France Telecom, France's largest telecommunications provider, saw 23 employee suicides since the beginning of 2008. Unions blame FT's efficiency efforts, management faults employees' personal issues. Now, the French labor minister's meeting with FT's president. Workforce deaths: they happen. [BBC].

Apple may have bent British cell company O2 over a barrel, having reportedly extorted a 40 percent cut of subscription revenue from iPhone customers, but it seems they aren't having as much success with their other European deals as previously thought. France Telecom's Orange was named as the French provider for the iPhone last week, but now the deal may be off. The sticking point is the percentage of subscription dough that Apple will get. Let's hope Steve Jobs hasn't pissed off his other "girlfriends" too badly; he might still need to crawl back to them. (Photo by mukluk)