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    A small tip for free Financial Times (ft.com)

    I discovered something interesting this morning when browsing The Financial Times, essentially if we fake the referrer we can read as much as we want. I wrote it up here if anyone is interested: http://www.mattfreeman.co.uk/2010/03/free-ft-financial-times-content-using-a-fake-http-referrer/
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    Total Newbie - Making sense of this Guardian article - Caburys/Kraft

    I seen in the news about Caburys/Kraft offer several times over the past week. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/6934977/Kraft-steps-up-pursuit-of-Cadbury-Nestle-rules-itself-out.html If the offer values the shares at a premium (however small), why would...
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    RBS and CitiGroup - The strong relation?

    Can someone please attempt to explain how that the news that Citigroup won't be nationalised sent RBS sharing soaring? Reading various Google news link/articles doesn't reveal anything. I appreciate this a very newb question so even just a pointer in the right direction would be greatly...
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