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Virginia Rometty, the IBM boss, she will be admitted to the very select Augusta National Golf Club, home like every year, in Georgia, the Augusta Masters that lasts jursqu'à Sunday? As official sponsor of the tournament, along with Exxon Mobil and AT & T, the tradition that the leader of IBM obtains de facto membership in the Augusta National Golf Club, and whether it takes the famous green jacket member struck the shield of the tournament during the duration of the Masters.

The golfing institution which has only 300 members, including Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, is facing a serious dilemma, reports Bloomberg news site. Since its founding in 1933, the Club membership is in effect only for men. Therefore, on the occasion of this 76th edition, can break tradition and considered the patron saint of IBM as the equal of her male predecessors or can it take the risk of alienating a sponsor capital? As a sponsor, IBM provides indeed all technology services to the tournament start at the site of the Masters as "Big Blue" has managed since 1996.

True to its reputation discretionary, the tournament director has declined to comment hiding behind its privacy policy. Asked on the eve of the tournament, Billy Payne swept a backhander issues relating to the admission of Virginia Rometty or not personal business card. "As always, all questions about who can be a member and will have been discussed privately among members," he explained simply.  

The prestige of the tournament excludes any scandal

This situation is not new for the Masters in Augusta that regularly faces numerous calls to modernize. Already in 2003 a campaign was conducted by American feminists to denounce the discriminatory admissions policy advocated by management. In response to the controversy, the tournament has waived any sponsorship for two consecutive editions are depriving the passage of lucrative advertising revenue.

Ten years later, the feminist call cover and want to be heard. Martha Burk, who led the unsuccessful campaign to admit a woman in this place of power and privilege, said that appointing a woman to head an official sponsor is an opportunity for Club abandon all sexism against women. An avid golf player and regular, President Barack Obama also said Thursday, speaking through his spokesman, that Augusta National had to admit the boss of IBM for his club.

Virginia Rometty is the first woman to head IBM. Photo credit: Dima Gavrysh / AP

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The legendary New York taxis will bring up to date. Their famous yellow color lightens slightly, their horn is less unpleasant and, above all, they adapt to the needs of businessmen in a hurry as visitors to the city. Within this "cab" new version, an electrical outlet, two USB ports and small reading lights allow passengers to work and recharge their devices. And for those who prefer to enjoy the breathtaking views of the skyscrapers, the roof will now be equipped with a panoramic window.

This "Taxi of Tomorrow" promised by the manufacturer, Nissan, will be "the safest, most comfortable and most convenient that the city has ever had," said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The 600,000 daily passengers of taxis will have more space for their legs and can adjust themselves air conditioning and heating in the back. They can also communicate with the driver through an intercom. As for the upholstery, it is anti-microbial.

Nissan continued to conquer America

The Japanese partner of Renault last year won the contract to renew the fleet of 13,000 taxis in New York, beating two other finalists, the Ford and the American Turkish Karsan. Sold 29,700 dollars, the NV200 MPV will invade the streets of New York from fall 2013.

The 13,000 taxis take to the streets of New York in autumn 2013.

 

Family businesses are then threw in the presidential campaign. The ASMEP-ETI, the union of midsize (250 to 5000 employees) and property, chaired by Yvon Gattaz, this ten proposals to improve their competitiveness. "Our companies need time to create sustainable jobs. As they need time to grow and impose global brands, "says Philippe d'Ornano, vice president of ETI-organizing ASMEP Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris the grand prize of business and family heritage. "Therefore it is vital to promote their transmission. This is what allows the covenants Dutreil. Do not touch! "

These covenants have been established to promote the transfer of family businesses. The entrpreneurs plead for them to be "safe havens and improved, by exempting EWB and inheritance tax at 95% – instead of 75% currently – securities held as part of a commitment to conservation." They demand that business leaders can more easily prepare their succession. Specifically, a contractor must be able to transmit his company while remaining at the helm paydayloans.

While bank financing will be scarce, the ASMEP-ETI wants to create a bond market dedicated to midsize. The union also argues for the establishment of a large department of business on the model of Sustainable Development established in 2007. This would be a profound change of working methods of the state since the new department would under the responsibility of industry, SMEs, credit mediation, foreign trade and vocational training. It would exercise supervision over the Deposit, the Strategic Investment Fund (51% subsidiary of the Caisse des Depots), OSEO, the Directorate of Planning (Datar).

In social terms, the union plans to encourage the employment of older workers by exempting pension contributions and unemployment wages of older workers who continue working after reaching the required contribution period. This measure is also advocated by the Federation of German family businesses.

