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On July 7, Vincent Cerutti present the second issue of "Sosie Sosie or not" in prime time on TF1. A vote of confidence granted by the private channel to its new host, after a first edition earlier this year. Readily compared to "Surprise of making" the show had launched Marcel Béliveau in 1989 in France, "Sosie Sosie or not" brought 5.2 million viewers on 1 January (23.8% audience share ). "This proves that the concept pleases, said Vincent Cerutti. The difference with "taking on Surprise" is that it is no longer the stars who get trapped, but the stars who, in a role against type, trap and anonymous. " Three programs are planned this summer, 9, 16 and July 23 in prime time, with about twenty guests in total.Whether TF1 wants to make a recurring issue, "it depends figures and viewers," concedes the presenter, who denies receiving any pressure or targets to hearing from the chain. Maybe TF1 wants to install a new brand with this program, at least we'll try, "says he.

Earlier this year, who made his debut on TNT channel local TV Le Mans (LM TV), was screened at the presentation of the new program flow TF1, "Dancing with the Stars" alongside Sandrine Quétier. A strategic project for the chain after the end of "Star Academy". Despite a change in leadership programs, "the second season will take place in a few months, said Vincent Cerutti, although I can not tell you when and with what celebrities."

An entertainment magazine on the family in the study

Within six months, the young leader would be poised to confirm that, in its search for new faces, TF1 made him the right choice. Also not impossible that we find in other programs guaranteed high risk personal loans. "A magazine of entertainment is also being studied or for the prime-time, or to a second part of the evening. It would be a show about family life, and a pilot has been shot, "he says.

At a time when most television hosts are also producers, Vincent Cerutti has no plans for now to give in to these sirens. "Producing? Maybe one day, but it is not relevant. My priority is simple: lead and present programs as can Jean-Pierre Foucault. "In 2006, the leader had created his company, Press'Agrum Productions (which no longer exists as such), who has produced "You had your fill! "For SM TV. "It allowed me to present for four years a 90-minute talk show, where I received the guests as diverse as Marc Levy, Michèle Cotta or Jean d'Ormesson." The new host of advanced TF1 also the importance of this type of experience and regional media. "The local DTT channels are like the radio in the 1980s. These are laboratories that allow leaders and journalists of tomorrow to form. It is important to try to keep them even if they suffer a lot economically. "

This summer, Vincent Cerutti will also be broadcast on RTL, for the second consecutive summer. He replaces Vincent Perrot at the helm of "Stop or" every weekend, from 9:30 to 11:30.As in 2010, it will also be with Jean-Sébastien Petitdemange, this time for "Journey of a spoiled listener" on Saturday from 13:30 to 15:00, starting July 16. For those who started on the radio, should be seen as a harbinger of any lasting return on the air? Why not. "I speak with my manager Gerard Louvin," concedes the moderator.

Monday night, Steve Jobs must have Apple's service icloud. Using a deal with record companies, the Cupertino company will upgrade its online music service iTunes. Customers can purchase their music from Apple's online store and listen to their wishes, where they are. The service called "cloud computing, or cloud computing, grow fast. This is a new revolution in computing. It is to connect to the Internet to access data and applications. Individuals no longer need to store on their PC or hard drive at home, and businesses no longer need to invest in high-performance computers.

The computer then used to open the application as a water faucet or turn on a light.Apple already offers a first service "cloud" to synchronize the network, contacts, emails and diary, from an iPhone or an iPad. The MobileMe service is very expensive (99 dollars or 79 euros per year from France).

