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Wednesday 05 August 2009 8:00 pm  |  Updated:  Friday 31 May 2019 4:54 am

HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS

By: admindrupal

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ITV IS SET to sell its social network Friends Reunited for just £25m to Brightsolid, a subsidiary of Beano publisher DC Thomson, having bought the site for £170m less than four years ago. The ailing broadcaster was last night thrashing out the terms of a deal with the Dundee-based publisher and hopes to announce the sale at today’s results.

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