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| From jail, Subrata Roy tries to sell the New York Plaza |
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 By Aditya Kalra and Devidutta Tripathy NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - It's hardly the $30,000 a night royal suite, but after five months in India's biggest jail, the owner of the New York Plaza and London's Grosvenor House is thrilled to be able to use a modest office as he tries to sell the iconic hotels. Indian tycoon Subrata Roy is putting up the two trophy properties and another luxury New York hotel for sale to raise $1.6 billion for the bail bond that will get him out of Tihar, a sprawling New Delhi prison complex that houses about 12,000 inmates. ...
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| John McAfee speaks at hacker conference, unveils complaint website |
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 John McAfee, the flamboyant anti-virus software industry pioneer, made a surprise appearance at a computer hackers' conference on Friday evening, where he unveiled a new website to give people a place online to vent their anger. The site, called BrownList (http://www.brownlist.com/), carries the motto "It's payback time." "This taps into anger in a positive way," he said in a brief interview before taking the stage at Def Con, the world's largest conference of computer hackers. "Instead of just lashing out, give us your positive solutions," he told an audience of hundreds of hackers taking part in a three-day conference.
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