Orange offers its subscribers Deezer

They were the first pups born of the marriage of convenience between Orange, a subsidiary of France Telecom, and Deezer. The telecom operator and the site plays music Thursday night unveiled the commercial offers will be available to Orange subscribers to access the unlimited music on their mobile and as part of a subscription to the Internet.

Deezer hopes to increase its subscriber base – from 25,000 today to 200,000 by the end of the year and one million a year – and expand its sales – 6 million euros in 2009 20 million euros in 2010. Orange, meanwhile, has "to differentiate the active target urban youth and families with teenagers.Indeed, if access to Deezer Premium is included in the packages Origami and a triple play offer at 29.90 euros per month it costs 5 euros extra per month for other packages No fax payday advances.

It remains for both partners, who unveiled their alliance in late July, to sign the agreement validates the rise of Orange in the capital of Deezer. The French operator will take 11% share in the listening site, which provides not need to raise new funds to launch its international deployment in the fall.

This partnership is strategic to guarantee a peaceful future to Deezer.This yields a significant boost to the development of its subscriber base pay, additional income for determining advertising revenue generated on the paid site, which must repay the rights to record labels and copyright societies to exploit the 7 million shares offered to its users.

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Large labs scramble biotechs

Without biotech, no future for pharmacy? You might think so, judging by the proliferation of mergers and alliances between biotechs and large laboratories, those companies that manufacture drugs from living organisms. Last transaction date, redemption, announced Tuesday, the small American biotech Spoiler Therapeutics by Roche. The Swiss laboratory would cost initially $ 25 million to access the expertise of spoiler, an innovative technique allows the insertion of active ingredients targeted at the heart cells. If the results are inconclusive and that the products are finally sold, Roche may pay up to 1.1 billion dollars.

On Monday, the Swiss lab had already announced the purchase of another biotech, the California BioImagene for about 100 million dollars. And the other major labs are no exception.Sanofi-Aventis has announced the July 1 takeover of the U.S. biotech TargeGen. That's about the 25th agreement reached by the French laboratory with a biotech since arriving at his head Chris Viehbacher in December 2008. These alliances are not confined to Europe and the United States. Earlier this year, bioMérieux has acquired, for 10 to 15 million euros, a Chinese group, Meikang Biotech specializes in the manufacture of rapid tests.

"The major laboratories multiply this kind of agreement from two to three years to overcome a deficit increasing need for innovation in-house and access to proprietary technology platforms," said Vincent Genet, director of the activity of the firm Alcimed health."Smaller biotechs, in turn, can not afford to assume alone the costs of development of their drug candidates."

Progressive Funding

But it is rare that manufacturers take immediately all the risk. Most operations are based on incremental funding. Paid as and drug development, they can be supplemented by royalties on the commercialization of products.

These operations, which often have no impact on buyers for several years, have "nothing to do with mergers with large biopharma," says Vincent Genet. After the acquisition of Genentech by Roche last year for $ 47 billion, Sanofi-Aventis discussed today a merger with Genzyme. The operation seems to stumble on the price.According to the American press, Genzyme seeks in effect more than 18.4 billion dollars (14 billion euros) that Sanofi would have offered.

These mergers, which provide great laboratories of developing products and marketed drugs, may provide access to "a very different economic model," said Vincent Genet. This changes the perception of the laboratory, giving it a more focused biotech. This may also contribute favorably to income through sales made. A biotech can also expand the universe of which seizes lab. This is the case of the manufacturer of Botox, Allergan, valued near $ 20-billion. It would give the buyer access to the cosmetics market and emerging countries.

Brussels limits the traders' bonuses

Bonuses for traders and bankers in Europe, accused of encouraging rampant speculation during the crisis, will be capped for the first time from next year, following the final adoption of a text with meaning Wednesday.

Two years after the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, part of the United States with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the European Parliament in Strasbourg approved the text, which was the subject of a June 30 Agreement between the elected and the states of the EU.

In 2011, the bonus must not be disproportionate to the fixed salary and cash bonuses will be capped at 30% of the total premium, or 20% on premiums particularly important.

End outlandish bonuses

Much of the bonus will be paid immediately and will not be after a period of at least three years to allow the employer to recover some cases where investment would not work as expected.

Finally, at least 50% of a total bonus will be paid as contingent capital, which can be recalled in case of banking difficulties, so that taxpayers do not end up in the front line when a bank gets into difficulties.

In the case of banks that receive public subsidies, the text also provides that "no variable compensation should be paid the officers of the institution unless it is justified."

