United States coach Bob Bradley, who has scowled his way through much of the World Cup, allowed himself a rare smile on Wednesday.
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/ 21 January 2010
Recorded music sales fell by about 10% in 2009, and are down 30% since 2004, after rampant piracy ate in to traditional and legitimate digital sales.
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/ 19 January 2010
The television will dominate home entertainment for another year in 2010, showing more staying power than newspapers and e-readers.
So Blade has met the vice-chancellors. Not that this meeting reached the tabloids. In fact, it was a subdued affair.
Xstrata wants talks with Anglo American about a proposed merger of equals worth about -billion, seeking increased scale and cost synergies.
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/ 6 November 2008
Vodafone, the world’s biggest mobile phone group by revenue, will take control of South Africa’s largest, Vodacom Group.
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/ 27 November 2007
A hunt for Britain’s top university is helping mobile firm O2 tap Facebook’s burgeoning audience and reflects the innovation advertisers need to tap the potential of such sites, analysts say. Social networking sites such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook are hugely popular with younger internet users — vital but hard to reach for advertisers.
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/ 19 January 2007
Global digital music sales almost doubled in 2006 to about -billion, or 10% of all sales, but have not yet reached the industry’s ”holy grail” of offsetting the fall in CD sales, a trade organisation said. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry expects digital sales to account for a quarter of all sales worldwide by 2010.
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/ 3 November 2006
Google will make more advertising revenue in the United Kingdom this year than Channel 4, the publicly-owned broadcaster’s chief executive said on Wednesday. Andy Duncan said some broadcasters had been slow to recognise the challenge posed by the internet and multichannel TV, which cut into the audience and ad revenues of terrestrial broadcasters.
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/ 17 October 2006
The music industry has launched a fresh wave of 8 000 lawsuits against alleged file-sharers around the world, escalating its drive to stamp out online piracy and encourage the use of legal download services. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents the world’s music companies, said on Tuesday the new cases were brought in 17 countries.