The consumer version will be the entire web. We have billions of documents in our index and all of the tools made available for news and business will be made available for Web search, enabling artificial intelligence in the search of the entire Internet.

The new company will have different products and a presence in more markets. Demand for products turns on and off: Sometimes fixed products are hot and sometimes variable ones are. With a broader product portfolio, the company will have something to sell no matter what the environment is.

The idea came about through our partnership [with China Daily] in China, where teaching and learning of spoken English is a very high priority for people and the government. It was thought that if we could come up with a way to integrate this into our own technology, it would be helpful to school children and college students.

Preliminary evidence suggests that these compounds may have some biological activity in slowing the growth of bladder cancer cells.

This proposed acquisition will substantially increase our revenue and loan portfolio, as well as complement and strengthen established core competencies in Sydney and Melbourne.

It will create a much stronger competitor, which will be a factor for others in the industry.