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The BBC will publish a report this month that will explain why privatising the news outlet could cause the United Kingdom to lose £4 billion, according figures from accountancy firm Deloitte, The Telegraph reported Sunday. The move aims to fight back at criticism that the corporation is a "drain on the licence feepayer," according to The Guardian.

The BBC makes about £7.6 billion per year for the British economy, and without the corporation, independent TV and radio production companies would also lose £1.4 billion, according to the report. Ventures like the BBC's Freeview service has created a sub-industry that's worth around £90 million to £250 yearly, the report is also expected to argue.

More than 180 years as a paid-for newspaper will end as the London Evening Standard positions itself as a free newspaper, the paper announced today.

Russian owner Alexander Lebedev, who purchased 75.1 percent of the Evening Standard in January, called the London Evening Standard the first leading quality newspaper to go free and was sure others would follow, according to redOrbit.com.

An idea five years in the making may finally have its day, The Associated Press reported Monday.

In response to public outrage, Microsoft in 2004 formally withdrew a plan to impose a gatekeeping function with every Windows interface via the Internet. "This is a personal promise directly from Microsoft to you, and you acknowledge as a condition of benefiting from it that no Microsoft rights are received from suppliers, distributors, or otherwise in connection with this promise," pledged the company in an online statement.