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/ 21 February 2008

Virgin Galactic plans more spaceships

Virgin Galactic, billionaire Richard Branson’s space travel venture, plans to order five more spaceships and aims to turn a profit in five years from its commercial launch in 2010, an official said on Thursday. Prospective space travellers have so far placed deposits totalling more than -million for tickets that cost  000 each.

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/ 26 December 2007

eBay launches microlending website

Online auction giant eBay has launched a microlending website that lets people invest in entrepreneurs in poor communities around the world and get a return on their money. Microplace.com offers investors profits for funding folks trying to build better lives, said founder Tracey Turner.

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/ 7 November 2007

The greedy and their money are easily parted

In one day I received three emails telling me I had won money: the first, from international payment company PayPal, informed me that someone I had never heard of had paid me 000; the second told me the United States Internal Revenue Services owed me money — even though I have never been a US taxpayer — and the third said I had won â,¬550 000 in the Spanish Lottery.