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...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...There can only be one winner in the case of the actor Harry Shearer v Vivendi, the French media group, over royalties from the 1984 film, This is Spinal Tap....
...Freemium v paid: Streaming competition swells YouTube is one of several Spotify competitors bringing streaming services to the market this year....
...Apple has claimed in the past to run the store at “a bit over break-even”, and its iCloud service clearly anticipates changing trends as people move to the Spotify and Pandora models of subscription services...
...The move, which will triple Rock Tenn’s revenue to $9bn, sent the company’s shares up 3.7 per cent to $59.55. Smurfit-Stone was up 27.2 per cent to $35 on the news, which was announced on Sunday....
...It was also a big short-seller of Northern Rock. Since then however, it has been buying back into the sector in a big way, I’m assured....
...The super-large Gulfstream V/G500 went from $42m to $25.4m over the same period....
....; Blackstone Capital Partners V L.P.; Centerbridge Capital Partners, L.P. LeFrak Organization, Inc; The Wellcome Trust; Greenaap Investments Ltd.; and East Rock Endowment Fund....
...Lahde’s first fund, US Residential Real Estate Hedge V Class A, soared 712.8 per cent in the year to the end of October, before this month’s sell-off pushed it past the 1,000 per cent mark....
...The Zen V works with Windows Media Player 10 and PlaysForSure download or subscription service....
...Bush, when asked what he thought about Roe v Wade, said he didn’t mind how people got out of New Orleans. mudlark@ft.com...
...He is relaxing in a "video rocking chair", which resembles a child's car seat but is curved so it can rock back and forth on the ground. He holds a television remote control....
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