News tagged with billionaire
Commercial spacecraft speeds toward space station
(AP) -- Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies Tuesday after a ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 22, 2012 |
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Buffett's Berkshire to buy Media General papers
(AP) -- Billionaire Warren Buffett's company is making another foray into newspapers, agreeing to buy 63 newspapers from Media General Inc. for $142 million.
May 17, 2012 |
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Zuckerberg's Facebook story is study in contrasts
(AP) -- When Hollywood set out to tell the story of how Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, it enjoyed the flexibility of portraying a man who, despite his social network's worldwide reach, was all but unknown ...
May 16, 2012 |
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Liberty to boost stake in Sirius XM to 45 pct
(AP) -- Billionaire John Malone's Liberty Media Corp. said Tuesday that it will spend $650 million to increase its effective control of satellite radio company Sirius XM Radio Inc. to 45.2 percent.
May 08, 2012 |
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Facebook billionaire shuns luxury for startup life
(AP) -- Facebook co-founder and former Mark Zuckerberg roommate Dustin Moskovitz is by many accounts the world's youngest self-made billionaire. But the 27-year-old isn't sipping champagne in the Caribbean.
Apr 29, 2012 |
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New board member says RIM turnaround to take years
(AP) -- The newest board member of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion says a turnaround could take three to five years.
Apr 26, 2012 |
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IBM partners with Brazil billionaire Batista's EBX
US computer giant IBM has signed a deal to purchase 20 percent of a subsidiary of Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista's EBX group in exchange for a $1 billion contract, the companies announced.
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Richard Branson headed to 'center of Earth'
British tycoon Richard Branson may have lost his race to the bottom of the ocean, but not his sense of humor, declaring Friday a faux plan to top his rivals by voyaging to the center of the Earth.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Zuckerberg's China trip sparks Facebook frenzy
The sight of a vacationing Mark Zuckerberg in Shanghai has sparked a frenzy of online speculation over the possibility Facebook might return to China, even though the site remains firmly blocked.
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Branson congratulates 'incredible' Cameron dive
British billionaire and adventurer Richard Branson may have lost his unwritten race to the bottom of the ocean with James Cameron, but he told AFP Monday he wants to team up with the Hollywood director.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 26, 2012 |
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First commercial cargo run to space station April 30
The International Space Station should be getting its first commercial cargo shipment in early May.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Four Canadians indicted on US gambling charges
US authorities seized the gambling website Bodog on Tuesday and announced the indictment of four Canadians on charges of illegal sports betting and money laundering, including founder Calvin Ayre.
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Motorola Solutions buying $1.17B shares from Icahn
(AP) -- Motorola Solutions Inc. is buying about $1.17 billion of its stock back from billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
Feb 27, 2012 |
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For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life
(AP) -- Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker. For most people, that word means something malicious - shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains ...
Feb 05, 2012 |
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Will Facebook deliver an IPO surprise?
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turns up at business conventions in a hoodie. "Cocky" is the word used to describe him most often, after "billionaire." He was Time's person of the year at 26.
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Billionaire
A billionaire, in countries that use the short scale number naming system, is a person who has a net worth of at least one billion units of a given currency, usually the United States dollar, Euro, or Pound sterling. Forbes magazine updates a complete list of U.S. dollar billionaires around the world every year.
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