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$1m homepage hijacked - A hacker has hijacked website that earned $1m for its British student owner by hosting 'micro-advertisements', demanding $50,000 ransom MP3's sales music ears of retailers - Dixons, PC World Currys had lucrative Christmas, fuelled by nation's passion for digital music players



$1m homepage hijacked  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
A hacker has hijacked the website that earned $1m for its British student owner by hosting 'micro-advertisements', demanding a $50,000 ransom
MP3's sales music to the ears of retailers  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
Dixons, PC World and Currys had a lucrative Christmas, fuelled by the nation's passion for digital music players
Market report: Wednesday 12.00  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
Shockwaves from another share price plunge in Tokyo reverberated throughout the Square Mile as the FTSE 100 index dipped below the 5700 support level
Festive treat for homeowners  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
House prices are on the way up again after an upbeat December delivered a boost to a market that spent most of 2005 in the doldrums
Tokyo chaos as market suspended  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
The Nikkei stock market closed early for the first time in its 57-year history on Wednesday after a second day of chaotic trading
Investors pushing for Euronext-DB merger  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
Euronext is coming under mounting pressure to ditch its bid for the LSE in favour of a tie-up with Deutsche Borse
Energy billing errors blight consumers  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
Energy companies have been blasted for failing to address the problem of bad billing, despite being ordered to get their house in order
Pension D-Day near for KPMG partners  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
KPMG partners are facing an £88m cash call if the firm fails in a landmark appeal on the status of its staff pension scheme
Cost of dying hits £3,307  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
The cost of dying has soared in the past five years, with an average burial now priced at £3,307, according to research
Inquiry into hospital patient calls costs  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
Ofcom has ordered the Department of Health to review rip-off charges made for phone calls to hospital patients by friends and family
All we hear is radio Google  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
Web search giant Google is continuing to flex its rapidly growing advertising muscle by expanding beyond the internet into radio
Russians eyeing British power firms  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
Gas and electricity suppliers are on takeover alert today after Russia's Gazprom said it is ready to buy a big chunk of the UK market
Broker libel battle costs FT £4.3m  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
City broker Collins Stewart has emerged victorious in its long-running, acrimonious libel battle with the Financial Times
City trader sacked for overstating profit  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
A trader has been sacked from Deutsche Bank after being accused of exaggerating his profits by £30m over a two-month period
Tesco growth stuns rivals  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
Tesco has proved it reigned supreme over all rivals in the supermarket wars during Christmas, with sales surging by 5.7%
Thousands miss CTF deadline  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
Parents across Britain have lost the right to decide where to invest a cash handout intended to give children a financial start in life
Workers' IDs stolen in £16m tax fraud  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
Criminal gangs have used the identities of thousands of rail workers to steal millions of pounds from the Treasury
British families' TV spending 'set to soar'  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
Household spending on television in Britain is set soar by 50% from £140 a year in 2005 to £210 a year in 2010
Top-level shake-up goes on at ITV  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
ITV boss Charles Allen continued his shake-up of the commercial broadcaster's management with several key appointments
I'll sell easyJet if the price is right  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou has said he will sell low-cost carrier easyJet if the price is right
Cairn may strike new oil finds  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
Oil and gas explorer Cairn Energy has indicated that more oil may be in place at its key Indian fields than previously thought
NAB banks call time on final-salary scheme  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
Clydesdale and Yorkshire bank have become the latest companies to call time on final-salary pension schemes
Smith's hubris and nemesis  [01/18/2006 01:54 PM]
The real losers out of the battle between the FT and Collins Stewart Tullett are Terry Smith and the freedom of the press, says the Daily Mail City Editor
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