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Money – It was freezing outside yesterday, but that couldn't stop merger activity from heating up. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn offered to pay $2.31 billion for the 84% of auto-parts maker Lear he doesn't already own.
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 02:22pm
Money – London -Warren Buffett, the 76-year-old billionaire-cum-stock market deity, will soon be seen by travelers at Omaha airport donning a chauffeur's cap and parking up his 2001 Lincoln Town Car at the arrivals area to pick up an individual known only as "Bill Zanker."
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 12:36pm
News – A South Korean businessman convicted of accepting at least $2 million to secretly work on Iraq 's behalf to influence the United Nations' oil-for-food program was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison.
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 12:35pm
Money – US billionaire George Soros donates $50m to a UN project that aims to tackle poverty and Aids in Africa.
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 12:35pm
Money – WASHINGTON-A key adviser to billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian resigned from the General Motors board yesterday, citing a boardroom environment unreceptive to extensive probing and ``grave reservations" about GM's abilities against Asian competitors. Kerkorian, meanwhile, signalled he would not acquire more stock in the world's biggest aut
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 12:35pm
Money – The world's richest are getting younger and richer with more Russians and Indians cropping up among the 946 people on Forbes magazine's 2007 billionaires list.
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 12:01pm
Money – Billionaire Warren Buffett's gift to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation shows the benefits of giving now -- still, some donors can risk running out of funds. Plus... some good links to check on the integrity of your favorite charities.
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 12:01pm
Money – There's not much middle ground for Ted Turner when it comes to the future of energy in the United States. "What we need is a moratorium on all new coal plants, on all new carbon-producing energy power technologies, and work on replacing them with renewable alternatives," the billionaire founder of CNN said Wednesday.
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 11:51am
Money – This article talks about the effects of the housing bubble and current economic indicators on how they willl affect the construction and remodeling industries.
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 11:51am
Money – As Michael Fowlkes notes in his post this morning, Bill Gates topped Forbes' rich list yet again, with a net worth of $53 billion. I trace the reason why Gates is the world's richest person back to a decision he made at the dawn of the PC age.
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 11:51am
Money – Stocks pared steep losses on Monday to end narrowly mixed after a surprise drop in new home sales for February triggered further concern that economic growth is slowing more than expected.
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 11:51am
News – Japanese billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto has selected the first four of eight Native Hawaiian families that will each rent one of his multimillion-dollar homes in the exclusive oceanside Kahala area for $150 a month.
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 11:42am
Money – Blackstone Group LP, one of the world's biggest private equity firms, said on Thursday that it seeks to raise up to $4 billion in a highly anticipated initial public offering.
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 11:42am
News – The number of billionaires in China and India nearly doubled in the last year, pushing Japan from Asia's top spot for the first time in 20 years, according to Forbes Magazine's latest rich list.
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 11:39am
Family – Warren Buffett doesn't believe in giving money to his children, calling it "un-American," while most billionaires happily make their children the trustees of their riches. What would you do?
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Voted for on July 31, 2007 11:28am