Just months after his Microsoft farewell, Bill Gates is quietly creating a new company — complete with high-tech office space, a cryptic name and even its own trademark, according to TechFlash, a new technology news website launched by the Puget Sound Business Journal.
Public documents describe the new Gates entity — bgC3 LLC — as a [...]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - German chemical company BASF may take legal action against the European Commission if approval of its genetically modified (GMO) potato is not issued soon, a senior company official said on Thursday.
"We are prepared to take legal action against the Commission," said Stefan Marcinowski, a member of BASF’s board of executive directors told [...]

WASHINGTON - Don’t blame us, oil industry chiefs told a skeptical Congress. Top executives of the country’s five biggest oil companies said Tuesday they know record fuel prices are hurting people, but they argued it’s not their fault and their huge profits are in line with other industries.
Appearing before a House committee, the executives [...]

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) offered to buy Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) for $44.6 billion, in a bold bid to transform two ailing Internet businesses into a worthy competitor for market leader Google Inc (GOOG.O).
In what would be the biggest Internet deal since the ill-fated Time Warner-AOL merger, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer [...]

I am not the most organized person, so I am spending more than I can afford. But I am glued to it trying to see if guys out there figured where we are going. It bothers me, there is a lot of uncertainty, and hey, maybe someone has a crystal ball?
Unfortunately, the overall tone of [...]

SAN FRANCISCO - Google’s (GOOG) $3.1 billion bid for Internet advertiser DoubleClick gained federal approval Thursday despite objections that it might pose a threat to competition and tread on consumer privacy.
The Federal Trade Commission voted 4-1, ending its eight-month investigation. “After carefully reviewing the evidence, we have concluded that Google’s proposed acquisition of DoubleClick is [...]

John Paul Getty, a self made billionaire, was quoted that the way to become rich is to buy when everyone is selling, hold on to it, and sell when everyone is buying.
People, who follow his advice, do extremely well. The majority of us do the opposite. We wouldn’t buy until every newspaper
and every broadcast screams [...]