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Bill Gates ?? think again because he lost that title in January this year when he tried a hostile takeover of Yahoo. Microsoft stock fell 15% and put poor Bill in the #3 spot behind Warren Buffett (now #1) and Carlos Slim Helú from Mexico.
Full article here.
Full article here.
Last edited by Ancient Dragon; Mar 5th, 2008 at 9:29 pm.
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Still though... didn't he give away a lot of his money? Or make some charity or something? The margin's not that big. Still though. He was there for a while. I wonder if he'll jump back.
>> He is up $2 billion from a year ago and would have been perhaps as rich -- or richer -- than Buffett had Microsoft not made an unsolicited bid for Yahoo (YHOO, news, msgs) at the beginning of February.
I read something similar before. How was their takeover bid of Yahoo 'unsolicited'? Were Yahoo on the market? Did MS put forward a reasonable price? Were they right to try? How is it unsolicited? It's like saying trying to buy a car is an unsolicited attack on a car manufacturer.
>> He is up $2 billion from a year ago and would have been perhaps as rich -- or richer -- than Buffett had Microsoft not made an unsolicited bid for Yahoo (YHOO, news, msgs) at the beginning of February.
I read something similar before. How was their takeover bid of Yahoo 'unsolicited'? Were Yahoo on the market? Did MS put forward a reasonable price? Were they right to try? How is it unsolicited? It's like saying trying to buy a car is an unsolicited attack on a car manufacturer.
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Because of the rapid and deliberate devaluation of the US Dollar, you have to make sure your wealth is in another currency.
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Are you sure it was a hostile takeover attempt? I was under the impression that they approached Yahoo's board who turned them down, resulting in MS taking a hit?
Yep, and then they got "hostile", but it's nothing you wouldn't really find happening in the Corporate world.
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>> Are you sure it was a hostile takeover attempt?
I was quoting from the link. They used the word "unsolicited". I'm of the same opinion, csgal. I thought it was by-the-books. I saw that term being used in at least two other articles too...
I was quoting from the link. They used the word "unsolicited". I'm of the same opinion, csgal. I thought it was by-the-books. I saw that term being used in at least two other articles too...
Rich are getting richer and Poor are getting poorer..
Thats how to goes.......
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Thats how to goes.......
Everybody Knows...
Thanks for sharing anyways
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The other question should be:
"Who of the richest folks pays the most tax?"
"Who of the richest folks pays the most tax?"
No one died when Clinton lied.
I don't think you can call that hostile MS trying to take over Yahoo. Anyways, most prolly Bill will be knocking on that no. 1 spot again.
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Originally Posted by sneekula 
The other question should be:
"Who of the richest folks pays the most tax?"
It also doesn't matter, because there are so few rich people that even taxing them 100 percent wont increase the amount of money government has.
The real question to ask is, "Why is government taxing people below the poverty level?"
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