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Bill Gates acquires BBA Aviation stake
Original at Tehran Times
• Tue, Jun 16
Iran Cascade, which targets undervalued companies, is the investment vehicle of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Simon Pryce, the BBA chief executive, is yet to meet Mr. Gates, whose close friend Warren Buffett owns the netjets private jet business. ...
Bill Gates acquires BBA Aviation stake
Original at Telegraph.co.uk
• Sun, Jun 14
United Kingdom Cascade, which targets undervalued companies, is the investment vehicle of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Simon Pryce, the BBA chief executive, is yet to meet Mr Gates, whose close friend Warren Buffett owns the NetJets private jet business. ...
Editorial: Philanthropy comes of age
Original at stuff.co.nz
• Sat, Jun 6
New Zealand They were joined by Warren Buffett, the legendary American businessman with an uncanny ability to pick good investments, who also pledged to give a staggering $49.7 billion away through the Gates Foundation. What the Gates family, Mr Buffett and Miss ...
Nebraska-born CEO: Gates Foundation learns from experiments
Original at nebraska.tv
• Wed, May 27
The foundation has given away nearly $20 billion the past decade, mostly in global health and development and US education. It has been ramping up its giving since Warren Buffett, head of Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway, announced in June 2006 that he ...
Sheldon Drobny: The Gates and Buffett Foundation Shell Game
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, Aug 22
The Gates Foundation and the Catholic Church have the same goals. They are to keep the legacies for which they were created. For Bill Gates and Warren Buffett it is the control and legacy of family wealth as in the ancient days of the Pharos of Egypt. And by not paying any taxes, Gates will be more...
Tony Dokoupil: The Buffett Bequest: Pressing The $30 Billion Issue
Original at Huffington Post
• Sat, Jul 8
News coverage of Warren Buffett's $30 billion gift to the Gates Foundation left the impression that the record-setting donation was an open-shut feel-good story. After all, what evil could come from the world's second richest man pledging over three-quarters of his wealth to fight pre...