Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 14, 2011 at 4:59 am PT
Warren Buffett says he has bought 5.5 percent of IBM, which appears to make him Big Blue’s largest shareholder.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 28, 2010 at 6:25 am PT
Here’s the official press release announcing AOL’s acquisition of 5Min Media. Sources familiar with the transaction tell me it’s an all-cash deal at the high end of the $50 million to $65 million range I reported earlier today. So let’s call it $65 million.
Kara Swisher in News on March 11, 2010 at 9:31 am PT
Microsoft bigwig Bill Gates got hip-checked off the top perch as the richest man in the world by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim on the annual Forbes list of the world’s Richie Richs.
Often in the No. 1 spot, Gates actually got shoved off in 2008 by investor Warren Buffett (now No. 3), with whom he is good friends.
Gates returned to the top rank in 2009, and now Slim–a telecom and more tycoon–has surpassed Gates’s net worth of $53 billion slightly with a $53.5 billion kitty.
Drake Martinet in Social on December 13, 2009 at 9:00 am PT
This week: We grabbed a coffee with Ethan Bloch, CEO of Flowtown, a platform that aims to help businesses understand the people on their mailing lists.
He swears it’s not stalking.
Kara Swisher in News on September 15, 2009 at 12:01 pm PT
Folksy set was on the highest burner possible at Fortune magazine’s Most Powerful Women’s conference this morning, as legendary financial investor Warren Buffett took to the stage.
Buffett, who was interviewed by Fortune’s terrific Carol Loomis onstage in Carlsbad, Calif., held forth to the crowd–made up mostly of women–having instructed Loomis previously to “do anything with me…I like your crowd.”
Kara Swisher in News on September 11, 2009 at 12:15 am PT
Time Inc.’s Fortune magazine–which never met a list it did not like to make–had a solid group of women tech types on its “50 Most Powerful Women 2009” roster, the annual survey that it posted yesterday.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz made the Top Ten this year, clocking in at No. 8, along with a lot of other tech-savvy women in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
Geoffrey Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 9, 2009 at 5:02 am PT
When Warren Buffett auctioned off lunch with himself for charity last month, the winning bidder remained anonymous.
It turns out that the person who spent $1,680,300 for lunch with the investment guru wasn’t a person at all: it was Canadian wealth-management firm Salida Capital.
