That figure, $2.5 million, "was a talking point until we concluded" the deal, for a sum believed to be about $3 million.
After weeks of speculation, DMGT confirmed this morning that it was selling a majority interest in the Standard for a "nominal sum", believed to by £1, to Evening Press Ltd, a company formed by Alexander Lebedev and his London-based son Evgeny Lebedev.
The report added: "The expectation is that a minimum 40,000 tickets will be sold, which should enable USA Rugby to make a sizeable profit after they have paid the New Zealand Rugby Union a guaranteed sum, believed to be $1m to cover their costs".
It is understood the BBC offered her a substantial sum, believed to be between £75,000 and £100,000, not to take the case to the tribunal.
They said that O'Grady would be paid "exactly the same amount as talent" as he was paid at ITV - a sum believed to be in the region of £2m - and that the channel would listen favourably to other programme pitches from the company.
F1 Health & Fitness F7 BUSINESS DAY C1-14 Record Sum for Clinton Memoir Former President Bill Clinton agreed to sell the worldwide rights to his memoir to the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf for an advance of more than $10 million, a sum believed to be the largest ever for a book of nonfiction.
In May 2008 Lund sold the Danish site ZYB to operator Vodafone Europe BV, for a sum believed to be in the region of $49m.
Pittsburgh also received an undisclosed sum, believed to be in the $3 million to $5 million range.
But today comes news of a deal that is firmly about its existing might in the latter category: Cisco is reported to be gearing up to purchase interactive TV and security specialist NDS, founded in Israel in 1988, for a sum believed to be in the region of $5 billion.
