LONDON (Reuters) - Richard Branson's Virgin Group has launched a company to help consumers with technical problems such as PCs crashing, wireless networks not connecting and games consoles refusing to link up with other gear.Read the complete article: Virgin Group enters Britain's gadget help market
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"It's a market that's very much underserved," Joe Steel, chief executive of the new company, told Reuters by telephone.
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Sir Richard Branson launched his latest business enterprise without a woman in sight yesterday - but not for a lack of trying.Read the complete article: Sir Richard Branson launches Britain's latest F1 team Virgin Racing
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For all the promising elements that make up the Sheffield-based entrants, Branson admitted a female driver would not be one of them despite an exhaustive worldwide hunt. "We'd love to have some women drivers, we did have a serious look around the world," said Branson.
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Yesterday the sport got a first taste of austerity as F1 finally got sensible. The days of lavish launches with champagne on a hillside in Italy or private plane jaunts to Monte Carlo are long gone.
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LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Richard Branson's Virgin Group is launching a new company to help consumers with problems like computers that crash, wireless networks that won't connect or games consoles that refuse to connect with other gear.Read the complete article: Virgin Group launches digital help company in UK
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The group's first new company in Britain for three years will offer free online self-help guides for common problems and a range of automated fixed and video tutorials for 2.99 pounds ($4.85) per month, backed up with phone support and home visits.
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Sir Richard Branson is ready to stamp his Midas touch on Formula One's latest underdog and turn it into a winner.Read the complete article: F1 DEAL COULD BE MANOR FROM HEAVEN FOR BRANSON
Entrepreneur Branson today unveiled the latest addition to his portfolio as Virgin Racing will feature in the sport from 2010.
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However, the weight of the name has already reaped significant dividends as the team also unveiled 10 sponsors, with more to come ahead of the new season.
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Virgin Racing will operate with the lowest budget in Formula One and try to break new ground by attempting to turn a profit, Richard Branson said at today's launch. "The new era is seeing the costs of entry come down. This will be the lowest-budget team in Formula One," Branson said. "Money's not everything. They are determined to prove that via engineering prowess, great drivers and a great affinity with the public they can do well."Read the complete article: Richard Branson's shoestring Virgin Racing team aims to make profit
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LONDON: Richard Branson launched his Virgin Racing Formula One team on Tuesday with a plan to make money where others have burned through billions. ...Read the complete article: Virgin aim to make a profit from F1 team
Virgin's founder, British billionaire Richard Branson, is throwing his entrepreneurial muscle behind a company that will offer private citizens the opportunity to travel into outer space -- for $200,000. Known as Virgin Galactic, the company plans to formally unveil the world's first manned commercial spaceship, SpaceShipTwo, in the Mojave Desert later today.Read the complete article: Branson unveils spaceship that will launch civilians into heavens
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"This is truly a momentous day," said Branson in a statement. "The team has created not only a world first but also a work of art. The unveiling of [SpaceShipTwo] takes the Virgin Galactic vision to the next level and continues to provide tangible evidence that this ambitious project is not only moving rapidly, but also making tremendous progress toward our goal of safe commercial operation."
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I am very much in the pro-Branson camp. Not necessarily because he is a good businessman (it’s hard to tell - getting to the bottom of his myriad companies’ accounts and cross-holdings is not easy), but because he is an ideas man. Many of these ideas fail, but the ones that stick are worth celebrating. He is one of the few people in the UK with the thick skin and deep pockets to keep on trying.Read the complete article: Branson's latest flight of fancy
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It started with Debbie Flett, the model, applying red lipstick to Sir Richard Branson. Twelve years on, the last remnants of the Virgin Cosmetics retail business will close next month.Read the complete article: Richard Branson's Virgin Cosmetics loses its gloss
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Ros Simmons and Ratan Daryani, who put together the original Virgin Cosmetics concept in 1996, took control of the assets after the Virgin Group wrote off accumulated loans of £21 million. A further £8.8 million was given to the new owners as a brand-protection payment. That payment was to reclaim the Virgin brand so that if the new owners failed, the Virgin name would not be tarnished.
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Virgin Galactic's unveiling of the SpaceShipTwo rocket plane drew hundreds of paying space tourists and travel agents, rocket geeks and glitterati to the Mojave Air and Space Port. For a while, it looked as if stormy skies and brisk winds would force a change in Virgin billionaire founder Richard Branson's plans for an after-dark, outdoor debut.Read the complete article: Spaceship debut causes chills
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Seymourpowell have been working on the spacecraft's interior – an instrumental part of the £270 million project masterminded by Sir Richard Branson. ...Read the complete article: Spaceship job for design guru Richard
Indeed, when Richard Branson came into the picture, grabbing SpaceShipOne - and Rutan - as the foundation for Virgin Galactic, the future of space travel ...Read the complete article: 'Space tourism' is just a front
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson and legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan, whose SpaceShipOne took the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004, have unveiled the VSS Enterprise. The sleek commercial rocket plane represents the ultimate thrill ride for well-heeled space tourists and amateur astronauts, states CNET.Read the complete article: Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo
Seating six passengers and two pilots, Virgin Space Ship Enterprise, also known as SpaceShipTwo, will begin test flights next year with commercial launchings carrying paying customers starting after government regulatory requirements are met.
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