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When Buffett gets Heinz, he'll also add Burger King CEO Hees
Fast food giant Burger King Worldwide Inc. said it will lose its chief executive Bernardo Hees to H.J. Heinz Co. once billionaire financier Warren Buffett wraps up his acquisition of the ketchup company with 3G Capital. Corporate poaching this...
Tags: Ketchup, Hamburgers, Lifestyle and Leisure, Economy, Business and Finance, JC Penney Company Inc.
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John J. Byrne dies at 80; insurance exec turned Geico around
John J. Byrne, whose turnaround of auto insurer Geico Corp. led billionaire Warren Buffett to buy the company and call him "the Babe Ruth of insurance," died March 7 at his home in Etna, N.H., according to Robert E. Snyder, a family spokesman. He was 80...
Tags: Lincoln National Corporation, Lincoln, Allianz AG Holding, Babe Ruth, Economy, Business and Finance
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Warren Buffett says federal budget cuts aren't too bad for economy
WASHINGTON -- Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is not a big fan of the automatic federal budget cuts that kicked in Friday, but he said they help reduce the deficit and shouldn't hurt the economy too much. The government is still running a deficit...
Tags: Washington, DC, Budget Control Act of 2011, Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Warren Buffett
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Tribune Co. hires banks to manage offers for newspapers
Tribune Co. has hired two investment banks to manage offers to buy its newspapers, executives said Tuesday, adding that no decisions have been made about whether to sell any properties. JPMorgan Chase and Evercore Partners will oversee a process to...
Tags: Television Industry, Television Stations, Fort Lauderdale, Baltimore County, Angelo, Gordon & Co.
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Financial crisis deal makes Buffett a major Goldman shareholder
Warren Buffett, the ultimate buy-and-hold investor, is grabbing a big chunk of stock in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. — without having to buy it. The deal would make Buffett’s Omaha-based investment firm, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., one of Goldman&...Tags: Investments, Warren Buffett, Federal Reserve, Financial Markets, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is buying Heinz ketchup company
Warren Buffett has been very publicly casting about for a big deal – and he's found one in the Heinz ketchup company. Through his investment firm, Berkshire Hathaway, the famed investor is teaming up with a Brazilian private-equity firm to acquire...
Tags: Ketchup, Warren Buffett, Buyback, Leveraged Buyouts
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Possibility of Baltimore Sun sale brings interest from investors
The possibility that the Tribune Co. will sell its newspapers after an imminent exit from bankruptcy has set off a new round of speculation about The Baltimore Sun's future ownership — along with expressions of interest from potential buyers....
Tags: Advertising, Media Industry, Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Financially Distressed Companies, Rupert Murdoch
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SunPower, solar stocks surge after Warren Buffett buys Calif. plants
Solar stocks were burning up Thursday, led by a 41% share price boom for SunPower, which this week said it sold a pair of massive Southern California solar power plants to a Warren Buffett company. San Jose-based SunPower said in a filing with the...
Tags: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Petroleum Industry, MidAmerican Energy Company, Alternative Energy, Energy
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Let the taxi app roll
If Hollywood remade "The Graduate" and set it in 1980, the one word the businessman would have for Dustin Hoffman's character wouldn't be "plastics." It'd be "medallions." That's because the single greatest investment you could have made over the last...
Tags: Dustin Hoffman, Passenger Cars, The New York Times, New York City, Computer Hardware
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Goldberg: Let the taxi app roll
If Hollywood remade "The Graduate" and set it in 1980, the one word the businessman would have for Dustin Hoffman's character wouldn't be "plastics." It'd be "medallions." That's because the single greatest investment you could have made over the last...
Tags: Dustin Hoffman, Passenger Cars, The New York Times, New York City, Computer Hardware
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Critics say pension fix will require more than Jerry Brown's plan
PolitiCalLawmakers are expected to vote on Gov. Jerry Brown's public pension proposal -- a plan that requires new workers to work longer and asks all employees to pay more of their own retirement.... -
Voters reject Proposition 32, AP says
PolitiCalProposition 32 failed Wednesday morning, according to the Associated Press. The initiative was created to bar unions and corporations from using payroll deductions to raise money for political campaigns, as well as to prohibit them from making candidate...
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