Topic - richard branson

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Virgin Mobile USA Dials Up Helio for $39M

Deal for money-losing post-paid service sets up $50M investment by Korea’s SK Telcom and Branson's Virgin Group.
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Biosciences, Communications, Internet, Finance

Google, Virgin Launch Hoax Mars Settlement

Google and Virgin plan April Fool’s Day joke joint venture that promises a human habitat on Mars by 2016, which would put the search king well ahead of NASA.
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Computers, General news, Communications, Finance

Virgin Viewing

Entrepreneur Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic unveils a model of a spaceship, dubbed SpaceShipTwo, he hopes will be the first to take paying passengers into space on a regular basis next year. See also:
Branson Unveils Space Ship
Space 2.0: The Race to Privatize
Riding Virgin on Biofuel
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General news, Media, Internet

Google Founder to Wed on Richard Branson's Island

Larry Page, Google's billionaire co-founder, is set to marry his girlfriend, Lucy Southworth, on a tiny Caribbean island this weekend, says a source familiar with the wedding arrangements.
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General news, Cleantech

Riding Virgin on Biofuel?

If British billionaire Richard Branson sticks to remarks made Monday at the Mortgage Bankers Association meeting in Boston, Virgin Atlantic could test biofuels on 747s as soon as 2008.
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Biosciences

Branson, Gore Team to Save Globe

U.K. entrepreneur and former U.S. VP offer $25-million prize to combat climate change.
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Finance

Clinton Chats on the Net

Presidential hopefuls try to connect online with tech-savvy voters.
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Finance

Amazon.com’s Bezos Has Liftoff

Jeff Bezos lifts the curtain on his Blue Origin space tourism project
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Media, Communications

The Hip Finally Get Amp’d

After scoring $50 million from MTV, the wireless company offers its youth-geared cellular service.
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Media, Communications

NTL Bids for Virgin Mobile

The $1.4B deal would make NTL/Virgin the U.K.’s first 4-play operator but presents serious branding challenges.
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Communications

The next billion customers

There are still plenty of people in the world who want a cell phone. But the big companies could lose them to a new breed of entrepreneur.
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Communications

The Next Billion Customers

There are still plenty of people in the world who want a cell phone. But the big companies could lose them to a new breed of entrepreneur.
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Computers, General news, Security, Media, Communications, Internet, Finance

Need to Know: Red Herring's news roundup

The week of July 19: Microsoft learns to share, Richard Branson's clever play, and Danger scares the competition.