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FinanceProfessor.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
From Columbia Unviversity. WOW.Public Offering : Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great: "On November 12, 2009, Warren Buffett, MS ’51, and Bill Gates met with more than 700 students, faculty members and alumni from Columbia Business School in a town hall event, which was filmed for global broadcast by CNBC. Buffett and Gates responded to questions from the student body about...
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Kempton - ideas Revolutionary (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
From CNBC (transcript and video) (emphasis added), “QUESTION: Hi. My name is Katrina Gankena, and I was born in Russia. And I’m a second-year student at Columbia Business School. My question is for Mr. Gates. What industry do you think is going to produce the next Bill Gates? Because that’s the industry I want to get [...]
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Mike Hudack (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Bill Gates Wealth Index : adamiss : One way to examine this sort of wealth is to compare it to yours. Consider an average American of modest wealth. Perhaps she has a net worth of $70,000. Mr. Gates’ worth is 800,000 times larger. Which means that if something costs $100,000 to her, to Bill it’s as though it costs 12 cents. You can work out the right multiplier for your own net worth....
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Government Names (Free subscription) | yesterday
810 - Supply And Demand 810 is an MC I first heard on The Black Sunn 's projects who sent me some of his stuff recently. He's kinda working in the same vein as Black Sunn, kinda classic headnodding cratedigging hip hop, but one thing I like about 810's stuff is that he's got all these slick '80s pop/R&B samples that get chopped up into something more hip hop. This is an album he released in February,...
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
Financial Times: Raised in Alabama, Rogers started in business at the age of five, collecting empty soda bottles at the local baseball field. After graduating from Yale University in 1964, he won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. He then got his first job on Wall Street. Rogers now lives in Singapore with his wife and their two young daughters. Did you think you would get to where you are?...
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The Observer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Think a paradise break in the Indian Ocean will cost a small fortune? Not on Zanzibar where a clutch of new boutique hotels offers cool style and seriously good value Fragile thing holiday serenity. Zanzibar has the full deck of tropical idyll cards – squeaky white powder beach, azure ocean, mellow trade winds and I'm trying hard to channel the sleepy, languid pace that the island operates on,...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thierry Tilly looks like a geography teacher or a chartered accountant, or a French version of Bill Gates. He claims, variously, to be a Nato "master-spy", a confidant of presidents and prime ministers, a financial genius, a 21st-century representative of an ancient, secret order descended from the Knights Templar and a man with superhuman powers sworn to fight the forces of evil.
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kennysia.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Dear budding young entrepreneurs. If you are thinking about starting their own businesses after reading inspiring stories of the rags-to-riches of those like Richard Branson, Bill Gates or even Tony Fernandes - a word of caution. If you think having...
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Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
This year's Microsoft shareholder meeting wasn't a lot of fun for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates, thanks to shareholders grilling him about Apple and the iPhone with questions like the above. Ballmer smacked him right back: There's certainly always opportunities for improvement. There is a group of people with whom our market share is less. You take any country, including this...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Ballmer, on the other hand, had plenty to say -- particularly in response to shareholder questions about Macs, Windows, and the company's struggle to regain its footing in the market for mobile phones. More on Bill Gates
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iPhone, the Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion While Bill Gates looked on, Microsoft shareholders asked CEO Steve Ballmer about Apple at their annual meeting this morning. Steve’s CEO-speak responses illustrate the larger problem. Portfolio reports that one investor asked about the company’s reputation with young customers: “I’m just wondering why your marketing group can’t do something...
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Left I on the News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
California faces a $21 billion budget shortfall ; Gov. Schwarzenegger promises massive across-the-board budget cuts (a.k.a. service cuts). In San Francisco , Mayor Newsom asks department heads to plan for 30% budget cuts, following on 25% cuts last year. In Los Angeles, University of California Regents approved a 32% fee increase for students. Just one week ago , two of the nation's richest men, Bill...
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The New Health Dialogue (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Not many health writers -- not many writers of any ilk, for that matter -- can match T.R. Reid's ability to bring a light, witty touch to really serious topics. Like health policy around the globe. Tom (that's what the "T" in "T.R." stands for) was the featured speaker at the Peterson Institute of International Economics today. Not the usual venue for the book tour for his best-seller,...
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St. Louis CofCC Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
PC World has a rundown of the 25 most legendary quotes in tech history. You know Bill Gates’s “640K RAM is enough for anyone” is here, but Number 21 interests me, when a founder of DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) thought that there was never going to be a reason for an average person to have a [...]
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Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
It hasn't been even two years since Bill Gates left his day-to-day duties at Microsoft to focus on philanthropy, and already he's shifted mostly out of the spotlight.
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