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Australian rancher Viv Forbes and some colleagues have published a report urging a climate exit (Clexit) to stop the insane assault on farming and ranching that is being orchestrated by billionaires in the name of saving the environment.

The company is backed by a billionaire in China who runs LeEco, a tech giant that makes smartphones, virtual - reality headsets, and TVs.

Not exact matches

Prices on the London Metal Exchange soared by a third, lifting the metal to its highest in nearly seven years, after the United States imposed sanctions this month against billionaire Oleg Deripaska and his company Rusal, the world's No. 2 aluminium producer.

April 11 (Reuters)- Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

Dallas Mavericks owner and tech billionaire Mark Cuban has denied a sexual assault allegation from 2011 that resurfaced this week in a report by Willamette Week, a weekly alternative newspaper in Portland, Ore..

And the Viacom CEO is caught in a Catch - 22 of his own making: Earlier this year, he maintained in a court case launched by the billionaire's former girlfriend that Redstone was fully capable of making decisions.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

The NBA owner and star of ABC's Shark Tank responded to the Sports Illustrated report by denying any previous knowledge of the allegations against the two former employees, with the billionaire claiming that he was «not involved in the day to day» of the business.

Cambridge Analytica was created around 2013 initially with a focus on U.S. elections, with $ 15 million in backing from billionaire Republican donor Robert Mercer and a name chosen by future Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, the New York Times reported.

The VC firm is owned, in turn by Renova Group, owned by Russian billionaire, Victor Vekselberg, who is one of Russia's richest men and dominates the country's oil and metals industry.

GENEVA — Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich has appeared in a Swiss court as part of a 19 - year - old legal case aimed to wrest 46 million Swiss francs in debts allegedly owed by him and others to a European bank.

• A consortium led by French billionaire Xavier Niel agreed to buy a majority stake in telecommunications company Eir.

New York Global Citizen Festival concert in Central Park, funded by billionaire Sumner Redstone for $ 1.5 million, and headlined by Neil Young.

After a report by Forbes, which the New York Times eventually corroborated, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel gave the NYT an interview in which he admitted to helping fund Hogan's legal case.

According to a report by Bloomberg, the project will be run by the development company of Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, as developers look to cash in on a Pakistani housing boom.

Citadel is a Chicago headquartered hedge fund manager, founded by billionaire Kenneth Griffin in 1990.

The Alpina was built by Marcel Bach, a former farmer who capitalized on his land and now seems to own much of the village, and Jean - Claude Mimran, an agriculture billionaire who moved to Gstaad to be closer to his three sons who were attending Le Rosey, the until - recently Canadian - owned $ 100,000 - per - year private school that specializes in teaching kids how to be properly rich.

Billionaire Vincent Bollore was charged by French investigators as part of a probe into the possible use of bribes in two African countries to obtain port contracts from public officials, according to a statement from his company.

The aerospace startup, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has successfully pulled off 16 rocket launches in that last year, about double the amount from 2016.

Bigelow Aerospace LLC, founded by lodging billionaire Robert Bigelow, deployed its 8 - foot, 3,000 - pound inflatable activity module on the ISS in May 2016.

While this may sound like a pipe dream, the idea became a reality thanks to $ 50 million in venture backing — in particular, the $ 40 million invested by Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire Samuel Yin in a Series A round in 2011, which trimmed years off production and helped the company quickly ramp up to more than 450 employees.

But that's not quite true, according to research released today from Just Capital, an independent non-profit co-founded in 2014 by billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones II, Arianna Huffington, and Deepak Chopra.

21st Century Fox is currently trying to gain regulatory approval in the UK for a merger with Sky, both of which are owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch.

West expanded on that comment by calling Trump a «genius» because the billionaire won the election, reportedly adding: «Neither candidate would fix racism in this country.»

Much the year - end maneuvering noted by the Rockefeller Institute involved the country's millionaires and billionaires rearranging their finances to maximize the portion of their income that would be taxed in 2012, at lower rates, rather than in 2013, at potentially higher rates.

