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Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosed

Apple, its board and Steve Jobs should have disclosed the liver transplant that Jobs received earlier this year because "it's a material fact," Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett said on CNBC's The Call this morning. Buffett was careful with his response but was clear that he believed...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Surgery, Warren Buffett, Corporate Governance, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Microsoft: Technology's Warren Buffett (at least when it comes to acquisition rumors)

Microsoft: Technology's Warren Buffett at least when it comes to acquisition rumorsyahoo vs msnThere is too much similarity in features but difference in technology to kill this deal. I don't think it would happen unless yahoo goes bankrupt. A google aquisition would make more sense.Buying Logitech it might make sense...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., acquisition rumor, Warren Buffett, Buying, acquisition

Discussion threads 2008-01-10

Microsoft: Technology's Warren Buffett (at least when it comes to acquisition rumors)

Take an industry that's worried about future demand technology. Add in a bunch of geeks drunk in Las Vegas CES. And what do you get? More merger rumors than you can handle--and most of them include Microsoft buying a company. On Thursday, Microsoft is reportedly buying most...

Tags: Acquisition, Microsoft Corp., Warren Buffett, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-10

Warren Buffett likes RSS, too

Interesting news that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has bought privately held Business Wire. There is more here than meets the eye, because Business Wire is poised to become much more than a distribution hub for press releases. Competitor PR Newswire, no doubt, will be on a similar march.As I recently...

Tags: Business Wire

Blog posts 2006-01-18

Gates joins board of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will serve as an advisor to longtime friend and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was elected Tuesday to serve on the board of directors of prominent investment company Berkshire Hathaway. In doing so, Gates will serve as an...

Tags: Board, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Warren Buffett, Corporate Governance, E-mail, Investment, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Finance, Ina Fried, Software

News items 2004-12-15

What stock is Bill Gates buying these days?

Microsoft's Bill Gates may be known for his technological savviness, but when it comes to his portfolio, his investment advisor relies greatly on Old Economy stocks. Microsoft recently ran a stock-picking contest for charity, inviting people to match wits online with company Chairman Bill Gates. Results from the first...

Tags: Stock, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Cascade Corp., Michael Larson, BuffettWhat, Investment, Finance, Rebecca Buckman, Technology News

News items 2001-05-01

Additional Resources

What powers the richest Americans?

Right now there are no greentech billionaires on Forbes' list of the 400 richest Americans. That could change. But there are over two dozen billionaires who depend directly on the fossil fuel industry for their wealth. That is just one reason it'll be very hard to reform...

Tags: Billionaire, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-01

BizQuotes 1.0 (Mobile)

BizQuotes provides you business quotes from the world's most successful business leaders. With the touch of a button you can have business wisdom and principles from many great minds including Benjamin Franklin, Warren Buffett, Mark Twain, Ted Turner, Colin Powell, Henry Ford, Dale Carnegie, Stephen Covey, and Andrew Carnegie.

Tags: Mobile, Internet Inferno, BizQuotes, Internet, Leadership, Management

Software downloads 2009-07-24

Will the Chrome OS make Google more loved or hated in OS world?

Will the Chrome OS make Google more loved or hated in OS world?Chrome OS and Google DominationHow does one compete against a "free" product?As much as I like and enjoy using its products though I have been using Bing faster and Ask more relevant a lot more lately, Google is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating systems, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, Chrome OS, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosed

Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosedFlawed logic"They?re gonna find out about it anyway so I don?t see a big privacy issue"The fact if something is found out, does not define if something is private in the first place or not.But hey, this is an...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Investment, Steve Jobs, surgery, health care, material fact, Apple Inc., absence

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Hydrogen fuel cell cars hit the road. GM hits panic button.

An eighteen hundred mile demo tour has begun. Hydrogen powered cars will wend across North America for days, having left from Chula Vista today. The run ends June 3 in Vancouver. Here's the official website for Hydrogen Road Tour 2009. The site includes...

Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, VW, General Motors Corp., Hydrogen, Daimler, A-Class F-CELL, Fuel Cell Car, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-26

Chinese electric car maker thinks green and Go America

We've read about many Chinese manufacturers cutting back, laying off, feeling the pinch of reduced consumption in the U.S. Bucking the general trend: BYD. They are a Chinese car maker and plan to introduce their plug-in electric car in the U.S. in 2011. Of course, one of...

Tags: Car, Electric Car, BYD, F3DM, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Greenest billionaires? Guess who's on top...

#1 eco-billionaire according to the "Sunday Times" in Britain: Warren Buffett, the money man of Omaha. He is listed as major player in wind energy. The "Times" just published its annual "Green Rich List." It's necessary to note that this newspaper is owned by Rupert Murdoch, but of course...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Healthcare, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Is BI recession-proof, or are we just bracing for the next shoe to drop?

The economic outlook isn't all gloom and doom. Bright spots remain in some substantial IT growth sectors--most important, in the sprawling business intelligence BI market. In the past month, we've seen solid financials--in some cases, record growth and profitability numbers--from leading BI vendors, including SAP Business Objects,...

Tags: Analytics, MicroStrategy Inc., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, James Kobielus

Blog posts 2009-02-06

Another vote for ’shovel-ready’ SOA

Another vote for ’shovel-ready’ SOASOA, people are Diggin it...I also blogged Shovel-ready SOA here:http://www.soacenter.com/?p=177Like the ?Shovel ready? infrastructure projects like the national road system, the ?business justification? is slightly limited on a case by case basis. How can I justify the cost of a highway system if I?m only thinking...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Shovel Ready SOA, SOA, road system

Discussion threads 2009-02-05

What is American?

What is American?hear hearI agree wholeheartedly, JohnCompletely agree! Great post.I completely agree with your post, John. I hate it when people try to impose what being an American means. Being American means being someone who is willing to learn and word hard to achieve his dreams, not someone who thinks...

Tags: H-1B program, H-1B

Discussion threads 2009-01-30

Collision course for American-owned car makers

America's auto makers were very handy in protecting themselves against having tougher fuel efficiency standards. Just this past year as fuel prices spiralled ever upward the feds finally increased the fuel efficiency standards after thirty years of stasis. So now those auto makers in America and elsewhere are...

Tags: U.S., Car, Automobile Company, Detroit, U.S. Congress, General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Remedying the trade imbalance with China

Remedying the trade imbalance with ChinaCopyright and patentYour discussion of the IP to be protected mentions copyright but not patents. For example:Knowledge products the stuff normally covered by copyright is the category of goods that relies so heavily on copyright. [End quote]Because software can be protected effectively only by...

Tags: Manufacturing, patent, trade imbalance, imbalance, Remedying, software, patent violation

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

What's really ailing Big Blue shares? Hint: IBM is part bank

Concerns about IBM's third quarter are popping up almost daily. The standard set of concerns revolves around technology spending and the willingness to pay IBM's army of consultants fees for big bang projects as well as a stronger dollar. But underneath the surface there's a bigger worry that isn't being...

Tags: Asset, Bank, Financial, Financing, IBM Corp., Finance Unit, Financing Unit, Global Financing, Commercial Financing, Participation Rate, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Voting For A McCain

SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons So, poor John McCain. At the start of the year, he gets bounced around because he is “not well versed” in economics. In summer, he gets beat up again, because he says he is “illiterate” about technology (and the way he expresses...

Tags: Innovation, Network, John McCain, Obama, Taxes, Free Trade, Internet, Leadership, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-16