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...fuss? British political parties nominate candidates for life peerages, which give recipients the title of lord or lady and allow them to sit in Britain's 748-member upper chamber of Parliament. Under a 1925 law, the sale of honors is illegal. Police are now attempting to find out if some peerages recommended since 2001 by all major parties were given in return for donations and secret loans. They are also investigating whether another law, which says that all donations of more than $10,000 must be declared, has been broken...
...shorts got to screen to wider audiences this year because anybody who couldn't make the trek to Park City - or score tickets once they got there - could download nearly half of Sundance's 71 competing shorts at Apple's iTunes Store for just $1.99 a piece. Films for sale include the German motorcycling documentary Motodrom and High Falls, a relationship drama starring real-life couple Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard. That's not a bad deal to discover the next Wes Anderson, Spike Jonze or Alexander Payne - all directors who started out with a Sundance short...
...intriguing connections in Switzerland. There was a Stanford Technology Corp. in Geneva and a Stanford Technology Services in Freiburg. The Geneva firm had the same address as the Compagnie de Services Fiduciaires (C.S.F.), which the Times of London identified as the repository for $18 million in profits from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran...
...certain shares). Besides, Hong Kong has no shortage of local and international investors who love to gamble on IPOs. In October, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the country's largest bank, floated the largest IPO ever, raising $21.9 billion in a dual listing that included the sale of $16 billion worth of shares in Hong Kong. (The other shares were sold in Shanghai...
Virgin America is in a frenzied, last-ditch effort to get the DOT to change its mind, so the airline is turning to would-be customers for help. The company had planned to keep a tight lid on details about its planes until tickets went on sale. That strategy is history as the airline seeds websites like YouTube, Flickr and Digg with stories, pictures and video, hoping to gin up the sort of viral, user-generated movement that--we are told--now shapes our world. "We want to say to the consumers of America, this is what you're missing...