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2009-01-02 11:00:02| digg
The last bastion of IE6 hold-outs, corporate users, are being targeted by Google. Users of Gmail, including any companies using the services of Google Apps, are being advised to dump IE6 in favour of Chrome, Firefox or IE7.
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2009-01-01 22:42:39| Publishing - Topix.net
Shares in The New York Times Co. fell as much as 13% at one point Monday after two reported bidders for the Boston Globe and Boston Red Sox denied their interest in the assets.
2008-12-30 16:21:08| USATODAY.com Money - Top Stories
A closely watched index shows home prices down by the sharpest annual rate on record in October.
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2008-12-30 15:16:34| CNNMoney.com
Home prices posted another record decline in October, falling 18% in October compared with a year earlier, according to a closely watched monthly report released Tuesday.
2008-12-30 13:50:14| Guardian Unlimited Business - more business news
House prices plummeted by 12.2% in the 12 months to November, and by almost 1.9% month on month, official data showed today. According to the Land Registry, the average property in England and Wales cost 161,883 in November, a fall of more than 22,000 compared with the same month in 2007.Every region in England and Wales saw property prices fall in double figures across the year to November, with the greatest drops occurring in the East Midlands and the east of England, where house prices fell by more than 14%. Prices in London fell by 10.2%, and the average property in the capital now comes with a price tag of 317,101.The falls reported by the Land Registry broadly echo those published by lenders. Nationwide said prices had dropped by 13.9% in the year leading to November, while Halifax reported a drop over the year of 14.9%.Prospects for the housing market look decidedly grim for the coming year, with pundits across the board predicting prices will continue to slide in 2009, thanks in part to growing unemployment and increasingly tough lending criteria making it difficult for would-be buyers to secure funding.The property information website Hometrack said yesterday that it predicted prices to continue to fall by as much as 12% in 2009, while Miles Shipside, commercial director of the property search website Rightmove.co.uk predicts falls of 10% next year.Providing further evidence that the market has all but ground to a halt, the time it takes to sell a property has lengthened from an average 8.3 weeks to an average 12 weeks in December, according to Hometrack, while vendors are only managing to achieve 88.6% of their asking prices. A year ago, vendors were managing to sell for 93.5% of their asking price.Meanwhile, research suggests that people are growing increasingly concerned about meeting the cost of keeping a roof over their heads. According to research from the Conservative party, 44% of people are worried that they will not be able to pay their mortgage the coming year. Shadow housing minister Grant Shapps said: "Householders up and down the country and in every kind of housing are now concerned, as never before, about their ability to maintain a roof over their heads over the next 12 months."PropertyHouse pricesMortgagesFirst-time buyersCredit crunchguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds