Monthly Archives: November 2010

PC World and Dixons readying another batch of Advent Vegas for online sale

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The ongoing comedy surrounding the launch of the Advent Vega Android tablet continues, with the Twitter feed of the distributor telling us they’re working right now on getting a new batch of Vegas listed for sale TODAY. So if you missed last week’s Advent Vega launch frenzy, you might want to open up the Dixons and PC World sites in a browser tab, and stay GLUED to your screen – they’re expecting the new batch of stock to be launched, only online, later today. A rare and exciting look Read more [...]

Trainer zeroes in on Listed race

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Michael Hellyer wins at Eagle Farm on the Kelso Wood-trained Zero Rock. Pic: Peter Bull Source: The Courier-Mail EAGLE Farm trainer Kelso Wood has altered plans for classy mare Zero Rock and will chase black type in the Travel Associates Classic at Doomben on Saturday. Wood originally planned to run Zero Rock in the Group 3 George Moore Stakes on Saturday week, Read more [...]

Listed property shines in South Africa’s top ranking companies

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The sector fared particularly well overall, with nearly 15% of companies which performed in the top 50 for ‘profit after tax’ and ‘growth over ten years’ being listed property companies. Furthermore, 13 of the top 100 companies over the past five years comprise listed property companies. “These results demonstrate that listed property companies have fared well over the short and the long term,” says Norbert Sasse, chairman of the Property Loan Stock Association Read more [...]

Zuckerberg, Emanuel on Fortune power list

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Share Entourage's Ari Gold, said to be based on Ari EmanuelThe 26-year-old founder of Facebook has been placed fourth in an annual list ranking the world’s top businesspeople by Fortune magazine. Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg, who created the influential social networking site from his college dorm-room in 2004, is the highest ranked Jewish businessman on the list. The list also includes the CEOs of Starbucks and Kraft Foods, Howard Schultz and Irene Rosenfeld. Ms Rosenfeld, who last month Read more [...]

CoreLogic Estimates Shadow Market Volume at 2.1 Million

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If you have been waiting for the “foreclosure tsunami” to hit the real estate market, you might not have to wait much longer. According to real estate analytics firm CoreLogic, another wave of distressed residential properties is due to “flood an already saturated residential real estate market in the coming months”[1]. Based on a recent report, the firm believes that there are currently 2.1 million “distressed, but not-yet-listed residential properties nationwide” in August of this Read more [...]

Historic Flintshire buildings could be demolished – The Leader

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HISTORIC buildings in Deeside which have been trashed by vandals could now be demolished. An application to bulldoze the former headquarters of the John Summers Steelworks in Garden City, including laboratories, a canteen and a garage, has been submitted to Flintshire Council because landowners are fed up with paying for security. The iconic five-storey listed clocktower building will be retained. The land has been blighted with graffiti, litter and drug paraphernalia since new owners took Read more [...]

Stoke-on-Trent like Afghanistan, says pottery director

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“We have a city here know so well for its industrial past that is has a whole area, the Potteries, named after it. “The buildings, the factories, the terraced houses; they are the building blocks of the city and represent the inheritance of the people who live and work there, their parents, their grandparents. “These are the cultural anchors which we need to hang on to whilst regeneration takes place. "Lose the factories, the civic buildings, the churches and the brick Read more [...]

Seven & Fox Sports reach agreement over Aus Open Tennis

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The Australian Open will return to Fox Sports after the channel agreed to terms with Seven over coverage (Image Source: Australian Open)Coverage of the Australian Open tennis tournament will return to subscription television after Fox Sports and Seven agreed to terms regarding access to matches not shown on free-to-air.Under the agreement, Fox Sports will be able to show matches outside of the centre court live for the first eight days of the tournament and replay rights for the quarter finals onward.Seven Read more [...]