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Blog Archives
The Investing Value blog archives is a categorized selection of all the
news archives of the investment weblog. Newest news posts are listed at
the top of each category.
Famous
Business Leaders News - Includes recent news posts relating to notable
world business leaders, Chief Executive Officers, CEO, Chairmen, business
owners, and entrepreneurs.
More News on Richard
Branson, Warren
Buffett, Bill
Gates, Donald
Trump, ..
- Enron's
Jeffrey Skilling get 24 Years - Former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey
Skilling has been sentenced to twenty four years and four months. Federal
Judge Sim Lake ordered the disgraced Enron executive to forfeit $45
million in ill gotten assets from his time at the giant energy trading
company.
- Australian
Media Ownership Laws Change - Not long after new media ownership
laws were passed through the Australian Government, big deals were made
with Rupert Murdoch taking a 7.5% share in it's media giant rival John
Fairfax Holdings.
- Famous
Sam Walton Quotes - Sam Walton was a famous American business leader
and founder of the Wal-Mart stores, which have now grown into one of
the largest companies in the world. Here's a few famous Sam Walton quotes.
- Thoughts
From Richard Branson - Sir Richard Branson the well known adventurous
owner of the Virgin Group of companies has been pondering his future
and what to do with his billions when he's gone.
- Warren
Buffett's Car Auction - An eBay bidder has bid $73,200 for Warren
Buffett's Lincoln Town Car. At almost 5 times the cars resale value
it wasn't a bargain but it was for charity so the more money raised
the better.
- Women
at the Top - 48 women are at the top of big business up from 35
last year and as the increase continues, it seems women can cause just
as much scandal as the men can.
- Quotes
by Jeff Bezos - Here are a few quotes from Jeff Bezos the owner
of the giant online shopping store amazon.com and internet entrepreneur.
- Dell
Exploding Laptops - While Michael Dell is spending some time in
Sydney, Australia, the media are discussing the recall and how it could
impact future sales. Pictures of Dell laptops exploding into flames
have been splashed across every television channel and newspaper around
the world.
- Leadership
Tips from Fast Company - Fast Company came up with 25 tips for good
leadership from it's recent RealTime San Diego event. They include:
- Hooters
Chairman Dies at 69 - Robert Brooks was found dead in his home on
the weekend. It is still unsure how the chairman of the Hooters chain
of stores died, but an autopsy will be conducted this coming week. Brooks
was 69 years old.
- Kerkorian
and GM - Major investor in GM and billionaire businessman Kirk Kerkorian
hopes to bring French car maker Renault and Japanese car maker Nissan
on board. The General Motors board will look into a deal where Renault
and Nissan would buy about 20% of GM, and share production facilities.
- Famous
Business Quotes - I've always found inspiration in the words of
successful people, so here's a few business quotes..
- Top
Paid CEOs - Forbes recently released their review of the top paid
CEOs from the leading 500 American companies. Heading the list at number
one is the Chief Executive Officer of Capital One Financial, Richard
D Fairbank with a salary of about $249.42 million.
- Jack
Welch Quotes and Biography - A new business leader's biography has
been added to our growing list of famous investors and business managers.
The former Chief Executive Officer of the giant American company, General
Electric (GE) has been profiled.
- Stephen
Covey Quotes and Biography - We have recently added a biography
of the author of the popular "The 7 Habits of Highly Successful
People" book, Dr Stephen R Covey.
- More
Virgin Group Acquisitions - A news story over on Reuters reports
that Richard Branson's Virgin Group which includes a health club called
Virgin Active, is looking to expand the Virgin Active name throughout
the USA.
- Arnold
Schwarzenegger takes on Global Warming - California Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger plans to cut California's greenhouse gas emissions to
1990 levels. Rather than simply offering incentives to businesses to
cut back emissions, action will be mandatory.
- Larry
Page Quotes and Biography - We recently added a Sergey Brin biography
to the list of business and investment leaders, and it didn't feel right
to not have his partner Larry Page listed too. So here's the Larry Page
Biography on InvestingValue.com. There's also a list of Larry Page quotes
below. See also, the Sergey Brin quotes.
- Ben
Bernanke Raises Interest Rates - The new Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke
has raised the federal funds interest rates to 4.75%. Bernanke is concerned
about inflation flaring and has hinted at further rate increases in
the future.
- Sergey
Brin Quotes and Biography - new profile has been added to the growing
list of InvestingValue.com's Business Leaders section. Sergey Brin founded
the giant Internet company Google Inc. along with his partner Larry
Page.
- Alan
Greenspan Retirement - Alan Greenspan has finished his long 18 1/2
year term as the head of the federal reserve on a high. After 18 years
his record is pretty good having achieved low unemployment, strong economic
growth with low and stable inflation.
- Forbes
Billionaires List 2006 - It's been a good year for being a billionaire
according to the Forbes business magazine's annual billionaires list.
- Alan
Greenspan Book Deal - The former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan
has sold the rights to his memoirs for a reported $8 million US dollars
to Pearson PLC's Penguin Press. Penguin did not confirm the figure,
so there has been numbers in the media that range from 7 to 9 million.
- Kerry
Packer Remembered - The recent publicly funded memorial service
of the late Kerry Packer attracted an impressive list of celebrities
and people of power at the Sydney Opera House.
It's a service that is usually reserved for prominent political figures,
but Australia's richest man was an exception.
- Oprah
Winfrey Radio Deal - The queen of television talk shows and billionaire
African American female billionaire Oprah Winfrey is spreading her media
reach just a little bit further. She has recently signed a 3 year $55
Million radio deal.
- Google
Stocks Drop - (Sergey Brin, Larry Page, & Eric Schmidt) It seemed
that Google could not make a wrong move with Wall Street, with its stock
price moving higher week after week. Investors that got in on the ground
floor were happy to see GOOG reach a high of $475 per share in just
a couple short years, but more recently the stock has taken a pounding.
- Ben
Graham Quotes and Bio - new Benjamin Graham biography has been added
to Investing Value. Graham is one of the most well known stock market
investors of all time, sometimes referred to as the "father of
investing", which is a pretty impressive label to have.
- Rupert
Murdoch's new Business Channel - News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch
is planning to create some competition for the business news channel
CNBC this year. Murdoch has said that they are in intense discussions
and should have a new business channel in operation before the end of
the year.
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