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William Gates

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Finance | Technology

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Board Member: Microsoft Corporation

Co-Chair & Trustee: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Board of Directors: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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4 hours:

Ex-Sun chief dishes dirt on Gates, Jobs

Don't expect Jonathan Schwartz to go quietly. The former CEO of Sun Microsystems has taken to his personal blog, provocatively titled "What I couldn't say...," to dish some industry dirt and tell his side of the story about the demise of Sun. He has already hinted at plans to write a book, and a new ... - read more at The Industry Standard

tags: Jobs Sun Apple Google Microsoft Oracle Steve Ballmer Jonathan Schwartz

6 hours:

What We're Reading: Barbie, Steve Jobs and Carly Fiorina

Our daily roundup of Web gems includes a deeper look at Barbie the engineer, Carly Fiorina's tenure at Hewlett-Packard, Jonathan Schwartz's battles with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and a pricing glitch at Amazon.com. - read more at New York Times - Technology

tags: Steve Jobs Amazon.com Hewlett-Packard

7 hours:

How Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Others Use Patents to Bully Companies

Jonathon Schwartz former President and CEO of Sun Microsystems offers an insiders look at how companies like Apple and Microsoft use patents to bully others. - read more at iClarified

tags: Apple Microsoft Sun Microsystems

8 hours:

Bill Gates To “Top” Warren Buffett Tomorrow?

Tomorrow, Forbes will release its annual list of the richest billionaires in the world. Who will take the number one and two spots? The CNBC brain trust has crunched some numbers and is guessing it'll be Gates, followed by Buffett. This is all pretty upsetting to everyone in the Oracle's camp, as it ... - read more at DealBreaker

tags: Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway

10 hours:

Fearless Forecast: Gates Will Top Buffett as World's Richest ...

When Forbes releases its annual ranking of the world's richest billionaires tomorrow (Wednesday), it appears likely Warren Buffett will once again come in behind his friend and online bridge partner, Bill Gates. - read more at CNBC

tags: Buffett

11 hours:

The great iPad death watch

Even before Apple ships Steve Jobs' latest creation, the critics are dancing on its grave Photo: Apple Inc. AAPLinvestors' Terry Gregory, a longtime Apple (AAPL)AAPL) stockholder, likes to collect what he believes to be misguided quotes about the company's products. His site hosts a fascinating list of early ... - read more at Apple 2.0 (Fortune blogs)

tags: Apple Inc Google Steve Jobs Microsoft TheStreet.com FOXNews.com Twitter

12 hours:

The Secret Origin of Windows

harrymcc writes "Windows has been so dominant for so long that it's easy to forget Windows 1.0 was vaporware, mocked both outside and inside of Microsoft - and that its immediate successors were considered stopgaps until OS/2 was everywhere. Tandy Trower, the product manager who finally got Windows ... - read more at Slashdot

tags: Windows Steve Ballmer Ray Ozzie

16 hours:

Drumbeat: March 9, 2010

Mexico Oil Politics Keeps Riches Just Out of Reach VENUSTIANO CARRANZA, Mexico — To the Mexican people, one of the great achievements in their history was the day their president kicked out foreign oil companies in 1938. Thus, they celebrate March 18 as a civic holiday. Yet today, that 72-year-old act ... - read more at The Oil Drum

tags: Chevron Corp Exxon Mobil Corp Sunoco Inc Valero Energy Corp MoMA Museum of Modern Art Arrow Energy Ltd BP Plc PetroChina EnCana Korea Gas Corp Royal Dutch Shell Plc Samsung Heavy Industries Co Sasol (SOLJ.J) Total SA Massachusetts Institute of Technology liquefied natural gas Chief Executive Officer Pat Davies Elizabeth Pierce

3/8/10:

Ethanol Making Comeback as Valero Sees Profit Where Gates Lost

Ethanol, the commodity that cost Bill Gates more than $44 million the last time prices collapsed, is poised to rally as much as 20 percent as the fastest drop since 2008 spurs demand. - read more at BusinessWeek

3/8/10:

Don't buy Obama's greenwashing of nuclear power

by Erich Pica On Feb. 16, while President Obama was in Maryland announcing an $8.3 billion taxpayer-backed loan guarantee for Southern Company to build two new nuclear reactors in Georgia, inspectors at the Vermont Yankee reactor were finding dangerously high levels of tritium, a radioactive cancer-causing ... - read more at Grist.org

tags: Entergy Southern Company

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