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Hungarian Microsoft Billionaire Space Tourist Lands Safely
Blog Hungarian ex-Microsoft Billionaire Charles Simonyi has landed safely after his second space-tourist mission. Second time is lucky too it seems. I am living in Budapest for a while and so taking an interest in anything Hungarian in the news these days.
[April 8, 2009, 9:59]
Billionaire backs new search tool
News Dallas-based upstart IceRocket is trying to throw a new twist on search results, along with some financial and advisory help from billionaire Cuban. Broadcast.com founder and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is backing a new Internet search start...
[August 5, 2004, 9:00]
US Report: Yahoo's Yang joins billionaire club
News co-founder Jerry Yang has joined the billionaire club after his company's stock soared to a record $199.25 (£121.50) Monday. at their company, are probably the first owners of an Internet-based firm to hit billionaire status.
[July 7, 1998, 9:15]
Tech billionaire sees telecoms turmoil ahead
News Sir Terry Matthews, the technology entrepreneur who became Wales' first billionaire, has warned that some of the major players in the telecoms industry risk disaster if they fail to adapt to the challenges posed by technologies such as IP networking.
[November 18, 2005, 12:30]
Billionaire seeks to derail AOL-Google deal
Talkback Mr, Ichon appears to be correct and it would be a bad move for AOL; a premium at least. Google does not present a balanced or objective color in it's news articles - they are of a liberal slant and I am debating on changing my home page from AOL to...
[December 20, 2005, 16:27]
Billionaire seeks to derail AOL-Google deal
Talkback Many suggest that AOL got the best of Google in their recent $1 billion (USD) deal. Here at Live Phone we contend that our original idea for Google is now progressing. Google VoIP and Google’s involvement in the Gizmo Project suggests Google wants...
[December 20, 2005, 16:30]
Hungarian Microsoft Billionaire Space Tourist Lands Safely
Blog Comment Charles was one of the creators of Microsoft Word (not Office - I think he was doing management by then). He had originally developed the core of the code which went into Word (for DOS) as part of the Bravo editor while still at Xerox PARC, before...
[April 14, 2009, 10:13]
Billionaire backs defendant in landmark P2P case
Talkback Always amazes me how people can justify piracy (99% of all peer to peer sharing is) just because a product is too expensive A music company can charge £250 for a CD and expect you to sacrifice your first born child but that would not change the...
[June 28, 2005, 10:56]
Billionaire backs defendant in landmark P2P case
News Billionaire Mark Cuban has announced that he will finance Grokster's defence against MGM's peer-to-peer lawsuit, which is expected to be argued before the US Supreme Court on Tuesday. Cuban, the entrepreneur who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for...
[March 29, 2005, 12:10]
Billionaire seeks to derail AOL-Google deal
News Billionaire Time Warner shareholder Carl Icahn on Monday warned the media conglomerate's board against making a "disastrous" and "short-sighted" decision. If Internet unit America Online agrees to an exclusive deal with search giant Google, its...
[December 20, 2005, 9:25]
Billionaire backs defendant in landmark P2P case
Talkback So if the techies lose its. Bye Bye CD burner Bye Bye Hard Drive Bye Bye PC Bye Bye Pen and Paper They can all be used to 'copy' copyrighted material - what about my eyes and mouth? When will the luddites in the RIAA accept that they have missed...
[March 29, 2005, 13:51]
Billionaire backs defendant in landmark P2P case
Talkback Come on these RIAA idiots wont win, for that they have to get people to do what they want, even with a ruling that won't happen. Think about Moores Law, that means tech has to double every 18 months, and without media what for?
[March 29, 2005, 17:06]
Billionaire backs defendant in landmark P2P case
Talkback The dinosaur sues the snowstorm. RIAA could be using these millions of dollars to adapt, improvise, and embrace new techology. They could enclose all the music videos in high quality on DVD with each music CD, they could include T-shirts, posters...
[March 30, 2005, 16:39]
Billionaire seeks to derail AOL-Google deal
Talkback I don't know why anyone would be interested in AOL;they're losing subscribers, they are the most expensive dial-up out there, and people are moving over to DSL and Cable anyway
[December 20, 2005, 12:02]
Billionaire seeks to derail AOL-Google deal
Talkback The big fish know how the small ones taste. And adding another venture; though dead would enliven the repute to buy, its the purchaing power that seems to be competing here in the middle.
[December 20, 2005, 12:46]
MS billionaire Gates gets small pay raise
News In the last 12 months, the value of Microsoft Corp.s shares have almost doubled. Looking ahead, analysts expect the company to best the past year's $8.6 billion in sales by 20 per cent to 30 per cent.
[September 26, 1997, 14:02]
Autonomy likely to be ousted from FTSE 100
News Autonomy, the software company that created the UK's first software billionaire when it floated last November, is likely to be delisted from the FTSE 100 index of blue-chip shares when the index is revised on Wednesday.
[March 5, 2001, 13:36]
Gates rejects birthplace of modern computing
News Saving the birthplace of modern computing would seem like a cause a billionaire who owes his fortune to technology would rally to. But Christine Large, Bletchley Park Trust's director, said that the site won't take no for an answer and will make...
[August 11, 2003, 10:00]
Waitt to step down as CEO of Gateway
News Clever marketing, and execution, made Waitt a billionaire and helped Gateway generate $7.5bn (£4.65bn) in revenue in 1998. Ted Waitt, who stepped aside as CEO of Gateway Wednesday, was a billionaire businessman with a ponytail, a risk-taker who...
[December 9, 1999, 9:40]
Rank of tech billionaires dwindled in 2000
News Meanwhile, not a single tech chief executive stepped up from the millionaire's club into the billionaire league, according to CNET's chief executive Wealth Meter. The billionaire boys' club lost members last year because of a dramatic slide in tech...
[January 2, 2001, 13:47]
