Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Sunday 27 May 2012

Source: The First Post

Conservative Party co-chair Baroness Warsi is facing calls for an inquiry into her expenses after admitting she failed to declare thousands of pounds of income from a property she rented out. It is also alleged she cla ...
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Richard Branson: coalition has failed to invest in businesses

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Richard Branson, whose support for Tory economic plans was enthusiastically trumpeted by George Osborne in the runup to the last general election, has dramatically turned on the coalition for failing to promote growth. Britain's most famous busine ...
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Mercury News interview: Greg Woock, co-founder/CEO, Pinger

Source: SiliconValley.com

Just after Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram last month, Reuters ran a short list of other startups that might be candidates for similarly eye-popping deals. Among household names like Pinterest, Spotify and Dropbox was Pinger. It's f ...
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This is not business as usual: C2-MTL's first edition a success - Press Releases

Source: Australia Business Review

The second edition of the new global business conference already confirmed: be in Montreal, May 21 to 23, 2013 MONTREAL, May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Over the past few days, some 1,300 participants from over 40 countries saw the likes of Francis ...
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An insight into Richard Branson — and what he thinks of Canada

Source: The Province Daily News

Sadly, though the planet is not short of billionaires, there are few like Richard Branson. The 61-year-old British adventurer, philanthropist and founder of the Virgin Group appears to care as much about the earth and its people as he cares about ra ...
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Sir Richard, Glee star put youth theatre program in limelight

Source: Globe and Mail

MARSHA LEDERMAN VANCOUVER— From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published Friday, May. 25, 2012 9:17PM EDT Last updated Friday, May. 25, 2012 9:22PM EDT They came to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the knighted celebrity entrepreneur and th ...
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Virgin Group founder Richard Branson brings Cory Monteith to town for $50,000 gift for youth at risk

Source: The Georgia Straight Blog

This might as well have been called Sir Richard Branson Day in Vancouver. The founder of Virgin Group came to the city to announce grants of $26,550 to Project Limelight Society and $25,000 for the Broadway ...
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DECC roadshow to tout Green Deal business opportunities

Source: BusinessGreen.com

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is to host a series of free events over the summer to help small businesses take advantage of the soon-to-be-launched Green Deal energy efficiency scheme. The 11 free ...
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Virgin HealthMiles Boosts Leadership Team With Key Hires, Sets Course for Next Growth Stage

Source: MarketWire

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - May 23, 2012) - Years of double-digit revenue increases have poised Virgin HealthMiles for its next stage of hyper-growth. Today, the company announced several new executive hires and or ...
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