Former Goldman director Rajat Gupta charged in US insider case
March 2nd, 2011 - 11:39 am ICT by IANS
Washington, March 2 (IANS) Indian American Rajat Gupta, a former director at Goldman Sachs, has been slapped with insider trading charges for allegedly leaking secret details to Galleon ... Read more...
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Obama bestows George Bush with America’s highest civilian honour
February 16th, 2011 - 3:48 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb.16 (ANI): US President Barack Obama honoured 41st president George H W Bush with America's highest civilian honour on Tuesday.Obama praised Bush, as a "diplomatic hand" who made possible what ... Read more...
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Missing Google executive in Egypt to be released
February 7th, 2011 - 12:23 pm ICT by IANS
Cairo/Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) A senior Google executive, who mysteriously went missing over a week ago after emerging as a key figure in the Egypt protests against the 30-year rule of ... Read more...
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Comedian claims request for $1m on YouTube has been answered
January 21st, 2011 - 5:37 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 21 (ANI): A man in US, who made an appeal on YouTube for 1 million dollars, has claimed that a mystery benefactor has answered his request.Craig Rowin, 27, said ... Read more...
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Is Greg Abel The Prospective Successor Of Warren Buffett?
January 19th, 2011 - 7:55 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Jan 19, (THAINDIAN NEWS) CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett has not yet revealed who is going to succeed him, after he calls for retirement. However, thanks to a famous ... Read more...
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Greg Abel Represents A New Contender For The Post Of The Billionaire, Warren Buffett
January 19th, 2011 - 6:42 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
January 19, 2011 (Pen Men at Work): The billionaire, Warren Buffett, possesses a succession strategy that has still not been divulged. However, this plan is turning out to be a topic of ... Read more...
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WikiLeaks: British businessmen overeducated, says Branson
December 21st, 2010 - 12:48 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 21 (IANS) Virgin group owner Richard Branson, who left school at 15 and ran his own business when others his age were studying, believes that "British entrepreneurs are overeducated", ... Read more...
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Time Person Of The Year 2010 Award Goes To Marc Zuckerberg!
December 16th, 2010 - 8:39 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Dec 16, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The CEO of popular social networking site Facebook has added yet another feather to his cap of achievements. Marc Zuckerberg who shot to global fame after ... Read more...
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Facebook founders pledge to give away wealth to charity
December 10th, 2010 - 10:16 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz have joined 15 other billionaires in a pledge to donate over half of their wealth to charity.Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old chief ... Read more...
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IAEA board agrees to set up nuclear fuel bank
December 4th, 2010 - 4:30 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 4 (IANS) Aiming to curb proliferation of nuclear material, the UN nuclear energy watchdog has decided to set up a $150-million uranium bank which would guarantee unrestricted supply of ... Read more...
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Obama to award Bush ‘Presidential Medal of Freedom’
November 18th, 2010 - 2:38 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 18 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has announced that he would award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honour, to George W Bush next year.According to ... Read more...
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Warren Buffet’s 2010 Regulatory Filing Unveils Surprise Moves
November 17th, 2010 - 12:17 am ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Nov 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) While the eighty year old chairman Warren Buffett is known for making multi-million dollar bets on stocks, his regulatory filing for the year 2010 shows quite a ... Read more...
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Warren Buffett Vends Stakes In Carmax, Home Depot And Republic As Per His 2010 Regulatory Filing
November 16th, 2010 - 8:47 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
November 16, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): The 80-year-old Warren Buffett, one of the world’s most renowned stock pickers, is referred to as the ‘Oracle of Omaha’, whose decisions are analyzed ... Read more...
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Warren Buffett Reduces Stock In Capital Goods Entities, Shows 2010 Regulatory Filing
November 16th, 2010 - 8:17 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Nov 16, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Warren Buffett led Berkshire Hathaway has sold its shares in capital goods, consumer durables and industrial sector in the third quarter of this year. A regulatory ... Read more...
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Todd Anthony Combs: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Successor
October 26th, 2010 - 7:19 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Oct 26, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Warren Buffett is now counting upon the potential of a young soul to be the new leader of his revered conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, Oracle of Omaha ... Read more...
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New Recruit At Berkshire Likely To Be Buffett’s Successor
October 26th, 2010 - 7:03 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
October 26, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Berkshire Hathaway known as BRK.A in short was rife with the rumors of Warren Buffett grooming his successor. The rumors started circulating after a ... Read more...
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According to Warren Buffet the recession is not yet over
September 24th, 2010 - 8:18 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Sep 24 (THAINDIAN NEWS) US billionaire Warren Buffett says that the United States economy is still in crisis because Americans are not doing as much as they did before the recession hit ... Read more...
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Four of Indian-origin among America’s 400 super-rich
September 23rd, 2010 - 7:51 pm ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, Sep 23 (IANS) Four Indian Americans figure in Forbes magazine's annual list of the 400 richest Americans, with Microsoft founder Bill Gates topping for the 17th year in ... Read more...