 

"Reconciling candidates and companies …" This is the purpose of the First Assembly of recruitment has organized last week Syntec recruitment consultancy. Dehumanization of the hiring process, operation of private data via social networks, growing constraints imposed by government on behalf of diversity … Executives, HR recruiters and exchanged ideas on these topics. "From these discussions will come from a series of forthcoming proposals," promised John Paul Brette, union president and CEO of Hudson.

The "CV citizen" will surely in part. Jointly launched in January by Syntec recruitment consultancy and association Odissée, this CV adds value to the charitable commitments, humanitarian, outside work. A student doing the tutoring, a mother president of an association of parents, a key company invested in a think-tank

. First act of management

"This kind of commitment can develop transferable skills in the workplace. The job applicants are not sufficiently aware of the highlighting. And recruiters do not always have the key for identifying, "says union president, who is engaged in promoting the CV to its members 140 firms. The National Association of HRD (ANDRH), building on its 5000 members, also supports this project. "Many HR will find a way to enrich their work," said Charlotte Duda, its president.

"Taking into account all the skills can promote diversity," says his side John Paul Brette. He sees this new resume an alternative to anonymous CV he calls a "false good idea". "It is certainly not the appropriate response to the issue of diversity," said he pay day advance. For diversity, focus and ultramédiatique recruitment, is not without a few questions … Affirmative Syntec is it not a form of discrimination? Firmly convinced that "the most diverse companies are more efficient," John Paul Brette regrets the "paradoxical injunctions issued by public authorities." "Positive discrimination on young people, over 55, women … It is too!" He summarizes.

The CV citizen is also a way to fight against the dehumanization of the hiring process, another great battle cry of union. "Over the past decade, much has been said process, cost, supply chain, up to outsource recruitment via hubs abroad. We forgot to talk about men, "is moved to the union president, referring to the computerized sorting of resumes by keywords.

Faced with this disembodiment, he recalls that "Recruitment is the first act of management." In 2011, the 140 member firms of the organization have done for their client companies hiring 22,000 frames – against 20,000 the previous year. A digit to be reported to the 180,000 hiring managers surveyed last year by Apec. "We cover the entire recruitment process, from defining the business need to integrate the new employee," he says.

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France could seek to accelerate its transition energy. In fact, the country's fuel bill has reached a new record in 2011, up from 32% to 61.4 billion euros, according to figures from the Commissioner General for Sustainable Development announced by Les Echos. The energy bill of France and represented 3.1% of GDP, last year against 2.5% in 2010.

This increase was driven by soaring oil prices. The average price per barrel of oil a year has indeed established last year to $ 111, not seen since the nineteenth century. The price of unleaded gasoline and have reached new heights last week, to 1.6211 euro on average for a liter of unleaded 95 and 1.6610 for that of 98 unleaded, according to data released yesterday by Ministry of Sustainable Development. This price is still below the record high of 1 fast cash without a hassle.4541 euro per liter recorded in May 2008.

Since late 2011, gasoline prices beat record after record in France, propelled by the combination of geopolitical factors that keep crude oil prices at very high levels, and weakening of the euro against the dollar , which amplifies the cost of black gold once its converted value in the single currency.

Nuclear energy has however enabled France to reduce its energy dependence as the country has a net electricity exports by 2.6 billion euros. The development of renewable energy has also enabled France to reduce the weight of its energy dependence.

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There is one who has been lucky. Mining giant Rio Tinto said it had discovered a pink diamond of 12.76 carats in a mine in Western Australia. This is, to date, the largest diamond discovered in the country. "A diamond of this size is unprecedented, says Josephine Johnson, Manager of Argyle Pink Diamonds division. It took 26 years of operation to retrieve the stone and it is possible that we find in no other like this. "

The valuable discovery was named Argyle Pink Jubilee in reference to the name of the mine (Argyle) and the sixty-year reign, says, "Diamond Jubilee", which is celebrating Queen Elizabeth II.

Next step: cut and polish the stone, a delicate task that should take ten days. How Richard Kim Kam, in charge of the operation, already trembling, "I'll take care of it. I know that the world will look. "The diamond is then evaluated by a team of international experts and exposed before being sold.

Pink, more valued than white

Rio Tinto is kept for the moment any estimate on the price of wonder, but said in a statement that the high quality pink diamonds could exceed $ 1 million per carat. More than $ 10 million (7.6 million) for it.

It must be said that the diamond market is resisting rather well and that it is a pink diamond, which can be up to ten times more valued than white. In November 2010, a 24.78 carat diamond Pink has been awarded to more than $ 46 million. An unprecedented amount for a diamond and jewelry and is far ahead the previous record of $ 10 million for another pink diamond.  