A Russian oil billionaire has been ordered by the U.K.'s High Court to transfer a luxury superyacht worth nearly $ 500,000 to his ex-wife in one of Britain's biggest divorce battles, the Financial Times reports.

In January, India's Subrata Roy bought the posh Grosvenor House, while Moscow's Ritz - Carlton Hotel was snapped up by Kazakh billionaire Bulat Utemuratov.

GENEVA (AP)-- Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich has appeared in a Swiss court as part of a 19 - year - old legal case aimed to wrest 46 million Swiss francs ($ 46 million) in debts allegedly owed by him and others to a European bank.

But two of America's hottest companies are conspicuously absent from the list of the country's most generous employers: Tesla, in Palo Alto, Calif., and SpaceX, in Hawthorne, Calif., both run by billionaire Elon Musk.

The $ 75 million facility was funded in part through donations by its namesake as well as fellow Canadian billionaire Bernard Sherman's Apotex.

Digicel, owned by Irish billionaire Denis O'Brien, with operations across the Caribbean, made $ 86 million in profit on revenue of $ 439 million in Haiti in 2012.

Not only has the billionaire businessman turned president - elect called for doing away with trade deals favored by President Barack Obama, he expressed interest in renegotiating the North America Free Trade Agreement, a 22 year - old trade pact between the U.S., Canada and Mexico that eliminated most tariffs on products traded between the countries and strengthened intellectual property enforcement.

QINGDAO, China, April 28 (Reuters)- Wang Jianlin, the billionaire boss of China's Dalian Wanda Group, said on Saturday he will turn the northern port city of Qingdao into a global film production hub as he launched a sprawling studio complex in a ceremony attended by hundreds.

The annual report by Oxfam found that the number of billionaires rose at a rate of one every two days between March 2016 and March 2017, while in the United States the three richest people own the same wealth as the poorest half of the population.

That puts China well ahead of the U.S. in launching CRISPR trials; the first one in America, which will be conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and is being funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker, isn't set to begin until early 2017.

And though battered by turmoil and strife — and a recent fall on his head, as he revealed in this Q&A — Murdoch seems newly secure as the world's most powerful global media billionaire.

April 2 - Tesla Inc was reported on Monday to be making 2,000 of its Model 3 sedans per week as shares of billionaire Elon Musk's electric carmaker slid, driven by news a crash in California had involved its semi-autonomous autopilot.

Halliburton is in late - stage talks to acquire a fast - growing U.S. oilfield equipment supplier backed by Oklahoma energy and banking billionaire George Kaiser, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett speak with journalist Charlie Rose at an event organized by Columbia Business School on Jan. 27, 2017, in New York.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business amid a challenging landscape, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

PARIS, April 24 - French billionaire Vincent Bollore, who stepped down days ago as chairman of media giant Vivendi, is being questioned by police as part of an investigation into allegations of corrupt business practices in Africa, his lawyer said.

Berkshire Hathaway, billionaire Warren Buffett's investment vehicle, beefed up its media holdings in the fourth quarter by taking a stake in 21st Century Fox (FOX).

Cirsa, based outside Barcelona, is owned by 73 - year - old Spanish billionaire Manuel Lao who founded it in 1978.

The news comes about two weeks after Bloomberg reported https://bloom.bg/2qYzgnh that Elliott, the New York hedge fund run by billionaire Paul Singer, had built a position in Micro Focus and plans to push for changes at the company.

Once feted by billionaires, Levandowski now finds himself starring in a high - stakes public trial as his two former employers square off.

LONDON, April 27 - Glencore's mining subsidiaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been served freezing orders for alleged unpaid royalties of nearly $ 3 billion by a company affiliated with Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, Glencore said on Friday.

Branson is touting the tube - based transportation system — first theorized in 2013 by billionaire Elon Musk — to help address the infrastructure bottlenecks India is struggling with amid rapid urbanization.

That case was financed by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, who blamed for outing him as a gay man in 2007.

According to a report by the Swiss bank UBS, there are 1,542 billionaires in the world.

It was set up in 2006 by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who crafts his gifts to make a point, as he explains to Fortune in an interview.