Tag: Bill Gates

Jurors Deadlock in $1B Lawsuit Against Microsoft

Jurors Deadlock in $1B Lawsuit Against Microsoft

SALT LAKE CITY — A federal jury on Friday failed to reach a verdict in a Utah company’s $1 billion antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. in a case so important to the computer giant that it put Bill Gates on the stand for two days last month. Novell Inc. sued the software giant in 2004, [...]

December 17, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Spreading freedom: Google, microsoft and the war for the web

Spreading freedom: Google, microsoft and the war for the web

WASHINGTON — You can’t swing a dead cat video in Washington lately without hitting a lobbyist, consultant, attorney or adviser on retainer to Google or one of its tech rivals. Google, whose top executives have long been a bottomless cup of campaign coffee for Democrats, is finally entering its bipartisan phase, theatrically hiring Republican operatives [...]

September 27, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Google Donating To Conservative Causes

Google Donating To Conservative Causes

WASHINGTON — You can’t swing a dead cat video in Washington lately without hitting a lobbyist, consultant, attorney or adviser on retainer to Google or one of its tech rivals. Google, whose top executives have long been a bottomless cup of campaign coffee for Democrats, is finally entering its bipartisan phase, theatrically hiring Republican operatives [...]

September 26, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Are We Entering The Age Of Inherited Wealth?

Are We Entering The Age Of Inherited Wealth?

The release of the latest Forbes 400 List of Americans is, once again, being billed as a triumph of self-made wealth. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Larry Ellison – all self-made – topped the list, once again. And Forbes heralds that fact that “a record 70% of the Forbes listers are self-made.” Yet their announcement [...]

September 24, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Bill Gates Backs Financial Transaction Tax To Aid Poor

Bill Gates Backs Financial Transaction Tax To Aid Poor

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A report by Microsoft founder Bill Gates to Group of 20 ministers on Friday proposes raising new funding for poorer countries by taxing financial transactions, tobacco, and shipping and aviation fuels, according to details of a G20 report obtained by Reuters. The Gates Foundation was tasked by current G20 chair, France, to [...]

September 23, 2011 | 0 Comments More
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