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    <title>News and Information Blog 29 11 2008</title>
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    <title>Scandal Puts A Hurtin' On Baidu</title>
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    <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Baidu.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; style=&quot;margin: 10px;&quot; title=&quot;Baidu&quot; alt=&quot;Baidu&quot; src=&quot;http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/article_pics/baidu_logo.gif&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;You may have heard that China's number one search engine &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.baidu.com/&quot;&gt;Baidu&lt;/a&gt; has been the subject of some scandalous accusations lately. As a result, stock has plummeted, and so have advertising revenues for the company. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;A Little Background&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/11/28/scandal-puts-a-hurtin-on-baidu&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more &lt;a class=&quot;sw_sl&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WebpronewsTopNewsRssFeed/~3/468808192/scandal-puts-a-hurtin-on-baidu&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--ttag:online marketing--&gt;</description>
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    <title>U.K. takes a majority stake in RBS</title>
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    <description>EDINBURGH – The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (LSE, NYSE: RBS), the parent of Providence-based Citizens Financial Group Inc., today announced that the British government will take a majority stake in RBS after the bank’s attempt to raise capital by issuing new shares failed to attract sufficient public interest. “We regret that existing shareholders didn’t take up their preemptive rights,” said CEO Stephen Hester.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more &lt;a class=&quot;sw_sl&quot; href=&quot;http://www.pbn.com/stories/36527.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--ttag:Rhode Island, Providence, New England--&gt;</description>
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