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Un véritable défilé de stars a assisté à l’inauguration de
l’hôtel Atlantis à Dubaï, dont la construction a coûté 1,5
milliard de dollars et la soirée 20 millions!
Le Burj Dubai a été le théâtre du record du monde de base jump. Un
britannique et un Français ont sauté du haut de la tour puis été
capturés. Ils ont tous deux été arrêtés et placés en
détention à Dubaï. La preuve en vidéo...
a href="http://current.com/items/89546563/world_record_base_jump.htm"World Record BASE Jump:/a from
650 meters up the a
href="http://gizmodo.com/5038788/tallest-skyscraper-in-the-world-almost-completed-defies-belief"Burj/a
a href="http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/"Dubai/a. small[a
href="http://www.neatorama.com/"Via/a]/small br /
pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=489769d814b9b9bb007497f4maxX=320maxY=228" border="0"
alt="mark-zuckerberg.jpg" title="mark-zuckerberg.jpg" width="320" height="228" /The rule that
helped push Google (GOOG) to go public in 2004 won't affect Facebook: It won't have to disclose
financial results after it hits 500 shareholders, a
href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2008/tc20081120_566312.htm"BusinessWeek's
Spencer Ante reports/a. Which means it can keep hiring -- and handing out equity -- as fast as it
can afford./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"a
href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2008/tc20081120_566312.htm"BusinessWeek/a:
Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, a private company must start disclosing financial
results publicly once it has more than 500 stockholders and $10 million in assets. .../p p
style="padding-left: 30px;"Facebook doesn't have 500 shareholders yet, but it's fast approaching
that threshold as it hires new employees who often get equity in the company. In a a
href="http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/cf-noaction/2008/facebook101308-12gh-incoming.pdf"
target="popup" onclick="popup(this.href,770,600);return false;"letter/a written to the SEC obtained
by citeBusinessWeek/cite, lawyers from Facebook counsel a
href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?capId=1624711"Fenwick
West/a wrote that the company "anticipates that it could in the future have more than 500 holders"
of restricted stock. In the 10-page letter, Facebook argued that there's no need to meet the SEC
disclosure requirements, since only insiders are getting the equity, and they're not paying for
it./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"The lobbying worked. On Oct. 14 the SEC handed Facebook the
exemption, according to a a
href="http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/cf-noaction/2008/facebook101408-12gh.htm" target="popup"
onclick="popup(this.href,770,600);return false;"letter/a from the SEC's Corporation Finance Div.
obtained by citeBusinessWeek/cite. Facebook will enjoy the exemption until the company goes public
or is acquired or merged with another company./p pFacebook a
href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_48/b4110084423202.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_news+%2B+analysis"could
have/a 800 employees at the end of the year, up from 400 at the end of last year./p pMeanwhile, a
href="http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/08_48/b4110084423202.htm"no mention in
Ante's feature/a about a
href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/update-on-facebook-s-dubai-fundraising-trip"CFO Gideon
Yu's supposed fundraising trip to Dubai/a -- or anything about fundraising at all -- despite access
to Yu, COO Sheryl Sandberg, and investor Peter Thiel./p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a
href="../../2008/11/facebook-stock-now-worth-about-4-billion-"Facebook Now Worth About $4 Billion,
Revenue Light/abr /a
href="../../2008/11/the-ten-best-tv-commercials-according-to-facebook-users"The Ten Best TV
Commercials, According To Facebook Users/abr /a
href="../../2008/11/advertisers-preferred-social-media-spend-none"Advertisers' Preferred Social
Media Spend: None/a/p pa
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Oh, wow. Apparently, in May, a Brit and a Frenchman snuck on to the under-construction Burj Dubai
and BASE jumped from it at 650 meters up. Now, there's video available of their infiltration,
jump...
