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Aurum Exploration Services started in a cyclical downturn, so it knows how to cope with current conditionsÔÇövia original ideas, comprehensive resources and customer service, as Ruari McCallion found.
The name says a lot, but not everything. Aurum is the Latin for gold, so you would expect Aurum Exploration Services to be interested in the yellow stuff. And it isÔÇöbut not to the exclusion of all else.

A positive impact
Alan Swaby talks to a South African metal recycler and learns about some of the issues facing the industry as a whole.
As well as being managing director of one of JohannesburgÔÇÖs top five waste metal recyclers, Juan Patuel is also chairman of the Metal Recycling Association of South Africa (MRASA). As such, he comes into contact with all the issues affecting the collection and disposal of scrap metals in the country today.

Southwest Airlines has announced it will bid a minimum of $113.6 million for its low-fare rival Frontier Airlines, which is currently operating under bankruptcy protection.

FirstRand, South Africa's biggest financial services group, has agreed a strategic partnership with China's second-largest bank China Construction Bank (CCB), it was announced yesterday.

Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a ten-year search and advertising partnership in an attempt to rival market-leading search giant Google.  Under the terms of the agreement, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft will handle the search technology and Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo! will drive the sales for search advertising.  MicrosoftÔÇÖs recently-released Bing search engine will be the search and paid search platform for Yahoo!ÔÇÖs sites. Google currently holds more than 70 percent of the global market for paid search results. Yahoo!

Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a ten-year search and advertising partnership in an attempt to rival market-leading search giant Google.  Under the terms of the agreement, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft will handle the search technology and Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo! will drive the sales for search advertising.  MicrosoftÔÇÖs recently-released Bing search engine will be the search and paid search platform for Yahoo!ÔÇÖs sites.  Google currently holds more than 70 percent of the global market for paid search results. Yahoo!

Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a ten-year search and advertising partnership in an attempt to rival market-leading search giant Google.  Under the terms of the agreement, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft will handle the search technology and Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo! will drive the sales for search advertising.  MicrosoftÔÇÖs recently-released Bing search engine will be the search and paid search platform for Yahoo!ÔÇÖs sites.   Google currently holds more than 70 percent of the global market for paid search results. Yahoo!

Cadbury plc, the worldÔÇÖs second-largest confectionery maker, has almost tripled its net profits in the first half of this year, it announced yesterday.

Sprint Nextel has agreed to purchase Virgin Mobile USA for $483 million, in a bid to strengthen its position in the fast-growing prepaid cell phone market. Kansas-based Sprint, the third-largest US wireless carrier, already has a 31 percent stake in New Jersey-based Virgin Mobile USA, which will now become a prepaid Sprint brand.

Spanish banking group Santander has reported a 30 per cent jump in pre-tax profits for its UK arm in the first half of this year.