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Chinese billionaire to donate entire fortune
September 7th, 2010 - 5:05 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Sep 7 (IANS) A billionaire has pledged to donate his entire fortune to charity after his death, becoming the first in China to do so.
Chen Guangbiao, chairman of Jiangsu Huangpu ... Read more...
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Billionaires sign up to donate fortune (Lead)
August 5th, 2010 - 5:50 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 5 (IANS) Billionaires in the US are queuing up to give away half of their mind-boggling fortune to charity.
Investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates started the campaign to ... Read more...
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40 US billionaires pledge to donate to charity
August 5th, 2010 - 8:05 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 5 (IANS) Forty billionaires and their families in the US have pledged to donate more than half of their fortune to charity.
The donators include Microsoft founder Bill Gates, businessman Warren ... Read more...
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Buffett defends rating agencies’ role in crisis
June 3rd, 2010 - 1:02 am ICT by IANS
New York, June 2 (IANS) Billionaire investor Warren Buffett Wednesday defended the role of credit rating agencies during the global financial crisis, saying they got it wrong while rating the US mortgage ... Read more...
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Cartoons with Warren Buffet’s financial advice to debut at Berkshire Meeting
April 29th, 2010 - 10:35 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Omaha, Apr 29 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Warren Buffet’s cartoons in which he doles out financial advice, are now ready to make their debut at the Berkshire meeting this weekend. They would also ... Read more...
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Warren Buffett’s Cartoon That Features Economic Lessons To Premiere
April 29th, 2010 - 8:28 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
April 29, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): The long-delayed cartoon that consists of fiscal tutorials from the billionaire Warren Buffett will, at last, debut this weekend at Berkshire Hathaway's yearly meeting and ... Read more...
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Warren Buffett Cartoon To Go Online Soon
April 29th, 2010 - 8:01 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Apr 29, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A cartoon series that was planned for long featuring financial tips from Warren Buffett will be unveiled finally at the yearly meeting of Berkshire Hathaway and ... Read more...
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Rajat Gupta may have tipped off Rajaratnam on deal: WSJ
April 23rd, 2010 - 8:14 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 23 (IANS) Rajat Gupta, Indian-American director of Goldman Sachs, may have tipped off hedge-fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam about a $5 billion investment in Goldman by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway before ... Read more...
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Ben Affleck launches aid foundation in Congo
March 24th, 2010 - 6:45 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 24 (ANI): Actor Ben Affleck has established a new aid foundation to help women and children affected by rape and sexual violence in the troubled region of eastern Congo.Affleck, 37, ... Read more...
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Warren Buffett imitates Axl Rose in a rock star video
March 19th, 2010 - 8:25 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Mar 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) One of the richest men in the world – Warren Buffett is now to be seen in a music video, in which he is impersonating ... Read more...
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Warren Buffett Turns Rockstar In Geico Video
March 19th, 2010 - 7:33 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Mar 19, (THAINDIAN NEWS) It is quite hard to visualize billionaire Warren Buffett as a rock star. He has closely followed Bill gates in the Forbes yearly list of the ... Read more...
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Forbes says Gates no longer the world’s richest
March 11th, 2010 - 2:34 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Mar.11 (ANI): Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, knocking Microsoft founder Bill Gates into second spot, as the wealth of the world's billionaires grew by 50 per ... Read more...
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Mukesh Ambani, Lakshmi Mittal among world’s top ten billionaires
March 11th, 2010 - 10:35 am ICT by IANS
By Arun Kumar
Washington, March 11 (IANS) Indians Mukesh Ambani and Lakshmi Mittal figured among world's top ten billionaires as Mexican tycoon Carlo Slim Helu beat Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett ... Read more...
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Warren Buffet reveals in his annual letter what’s in the future for the investors
March 3rd, 2010 - 12:00 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Mar 2 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Warren Buffets annual letter to the Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholders, gave an idea of what the future holds for all the investors. In the letter, he ... Read more...
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Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter To The Shareholders Released
March 2nd, 2010 - 9:33 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Washington, Mar 2, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Warren Buffett's 20 page annual letter addressed to the new shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway was released on Saturday. In this letter apart from his use ... Read more...
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Warren Buffett Says Taxpayers May Profit From Bank Bailout
February 10th, 2010 - 8:42 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Feb 10, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Billionaire Warren Buffet and former Treasury chief Henry Paulson affirmed that the taxpayers of USA will get back the money taken from them during the bank ... Read more...
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Berkshire Hathaway Gives Nod For Stock Split
January 21st, 2010 - 7:39 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Jan 21, (THAINDIAN NEWS) In a recent development, the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. have given their nod for splitting the class B shares of the company. This development comes ... Read more...
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