Mar 18 2009
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Mar 18 2009
Davos 07 - Aditya Mittal
Sep 17 2008
Icahn raises his stake in Motorola
Carl Icahn, the billionaire Wall Street investor, has raised his stake in Motorola, the struggling US mobile phone maker, to 6.3 per cent from a previously reported 5 per cent.
The increase in the stake, disclosed on Wednesday in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, comes as Mr Icahn steps up pressure on [...]
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Sep 17 2008
Carl Icahn to start blogging
Billionaire investor Carl Ichan on Tuesday said he is establishing a blog to discuss ideas on corporate governance, an area in which he has strong opinions.
“This country is losing its economic hegemony,” Icahn said at a corporate governance conference in New York. “I want to see who is interested in this. I really think there’s [...]
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Sep 17 2008
Icahn Reports Stake in BEA Systems
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn on Friday reported an 8.5 percent stake in software maker BEA Systems Inc. and called for the possible sale of the company, according to a regulatory filing.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Icahn said he believes BEA shares are undervalued and that a strategic acquisition of the [...]
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Sep 17 2008
Icahn Says Private Equity Rush Peaking
NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn, the man famed for hostile takeover battles for names such as TWA and RJR Nabisco, said Wednesday that the escalating amount of private-equity deals rushing the market this year has peaked.For years private equity has had a walk in the park,” Icahn said at a conference [...]
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Jul 13 2008
The secret of Bill Gates’ success
As Bill Gates prepares to end his full-time work at Microsoft, he tells the BBC in an interview that it wasn’t just what Microsoft did, but what his rivals didn’t do that let Microsoft get ahead.
“Most of our competitors were very poorly run,” he tells Fiona Bruce, for The Money Programme.
“They did not understand how [...]
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Jul 13 2008
Bill Gates Leaves His Full Time Job
Bill Gates ends his full-time job at Microsoft on a Friday afternoon and the company opens for business after the weekend as if nothing has changed.
At least, that is how Gates’ successors want to play it.
The ‘transition’, as it is called inside the company, was announced two years ago.
On the face of it, the only [...]
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Jul 13 2008
Bill Gates checks into LinkedIn
Microsoft Corp.’s big bet on Facebook’s online social network isn’t stopping Chairman Bill Gates from promoting other popular Internet hangouts.
Gates is helping out LinkedIn Corp.’s online professional network by setting up a profile on the service and posing a question to help draw more attention to a makeover of the Web site’s front page.
The question, [...]
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Jul 13 2008
Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo
Microsoft said Friday that it would offer $44.6 billion for Yahoo, the ailing search giant. The surprise offer of $31 a share represents a 62 percent premium to Thursday’s clsoing share price. Yahoo shareholders could elect to receive either cash or stock.
The proposed acquisition, the largest ever by Microsoft, would give some relief to Yahoo’s [...]
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