Without Android for its future terminals, the Chinese group, second seller of smartphones of the globe, could have big difficulties to maintain its growth on the Old Continent. A new one has the effect of a bomb. Last Wednesday, Washington signed a decree aimed at including Huawei. In addition to prohibiting the market of the… Read More Smartphones: Huawei sees its endangered ambitions in Europe
See Venice – and pay three euros. But the city, which will soon be hosting tourists, is not the only destination that wants to control the onslaught with fees. An overview of Bali to Spitsbergen. In fact, relatively speaking, there are only a few places in the world that are overrun by tourists. However, these… Read More Charges against tourist rush: nine euros for Bali’s beaches, 1500 euros for gorillas
Tourists have to pay higher taxes in Amsterdam than in other European cities. Now a bed tax is added in the city of the canals. Already, Amsterdam visitors have to pay a tourist tax of seven percent of the hotel bill. But the short trip to the popular Dutch metropolis will now be more expensive… Read More Three euros per night: Amsterdam introduces another tourist tax
The year 2018, which began with a bang, ends with a virtual stagnation for the European manufacturing industry reveals the PMI index released Wednesday by the IHS Markit Institute with the final results of monthly surveys of directors of purchases for the euro area, country by country. In this context, business optimism has fallen to… Read More Eurozone: manufacturing sector ends the year in near-stagnation and worries for 2019
Increasing internal imbalances, Italy faces the double trap of debt and weak growth. A few days before the European elections, the economists of the French Observatory of Economic Conditions (OFCE) have alerted about the economic challenges that await the next Parliament for the next five years. Twenty years after the creation of the euro area,… Read More Euro zone: persistent imbalances
Online banks, such as Boursorama, and other Nobanks on FinTech, like the Nickel account, have a market share of 6.5% according to a survey by the French Prudential Supervisory Authority (ACPR / Banque de France). ). But the difficulty of finding an economic model raises the question of their durability. Who said the bank was… Read More Neobanks have conquered 4.4 million French but not profitability
La Banque Postale hopes to attract one million customers by 2025 with its mobile offering, which can be subscribed directly from a smartphone or at a post office. It primarily targets 18-25 year olds, to rejuvenate its clientele. The postal subsidiary of La Poste has invested 100 million euros in the development of this new… Read More La Poste launches Ma French Bank, its mobile bank, in 2,000 offices on July 22
The ogre of e-commerce encourages its current employees to resign to create their own delivery company. Amazon promises to offer $ 10,000 and three months of gross salary to every employee subscribing to the program. The goal: to satisfy its increasingly important delivery needs, without bearing the logistical and wage costs. To build an army… Read More Amazon will pay its employees to leave their job … and become a deliveryman
Should Uber kill the father so as not to sink? Freudian question to which some observers have already answered without hesitation. Help! Uber boss Travis Kalanick needs help. In a post blog, the charismatic CEO of the giant of the VTC (transport cars with driver) is very small after the “bad buzz” triggered by the… Read More Will Travis Kalanick lead Uber to ruin?
In ten years, products from organic farming have become almost essential to French consumers, according to the Agence Bio / CSA barometer. A success that reveals a change in mentalities, but that could have negative consequences for a flourishing industry. France “green” is running. With nearly half a billion euros more spent compared to the… Read More French people still consume more bio, but beware of the shortage
