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Information Technology
01/09/2010

Sophia Antipolis: Alcatel-Lucent acquires OpenPlug

OpenPlug's acquisition expands company’s developer tools to make applications available on diverse operating systems and in more service provider stores

Alcatel-Lucent acquires OpenPlug, a cross-platform mobile software development tool provider based in Sophia Antipolis.

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Information Technology
30/08/2010

Sophia Antipolis: Monaco Telecom joins the Eurecom GIE group of industrial partners

The first of its kind, this partnership between Monaco and Sophia Antipolis opens the way to new forms of cooperation in information technologies

For EURECOM, the international engineering school and communication systems research centre, this new agreement strengthens their policy of close collaboration with enterprises and attests to the momentum in favour of technological innovation in the Sophia […]

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Tourism
01/09/2010

SKYTEAM chooses Côte d’Azur to bring together its EMEA Sales & Marketing teams

SkyTeam will hold their quarterly meeting in Nice on 1rst and 2nd September in the Côte d’Azur showroom, upon the invitation of Team Côte d'Azur

Sales and marketing representatives of the SkyTeam Airline Alliance will hold their quarterly meeting in Nice on 1rst and 2nd September in the Côte d’Azur showroom, upon the invitation of Team Côte d'Azur, the economic […]

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Information Technology
30/08/2010

Join in the 2010 PACA ICT Innovation Awards

The 3rd PACA ICT Innovation Awards will be held to reward nine winners having focused their strategy on innovation

After the success of the first two Awards events, the SCS Cluster, in partnership with PRIDES SCS member associations (ARCSIS, Med Multimed, MedinSoft, MobiSmart, SAME, Telecom Valley) and with support from FEDER and the PACA […]

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Aeronautics & Space
31/08/2010

ESA extends ExoMars mission contract with Thales Alenia Space

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a Contract Change Notice to Thales Alenia Space worth 98 M€ for the ExoMars mission to Mars

The  contract extension will cover all program activities through March 2011, allowing the ExoMars industrial team to carry out the System PDR (Preliminary Design Review) in autumn 2010.

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Tourism
02/09/2010

Amadeus delivers strong growth in first half results

Growth spread across both Distribution and IT business areas during 2nd quarter and 1st half of 2010. Adjusted net profit for the period increased 38.0%

Year-on-year first half highlights (six months ended 30 June 2010): • Adjusted net profit for the period increased 38.

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Health and Life Sciences
02/09/2010

Côte d'Azur: Virbac, operating profit records a very high increase : +68.4%

Growth in the companion animals segment has been very steady and sales in the food producing animals segment have also increased strongly

Net sales have grown by 26.

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Services and Corporate Functions
31/08/2010

Sophia Antipolis: Creation of SKEMA Alumni

SKEMA Alumni, with 20,000 graduates the world over, is one of the strongest alumni networks in France

SKEMA Alumni was founded after the announcement, in July 2009, of the merger of the Groupe ESC Lille and the CERAM Business School to create the SKEMA Business School.

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