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...Fierce competition from supermarkets, online retailers and illegal downloaders has already forced rivals such as Woolworths and Zavvi to go under....
...A month after the album came out a survey suggested 62 per cent of In Rainbows’ downloaders chose to pay nothing for it....
...Dilemma: How Hackers, Punk Capitalists, Graffiti Millionaires and Other Youth Movements are Remixing Our Culture and Changing our World By Matt Mason Allen Lane, £14.99, 276 pages FT bookshop price: £11.99...
...It says that more than a third of illegal file sharers in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and the UK have stopped or cut back on such activity, with 11 per cent of British downloaders switching from illegal...
...Security Alliance, a computer industry group, found that the number of active file-sharing programs on respondents’ computers more than halved this year, falling from 22 per cent of home computers to just 11...
...It would put Reg Vardy on a price/earnings ratio of 15 times on current-year forecasts, in a sector where 10 or 11 times is more typical....
...Hutchison Telecommunications International (HTIL), controlled by Li Ka-shing - Asia’s richest man, said it would cut 11.6 per cent of its global workforce or about 1,160 staff....
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