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Yahoo poised to buy Tumblr for rumoured $1.1bn
Marissa Mayer, the former Google executive who is now in charge of Yahoo, is poised to create yet another nothing-to-riches tale in the web industry with the $1.1bn (�720m) acquisition of the blogging site Tumblr.
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Top stories
Hats off to Mervyn King. By voicing his doubts about the government's �130bn gamble on the housing market, the outgoing Bank of England governor has restarted a vital debate.
Google's chairman, Eric Schmidt, has said he welcomes promises by international leaders to crack down on tax loopholes exploited by the search firm and other multinational internet businesses that take billions of pounds of sales from the UK through ...
Marks & Spencer's store staff could see their meagre �100 bonus trimmed or ditched after the retail bellwether posts a further fall in annual profits this week.
By William James. LONDON | Sun May 19, 2013 7:01pm EDT. LONDON May 20 (Reuters) - The cost of protecting Scottish savers would prove difficult to bear if the country broke away from the rest of the UK, a study by Britain's finance ministry said on ...
It began as a sideline on a Herefordshire farm little over a decade ago but is now being touted around the world to potential buyers for �100m.
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| MRW | Wm. Morrison Supermarkets plc | 0.86% | 6,622.64M |
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