KMR - 07.06.10 21:15
Kroll, the risk consultancy business best known for tracking down assets hidden by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, has been sold for $1.13 billion ($£770 million) in cash.

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KMR - 03.05.10 02:33
Britain’s Wags may not have heard of her, but they surely owe Michelle Feeney a vote of thanks. Here is the woman, rightly or wrongly, who is credited with supplying the shade of amber that seems to be the skin colour of choice of the wives and girlfriends of footballers (and other celebs) that jostle for space in the tabloid gossip columns.

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worldspy - 25.04.10 01:38
Fortunes in Britain are soaring as the world recovers from the 2008-09 crash. Stock markets are up, the banks are back from the brink and economic confidence is blossoming. As a result, the collective wealth of the 1,000 multimillionaires in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List has climbed to £335.5 billion, up £77.265 billion on 2009. This is a 29.

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KMR - 15.03.10 07:50
The British music industry enjoyed some rare good news yesterday when it was revealed that the growth in digital music royalties had outpaced falling CD sales for the first time last year.


Royalties generated by online music sales grew by 72.7 per cent last year to £30.

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KMR - 01.12.09 07:54 Britain’s most prolific newspaper publisher began charging yesterday for some of its online content, in a closely watched move that could be copied across the country.


Johnston Press, which owns more than 300 local newspapers including the Yorkshire Post and The Scotsman, put “paywalls” around the websites of six of its titles.

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KMR - 16.10.09 08:30
Channel 4 is to become the first television channel in the world to put full-length programming on YouTube for viewers to watch free of charge.


The two companies announced yesterday that 3,000 hours of programmes on 4oD, the video-on-demand service, including Skins and Hollyoaks, will be uploaded on to the video-sharing website, in a deal...

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lenchen - 15.10.09 09:08
A year after the global economy was brought close to collapse by reckless lending, investment banks are preparing to announce huge profits.

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KMR - 03.08.09 08:24
The Guardian Media Group (GMG) is considering closing The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, as part of a cost-cutting drive triggered by a drastic plunge in the group’s finances.


Members of the Scott Trust, the charitable foundation that owns GMG, discussed the plan on July 6.

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KMR - 05.02.09 09:36
Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf have taken a stake in Viagogo, Europe’s biggest legitimate reseller of tickets, the company will announce today.


The husband and wife former Wimbledon champions, who will also join Viagogo’s advisory board, made the investment as part of a $15 million (£10.3 million) fundraising.

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KMR - 30.11.08 15:28
SOFTWARE giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion (£13 billion). The proposal forms the centrepiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsoft support a new management team to take control of Yahoo.

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