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Silicon.com  | May 09, 2008

Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is to sell 50 per cent of its retail business to US retail giant Best Buy for 1.1bn - and plans to use the cash to grow its broadband business. Carphone Warehouse, which operates the 'free' broadband brand TalkTalk in the UK, will keep a half-stake in the ret...
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