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Blinkx soars on bid speculation

Shares of video search engine Blinkx surged 50 per cent late last week on talk that Google and News Corp may bid for the firm. With stock at a six month high the company had a value of over £100 million (E123m).
Blinkx, founded in 2004 by Suranga Chandratillake, floated in May 2007 following a merger with another UK search engine firm, Autonomy. More people visited Blinkx-linked videos by weekly market share than Google's UK service, data compiled by third party reporting..............................................more

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Sogecable demands analogue switch-off delay
From David Del Valle in Madrid

Spain’s largest TV group, Sogecable, has asked the Government to postpone the analogue switch-off, scheduled for April 3, 2010, due to the "inability" of the market to meet that deadline.
The CEO of the Group, Javier Diez de Polanco, said that "the Government should rethink the DTT take-up plan, not due to the inability of the private operators, but the inability of the market to make sure that the DTT penetration is complete by 2010"..............................................more

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