Pearl estimates the most active group of e-commerce customers numbers only 2-3 million.

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By forming Pearl, each founding TV group underscored their individual and collective commitments to the vital extension of local broadcasting onto the mobile platform.

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McDonald defends the move, saying Llyn Tegid made Pearl and Glencairn employees eligible for group insurance.

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State Department officials said they were reviewing the e-mail, but had not yet verified that it came from the group responsible for kidnapping Pearl.

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The group has been linked to British shoe bomber Richard Reid and the murderers of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan last year.

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