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Wi-Fi traffic averages 1m minutes a day — BT has reported a doubling in use of its wireless services, with the telco recording its first ever 10 million-minute week during September... [Tags: 10 million, 1m, fi, telco, traffic]

Is Angel Investing Dead? — Image via WikipediaAmazing,  the optimism in Silicon Valley compared to the rest of the country. The angel climate cannot be said to be good, but it doesn't sound too bad compared to, say, the Big 3 automakers. It's much cheaper for a company to start up and keep running today, because the price of technology has gone down. If the company has started, and does have some traction, prices are low, and buyers will come in to the market and make small acquisitions. There will be exits. This was difficult for me to grok, but when you listen to investors... [Tags: 1m, acquisitions, angels, angus, august capital]

Risqué painting hidden in attic for 200 years to sell for £1m — Italian masterpiece that was hidden in an attic for two centuries because its owners thought it was too risqué is expected to sell for £1m.... [Tags: 1m, centuries, italian masterpiece, painting]

Three year sentence for software fraud — A Wolverhampton man has been sentenced to three years in prison for illegally copying and then selling software and DVDs worth a possible £1m. Steve Adams bought an apartment in Spain, a Range...... [Tags: 1m, apartment in spain, dvds, selling software, software fraud]

Venture Chronicles — Bunch of interesting posts on Techmeme today with respect to startup funding, and a few comments: VC's not wanting to put more money into areas they funded but perceive as now doomed, as reported on ExpertCEO, a new anonymous online community cum Exec agony aunt : The first post: We are a Series A funded company with tranched financing based in a milestone. The investors want to shut down the company and not provide the second tranche even though the milestone has been met!! They simply do not want to invest in the consumer segment in this economic environment. .... [Tags: 1m, agony aunt, biscuit, biz model, consumer segment]

32.1m MP3 players sold in the UK last year. Huh? — Keen to push its new MP3 kitemark, the Entertainment Retailers Association released figures today trumpeting the format in grand terms: "Never in the history of the music business have we seen a format take off like this before. There is now no doubt that MP3 is the fastest-growing music format of all time, faster than vinyl, cassette or CD," said chairman Russel Coultart.Photograph: rudolf_schuba/Flickr/Some rights reservedSome clever presentation of the facts has allowed them to announce that 32.1m MP players were sold last year, according to market research by GfK. But actually 75% of those were MP3-enabled mobile phones, so... [Tags: 1m, cd players, digital music, gfk, guardian news]

An Epiphany On The Drug War — This is a stirring call for reform: The US is now a carceral state that imprisons eight to 12 times more people (2.5m) per capita than the UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany or Japan. US justice has become a command economy based on the avarice of private prison companies, a gigantic prison service industry and politically influential correctional officers’ unions that agitate for an unlimited increase in the number of prosecutions and the length of sentences. The entire “war on drugs”, by contrast, is a classic illustration of supply-side economics: a trillion taxpayers’ dollars squandered and 1m small fry imprisoned... [Tags: 1m, 5m, avarice, canada australia, capita]

Mobile penetration ekes up to 70% in Canada, still sucks — New stats are out on wireless penetration in Canada. ” A new Harris/Decima survey finds that 72% of Canadian households now have access to a wireless phone, up from 64% in 2006. Commissioned by the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA)” it gets better “Canadians continue to be some of the most enthusiastic mobile phone users in the world” said Bernard Lord, CWTA President and CEO. Than you Bernard, give us a second while we try and mop up the vomit of sycophantic incredulity now splattered down our shirt fronts. As we work on that, how about a wirelessnorth challenge? We... [Tags: 1m, canadian households, canadians, ceo, cwta]

Is App Verification Really a Money Tree for Facebook? — When Facebook launched the app verification program a couple of days ago, some people claimed that Facebook had created a “serious revenue machine.” Mike Arrington wrote, If every application applied, that would be $18 million in incremental revenue to Facebook. Our guess is half or more will apply. While important questions should be asked about how the details of the benefits of program are implemented when it actually goes live, I believe that claims that the app verification program is a new money tree for Facebook are a little exaggerated. If Facebook makes $9 million over the next year from... [Tags: 1m, 300k, appdata, application developer, application fees]

