A 20% VAT tax will apply from this Thursday, July 1, 2021 on products purchased online and not coming from European Union countries

Shein, Wish, Amazon, Alibaba: A New Tax on Your Online Purchases Arrives on July 1st

A 20% VAT tax will apply from this Thursday 1st July 2021 on products purchased online and not coming from European Union countries.  This is a new regulation that will directly affect your purchases on the internet. From the 1st July 2021, for all online orders of products from countries outside the European Union (EU), a 20% VAT […]

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French subscribers to video streaming platforms spend 15 euros per month on it, according to a report by CSA and Hadopi published on March 8, 2021

Streaming Platforms: Subscribers Spend 15 Euros Per Month

SVOD: The French subscribers to video streaming platforms spend 15 euros per month on it, a budget that remains stable in the face of the multiplication of offers Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Salto, Disney +, MyCanal, Apple TV +, at a time when streamers are multiplying, what budget do the French spend on video streaming platforms? According […]

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Amazon would like to design its own cryptocurrency

Amazon Shows Interest in Cryptocurrencies

E-COMMERCE: Jeff Bezos’ company, Amazon is reportedly set to launch cryptocurrency testing in Mexico Amazon could very soon add a string to its bow. In addition to its own e-commerce products and video streaming platform, Amazon could also enter the cryptocurrency market. Several job offers have recently been published in this regard. If the American company does not […]

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Amazon buys Wondery to enter podcast market

Amazon Buys Publisher Wondery to Launch Podcast Market

STREAMING: Amazon has paid more than 300 million dollars for the purchase of Wondery to launch podcast market After weeks of negotiations, that’s it, podcast publisher Wondery has just gone under the Amazon flag. A strategic takeover for Jeff Bezos’ group since the takeover of Wondery will allow Amazon Music, Amazon’s music streaming service, to offer more original podcasts […]

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In Brazil, record deforestation in the Amazon since January

Brazil: Record Deforestation in the Amazon since January

GREEN LUNG: According to official data: 1,202 km2 of forest disappeared in brazil during the first four months of this year, 55% more than during the same period of 2019 Pessimism is in order regarding the Amazon. Figures indeed suggest a new dark year for the largest tropical forest in the world. According to official data published on Friday, deforestation thus […]

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Amazon's distribution centers remain closed until Wednesday, April 22, 2020 inclusive.

Amazon Extends Closure of Distribution Centres

While their activity was initially to be suspended until Monday 20th April 2020, Amazon has announced that it will extend the closure of its distribution centres for two days. Amazon will not resume service immediately. Sentenced Tuesday 14th April 2020 by the court of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) to deliver only essential products (food, medical and hygiene), the giant of […]

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Amazon can only deliver essential items only

No More Books and Appliances, Amazon can only Deliver Essentials

Tuesday 14th April 2020, the court of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) condemned Amazon for not having respected the sanitary measures in its warehouses to face the coronavirus. Victory (partial) for Amazon employees. Brought to justice because of the opening of its warehouses in France without respecting the sanitary measures imposed against the coronavirus, the online commerce giant was condemned Tuesday 14th April […]

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Amazon has implemented new health measures for employees during coronavirus epidemic

Coronavirus Covid-19: Amazon Announces Health Measures in the Face of Social Discontent

With confinement, orders on the internet have greatly increased. What about health measures for employees of the giant of online business, Amazon? Masks for the 13,000 or so French employees and temperature control: the American giant of online commerce Amazon reacted on Friday 3rd April 2020 to the grumbling of the union organizations, without calming all the worries faced with […]

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"Copy and Paste" inventor Larry Tesler dead

“Copy and Paste” Inventor Larry Tesler Dead

A graduate of the Stanford University in California, the American computer scientist, Larry Tesler has worked at Yahoo, Amazon and Apple, where he participated in the design of the Macintosh. It is a computer control that you have necessarily used at least once in your life. The very popular “copy and paste” is now an orphan: its inventor, Lawrence “Larry” Tesler, […]

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Pope Francis greets representatives of the indigenous peoples of Amazonia during a homily at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on October 6, 2019.

Fire in the Amazon: Pope Francis Denounces “Destructive Interests”

The fires that ravaged the Amazon this summer are at the heart of the synod that opened in the Vatican Sunday 6th October 2019 bringing together 113 bishops from the Panamazonian zone. The Pope Francis denounced Sunday 6th October 2019 “the greed of new colonialism” and lamented the fires lit “by interests that destroy,” by opening a synod dedicated to […]

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