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[A18.] Cable and Wireless Sells U.S. Unit Cable and Wireless of Britain said it would sell its United States operations to the Gores Technology Group for $125 million -- a fraction of the billions it spent to build its business.

The company said on Monday that it would sell its United States operations to the Gores Technology Group for $125 million -- a fraction of the billions it spent to build its business.

Zynga has about $1.5 billion in cash and securities that it could use to buy companies, down from $1.9 billion at the end of last year because of the OMGPOP deal plus the $228 million it spent to buy its headquarters in San Francisco.

Barnesandnoble.com, the No. 2 Web-based bookseller in the United States, said its third-quarter loss more than doubled as it spent to improve service.

Genentech, which has never before revealed what it spent to develop Avastin, now says that it and its partner Roche have spent more than $2.25 billion starting with Dr. Ferrara's original work.

Thanks to the $28 billion it spent to acquire NBCU, Comcast is the world's largest media firm, with a market capitalisation of around $128 billion.

Central government has a target for 50% of its IT spend to go on cloud services by 2015.

Tech stocks were mixed after research firm Gartner said it expects IT spending to grow 5% in 2011.

It is good that some conservatives now see the light even though it took "spending" to bring it about.

As a firm it is spending to have an impact.

It spent $6 million to blast the tanks.