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Dragons' Den
The second series of Dragons' Den, the series where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to secure investment finance from the Dragons... elite business experts, is due to be aired from 15th November 2005 on BBC2 at 8.00pm
Websynergi Design has worked with Rachel Elnaugh, the only female 'Dragon' on the show for a number of years developing her personal website and those of companies she has invested in from the Dragons' Den series such as www.grails.co.uk and www.lebeanock.com from the first series.
Websynergi Design have also designed websites for companies that have appeared
in the current series, such as http://www.cannyco.com (22.11.05)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden/
Google sells $2.07bn of its stock
US search engine company Google has raised $2.07bn (£1.2bn) through its second share sale in seven months.
Google, which first listed on the stock market in August 2004, sold 5.3 million shares priced at $389.75 each.
The shares were sold to funds that track the Standard & Poor's 500 index because Google has replaced oil firm Burlington Resources in the benchmark.
Google is planning to use the cash from the sale to fight off stiff competition from rivals Yahoo! and Microsoft.
Price growth
A recent report found that four out of 10 web searches conducted in the US are now done using the Google search engine, giving the company a 42% market share in February.
That makes Google the world's most-used search engine and rivals have renewed efforts to eat into its market share.
However, despite the concerns, Google's shares have performed remarkably well since it listed on the stock market and have doubled in value during the past 12 months.
Courtesy of the BBC news online, April 2006
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OFT will examine online shopping
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to study online retailing to see if consumers are getting a fair deal.
The OFT said it wanted to establish whether current consumer laws was up to the job of protecting online shoppers.
Internet retail sales have grown by 350% in the past five years and about 130,000 businesses sell online.
Four representative "case study" sectors will be examined; electrical goods, music sales, airline tickets and online auctions.
These sectors have been chosen because they account for at least a third of all online spending.
Courtesy of the BBC news online, April 2006
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High Street woe as web sales grow
High Street stores will lose market share to their online rivals as more households take broadband internet connections, according to a report.
It said people will be spending £18.5bn a year on the internet which would previously have been spent in stores.
Online shopper numbers will rise 10 million to 25 million by 2010.
Electrical stores
With 66% of homes likely to have broadband access by then, Paypal suggested, online shopping would become quicker and easier.
"Over the past few years we have seen the internet gradually eating away at the high street," said chief executive Geoff Iddison.
"By 2010 we expect substantial sums that would have been spent on the High Street to have moved online."
The report warned that electrical retailers faced a growing threat from online rivals, with online stores set to take £4.6bn per year by 2010, a surge of 136%.
Food and grocery items are estimated to make up 30% of online shopping by 2010, up 235% on 2005.
Online sales of DIY goods are due to rise by 172% between 2005 and 2010, with clothing and footwear growing 160% over the same period.
Courtesy of the BBC news online, May 2006
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Retailers can look forward to a bumper online Christmas, it added, with 70% of internet users buying gifts online.
Average online spend among UK internet users will rise to £237, compared to £197 spent on the High Street.
But it warned that some high street retailers needed to improve their online offerings, while web-only retailers needed to convert people doing research on their sites into buyers
Nielsen's annual Christmas Shopping Online survey showed that women were three times more likely to buy a gift through the internet than men.
"There is little doubt that the behaviour of all areas of the internet population is encouraging for retailers this Christmas," said Alex Burmaster, Nielsen Net Ratings' European internet analyst.
"However, perhaps for the first time, it is the behaviour of women online that will dominate the success of the online Christmas."
BBC Business News online, November 2006.
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