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Brit and a Frenchman snuck on to the under-construction Burj Dubai and BASE jumped from it at 650
meters up. Now, there's video available of their infiltration, jump and subsequent escape. The
footage from up top and the jump is just incredible stuff. I wish I had the cajones to do something
like this. Although my favorite part of the video may be the footnote at the end; wait for it, it's
worth it. [a href="http://current.com/items/89546563/world_record_base_jump.htm"Current/a via a
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width="1" height="1" //divpThe fireworks have fizzled out, 4,000 lobster shells are being scraped
into the bins, and Lily Allen's probably reaching for the paracetamol – but,
she won't be the only person in Dubai with a hangover today. Yesterday saw the a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/21/atlantis-palm-dubai-kylie-lohan"opening of the
Atlantis Palm Jumeirah Beach/a, yet another flash new architectural marvel in Dubai, augmented by
yet another onslaught of superlatives, celebrities, and headlines across the world. /ppCome this
morning, it's not just the champagne that's gone flat. It has finally happened: the Dubai bubble
has burst. Architecture-spotters like myself have looked on in amazement, or rather incredulity, at
the way the tiny emirate has continued to unveil ever grander construction projects
– taller skyscrapers, huger hotels, vaster artificial islands
– in a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/25/architecture.middleeast"apparent defiance
of the global credit crunch/a./ppNow, that crunch has hit home. This week's a
href="http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/dailynews/2008/11/staff_axed_as_credit_crisis_hits_dubai.html"
Architect's Journal reports/a that "architects and developers in Dubai are freezing recruitment and
making redundancies as the emirate's real-estate market begins to crumble." Large developers in
Dubai are laying off staff, including Emaar the company behind the a
href="http://www.burjdubai.com/" Burj Dubai/a, the world's tallest structure, the magazine reports.
Other headline-grabbing projects like the Palm Deira, the next artificial island planned off the
coast, are on hold indefinitely, and foreign architects and construction specialists out there,
such as RMJM and Ramboll Whitbyird, are making staff cuts or freezing recruitment as a result, says
the AJ. /ppAccording to one British architect I spoke to, who was in Dubai just 10 days ago, the
situation is even worse than that. "Projects are being pulled left right and centre," he said.
"Unless they've been funded by a sovereign wealth fund, they're being pulled. A lot of things have
to be redesigned more cheaply, to sell at lower prices. Where people have made first down payments
on projects, they're not making the second one. And a lot of what has been completed will be
standing empty."/ppNot that anyone in Dubai will officially admit any of the above. The general
climate is one of denial, say insiders. "Nobody wants to lose face, and everybody's trying to put a
gloss on bad news. No one's come out and cancelled anything, but a lot of things are 'on hold'
indefinitely." /ppDubai's "build it and they will come" philosophy has worked spectacularly so far.
It has successfully jostled itself on to the world stage, largely by pulling off previously
unthinkable architectural feats and boosting them to the skies with juicy publicity. Remember when
David Beckham was buying a house on the Palm? How many people have seen him there since? Still, the
publicity worked: properties on the Palm changed hands for huge sums before they were even built,
peaking at a preposterous £5m. Today those houses are apparently closer to £1.8m, down
from £2.7m just two months ago. /ppReality however, has finally come to town: the Dubai
Financial Market – the general stock index – has fallen
from a high of 6,315 earlier this year to just 2,012 yesterday. Emaar's share price has plummeted
79% in less than a year; according to some estimates, property prices have fallen by as much as 49%
in parts of the Dubai market. The overall figure is much lower, in the region of 4%, but this is a
place that's become accustomed to its figures only going in one direction and a lot of people are
being caught out by the turnaround./ppSo now, it's more a case of "don't build it, because nobody
can afford to come." The general destruction of wealth in the rest of the world will not help
Dubai's tourist industry either. Fewer people have the income to afford a Dubai-standard holiday,
and even those who do might be put off by the authorities' response to the a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/17/dubai" recent "sex on the beach" scandal/a, in
which two Britons were jailed for three months for their public canoodling. Needless to say, we can
expect discounts on rooms at the Atlantis Palm Jumeirah Beach pretty soon. /ppWe cannot simply
write off Dubai though. It's already too well established for that and it's still in a very strong
position to emerge as a dominant global financial centre, having taken less of a battering than,
say, London or New York in the past year. The Burj Dubai is likely to remain the tallest building
in the world for quite some time (surely nobody in the world has the appetite to challenge it?),
but for the time being, the a href="http://www.nakheel.com/en/corporate" elaborate man-made
coastline of the future/a that has become Dubai's abiding image is likely to remain just that
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Dubai, Dubai, Dubai ! Les princes arabes, les tapis volants, le pétrole, les dollars... et
l'Atlantis Hotel ! Un palace extraordinaire qui aura couté plus d'1,5 milliard d'euros et
qui...