"Europe gets the rules of coaching salaries of bankers and traders with the most aggressive in the world," said a French Green MEP, Canfin Pascal, who negotiated the text. "By limiting the proportion of variable pay in total compensation, this text will finally put an end to extravagant bonuses synonymous with extravagant risks," he added.

A text to the liking of the banking sector

"Two years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, these tough new rules on bonuses will transform the culture of bonuses and incentives to end the excessive risk-taking", claimed that his side the Socialist Arlene McCarthy, parliamentary rapporteur on file at the agreement in principle on June 30

The text is however not to the liking of the banking sector."We believe that the agreement goes too far, because at the international level, there are already some principles" in the form of recommendations that were made including the Financial Stability Board (FSB), had informed the AFP secretary general of the European Banking Federation, Guido Ravoet after the tentative agreement. "We believe that this is not the public authorities to make amounts, percentages," he added, saying that this responsibility should be left to banks.

"If the international level, it does not follow Europe, European banks have a competitive disadvantage," says Guido Ravoet, who believes that "financial centers like New York, Singapore and Hong Kong will benefit."

Nuclear repeated delays to the EPR

The EPR, the flagship of the French nuclear technology, today faces an unprecedented wave of questions. After the failure of tendering Abu Dhabi and pending report Roussely devoted to the articulation of the French industry, design, price and export capacity of this tool crystallize debates . At that point, for some observers, the EPR would already hit the "syndrome Concorde: a true performance machine, but particularly difficult to assemble, expensive and unmarketable.

Provisions repeated Areva's Olkiluoto site have largely supported this suspicion. But, after Finland, behold, the EPR Flamanville, built by EDF, also maintains the possibility of "industrial accident".

Salaries most dynamic in Germany, France

The basic monthly salary was "slightly more active in Germany than in France in 2009, amid slowing earnings in both countries related to a labor market deteriorated and a virtual stagnation in prices, according to a study published Monday by the INSEE. In the non-agricultural market sector, the basic monthly wage increased an annual average of 2.2% in France and 2.7% in Germany (excluding inflation), a rate lower than in 2008 (three % in both countries).

"This slowdown is due to the deterioration of the labor market in 2009 and the near stagnation of prices, which have dampened wage bargaining in both countries," according to INSEE, using statistics French and German.Illustration of this slowdown, the increase in the minimum wage was 1.3% on 1 July 2009 in France, against 3% on average in 2008, notes the National Institute of Statistics and studies économiques.En Germany, reductions number of hours of work and temporary suspension of increase weighed on earnings, but the slowdown of the basic wage was only 0.3 percentage points in 2009 compared to 2008.

Since the wage agreements are multi-annual index-some grids had indeed been negotiated before the economic crisis.The new agreed increases in the second half of 2009, however, were "much smaller" than previous years and there were very few new wage agreements during this period, noted INSEE.

Virtually zero inflation in 2009

Taking into account inflation, "virtually zero in 2009 in the two countries' basic pay has" increased significantly "on both sides of the Rhine, but again more in Germany (+2.5% after +0.2% in 2008) and France (+2.1%, after -0.2% in 2008).

This comparison between wages in France and Germany came as the country was criticized by some of its partners, including France, to encourage low wages to enhance its competitiveness at the expense of its neighbors.

Germany argues that governments have no influence on the evolution of salaries – there is no general minimum wage in Germany – and has no intention to curb the competitiveness of its companies.

Eurotunnel candidate for Folkestone-London line

According to information gathered from WanSquare bank, Jacques Gounon, Eurotunnel's Chairman, has received approval of its board of directors for the auction as part of the privatization of the high-speed London-Folkestone .

It was mandated to participate, with the support of several partners including Goldman Sachs, the redemption of an amount between 1.5 and 2 billion pounds. The terms of the auction should be known Tuesday.

The British government announced in 2009 the privatization of the railway line linking St Pancras International in London to the Channel Tunnel. Eurotunnel had declared his intention to stand.

Indeed, the design of this line is based on a technology very similar to that used for the Channel Tunnel, both in civil engineering for the rails, signage, power or control system and communication.

PSA negotiating with Mitsubishi a future low-cost small car

The failure of a reconciliation capital does not PSA Peugeot Citroen and Mitsubishi's Japanese counterpart to continue their talks on industrial projects. The Tribune reported in its Friday edition that the two groups are actively negotiating on "a future model for small low cost. A decision could even be announced very soon.

Peugeot looks to the platform "Global Small" from Mitsubishi. The latter has developed a specific platform on which a model should first be launched in 2011 in Japan and in 2012 out of the archipelago. The Japanese group would consider producing cars in Thailand.

The French are more interested he has not developed a low cost platform for small entry-level vehicles.