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Amazon has shown the way

Google will launch this summer the free operating system for PCs, Chrome OS, designed and filmed for the cloud. "The biggest users of cloud services are already without knowing it, individuals using tools such as Gmail or Google pay services data storage from Amazon," said Lew Tucker, Director Technical cloud at Cisco.With his offensive, Apple created a new front against Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

One of the largest global provider of cloud services Amazon is the world leader in cultural services in line with an estimated turnover in this area at one billion dollars in 2010. The original idea of ​​the champion of e-commerce, which has expanded its services to music storage for individuals, was to lease excess capacity of its own "farms" of computers. "It comes down to your apartment when it is empty during the workday and when you go on vacation," says one expert. All the giants of the Web follow the lead of Amazon. In economic terms, the marginal cost is low for providers of computing power and storage capacity pay day advance. The additional revenue generated almost as much profit.For ten years, computer manufacturers, software publishers and computer services companies dream of a paradigm shift.

56 billion market

With the development of the Internet and especially because of the economic crisis, companies have converted to cloud computing. "After years of germination, cloud computing takes off. Partly for macroeconomic reasons. The crisis led all organizations to scrutinize their spending. In this context, a solution which can offer more for less is difficult to ignore, "says Ben Pring, vice president of research firm Gartner. For now, most of the market is done by software. The turnover of the software on demand is estimated around $ 11.7 billion in 2010 by Forrester Research. Today, 60% of worldwide turnover is made in the United States.But the phenomenon should spread to other countries. By 2020, the worldwide market will reach $ 56 billion, says Forrester Research.

With about 3 million business customers worldwide including one million in Europe, Google makes between 500 million and $ 1 billion in sales in the cloud. Finally, Microsoft will invest 90% of its budget on R & D in the cloud this year, said Jean-Philippe Courtois, senior vice president of Microsoft. But its sales in the area is estimated at "several hundred million dollars a year," admits a group leader. Each offers its solution. IBM, HP, Dell, Microsoft and Oracle want to use huge "farms" of servers to store and rent computing power to their customers. To this end, HP and Dell have acquired companies in the storage and data virtualization, in order to compete with VMware, a subsidiary of EMC.The market also attracts telecom giants like Cisco, Ericsson and Huawei, and specific actors, such as Akamai, Rackspace Hosting or Salesforce.

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Carrefour had commissioned this week the bank Lazard to explore the possibility of a merger between its subsidiary and Brazilian Companhia Brasileira de Distribuicao (CBD, Pao de Acucar), the local leader. According to the Sunday newspaper, the group led by Lars Olofsson would consider this option due to "disappointment" crossed by the French giant in the country. "In late 2010, the French had provisioned EUR 550 million for inventory write-downs and potential disputes with Brazilian suppliers," says the weekly.

The operation would provide the entrance to the Diniz family, owner of CBD, in the capital of Carrefour. Patriarch Abilio Diniz, 74, is the 8th Brazilian capital with a portfolio of $ 3 billion. The sign CBD has 1500 stores and employs 140,000 employees.His goal of turnover is 30 billion this year.

This entry to the capital is far from won, writes the JDD, for "Casino holds about 35% of CBD at parity with the clan Diniz" and "would oppose the merger with Carrefour to maintain a crucial alliance with CBD instant payday loan lenders. For years the two French retail groups "waging a covert war in the tropics, with rifle purchase signs and opening of stores," the paper said. For the time nor Carrefour or Casino have to comment on information.

The Carrefour group looking for a new director for Carrefour in France, since the thank James McCann – Tesco defector, has also just received a negative response from Serge Papin.The president of U-System has successfully completed a double blow by seizing Coop Atlantic and Telemarket site – would nevertheless have been the ideal candidate.

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The global market for live television until May 28, one week critical. In New York, American studios unveil the series of vintage 2011. Buyers of French channels will now continue their negotiations in Los Angeles during the famous "Screening" that are on television what Cannes is to film. The battle to win the best series promises to be intense between channels for a vintage by both the extraordinary volume – production up 50% over 2010 – than the quality. All studios show ten rounds each.

