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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service Tuesday honoring victims of the Ford Hood shootings, an attack he described as "all the more heartbreaking and all the...

In this article: Barack Obama, Fort Hood, White House, Texas, Robert Andrews, Asia, and Tokyo

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to pass a proposed health care overhaul during a rare visit to Capitol Hill on Saturday and later told them: "Now is the time to...

In this article: Barack Obama, Robert Andrews, Nancy Pelosi, Washington, U.S. House, and Fort Hood, Texas

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama said Saturday that the training designed to keep U.S. forces safe abroad prevented further deaths and ended the rampage at Fort Hood. He...

In this article: Barack Obama, Fort Hood, Washington, U.S., Rose Garden, The White House, and Asia

Sir Richard Branson : hated flying until he started his own airline. Photo: Peter Braig Virgin 's chief believes business is best done out of the office. What do you carry with you...

In this article: Richard Branson, V Australia, Virgin, Qantas, Australia, Massage, Virgin Atlantic, and Canadian Airlines

...Fe. By James Quinn , US Business Editor Published: 8:38PM GMT 06 Nov 2009 Warren Buffett -Why did Warren Buffett pay $44bn for a ticket to ride? Burlington Northern is very...

In this article: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, US, Coal, Carbon, Leap of faith, Revenue, and Burlington Northern Santa Fe

...15-year high The men behind iconic TV ads Lion Red Blooded and the Anchor Family are believed to be leaving Saatchi & Saatchi. Andrew Stone , New Zealand chief executive of Saatchi ,...

In this article: Saatchi & Saatchi, Fairfax Media, and New Zealand

...sixth. While writing the headline, I thought of other great, four-men groups. None better than the Beatles. John Lennon , Paul McCartney and George Harrison were the orginal members,...

In this article: New York Yankees, A.J. Burnett, Phillies, C.C. Sabathia, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Andy Pettitte, and Beatles

...plays -- four of them one-man shows -- and numerous film and TV roles, the most recent being Disney 's " Race to Witch Mountain " this spring. Next summer , he'll appear in "You Again," a...

In this article: Race to Witch Mountain, Disney, Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Kristen Bell

...avoided investing in US technology companies, despite his friendship with Bill Gates of Microsoft , the fact that Mr Gates and Susan Decker , the former Yahoo executive, sit on his...

In this article: Warren Buffett, US, BNSF, Capitalism, Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Bill Gates, Silicon Valley, Competitive advantage, and Business partner

...need for capital investment and its unionized workforce. It was Bill Gates , another friend of Buffett 's, who changed their minds. "We finally realized that railroads now have a huge...

In this article: Warren Buffett, United States, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Competitive advantage, Business partner, Coal, and Inflation

Berkshire Hathaway chairman and world's second-richest man Warren Buffett said Tuesday that his $34 billion purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway is a bet on America 's...

In this article: Warren Buffett, BNSF, Coal, Berkshire Hathaway, U.S., White House, Recession, and Time horizon

...net worth of $37 billion in March. He thus relinquished the title of world's richest man to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates , according to Forbes magazine's annual calculations. Berkshire...

In this article: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Fort Worth, United States, and Hamburger

Brier Dudley offers a critical look at technology and business issues affecting the Northwest. Paul Allen files for bankruptcy protection for Digeo holdings Mercer Island billionaire...

In this article: Paul Allen, Microsoft, Bankruptcy, Charter Communications, and Comcast

...world's richest individuals, was ranked number two this year by Forbes magazine behind Microsoft founder Bill Gates among the wealthiest billionaires. Berkshire Hathaway lost $US1.5...

In this article: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, BNSF, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Matthew Rose, United States, Coal, Revenue, Forbes magazine, and Bill Gates

UPDATED at 1:05 p.m.: As I've written before, super-investor and world's second-richest man Warren Buffett invests like an 8-year-old boy in the 1950s: He either owns outright or has...

In this article: Warren Buffett, Coal, Berkshire Hathaway, U.S., China, CNBC, Chewing gum, and E mail

Virgin tycoon SIR RICHARD BRANSON has abandoned his efforts to hire the heroic pilot of the miraculous Hudson River plane crash for his intergalactic spaceship mission. The billionaire...

In this article: Richard Branson, Hudson River, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin, Virgin Galactic, LaGuardia Airport, and New York

...Reporter) - Sam Taylor-Wood's "Nowhere Boy" is a passable look at the early life of John Lennon when he was estranged from his mother and raised by his aunt. Fans hoping to discover...

In this article: John Lennon, Beatles, Paul McCartney, Aaron Johnson, Nowhere, Liverpool, Beatles, and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

...Collett-White The London film festival closes on Thursday with the world premiere of "Nowhere Boy," about John Lennon's rebellious teenage years and his torrid relationship with his...

In this article: John Lennon, Matt Greenhalgh, Sam Taylor-Wood, London, Control, Liverpool, and Beatles

...a satellite dish that has attracted some deep-pocketed investors, including Paul Allen and Vinod Khosla. Their hope is that Infinia's dishes will finally turn solar energy into a workhorse...

In this article: Infinia, Vinod Khosla, Climate change, Helium, Carbon, Twitter, and Greenpeace

Kennewick, WA -based Infinia , a maker of solar power generation technology which uses free-piston Stirling engines, has raised $14.1 million in debt financing, according to a regulatory...

In this article: Infinia, Vulcan Capital, and Kennewick, WA