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While Tony Blair was schmoozing Bill Gates in Downing Street last week, Freeserve's Chief Operating ...

While Tony Blair was schmoozing Bill Gates in Downing Street last week, Freeserve's Chief Operating Officer Mark Danby was reading the riot act to assembled fund managers in the City. Not, to his credit, about the punishing 30% drop in his company's share price, but over their timidity in grasping the concept and opportunity offered by the online world When he first stepped up to the microphone, most of the audience thought the diminutive youth adjusting the gear was one of the conference technicians battling the irritating buzz which had punctuated the otherwise illuminating morning prese...

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