Although Netflix is phasing out the disc service, the company hung on to more of the DVD subscribers than it anticipated during the fourth quarter.

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Leong runs successful real estate company Tai Hung Fai, but it is also expanding into the hotel business (see related article here).

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When Charter emerged from bankruptcy court, Allen hung on to a small equity stake in the company.

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Founded in 1963 by the company's late patriarch, Sun Hung Kai developed into one of Hong Kong's most successful businesses, and when the elder Kwok died in 1990, he left the reins of Sun Hung Kai to his three sons, with the eldest, Walter Kwok, at the helm.

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An executive director at Sun Hung Kai Properties was arrested in connection with what the company said is a bribery investigation by Hong Kong authorities.

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At one of the companies, at EMC, where I went today -- wonderful company, passed on through generations -- they have hung on with their precision manufacturing, high value added.

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Meanwhile, rumors continue to circulate about a radically new iPad from Apple -- the world's leading consumer electronics company that has never and will never attend CES and whose ghost hung heavily over Las Vegas this week.

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An outside buyout of Sun Hung Kai is unlikely, however, because the brothers own more than half of the company.

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But despite calls for his head, Sir Martin not only hung on to his job, but negotiated himself a fat compensation package for rescuing a company he had almost killed.

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Sun Hung Kai's board later appointed Thomas and Raymond Kowk, along with their mother to head the company.

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