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Last week, young bloggers rubbed shoulders with fashion editors of major newspapers in the forefront of the parades of ready-to-wear in Paris. Appearing a few years ago, the phenomenon of fashion blogs, yet dispersed long ago, is being structured. Evidence of this trend, the arrival in France of U.S. website Glam Media, which proclaims itself the number one female audience coverage on the Internet, with 76 million unique visitors in the United States and 164 million worldwide through its declensions Great Britain, Germany and Japan.

Upon his arrival in France, he announced to start with two million unique visitors. Glam is an "object Web unidentified. He does not content itself but on its pages aggregates the blogs to which he refers by links.In France, it begins with a fifty partners, such as fashion trend or Betty's blog.

Half of the turnover

It covers topics related to clothing, beauty, luxury or entertainment female. With this reach, it sells for blogs concerned advertising space and retains 50% of turnover. "There is no real competitor. We are a kind of thematic superpertinent Google "tries to summarize Orianne Garcia, its director of marketing and communications. The famous founder of the site Caramail mails in 1997 heads the French branch alongside Jean-Pierre Levieux, CEO, founder of MSN France in 1996.

Brash.com for men

Glam Media was founded in the United States in 2003 by Samir Arora, 44, Net entrepreneur of Indian origin. After ten years at Apple, he founded several start-ups in California.Glam Media is defined as "a pioneering media vertical. Beside the site Glam.com female he created Brash.com for men fall 2008 and Tinker.com, a specialized search engine on Facebook and Twitter. Objective: to capture the audience of social networks booming.

The opening of the French subsidiary following a fundraiser for 50 million dollars. Other groups seek to federate the blogs. In France, the popular site Aufeminin.com began to incorporate in its pages. Some advertising agencies have started to commercialize this disparate audience to advertisers, as Bang Blog, a subsidiary of Publicis, which also has its consumer portal.

Influenza A (H1N1) has made the business of bioM?rieux in 2009. The group specialized solutions in vitro diagnostic announced Friday in its annual report a turnover of up to currencies and constant perimeter, from 7.7% to 1.223 billion euros for the whole financial year 2009 against 1.111 billion in 2008. In the fourth quarter, the improvement is significant. Over this period, sales jumped 7.5% to 328 million euros against 311 million in the fourth quarter of 2008.

However, bioM?rieux unscrews at the Paris Bourse. In fall of 5.1%, to 80.79 euros, as has one of largest declines in the Paris stock exchange in mid-day.Analysts consider that the upside potential of the title, given its current valuation is exhausted.

Sales made by influenza A (H1N1)

In Latin America, the group recorded the highest growth over the year 2009. The turnover in this region rose by 19.7% to 89 million instant payday loan . Sales have exploded in particular in Mexico. Logical reason: it is in this country has started the influenza A (H1N1). The application of clinical tests has been very high.

Influenza A (H1N1) has just boosted branch immunoassays, bioM?rieux. "The epidemic has had a favorable impact of approximately 18 million euros on sales of QuickVue influenza tests and systems NucliSENS easyMAG, or 150 basis points of organic growth," confirms the group.In Europe however, the virus activity had passed its peak, the impact on sales was lower in the fourth quarter.

The group's debt has been greatly reduced. He spent 51 million euros to 2 million a year. Side perspective, bioM?rieux table for 2010 organic growth of its sales in foreign currencies and constant perimeter, about 7%.

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Nicolas Sarkozy has unveiled Monday its decision on the great debt of 35 billion euros, of which 22 billion will be raised on the markets. Priority is given to research and teaching, which will receive 11 billion euros.

At his press conference, the Head of State said "we must prepare France for the challenges of the future." In total, then 60 billion euros to be invested in the 5 priority areas identified by the Head of State. One of the questions when considering the large loan was for the financing. Nicolas Sarkozy has decided: the state will raise 22 billion euros on the market. Individuals will not be sought, it would have cost "one billion" over, prompted the head of state.In addition, 13 billion will be financed by aid funds reimbursed by the banks.

Laurence Boone, chief economist at Capital Barcalys analyzes the decisions announced by the President of the Republic. Explanations:

Tobacco companies defend themselves against illegal sales of tobacco on the Internet. BAT France said in a statement it had secured commitments from the advertiser Expresstabac and site hosting Aucland, to "clean up ads. The cigarette had given notice October 16 arrest for impersonating BAT and selling cigarettes illegally. The host has pledged not to broadcast these ads.

Other warnings were issued by BAT. One for the site and the advertiser beebarter.com expresstabacnews@gmail.com and one for the site and the advertiser annonces100×100.com laboutiquedutabac@yahoo.fr. The cigarette maker BAT claims that these sites and advertisers to steal his identity and violate Article L3511-3 of the Code of Public Health which prohibits the sale of tobacco promotion in France.Mid-October, the spokesman for the government, Luc Chatel, had indicated he was "absolutely out of question for public health reasons, to authorize the sale of tobacco through the Internet.

A quarter of the cigarettes would be purchased abroad

The websites offer cartridges 8 euros against an average of 50 euros at tobacconists. According to research firm EPSY conducted for the manufacturer BAT, 24% of cigarettes consumed in France in 2008 were actually purchased abroad. Budget Minister Eric Woerth said on Thursday that the price of cigarettes would increase by 6% in the coming weeks at the request of manufacturers. An increase which could be added to the revaluation of taxes under the draft law on financing social security (PLFSS).