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Blinkx breaks slide despite profit fall
Shares in the video search engine bounce after the group?s reassurance that the integration of two US advertising companies it acquired is on track

Small-cap week: Chariot falls
The explorer slumped after it warned that a frontier exploration well that had cost about $75m to drill would be plugged and abandoned

Windfall boosts PV Crystalox Solar stock
Shares in the solar panel wafer manufacturer more than doubled after it received a ?90m windfall from the termination of a long-term supply contract

Law firms weigh up merger
Field Fisher Waterhouse and Lawrence Graham said they were considering a tie-up that would put the new entity among the top 25 law firms in the UK

Notonthehighstreet gets funding to branch out
Marketplace for British artesan business wins £10m in a funding round with technology venture capital

Subtraction of Plus to underline deficit
Fragile investor sentiment is partly to blame, but a broader worry is that investment in smaller groups via public markets is in irreversible decline

Small caps: Sceptre shares fall
Fruit machine and jukebox supplier calls shareholder meeting to vote on the cancellation of its Aim quotation

Adventis acts after capital raising fails
Lloyds has indicated it is willing to launch insolvency proceedings or force the group into administration if tech sale does not cover debt

Study setback weighs on Phytopharm
Drug developer unveils disappointing results from a pre-clinical study into the effectiveness of its glaucoma treatment

Oilex slides after pipeline failures
Shares in the Aim-listed oil and gas explorer fall to 52-week low after setbacks at onshore test well in Indian state of Gujarat

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