No comment could be obtained immediately from PSA Peugeot Citroen.

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Obama roundly about BP

This reminds us of some strange case Toyota. Less than four months after having heard the Director General of Operations in the U.S. for the Japanese, Jim Lentz, and its CEO, Akio Toyoda, the U.S. Congress will, next June 17, the testimony of an officer of another giant feet of clay, Tony Hayward, CEO of BP. And for the first time.

Obama wants to "kick some butt"

The boss of BP is found in a weak position, particularly after the resounding declarations of Barack Obama. Asked by NBC, Bush pointed the finger at Tony Hayward about awkward. "It would not work for me after these statements," said Bush.We talk with these guys because they are potentially more able to tell me who to kick your ass.

Tony Hayward was heavily criticized after saying a week ago wanted to "get his life before" and the Gulf of Mexico was "a great ocean where the environmental impact of the disaster is very, very modest." Words that had caused such an outcry from the families of 11 victims who died in the explosion and for which he apologized on Facebook. 81% of Americans felt negatively the reaction of BP.

Obama worse than Bush

The position of Barack Obama is not the most comfortable vis-à-vis the American people cheap payday advance. A poll ABC News / Washington Post, 69% of respondents have a poor opinion of the management of the crisis the Obama administration.By comparison, 60% of Americans disapproved of the action of George Bush response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Tony Hayward, who will be the only witness to a hearing entitled "The role of BP in the explosion of the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon and the oil spill, to answer questions from elected members of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House of Representatives.

Two months after the explosion

The hearing will take place almost two months after the explosion on April 20 of the platform which has killed 11 people and caused a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, affecting the fauna and flora in several states in the southern U.S. coast U.S. including Louisiana.

The head of BP America, Lamar McKay, had already been questioned by several committees of both houses of Congress in May.

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Chérèque clash between Vif and Parisot

Francis and Laurence Parisot Chérèque have severely clashed on Friday during a panel discussion on the emergence of a new social dialogue organized by the Journalists Association of Social Information (AJIS).

The secretary general of the CFDT has accused the president of MEDEF lying to parliamentarians to amend the bill on social dialogue in very small enterprises (VSE) discussed in the Senate next Tuesday and early July at the Assembly ( see our editions of June 3).

"The lobbying done by the MEDEF and CGPME is based on a lie, accused Francis Chérèque: to convince business leaders that will elect staff representatives who will return to the TPE.This is even more intolerable than the MEDEF and CGPME never demonstrated that they are representative of the owners of very small unlike the UPA, and the FNSEA UNAPL who support the bill. "

The secretary general of the CFDT appreciate even less the attitude of the President of the MEDEF Laurence Parisot text and Jean-Francois Roubaud trying to torpedo – CGPME has launched a petition calling for its withdrawal – is based on a Common Position, signed in April 2008 by the CFDT and CGT … with both employers' organizations. "I was tolerant enough," said Francois Chérèque has therefore asked Eric Woerth, sitting two feet away from him, "a law on the employer's representative.

No response Woerth

Piqued, the president of MEDEF has reaffirmed its opposition to the text of the Minister of Labour, which aims to give the four million employees of small opportunity to elect representatives to the territorial commissions optional that parliamentarians now want to limit nationally. "Business owners only want one thing: they are allowed to concentrate on developing their business and they do not impose new constraints," replied the boss of bosses, ready to enter question "once the crisis is over" and the reform of trade union representation buckled.

The President of the MEDEF also recalled that his movement was committed at the common position on trade union representation in April 2008, refer to "a group work, nothing more," the audience measurement and association development of social dialogue in the TPE.

As for the sensitive issue of the representativeness of employers, Laurence Parisot has once again "open debate" but said it would be "difficult to reproduce the mechanism of the election" which applies to trade unions to appoint company representatives. Eric Woerth has not decided. "The minister wants to take time to form his own opinion," says his entourage.

The debate on financial reform will begin

The Republican senators voted to open discussions with the chamber after blocking the debate for three consecutive days. Financial reform desired by the U.S. President Barack Obama and intended to prevent another financial crisis, would be the most important sector since the Great Depression. The Democrats want more regulations on stock markets and restrictions on derivatives, widely criticized for the crisis. The tougher regulatory worries Republicans.

Barack Obama gave a speech yesterday in Illinois calling for implementation of the reform loan cash advance no fax.The discussion should begin today and could last at least two weeks.

Symbolic of this financial speculators, Goldman Sachs is seeking a way out of his side after his questioning by U.S. regulators. The investment bank is in talks with one of his clients to agree on compensation due to losses on receivables-backed debt, in the heart of the controversy is the establishment.

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