Sources told the Financial Times that billionaire George Soros has bought a 3.1% stake in Spanish builder FCC. The acquisition happened just three months after Microsoft's Bill Gates also made a bet on the company.
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Former CEO Steve Ballmer owns more shares that Bill Gates in Microsoft
Former chief executive Steve Ballmer now owns more shares than Microsoft founder Bill Gates as shown through a regulatory filing from the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
American firm Ambri raises $15M in funding to store renewable energy
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based clean tech firm Ambri Inc raised $15 million in a new funding round from KLP Enterprise, Building Insurance Bern, and other investors to find a way to store renewable energy for grid operators.
Bill Gates says the ideas that come from Silicon Valley's silly companies are "going to be really important"
Microsoft Founder Bill Gates thinks that innovation drives progress and doesn't mind the silly endeavors that some companies in Silicon Valley are engaged in because it is from them that important ideas emerge.
Forbes Magazine: Bill Gates regains top spot for world's wealthiest man
Bill Gates bagged the top spot once again and is the current richest man in the world based on his estimated net worth, said Forbes magazine.
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Shares of debt-laden construction firm FCC SA leaped by as much as 8.8% on Friday following news that American hedge fund Soros Fund Management, controlled by billionaire George Soros, had acquired a 3% stake in the company.
Philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates suggested the state of Norway should invest a portion of its massive USD800 billion wealth fund to countries in Asia and Africa.
Bill Gates bought a 6% stake in Spain's FCC for EUR 113.5 million. Billionaire Bill Gates had purchased a 6% stake in Spain-based construction firm Fomento de Construcciones & Contratas or FCC.
Co-founding chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer had sought for re-election in Microsoft's board of directors, said a Reuters report.
Three of the top 20 investors in computer software company Microsoft had urged its board to push the firm's founding chairman Bill Gates to step down from office.
In a interview at a Harvard fundraising campaign, Microsoft chairman and founder Bill Gates admitted that the keyboard combination of Control, Alt and Delete keys to log into a PC was a mistake and should had only been one key.
Ballmer made an impassioned plea to investors of Microsoft stock as well as took stock of his work as CEO of Microsoft.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index, Ortega recently passed Buffett as the world's richest individual.
PayPal's mistake made a resident from Pennsylvania the richest person alive for a few hours with exactly US$92,233,720,368,547,800.
