UK News 09-06-2005 who: Online gambling company PartyGaming what: Announces plan to float on Stock Market where: LONDON when: Last week snippet: "One of the co-founders, the exotically named Ruth Parasol, has already made one online fortune - from internet porn and sex chat lines," says Jeremy Warner in The Independent. "Now she stands to make a second capitalising on the current craze for online poker." The company has been valued at $10billion - The Guardian equates it to "the combined value of British Airways and EMI". Elsewhere, There`s an article by David Usborne in The Independent about GoldenPalace.com, which has made a name for itself by purchasing "wild, wacky and downright tasteless" items on eBay. And on Wednesday, the BBC reported that Google is now the world`s biggest media company with a value of $80billion despite annual sales of just $3.2billion. [... more]

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