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Ford Motor Co. said Friday it first learned that billionaire Kirk Kerkorian was interested in investing in the automaker in early April but was “completely unaware” that he had begun buying shares until later in the month.
Investment Guide In a government filing, Tracinda Corp. outlined an April 4 meeting between Ford Chief Executive Officer Alan [...]

WILMINGTON, Del.–Ford Motor Co. welcomes the significant investment by billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, company executives said Thursday, telling shareholders it underscores the strength of their turnaround plan.
Ford executives said their work to return the No. 2 U.S.-based car company to profitability by 2009 was taking hold and the recent acquisition of 4.7 per cent of the [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust plans to sell nearly half its stake in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in order to comply with federal tax rules, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.According to the filing, the trust has adopted a trading plan [...]

CSX, Microsoft, Washington Mutual, Nacchio in Court News
By Elizabeth Amon
March 18 (Bloomberg) — CSX Corp., the third-largest U.S.
railroad, sued TCI Fund Management and 3G Capital Partners,
accusing the hedge-fund firms of trying to change control of the
company while evading reporting requirements.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday he expects the next decade to bring even greater technological leaps than the past 10 years.In a speech to the Northern Virginia Technology Council, Gates speculated that some of the most important advances will come in the ways people interact with computers: speech-recognition technology, tablets [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday he expects the next decade to bring even greater technological leaps than the past 10 years.In a speech to the Northern Virginia Technology Council, Gates speculated that some of the most important advances will come in the ways people interact with computers: speech-recognition technology, tablets [...]

Brands
such as O2 and Topshop have been quick to jump on the social networking
bandwagon by using sites such as Facebook to target consumers , but a more
recent trend — and one that carries some risk — has been the use of
personal blogs as a communications tool.
Last month Waitrose managing
director Mark Price, nicknamed the [...]

But it does have a low annual expense ratio of 0.64 percent, reasonable for a world stock fund. Low price is the trademark of the Vanguard Group. The $6.9 billion Vanguard Global Equity Fund is up 4 percent over the past 12 months to [...]

The FINANCIAL — In the information age, staying productive requires that employees can easily navigate their company’s network and access the data they need to do their jobs. Yet a constant increase in the number of documents on the average company’s network has made finding the right information more difficult.
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Buffetts Berkshire Becomes Largest Kraft Shareholder (Update2)
By Josh P. Hamilton and Erik Holm
Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Warren Buffetts
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. became the largest shareholder in Kraft
Foods Inc., the worlds second-biggest foodmaker.
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