The Tribe opened its doors on the internet this month but will be launched officially on September 18.
BP is believed to have approached several sovereign wealth funds, including Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Qatar and Singapore.
Rapidly waning support and the threat of a general strike have brought it to the brink.
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/ 21 November 2009
Britain’s digital economy Bill proposals receive welcome from music and film, but anger from ISPs and privacy campaigners.
Publishers look to emerging markets, including South Africa, while the UK and US markets hibernate through the recession.
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/ 16 October 2008
It is also buying a Danish online classifieds site, dba.dk, and a vehicles website, bilbasen.dk, for $390-million.
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/ 7 September 2008
Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone company, launched an all-out assault on Apple’s iPhone this week.
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/ 19 February 2007
The snapping up of a controlling stake in India’s fourth-largest mobile phone operator, Hutchison Essar (Hutch), is being seen as transformational for Vodafone — and a major coup for its chief executive, Arun Sarin, less than a year after a shareholder rebellion over uncertainty aaout the group’s direction.
Sir Richard Branson realised his dream of getting into broadcast television this week as he sold Virgin Mobile to NTL — netting his empire almost £700million in cash and shares — and licensed the use of the Virgin brand across the new company’s TV, broadband and telecoms services.