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| Social networking site Pinterest has raised $100m, valuing the two-year old business at £1.5bn. |
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| Smart devices and interactive TV will boost UK retail sales by £2.4bn by 2014, says new report. Are smaller retailers best-placed to take advantage? |
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| The off-the-peg website and online shop builder has been bought e-lock, stock and barrel by Yell for £18m with a £5.2m pay-out for the executive team after two years. |
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Office pilfering costs UK businesses £2bn a year
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| by Rebecca Burn-Callander, 16 May 2012, 09:40AM |
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| Stat of the day: £2bn. A new report ranks British workers as 'the worst offenders' in office theft, taking home some £2bn a year in biros, lever arch files, even laptops. |
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Do 5% of SMEs create 65% of UK employment?
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| by Rebecca Burn-Callander, 15 May 2012, 05:14PM |
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| A tiny fraction of the UK's small business community accounts for two thirds of all private sector employment, a new report revealed today. |
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Plus Markets to shut down after no sale
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| by Michael Northcott, 14 May 2012, 12:44PM |
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| The British stock exchange for small companies has announced that it can no longer afford to run itself, and cannot find a suitable buyer. |
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