Rupert pockets $US12.5 million bonus
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News Corp chief executive and chairman Rupert Murdoch received a bonus worth $US12.5 million for the year to June 30, 2004, taking his total remuneration to more than $US20 million.
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Wall Street's five biggest firms together paid a record $39 billion in bonuses, even though three of them suffered the worst quarterly losses in their history and shareholders lost more than $80 billion.
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A group of Canadian co-workers will finally receive C$5.75 million ($5.75 million) in prize money, three years after their winning lottery ticket was allegedly stolen and cashed in by a retailer.
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Media & professional: Controlling family of Wall Street Journal's owner agree to meet Rupert Murdoch over his $5bn takeover offer.
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Procter &amp; Gamble said Friday its chairman received a $3.5 million bonus because of the company&#39;s strong performance. The bonus payment is in addition to AG Lafley&#39;s base salary of $1.
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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is staking $12.5 billion on a bid to catch up with the West in science and technology.
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Dow Jones pays more than $500 million for Web-based Marketwatch.
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Rupert Murdoch, the world's most high-profile media mogul, stopped by The Wall Street Journal newsroom on Wednesday for the first time since his News Corp.  sealed a $5.6 billion deal to buy publisher Dow Jones & Co Inc.
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Bill Gates may not have had much of a pay rise this year but he did manage to add $2bn to his fortune to bring it up to $48bn and stay on top of the Forbes 400 list of wealthy Americans.
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Facebook founder is offering up to Â£125,000 to developers who come up with innovative programs for the site.
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A FIRED-UP Lleyton Hewitt is primed for his US Open assault at Flushing Meadows after another tournament win yesterday. That victory put him in the running for a $US500,000 ($A713,000) bonus if he manages to recapture the Grand Slam title.
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RUPERT Murdoch awarded himself a 42 per cent pay rise last year, pocketing a cool Â£9.6 million in salary and bonus from his global media empire, News Corp.
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Goldman Sachs paid its two co-presidents bonuses of about $52.5 million each for the 2006 fiscal year.
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Rupert Murdoch sees his lofty $5  billion offer to buy Dow Jones & Co. Inc. &quot;worth paying&quot; to  empower a global network of cable, print and digital  operations, including an upcoming business news cable channel,  according to a Time magazine interview on Thursday.
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Most of the $126 million that American International Group paid to settle with regulators last year came out of a bonus pool for executives.
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Rupert Murdoch is moving. The owner of News Corporation was said yesterday to have offered $44m (Â£22m) for an elegant, three-level penthouse apartment facing Central Park on Manhattan&#39;s fashionable Fifth Avenue.