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France Seeks Another Tax on Facebook, Google And YouTube, to Finance "French Culture" Cinema

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RT reports French broadcasting watchdog CSA eager to tax YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion France''s Superior Council of Audiovisual, an independent broadcasting authority, wants to impose taxes on media giants like YouTube, Facebook and Dailymotion to force them to contribute to financing French culture. billion ($1.8

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Only Hope For Italy is.

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Advertisers. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. EC : In Italy, the public sector is not intended as an aid to the production of wealth and public goods and services. The problem is cultural and ideological. As a result, businesses remain small, because they are funded with self-financing.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business

billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one. Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve?

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Why consulting?

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For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What I found particularly fascinating was the number of variables that needed to be taken into account while making strategic decisions on governance, production or any other function.

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What Health Care Can Learn from the Transformation of Financial Services

Harvard Business

The cultural and operational challenge for incumbent financial services firms was enormous. In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions.

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Japan Tells Firms "Stop Sitting on Cash", Ignore the Lack of Customers

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Advertisers. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Heres a simple question: What happens to prices when more products are produced in the face of falling or static demand? All site content, including advertisements, shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: China Manufacturing PMI.

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Advertisers. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. PMI, Production, Exports. All site content, including advertisements, shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security. The author may or may not have a position in any company or advertiser referenced above.