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February 24, 2009

North East newspapers launch virtual stock trading game

By Dominic wireposts

The Newcastle-based Journal and Middlesbrough Evening Gazette are offering every visitor to their business news website £100,000 cash.

The virtual money is to be play a new online stocks and shares trading game called Taking Stock.

The game will be based on the Trinity Mirror titles’ nebusiness.co.uk website using software developed by Newcastle company Scott Logic.

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