Es wurde gefeiert und geschlemmt: Unbeeindruckt von der weltweiten Finanzkrise hat das Golf-Emirat
Dubai mit immensem Pomp und illustrer Prominenz aus aller Welt die Eröffnung eines neuen
Luxus-Hotels auf einer künstlichen Insel gefeiert. Das Fest auf der Palmen-Insel in nackten
Zahlen.
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display board/a that was scheduled to be lit up at Walgreens in Times Square? You know, that
17,000-square foot one touting 12 million LEDs? Sure you do. The board, which was designed by D3
LED, was finally activated in the heart of New York City, and its creators are asserting that it's
one of the most complex in existence. If you're wondering if this is worth a trip up (along with
having a peek at the giant tree in Rockefeller Center), you might want to hit the read link first,
but you should probably understand that almost a
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Remember that
LED display board that was scheduled to be lit up at Walgreens in Times Square? You know, that
17,000-square foot one touting 12 million LEDs? Sure you do. The board, which was designed by D3
LED, was finally activated in the heart of New York City, and its creators are asserting that it's
one of the most complex in existence. If you're wondering if this is worth a trip up (along with
having a peek at the giant tree in Rockefeller Center), you might want to hit the read link first,
but you should probably understand that almost nothing
in NYC can hold a candle in terms of magnitude to downtown
Dubai.
pimg src="http://idata.over-blog.com/0/23/55/99/08-nov3/Dubai--2-.jpg"/pp Dubaï est la ville
de tous les superlatifs et rien n’est trop beau pour en mettre plein la vue au reste du
monde. Hier soir justement se tenait la soirée la plus people de l’année
à l’occasion de l’inauguration officiel de l’hôtel Atlantis, un
nouveau complexe de luxe bâti [...]/p
pWith the actual economic crisis, most of the companies in the Leisure travel industry would tend
to be very cautious about any extraordinary spending in marketing for the end of the year. But this
doesn't apply to the hotel group One amp; Only who has launched yesterday one of the most expensive
party for a hotel opening. Indeed, $20M has been spent this week to host the opening party of the
much awaited hotel a href=http://www.atlantisthepalm.com/Atlantis The Palm/a in Dubai. Celebrity
guests (probably paid for the event) were invited for this event like Kylie Minogue, Janet Jackson,
Michael Jordan, Wesley Snipes and more./ppThe Atlantis The Palm takes inspiration from the original
a href=http://www.atlantis.com/Atlantis hotel in the Bahamas/a opened many years ago (can anyone
remember which year?)./ppAgain, it features a fantastic aquatic park with apparently ten of
thousands of sea creatures. I believe this park will probably put the Wadi Wadi water park in the
shade for now. /ppAtlantis The Palm has been already categorized as a 7* hotel competing directly
with the Burj Al Arab, property of Jumeirah./ppThe hotel has more than 1,300 rooms with about 60
suites. It also employs 550 chefs for all the restaurants units...Everything has been designed with
a purpose that you don't need to go outside the resort for entertainment. And most of all, you are
located at the top of the palm island that we have all seen on TV and even Google maps./ppI will
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width="1" height="1" //divh2Russia/h2pRussia is lurching towards a major economic crisis, experts
predicted yesterday, following news that the price of oil had slumped to under $50 (pound;33.72) a
barrel. The collapse was likely to have catastrophic consequences including a possible devaluation
of the rouble and a severe drop in living standards next year, they said. /ppWith oil prices
tumbling and his credibility at stake, Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, yesterday insisted
that the economy was still robust. The country would survive the global financial turmoil - which
he blamed on the US - he told delegates from his United Russia party./ppBut the Kremlin is aware
that any loss of confidence in the Russian economy could lead to a loss of confidence in Putin and
his ally Dmitry Medvedev, who took over from Putin as president in May. /ppPutin said his
administration would do everything it could to prevent a recurrence of the last oil-related crash
in 1998, which saw the savings of many ordinary Russians wiped out. But the plummeting oil price
leaves him little room for manoeuvre. Experts suggest Russia's economy is facing profoun
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