Silence in the playground

Silence in the playground
Music is a key ingredient at a ”four-day boutique camping and music festival” but punters were left with just the camping bit for a while on Sunday when sound technicians at the Playground Weekender festival at Wisemans Ferry went on strike, demanding to be paid.
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Spotify ‘worth a billion dollars’
More signs of a new dotcom boom have emerged after reports said music streaming website Spotify had secured a funding deal that valued it at one billion US dollars (£616 million).
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The Next Big Move For The Smartest Biotech Investor
Randal J. Kirk, worth $ 2.2 billion, is one of the only billionaires to make his money from biotech. He may just be the best biotech investor ever. He made $ 1.2 billion when he sold his New River Pharmaceuticals and its ADHD drug Vyvanse to Shire in 2007. Now he just made another score by selling his antidepressant company Clinical Data to Forest Laboratories for $ 1.2 billion, or $ 30 a share in …
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