With the announcement that HMV are selling their Japanese business to DSM Investments for $140 million stock in the company jumped 6.5 percent to 130 on Monday, after making steady gains through the previous week. With all eyes on sales in its Waterstones division after the launch of Harry Potter, noting that over the...
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HMV leaps on news of Japan sale
HMV up for sale?
HMV Group has been on the sidelines recently as far as news is concerned. There has however, been much whispering going on behind closed doors it seems. With results out this week looking to be dismal there doesn’t seem to be much going for the company – yet in the last few weeks the...
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Adobe CEO should eat his own words
In a broadside attack on Microsoft’s announcement of Silverlight, a new competitor to Adobe’s Flash software, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen unleashed a vitriolic attack on the Seattle based company’s reputation for support multiple platforms. "Even though they say Silverlight is going to be cross-platform, and maybe the first will be, I’m not sure...
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Adobe does iTunes – six years too late
Adobe has pretty much been a technology follower over the last few years. It was visibly shocked when Apple stole a march on it with Aperture, beating it to the market with its copycat Lightroom product by over a year. More recently Adobe has even admitted that its decision in a ‘fit-of-pique’ to drop...
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Bank of England may have to increase by 0.5 percent
At the beginning of this month the odds were pretty much 50/50 that the Bank of England would leave rates on hold as the CPI fell to 2.7 percent. Today the office of national statistics published the latest figures that show the CPI has jumped a massive 0.4 percent to 3.1 percent. This also...
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