Gates Joins Berkshire Board
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So, what does a board with more than $100 billion in wealth do for an encore?
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Heads turned when Warren Buffett's investment firm Berkshire Hathaway Inc. purchased Jordan's Furniture in 1999. What made the folksy Midwesterner, considered the world's preeminent investor, seek a small operation in the Boston market? Forbes magazine lists Buffett as the second-richest man in the world with a net worth of $42.9 billion, below Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. Buffett recently spoke with ...
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Bill Gates is about to announce a new step in Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) home-entertainment strategy.
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Swiss Reinsurance, the biggest reinsurer, said billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway took a 3 percent stake and will assume a share of its non-life business, giving Swiss Re's shares their biggest spike in four years. Berkshire will get 20 percent of Swiss Re's property and casualty business over the next five years, Swiss Re said [...].
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The business intelligence software company joins the M&A spree.
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PeopleSoft Inc. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President Craig Conway was shown the door on Friday by the company&#39;s board of directors, who immediately replaced him with Dave Duffield, PeopleSoft&#39;s founder and chairman.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Nike Inc. Chief Executive Officer and President William Perez has been named to the company&#39;s board of directors, replacing Thomas Clarke, effective immediately.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 28 -- Warren E. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is entering the bond insurance business in a move that could lower borrowing costs for local governments having a hard time raising money during the credit crunch.
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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) chairman Bill Gates is visiting the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, but has not scheduled a meeting with the head of the antitrust office, which has imposed measures on the company.
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc , the conglomerate headed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, said on Tuesday it planned to buy 60 percent of manufacturing and services group Marmon Holdings Inc. for $4.5 billion.
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Washington, Sept. 24: Bill Gates kept his ranking atop the richest people in the United States, boosting his worth to 48 billion dollars, but investor Warren Buffett, edged closer, Forbes magazine said today.
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Learn the basic concept that helped launch Berkshire Hathaway.
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc  has won expedited licensing for a new bond insurance unit, New York State Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo said on Friday.
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the company controlled by billionaire Warren Buffett, said its General Re Corp. unit received a request from regulators for information on insurance policies designed to help mitigate losses.
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The Guardian's Bobbie Johnson reports from Las Vegas as the Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates, delivers his last Consumer Electronics Show address before he steps down later this year
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Bill Gates hints at possible partnership with giant electronics company.
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Package deal: IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) added its 14th board member, Michael L. Eskew, chairman and chief executive of United Parcel Service (nyse: UPS - news - people ), on Tuesday.