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<description>Group’s stocks further buoyed following last week’s bid for neighbouring water company Severn Trent</description>
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<title>Aim groups look to fringe funding schemes</title>
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<description>Roll call of London-listed companies, particularly miners and technology groups, look for funding by signing up to share placing deals</description>
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<description>More SMEs plan to increase both capital expenditure and headcount during the next 12 months</description>
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<title>Start-ups find their feet at ‘Silicon Beach’</title>
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<description>Brighton, with its combination of cultural appeal and digital expertise, is playing host to an upsurge in digital and social media businesses</description>
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<title>Valar picks London over rest of Europe</title>
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<description>The PayPal co-founder’s decision to back a company based in London provides a powerful endorsement of the UK capital’s entrepreneurial community</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 23:04:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>Revenues at the video advertising group rose 73% to $198m in the 12 months to March 2013, while adjusted pre-tax profit more than doubled to $24.6m</description>
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<description>Business schools could be paid to teach sole traders and the owners of the UK’s smallest businesses, under proposals outlined by Lord Young</description>
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<title>Northern Ireland enjoys artisan food boom</title>
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<title>Clarity needed for Quindell’s investors</title>
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<title>Thousands gather to fight ravages of time</title>
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<description>A thriving sector, which is forecast to be worth £3.6bn by 2015, is staging Britain’s first anti-ageing show in London this weekend</description>
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<title>Port of Tyne reports record figures</title>
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<description>Demand for coal from UK power stations has contributed to record revenues of £63m and pre-tax profits of £12m at the UK’s biggest trust port</description>
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<title>Numis rides out storm with return to black</title>
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<description>Chief executive says market sentiment has improved markedly in the past six months with strong inflows of capital into equities</description>
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<title>Clubcard pioneers to boost theatreland</title>
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<description>The husband-and-wife team that created Tesco’s successful loyalty scheme are looking to use the same data-mining trick for live entertainment</description>
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<title>Imagination falls 26% on profit warning</title>
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<description>Shares have worst day since 2002 as group reports that licensing revenues fell more than a fifth to about £27m in the year to April</description>
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<title>Pinewood to develop US film studio</title>
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<description>British film studio will develop site near Atlanta, Georgia, in joint venture with River’s Rock, a family trust linked to fast-food chain Chick-fil-A</description>
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<title>Quercus looks for twist in its fairy tale</title>
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<description>After a riding the wave of the Millennium trilogy’s success group pins its revival hopes on a US expansion and on celebrity authors</description>
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<description>Online funding marketplaces offering credit facilities to groups could provide £12bn of commercial lending in the UK within a decade, research shows</description>
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<description>London-listed public relations company sells a 20% stake to Chinese agency Blue Focus for £36.5m, allowing it to grow outside Europe</description>
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