Nearly 90% of pink diamonds discovered in the world come from the Argyle mine in the Kimberley region, says Rio Tinto. Stones the size of Argyle Pink Jubilee usually go to museums, the royal family or are auctioned in houses like Christie's. The latter has in fact sold only 18 pink diamonds over 10 carats in its 244 year history, said Rio Tinto.

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Apple promises to all iPhone users: using its Safari browser, they will escape hyperciblées advertisements on the Internet. The firm at the apple has, indeed, with his navigator, also available on Mac computers, an automatic locking mechanism that prevents the specialists in online advertising to place cookies on websites and thereby to determine an Internet user who accesses a merchant site is also a frequent visitor to a site about golf.

But a computer science researcher at Stanford University, California, has just discovered that Google has bypassed this protection system and collected data on the browsing habits of users who use Safari. The Wall Street Journal, which revealed the findings of this research, the Internet giant has "used a special computer program that leads the Safari browser software to allow tracing of many users."

"The Wall Street Journal distorts what happened, was immediately defended by the voice of Google's director of public affairs, Rachel Whetstone. We used a technical device known Safari to provide functionality that Google users logged into their accounts were activated. "It allows, for example, to store the click of a surfer on the button" 1 "or Google the "Like" Facebook as a Web content. This data is stored within a day on Google's servers payday loan.

Involuntary collection

But by putting a temporary marker to operate the "a" in Safari, Google has also opened a breach through which have slipped a variety of other markers that sought, them, to collect information on what users were on the Internet. These data are valuable to Google then to offer targeted advertising to users. Google defends itself by providing not have intended to collect these data.

From the revelation of the findings of this study, the giant search engine has disabled the technical device that has "opened the door" to the navigation information of Safari users. The group also noted that no personal data (identity of persons in particular) has been captured in this case. Apple, for its part, says "work to end" to this flaw.

But this incident is indicative of two forces that traverse the Web today: on the one hand, the giants of the Web, always seeking to target users more precisely, increasing the risks to the data they handle. The other, players such as Apple took the opportunity to surround their consumers ever higher walls.

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Football clubs are they like other entities? The question worth asking, when European football comes back to show a record deficit for its fiscal year 2010: more than 1.6 billion cumulative loss by 665 European clubs in first division. As for the debt, it reached nearly 15 billion euros, according to the latest data from the European body of football (UEFA). An aberration by some as a time when European countries are asked to clean up their finances. Besides, if football clubs were rated, they would pass the test? Not sure … There is a little over a year, research firm AT Kearney also noted that "if they were functioning as normal businesses, the championships of Spain, England and Italy would be put in bankruptcy within two years. "

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Beyoncé is committed to the Telethon. The American singer, very involved in helping victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Ike in the United States, joined this year for 25 years BrandAlley appointment. 2 and 3 December next, dates of the Telethon, the site of private sales balances up to 70% because the clothing brand of the star, House of Deréon. The full benefit of these sales will be donated to the Telethon, said the private sales site.

House of Deréon, brand launched in 2005 by the singer in partnership with her mother Tina Knowles, markets especially its models – sold around the equivalent of 100 euros – the United States and Canada. But France is a market that does not neglect Beyoncé.His latest album, "4", it was number one record sales this summer, thanks to intensive promotion conducted by the singer in the French media no teletrack payday loans.

The operation could also be a carrier for private sales website BrandAlley. With a turnover of 70 million euros in 2010, the site just yet to reach the level of its competitor, vente-privee.com, which dominates the area. Last year, BrandAlley has diversified its business by offering its customers not only of unsold at bargain prices, but also collections in progress. The site, rumored consider a stock market listing, this year is between 40% and 45% growth.

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In the first five days of strike by cabin crew of Air France, the situation was calm at Orly on Saturday morning. All flights were planned at this time despite the movement of flight attendants. "It is too early to detect potential problems at Orly knowing that the first flights take off at 7 o'clock," one source, however relativized airport shortly after 08h.

About the airport Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, the forecast was in line with those announced by Air France. The company plans to provide 80% of its flights but does not rule out last-minute cancellations. It struck ten long-haul flights planned Saturday morning, including flights to New York, Montreal, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Abu Dhabi, Douala.But the passengers had been warned on Friday.

Without an agreement this week with management on working conditions for cabin crew, six of seven unions called the stewards and stewardesses 15,000 to go on strike for the weekend of All Saints, usually very busy guaranteed payday loan. Traffic is expected until Wednesday, November 2 included. Air France admits that "considerable uncertainty remains about the level of participation of the cabin crew." These are not actually required to prevent the direction of their intentions.

In 2007, a similar strike – triggered by the same six unions to the same period of All Saints – had caused major disruptions. Air France was forced several times to review downward its traffic forecast: 90% of flights expected to be provided the day before, this had increased to 60% during the weekend.