Had you backed them to split £10 stakes, you would have finished £37.30 in the red.
ABC's owner, the Walt Disney Company, which invested in Hulu in 2009, and News Corporation are likely to split Providence's stake, gaining more control of the site.
Web publishers like Ask.com and Time Warner's AOL, in which Google has a 5% stake, split revenues from Googles ads and generate cash for Google.
"We are a neutral body moving forward to persuade, ultimately, the Legislature and Senate to approve our state split," said Preston, who stakes his movement's claim to legitimacy on Article 4, Section 3 of the US Constitution, which says that new states can be formed out of existing states as long as the US Congress and the relevant state legislature give their approval.
It promised to split the remaining majority stake between the government and an employee trust.
And, in the wake of the company's split, a one-third stake in ITT's directories business will be sold for $225m to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, a buy-out firm.
Like many ageing stars with their creative peak far behind them, Hucknall has dedicated his solo career (amazingly, Simply Red only split in 2009) to staking claims on the music of others, replacing Rod Stewart in the re-formed Faces and recording cover albums.
The VIACOM (33, VIA.B) plan to split off its 81% stake in Blockbuster, given its shrinking video-rental business, is far worse.
After being the head of New York City's Agency for Child Development, he made an improbable leap to Coach in 1979 and remained through the company's acquisition by Sara Lee (which in April split off its 81% stake to shareholders).
There were about a dozen kids in this gang and they had split into two teams, staking out spots on either side of the narrow river inlet that led to the sea.
