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Bill Gates knocked off rich-list perch
News King of the minted moguls is Warren Buffett, Gates' sometimes bridge partner and chairman of holdings company Berkshire Hathaway, who has a fortune estimated at $62bn, up $10bn from a year ago. Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6bn bid to take over Yahoo! [06 Mar 2008]
StoreAge SVM Dramatically Improves Data Recovery Capabilities at Baillie Gifford; StoreAge's Solutions Ensure Data Integrity and Rapid Disaster Recovery
White Paper Baillie Gifford, one of the UK's leading asset management firms, was looking for a disaster recovery solution which would enable the replication of data between its head office and business continuity site. [14 Nov 2006]
Update: Billionaire Buffett gives $30bn to Gates Foundation
News Buffett, 75, plans to commit 10 million class B shares of his company, Berkshire Hathaway, to the Gates Foundation. While Buffett will serve as a director on the Gates Foundation, he said he prefers spending his time as a professional money manager... [27 Jun 2006]
Gates tops list of most-admired business chiefs
News Also on the list: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway (3); Richard Branson, Virgin Group (5); John Browne, BP (6); Carlos Ghosn, Nissan Motor (7); Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric (9); Rupert Murdoch, News Corp (10); John Bond, HSBC Holdings (11... [15 Dec 2005]
Gates joins Buffett at investment firm
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was elected on Tuesday to serve on the board of directors of prominent investment company Berkshire Hathaway. In doing so, Gates will serve as an advisor to longtime friend and Berkshire Hathaway chief executive Warren... [15 Dec 2004]
Google sued over alleged code theft
News The company has filed for a public offering, expected to be one of the biggest this year but it is embroiled in other lawsuits, including one by Berkshire Hathaway's Geico insurance company (which is also suing Yahoo). [01 Jul 2004]
Industry-leading Jeweler Shines Up its E-commerce Platform
White Paper Founded in 1870 and part of the Berkshire Hathaway Corporation, Borsheim's Fine Jewelry (www.borsheims.com) is located on Regency Parkway in Omaha, Nebraska. The twin demands of growth and providing service excellence increased stress on the... [22 Apr 2004]
The secret email the Microsoft VP wrote Buffett
News Buffett is the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, a kind of umbrella company that owns the Geico insurance company and portions of other businesses, including 11.8 per cent of American Express, 18.1 per cent of The Washington Post Co.and 8.2 per cent of... [18 Mar 2004]
Level 3 puts $242m on the table for Genuity
News This year Berkshire Hathaway, the investment vehicle of billionaire Warren Buffet, traditionally known for avoiding technology stocks, placed its faith in the alternative telco by buying a $100m stake. [28 Nov 2002]
Tech billionaire bails out Level 3
News Buffett's investment venture Berkshire Hathaway has agreed with Longleaf Partners Funding and Legg Mason to buy a nine per cent convertible bond due in 2012 even though Level 3's share price has dropped 42 per cent this year. [08 Jul 2002]
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