Two major trends: the studios back to the series feuilletonists, that is to say that the episodes "does not close," leaving the viewer unsatisfied.Moreover, after the medical drama "tired and kind policeman who remains a safe bet, it is the comeback of comedy and especially of the supernatural. According to a market expert, "Hollywood continues to search for the successor of Lost." Like Warner offering Alcatraz series that depicts the disappearance in the 1960s, prisoners from the notorious prison that recur in 2011. Fiction is the second lighthouse Person of Interest, founded by Jonah Nolan, screenwriter of The Dark Knight. It features a former CIA agent paid by a billionaire to eradicate crime. The Fox studio is shaped with The Finder, a derivative of Bones, but Homeland, spy series written by the father of series 24, and Playboy Club, a sort of Mad Men, about the life of a night club in Chicago in the 1960s.But the big event will be Fox Terra Nova, directed by Steven Spielberg that tells the return at the age of dinosaurs in a scientific team to correct environmental problems. The pilot cost more than $ 20 million for a series whose cost is estimated at 200 million.

"A new stock"

For its part, Disney has "the largest inventory of new features." The succession of Desperate Housewives is assured with Good Christian Belles, written by the creator of Sex and the City. It will also count with The River, a supernatural series also produced by Steven Spielberg, written, directed and filmed with a handheld camera by the authors of paranormal activity, the movie event of 2010. Missing Finally, a feminine version of Luc Besson's Taken, is eagerly awaited.NBC, four major events are presented with SMASH, a sort of Glee adult, also produced by Steven Spielberg and devoted to Marilyn Monroe. Riding on the success of Inception, one of the most successful of Warner, NBC Awake propose that the universe is very close.

Finally, Sony has the remake of Charlie's Angels, called Charlie's Angels. The studio spent $ 10 million for the pilot. Finally, in the wake of his teacher Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro starts with CBS in the series with Rookies. Enough to blow the auction.

The French are less Eurosceptic than the Germans. According to a poll by TNS-Sofres for the political foundation and published on Monday, 67% of respondents wish that France retains the euro, against 30% who would prefer to return to the franc. For comparison, a survey conducted a few months ago in Germany gave half of citizens in Germany favor a return to the Deutsche Mark, the currency dropped during the transition to the euro in 2002. More broadly, the French are rather attached to the European Union (EU). Only 13% of respondents expressed willingness in effect to leave. Results "surprising" to Secretary of State for Europe Laurent Wauquiez: "The French are more pro-European than we think," he responded on France Inter.

The French only lip though not the European Union on all fronts.Their trial against him is even more mixed: 30% of respondents, hope is the first feeling evoked by the EU for them. But for 29%, the disappointment! For some aspects, the EU is their protective: for three quarters of respondents, it ensures peace, and for more than half, it makes France more strong against the U.S. and China. But in parallel, 60% of French believe that the term unemployment "corresponds to the EU, and for more than half, it accentuates the problem of immigration.

While the conditions of the plan of aid to Greece should be discussed again, the French are also mostly favorable for financial support to countries in difficulty, "even if this represents a cost to France." Only 39% believe that France did not pay for others.Overall, respondents call for a Europe of solidarity, more involved in the fight for employment, purchasing power and welfare. "The French are not skeptics, they just want Europe to change," concludes Laurent Wauquiez Monday.

* This survey was conducted for the Foundation for Political Innovation (Fondapol) from April 15 to 21 among a nationally representative sample of 1500 people aged 18 and over (quota method).

Baroin is certain: France will reach all its budgetary targets. In an interview with Journal du Dimanche, the budget minister said that for 2010, "we are confident that the deficit will be less than 7.7% of GDP. This means that we actually reach 6% in 2011, even better, "added the minister.

As a reminder, France is committed to bringing the deficit to 6% this year and 4.6% next year and 3%, the maximum allowed under the European treaties, in 2013. The minister explains that "the march to pass the budget for 2012 that will require a budget, will probably be a little lower than some may fear."