Dish Network Insider Buys $8.1M Worth — Jonathan Moreland, author of InsiderInsights, gives you the lowdown on top stock purchases and sales.... [Tags: 1m, dish network, insider, jonathan, stock purchases]

Skyscraper penthouse sale sets a £1m record — Birmingham A penthouse defied the credit crunch to become the first flat in the city to sell for £1,000,000. The 2,788 sq ft three-bedroomed property, which is at the apex of the 25-storey Orion Building, offers views across the West Midlands and was sold to an unnamed executive in his 30s, topping the previous record for an apartment in the city by £125,000.... [Tags: 1m, apartment, apex, bedroomed property, credit crunch]

Marc Jacobs Pays $1M Fine for Bribing State Official — In February of this year, State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo crashed Fashion Week and announced an indictment against the former superintendent of the 26th Street Armory who solicited bribes from designer Marc Jacobs. Now TMZ reports that Cuomo has brought his wrath upon Jacobs himself, you know, "for bribing a State official so he could get a desirable venue for his fashion show." Marc Jacobs International has now admitted their guilt and agreed to pay a $1 million fine. The Observer points out that a company spokesperson noted they are “pleased that this matter has been resolved. We have already... [Tags: 1 million, 1m, attorney general andrew cuomo, bribes, company spokesperson]

Park Concerts to Fill Park Coffers — [image courtesy flickr photog davitydave] The experiment apparently succeeded, but the $815,000 fee the Recreation and Parks Department collected from August's Outside Lands clusterfuckconcert won't fly next year. The department is looking to make at least a cool $1M on concerts held in the park in the coming years by upping their organizer fees and adding a surcharge to tickets. And yes, there will be more nighttime concerts held in Golden Gate Park in the coming years, and no, none of those moneys will be spent to smooth Muni service or traffic when upwards of 125,000 people are flooding... [Tags: 1 million, 1m, amp, coffers, fly]

Villagers raise £1m to save castle — Hopton A 12th-century castle that was the scene of a notorious massacre in the English Civil War has been saved from dereliction after villagers bought it. Hopton Castle, in the Shropshire village of the same name, was crumbling when locals set up the Hopton Castle Preservation Trust and raised £1 million, including a lottery grant. The trust took ownership of the castle this week and hopes to restore it and open it to the public. In 1644 Royalist forces seized the castle and killed 28 Puritan prisoners. Anne Crosby, of the trust, said: “It would have been a tragedy if... [Tags: 1 million, 12th century castle, 1m, castle preservation, crosby]

Solicitors accused over ‘dubious deals’ with union official that lost sick miners nearly £1m — Britain’s highest-earning solicitor acted dishonestly and with “conscious impropriety” in dealings with a mining union that led to his firm handling thousands of industrial disease compensation claims, a tribunal heard yesterday.... [Tags: 1m, dubious deals, impropriety, miners, solicitor]

TV ratings - November 16: Rich haul for Antiques Roadshow — ITV1's I'm a Celebrity returned with nearly 9 million viewers, but more than 10 million watched the first £1m find on BBC1's Antiques Roadshow. By Leigh Holmwood... [Tags: 10 million, 1m, antiques roadshow, celebrity, holmwood]

Online Giants’ Ad Growth Halts — TechCrunch mashed together the online advertising revenues of the big 4, being Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL, for the third quarter. The result? Just 0.6% growth, which is still some $50 million increase, but pale in comparison. Read Erick Schonfeld’s post for graphs and more. Also, don’t miss the blog networks roundtable for some more bloggish thoughts on the current financial situation. Possibly Related PostsWhich Facebook application developer is making more than $1m monthly?Will we see advertising on Twitter soon?AOL Cuts Blog Budgets, Signs of Things to Come?... [Tags: 1m, 50 million, advertising revenues, aol, application developer]

Mini-Angel is Antiques Roadshow's first £1m find — Valuation means 6ft-high 17ft-wide bronze model is worth three time more than any item on before... [Tags: 1m, angel, antiques roadshow]

Antiques Roadshow finds £1m Angel of the North artwork — The BBC’s Antiques Roadshow unearthed its first £1 million item yesterday – a scale model of Anthony Gormley’s artwork, The Angel of the North.... [Tags: 1 million, 1m, angel, anthony gormley, antiques roadshow]