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...per cent first-year capital allowances for another 12 months, until April 2011. The EEF wants the small companies' rate of corporation tax frozen until the same date.To assist exporters, it called for talks with the European Union to allow the government to...

It is as though the last 10 years never happened. Since publishing its well-received third-quarter results last Thursday, Amazon.com has gained more than 30 per cent. That takes it to an all-time high. And that is amazing. No company symbolised the dotcom...

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...collection, where users could upload photos of themselves. And, as the new faces took their places next to Wintour, Menkes et al for the Dolce & Gabbana show, the Italian brand's in-house cameras rolled, streamlining the event directly on to YouTube...

In the middle of a scrubby business park on the outskirts of Dublin, a hulking grey building has recently sprung up. It is

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