Government policy has "paid off"

If Baroin is so sure of himself because he believes that the fiscal reform undertaken so far by the Government "has borne fruit."The Minister referred in particular to the general revision of public policies (RGPP) which, according to him, reported seven billion euros in 2009 to 2011, "in line with the target." Baroin also plans to communicate on the subject next Wednesday in the Council of Ministers.

The budget minister also defended the much-criticized reform of the non-replacement of staff on two retiring. "In 2012, we return the number of state officials in the early 1990s, with 150,000 fewer jobs than in 2007. There is an increase in payroll last year because many of the officers pushed their retirement, "he says.

Officials will be precisely the central concern of government should meet on Monday the unions and associations of local authorities to enter into a cycle of two months of negotiations before a bill this spring to reduce the uncertainty in the public service.

Life insurance in the viewfinder

Baroin is also long on income tax reform in progress. Declining to discuss the definitive end of the ISF, the minister emphasized the two preferred scenarios favored by his team: "One is innovative and ambitious, he removes the ISF and replaces it with a financing change Heritage. The second revised rates of tax schedule that had become robbers. "

Invoking the "spirit of justice," Baroin, promises to "correct the flaws that were growing in tax exile."He also announced that the remaining billion to complete the reform will be supported by "those who are now subject to the ISF." The government in the viewfinder the most senior portfolios of life insurance, "superior to 1.3 million euros" or dividends. The government, which wants to close the reform by May, after "multiple tracks" that "will be decided within three weeks." "In any event, the middle classes will not pay for the rich," says Baroin.

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It has almost become a habit: every year since 2008, attendance at cinemas French record-breaking 189 million came in 2008, 200 million in 2009, 206.5 million in 2010 … The Year Ahead flow and shows a total unmatched entries since 1967, according to the National Center for Film and Moving Image (CNC). As a percentage of the population, 65.4% French over 6 years, $ 37.6 million individuals have attended at least once in the cinemas in 2010. Thus, more than 35.9 million viewers (63.3%) recorded in 2008, the year of a previous record. At the time, remember that the excitement generated by "Welcome to the Sticks" (20 million viewers) had boosted attendance.What makes it even more remarkable record of 2010, in the absence of a blockbuster from inflating admissions.

The film, immunized against the crisis?

These exceptional figures surprise, because they coincide almost exactly with the start of the financial and economic crises that barely recovering the various economies. One thing not so paradoxical as that. The film, would have antidepressant effect, playing a full-sluggish economy. Coupled with its appearance relatively affordable compared to other leisure (vacations, sports club …), go "to get a canvas" remains one of the favorite pastimes of the French. It would be a "profiteer crisis."

Producers sentence

But if for the cinema, these figures are encouraging, they should not forget that the film industry includes dozens of different actors.And not everyone is as insensitive to the economic environment, far from it. Of course, the NCC highlights an improvement in the situation in 2010, up 31% of approved investments in production, reaching 1.439 billion euros over 261 films.

But in between, the crisis had significantly affected the sector. This explains that despite the upturn in 2010, the investments are not returned to their 2008 levels (1.49 billion euros). As in many other industries, the crisis has made it difficult to access funding. The diversity of sources by which French cinema is certainly enables finance to resist but not to maintain.Thus, in early 2010, the Association of Film Producers (APC) and the Union of Independent Producers (SPI) had pointed to a decline in overall investment in French film production by almost 30% between 2008 and 2009, and a decline of 400 million euros are dedicated to producing works of French initiative, which had gone under the billion euros.

"The most direct impact of the crisis is being felt internationally, explains Juliet Prissard, spokesperson for the SPI. Because the major customers of French works that are, for example Japan, Germany, Britain or the Benelux are also affected by the crisis no faxing payday loan. They buy fewer movies, and at prices lower and lower. "

Structural effects

Beyond these cyclical effects, the sector suffers from structural problems that gradually lead to change.First of which, the film piracy on the Internet. Moreover, cofinancing from the TV as part of their investment obligations in the cinema is changing. "Canal + plays its role as financier of the film, insists Prissard Juliet, with 203 million euros invested in 2009 in French and European films. But the decline in advertising revenue on terrestrial channels leads to a concentration of investment on big-budget films, in a logic with a large audience, including private channels. By domino effect, the public channels (France 2 and 3) investing more and more on larger productions.Finally, the calculation of investment obligations being made on the amount of advertising revenue channels (3.2% of their annual revenues), the absolute amount of money paid tends to decrease, especially with the partial lifting of the advertising the public service channels.

