E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Le Figaro and French mobile operator Orange, have launched a new daily show, Le Buzz, available on the Internet and mobile phones. The show will cover the happenings in the media industry.The show will air on Monday through Friday and...
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
French daily newspaper, Le Figaro launched Mon Figaro.fr, a networking site designed to connect readers.Users will benefit from additional services and a complete history of personal comments and reactions from the Figaro website.CB News calls the move a way to...
Funny blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
As President Bush prepares to leave the stage, one of his staunchest political friends and allies, former Spanish Prime Minister Jose-Maria Aznar - who was kicked out of office for supporting the Iraq invasion after an al-Qaeda terrorist attack in Madrid - has issued this defense of George W. Bush in the pages of France’s Le Figaro . The former Spanish leader says in part: “History will give him his...
VOT3R (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
As President Bush prepares to leave the stage, one of his staunchest political friends and allies, former Spanish Prime Minister Jose-Maria Aznar - who was kicked out of office for supporting the Iraq invasion after an al-Qaeda terrorist attack in Madrid - has issued this defense of George W. Bush in...
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
The French newspaper Le Figaro ran an article on November 11, citing an ABC survey regarding the business trends of commercial and industrial companies operating across Asia, reporting that China and India took first and second places in the survey, with the US in fourth place.Asian investors no longer have confidence in the American market, the Hong Kong-based organisation said.According to the newspaper,...
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Filed under: Diesel , Hybrid , Peugeot , European Union Not long ago we learned about the French Minister of Environmental Affairs getting a hybrid Peugeot 308 HDI (diesel) for a test drive. One of France's most prestigious newspapers, Le Figaro, had the chance to test drive it and compare it to the Prius. The big question is how a diesel engine, known for non-silent starts, could face the almost...
The Ruckus (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
One of the most historic, gut wrenching and globally-important U.S. elections ever is finally drawing to a close, and along with Americans, the world, too, is summing up what it all means. And the one underlying and inescapable narrative is this: That the most powerful nation on earth appears ready to look past the issue of race and - on the merits of character and capability - elect Senator Barack...
The Ruckus (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
The nail-biting on this planet over the 2008 U.S. presidential election is quite a spectacle. And the question on almost everyone's lips is this: Will Americans actually do what all the opinion polls say they will - elect a Black man to the U.S. presidency? Clearly - the Bradley Effect' has once and for all become a part of global electoral lore. For France's Le Figaro, editorialist Pierre Rousselin...
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
At the World Association of Newspapers' Digital and Readership Conference in Amsterdam today, Le Figaro's Special Advisor, Frederic Sitterle told delegates "We often hear that newspapers are in trouble. That's not exactly the truth." In making his point, he used...
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
As the media landscape changes, seven longstanding competitors in the French newspaper market have been working together in an unprecedented way to test whether e-paper is a viable device to take newspapers forward. However, now that the test is over,...
The Moderate Voice (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
How do the French see the results of the Democratic convention and Obama’s strategy to win? Philippe Gelie, Le Figaro’s chief Washington correspondent, writes on part: “Long divided between Obamistas and Clintonites, the Pepsi Center arena in Denver definitively shook Wednesday night, in one of those theatrical political coups the Americans are so fond of. … Barack Obama leaves the convention in Denver...
The Moderate Voice (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Why would historian Alexandre Adler, who is often characterized as France’s foremost neo-con and who greatly admires John McCain, want to see Barack Obama elected president of the United States? After discussing the many things that Obama is wrong on - and it’s quite a list - Adler writes in part: “If I was an American voter, I would campaign enthusiastically for the election of Ms. Rice to enter...
The Moderate Voice (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Europeans have taken note of Barack Obama’s ever-more apparent vulnerability. Given the tightening of the polls, how dire is his situation - in the eyes of people across the Atlantic? According to Pierre Rousselin of France’s Le Figaro : “The international crisis in Georgia has reminded Americans that they should perhaps choose a president with experience, who is able to respond with firmness and...
The Moderate Voice (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Is the Georgia crisis a CIA-induced case of the Cuban Missile crisis in reverse? In outlining the crisis over Georgia and its root causes, French Historian Alexandre Adler examines the tightly-woven web of Russia-Georgia history , from the rise of Stalin to that fateful day on August 9, when Russian tanks rolled into Stalin’s birthplace of Gori, Georgia. Writing of America’s culpability for the crisis,...
The Moderate Voice (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
So how did the crisis in Georgia really come about? Many Europeans believe that the events of the past week can be traced back to the recognition of Kosovo - which was also a clear violation of international law - and which the Russians have skillfully turned to their own advatage. For France’s Le Figaro newspaper, Renaud Girard writes in part: “Twenty years after being eclipsed by what was called...
