EBay's Whitman topples Fiorina from top spot on Fortune list
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The title of most powerful businesswoman is going, going, gone, to eBay Inc.'s Meg Whitman.
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By Tom Walker, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Jun. 26--OPRAH NO. 1 ON FORBES' LIST OF CELEBRITIES: Media maven Oprah  Winfrey is the biggest of big shots in the universe of celebrities, as Forbes  (July 2) sees it.
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(InfoWorld) - Technology executives dominated the top 10 of Forbes magazine's list of 400 richest Americans this year with Microsoft Co-Founder and Chairman Bill Gates retaining his place at the top of the annual list for the 14th time. According to Forbes, Gates is worth $59 billion. In all, five of the top 10 are technology executives. Larry Ellison from Oracle and Michael Dell from Dell were No. 4 and No. 8, respectively. Oracle's chairman is worth $26 billion, according to Forbes, while Dell's net worth is $17.2 billion. Breaking the top 10 for the first time were Google wunderkinds Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who also were among the youngest of the top 400 richest Americans. Both Google co-founders and co-presidents are 34 and shared the No. 5 spot with a net worth of $18.5 million; only the 317th richest American John Arnold, a hedge-fund billionaire in Houston, is younger than Brin and Page. Google's Page also caught up to Brin's bank account in 2007. Last year, Brin held the No. 12 spot at $14.1 billion in net worth, while Page was a hair behind at No. 13 with $14 billion. Number two on the list was Gates's friend Warren Buffett of Omaha, Nebraska-based holding company Berkshire Hathaway, who has pledged a significant amount of his wealth to The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Forbes said that Buffet is worth $52 billion. While Sheldon Adelson, with a net worth of $28 billion, no doubt owes his number-three spot to his Las Vegas casino and hotel holdings, he's a familiar name to tech veterans as the impresario once behind the now-defunct Comdex mega-tradeshow. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen slipped from his position at No. 5 last year to No. 11 this year, just missing the top 10. Allen is worth $16.8 million, according to Forbes. Current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, worth $15.2 billion, also fell from 15th last year to 16th this year. Other high-tech executives who made a strong showing on the list in 2007 are eBay's founder and Chairman Pierre Omidyar, who came in 32nd with a net worth of $8.9 billion; Amazon.com founder, Chairman, CEO and President Jeff Bezos, who is worth $8.7 billion and tied with another high-tech billionaire, SAS Institute's James Goodnight, for 35th; and Google's CEO Eric Schmidt, who came in 48th and is worth $6.5 billion.
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin crack the list of 10 wealthiest people in the U.S. for the first time.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s early efforts to plug a boardroom leak targeted the phone records of then-chief executive Carly Fiorina, according to a source familiar with one of the investigations looming over the computer maker.
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eBay exceeded Wall Street&#39;s earnings and revenue expectations for its fourth quarter and,&#160;as expected, announced that Meg Whitman will step down as president and CEO at the end of March, ending a 10-year tenure at the helm of the e-commerce giant.
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Longtime EBay CEO Meg Whitman is expected to announce her retirement sometime in the next few weeks.
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Â· Clinton's rival raises record breaking $32m in a monthÂ· Schwarzenegger endorses Republican frontrunner
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EBay Inc., the world&#39;s largest Internet auctioneer, said third-quarter earnings surged 77 percent as the number of listings rose and the company expanded its PayPal e-mail payment service in Europe.
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The title of most powerful businesswoman is going, going, gone, to eBay Inc.&#39;s Meg Whitman. The president and chief executive of the auction website surpassed
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The memoir of fallen  Hewlett-Packard Co. leader Carly Fiorina, once America's most  powerful woman chief executive, paints an unsparing picture of  the internal power struggles and gender politics that  prefigured America's most public corporate boardroom scandal.
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EBay Inc warned that results for the current quarter and year would fall below Wall Street expectations, spoiling strong 2007 year-end results and the planned departure of long-serving Chief Executive Meg Whitman.
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Going... going... Long-serving eBay sultana Meg Whitman is set to hang up her hammer within weeks, it's reported, as the web's number one tat bazaar struggles to restore trust and respond to new challengers.â¦
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Bill Gates tops Forbes magazine's yearly list, which also includes Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, and Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the top ten.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg is apparently even richer than anyone realized. Forbes magazine's annual list of richest Americans is estimating his wealth at twice the number it gave last year, vaulting him to the rank of 25 with a fortune estimated at $11.5 billion.
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English and Irish classic winner Ouija Board (GB) more than justified the hype surrounding her presence in the $1-million Breedersâ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1), surging past Grade 1 winner Film Maker in the lane to capture the 1 3/8-mile contest at
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The Nasdaq may be well off its highs of the dot-com era, but tech tycoons still top the list of the wealthiest Americans. For the 11th consecutive year, Microsoft Corp.