The Sofica give a little air for small players

Consequently, if the big production companies like Europacorp fare better thanks to their diversified profile (production, distribution, rights sales, license etc..) Producers and independent films at low and medium budgets (less than 10 million euros) are struggling increasingly to finance themselves. "It also increases concerns about taking on new talent, says Juliet Prissard. Before making a success like Of Men and Gods, you often experience that a director can acquire if his early films do not see the day. "

Only positive for smaller producers, the success of companies to finance of the film and audiovisual industry (Sofica). These products tax-free investment in films often provide funds necessary for the closure of some budgets, while offering the investor the opportunity to obtain a tax reduction of 40% of the deposit, within the limits of 8640 euros. Established in 1985, the collection of these products for 2009/2010 to exceed 63 million euros, spread over 11 Sofica. The CNC, which co-pilot device with the department's budget, also regularly reaffirms the principles guiding the product: investment in films in small or medium-budget (less than 8 million euros), primarily in the first and second film director, and boost support for independent production.In 2009, Sofica participated in the financing of 166 works for cinema and 25 audiovisual works.

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"Half of French Internet pirates on the net

Suspected cyber focus again on China. At least five multinational sector hydocarbures were victims of assaults coordinated, conducted by hackers from the Chinese cities revealed Thursday the U.S. security specialist McAfee. Several gigabytes of confidential documents on bidding for contracts to drill and industrial equipment were stolen. Alerted, the FBI launched an investigation, says the Financial Times.

According to the work of McAfee, which did not specify the names of companies mentioned, these attacks have been ongoing for at least two years and are still ongoing.By combining several techniques for intrusion, hackers managed to penetrate the computer systems of their targets, then go back to the positions of officers in order to download email archives and other sensitive data.

"Worker bees"

The attackers did not try to delete their tracks, says McAfee. One of them, which provided tools to remotely control the hijacked servers, acted from the city of Heze in Shandong Province, while the data downloads were launched from IP addresses in Beijing at office hours. "These people are more like worker bees that hackers love freedom," said Dmitri Alperovicth, vice president of McAfee responsible for research on cyber threats.

The admission of McAfee, this type of attack is "relatively unsophisticated."It is not at the offensive launched against Google and other American companies in December 2009, when Chinese hackers were already under investigation. He did not have the sophistication of computer virus Stuxnet, which has targeted Iran's nuclear infrastructure. He was spying, rather than sabotage. There is no indication that piracy has been orchestrated by a State.

This new offensive, dubbed "Night Dragon" ("Night Dragon") by McAfee, illustrates the recent evolution of computer hacking. The security experts who are used to warn about the risks of viruses, spam and phishing, is now competing revelations about targeted intrusions and spectacular. These attacks do not directly affect most ordinary users, but governments and companies, which are also their customers.

"France has lost 84 billion with the crisis

"Volume of hours worked inadequate

"Higher taxes elsewhere

"The share of wages in the highest in 15 years

"A rapid rise in labor costs

The presidential campaign has begun. The MEDEF, at least, with the publication of "Showdown", the diagnosis of the French economy performed every two years by the employers' organization. "It must be the basis of all discussions, all ideas, all thoughts that may be presented in 2012, said Laurence Parisot.

"" Be positive, "said Laurence," said Pierre Nanterme, head of Accenture, president of the Economic Committee of the MEDEF, and as pilot of the book. Yet the picture is invariably dark. French companies suffer from a lack of structural competitiveness.The crisis is over there and has exacerbated the situation. Companies have seen their margin drop below 30%, its lowest level for twenty-five years. "A diagnosis beyond doubt is already at half of the solutions," says Pierre Nanterme.

