media research at Barclays Capital was concerned about the impact of the Apple software on Google: "Siri can bypass traditional search engines and provide the user with responses that originally would have necessitated a search online. "

Google could also put this new feature to good use in Android mobile. According to TechCrunch, Google is preparing to launch in fact a competitor of Siri for Android, Google wizard.

A carbon tax applicable to contested 4000 companies

 

Air transportation emits about 3% carbon dioxide (CO2) released by humans into the atmosphere. But according to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), its emissions have almost doubled (+98%) between 1990 and 2006 and are expected to increase by 63% by 2020. This is due to the strong growth that the EU wished to include airlines in the industries subject to carbon allowances.

Decided in 2008, this "carbon tax air" has been applicable since 1 January to major airlines transiting through EU airports. According to official documents of the end of 2011, 4291 airlines must be submitted to CO2 quotas, including 28 Chinese companies. Brussels has set an emissions cap for each company, who must buy the equivalent of 15% of its emissions, as carbon credits.

This air tax should bring in 2012 256 million euros to the EU, the Commission said. A pittance compared to $ 3.8 billion represented the German Government, by controlling only Airbus Hong Kong Airlines, threatened. Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for the fight against climate change, repeated his refusal to yield to threats and to revisit the legislation.

The profession particularly hostile

From the earliest discussions on the implementation of these CO2 quotas on airlines, the profession has expressed very hostile. Last November, ICAO, the Organization of International Civil Aviation, adopted a resolution recommending to exempt non-European companies of the carbon tax. 26 of its 36 members including China, the United States and Russia, were signatories. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and ICAO call for voluntary measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, implemented worldwide.

In a report published in early 2011, the rating agency Standard & Poor's estimated that the measure Brussels could cost 1.12 billion for airlines in 2012-2013. Since then, the price per tonne of CO2 collapsed on the European market which would reduce the cost to about 700 million euros. But it adds to the severe increase in fuel prices.

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Clothing protected by a surge of cotton

 

Second largest producer of cotton after China and before the United States, India took the markets short Monday, putting a halt to its exports. Driven by Chinese demand, they were likely to exceed the end of March the 10 million bales exported in twelve months, while the Indian government had to fall to 8.4 million bales its quotas. This political decision intended to favor local manufacturers Monday sparked a 4% increase in the prices of futures contracts for cotton available in May.

Worrying signs of ready-to-wear and conjure the specter of runaway prices experienced a year ago. Francesco Marchi, Euratex, Association of European textile producers, fears "that European producers of fabrics not subjected to higher prices, which will be transferred to brands."