But the report does not avoid some minor provocations likely to generate controversy with the unions.Noting that the share of wages in value added increased by 3 points in ten years to reach 67.7%, Medef pretends to be concerned: "France is the only country where wages are rising faster than production This is not sustainable unless further weakening the competitiveness of businesses. "The fault, a little to rising wage income – especially with the increase in the minimum wage during the 35 hours – and much to the heavier taxes levied on wages (payroll, 1% housing, transport payments payday advance…).

Fighting "equal footing"

But it regards the importance of taxation that Medef goes furthest in challenging the industry standard is to calculate the weight of tax burden (taxes and charges) to GDP."This calculation underestimates the burden of compulsory contributions paid by the private sector in countries where the public sector contributes significantly to GDP," says one in the organization of Grove Street. The latter proposes to measure the weight of taxes paid by businesses compared with 1.1 trillion of wealth they actually occur. Seen in this light, the tax burden represent 26.4% of the value added of French companies. "It's like siel had to work until mid-April to pay their charges and taxes," said the MEDEF, whereas in England they are working "for them" early March and Germany in mid- February. Conclusion: French companies are not fighting "equal footing" with their rivals, Pierre Nanterme regrets.Laurence Parisot judge therefore urgent to return to a "fair competitiveness" – the motto for a year.

It goes through five levers: better guide young people, encouraging research, reduce labor costs, reduce levies on businesses, improve the efficiency of public expenditure. How? The specific responses are returned at the end of the year, when the MEDEF released after "Need air," his book-2007 program. The President of the MEDEF, which likes anglicisms, has the art of teasing.

France has lost 84 billion with the crisis

CGT denies early departure of Bernard Thibault, announced Thursday morning by Le Parisien – Aujourd'hui en France. The newspaper believed that "tired", the CGT leader since 1999 has decided to leave the ship. "I'm leaving at the end of the year, so that my successor is in place before the presidential elections," reported Thursday morning in the daily framework of the CGT, remarks which were held on December 21 and 22 last to his closest collaborators. Allegations that the secretary general of the CGT was "very clear denial" on Thursday, denouncing "an attempt at destabilization."

"For the future of the CGT and its leadership, we will proceed when the time comes – and it's not yet the case – according to our usual procedures in a collective framework," to elect a successor at he said in a statement.

The assumption of an imminent departure of Bernard Thibault of the CGT leadership is often mentioned yet. Since his re-election to Congress in Nantes comfortable, difficulties have indeed accumulated to the charismatic leader. The failure of the struggle against the pension reform first, opened the way for a reconsideration of the reformist strategy adopted under his leadership over the past ten years. Some federations have seen the failure of a desire to refocus the CGT and make a union of contestation and negotiation payday advance. The recent decline in the weight of the union in some of its strongholds, such as RATP, EDF, GDF or the Post Office, has been interpreted by opponents as a validation of this hypothesis. By boycotting the beginning of January the wishes of the social partners Nicolas Sarkozy, Bernard Thibault would have liked to correct the situation by hardening his speech.

A three-year term

But other factors may also contribute to an early departure next leader of the CGT. Internally, Bernard Thibault is accused of abandoning the organization. A peak for the CGT: the staff, who complain the level of wages and working conditions, is in open war against management. "Every unhappy tumble in his office. This is evidence of dysfunction of the house, "said one observer Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France. Bernard Thibault, meanwhile, evokes "a fatasme" to destabilize the CGT "after the exceptional action over pensions.

To these difficulties must be added the threats against himself and his family have suffered in recent years. The pig's head stabbed in front of his door and other malicious acts would eventually affect the CGT leader, worried about his family.Many reasons for Bernard Thibault, give way before the end of his mandate in 2012.

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