http://paidcontent.org/article/419-wmgs-bronfman-does-a-murdoch-itunes-will-be-dwarved/
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And this line, lifted almost wholesale from Murdoch’s own earnings call last month “Content is going to have more pricing flexibility over time - the only thing that drives iPods, Kindles, Zunes and other devices is content - the power of content in (MacMillan’s) little fracas with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) was clearly evident. You’ll see an increase in pricing flexibility for content companies.”
In that vein, another grumble about Apple: “Book publisher pricing on iPad gives much more flexibility than the music industry has on any Apple devices.”
Despite Bronfman’s eagerness for unlimited-access competitors to iTunes, free streamers shouldn’t expect to win the same favour. “Free streaming services are not a positive thing for the industry and, as far as Warner Music Group goes, will not be licensed. It is not the kind of approach that we will be supporting in the future.”

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000141654
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Soros, Charles Bronfman mull Mid-East peace lobby

The lobby could face off against AIPAC for support in Washington.

12 October 06 17:56,

Billionaire George Soros, tycoon Charles Bronfman, and Jewish activists, are considering setting up a US lobby for promoting a negotiated settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. The lobby could face off against AIPAC (American Israel Public Action Committee), which has a hawkish perspective, to win the support of legislators and administration officials in Washington.

http://www.altiusdirectory.com/Business/world-top-billionaires.php
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List of World Top Billionaires 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Arnault
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Bernard Arnault (pronounced: [bɛʁnaːʁ aʁno]) (born 5 March 1949) is a French businessman best known as the chairman and CEO of the French conglomerate LVMH.^[2]^[3]^[4] According to Forbes Magazine, Arnault is the world's 4th and Europe's richest person, with a 2011 net worth of US$41 billion.^[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Duncan
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Due to an abnormality in the estate tax law for the year 2010, Duncan became the first American billionaire to pay no estate tax since its enactment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison
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Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American business magnate, co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company. As of 2011, he is the fifth^[3] richest person in the world, with a personal wealth of $39.5 billion.^[2] ^[4]

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Demos
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1) Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
2) Contact details
Demos
Third Floor
Magdalen House
136 Tooley Street
London SE1 2TU
tel: 0845 458 5949
fax: 020 7367 4201
Web: http://www.demos.co.uk/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1820324.stm
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Thursday, 14 February, 2002, 15:07 GMT

Lakshmi Mittal, steel mill millionaire

Lakshmi Mittal: Still one of the UK's richest tycoons

By BBC News Online's Mike Verdin Poor Lakshmi Mittal.
The billionaire at the centre of garbagegate, the latest "cash for influence" scandal, has developed something of a habit of unintentionally tarnishing the Britain he loves.
When his son Aditya was married in 1998, Mr Mittal laid on a celebration at Calcutta's Victoria Memorial, an unusual choice given that it houses mementos of Britain's rule over India.
A minor riot ensued.
Now he has found his £125,000 support for Labour at the last election has prompted a major political row.
A letter written by Prime Minister Tony Blair within weeks in support of Mr Mittal's steel company, LNM, looks at best unfortunately timed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Price
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The Mittal Affair: "Cash for Influence"
Controversy erupted in 2002 as Price exposed the link between UK prime minister Tony Blair and steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal in the Mittal Affair, also known as 'Garbagegate' or Cash for Influence.^[5]^[6]^[7] Mittal's LNM steel company, registered in the Dutch Antilles and maintaining less than 1% of its 100,000 plus workforce in the UK, sought Blair's aid in its bid to purchase Romania's state steel industry.^[7] The letter from Blair to the Romanian government, a copy of which Price was able to obtain, hinted that the privatisation of the firm and sale to Mittal might help smooth the way for Romania's entry into the European Union.^[5]
The letter had a passage in it removed just prior to Blair's signing of it, describing Mittal as "a friend."^[7]
Mittal, already a Labour contributor, donated £125,000 more to Labour party funds a week after the 2001 UK General Elections, while as many as six-thousand of Welsh steelworkers were laid off that same year, Price and others pointed out.^[5] Mittal's company, then the fourth largest in the world, was a "major global competitor of Britain's own struggling steel industry, Corus, formerly known as British Steel."^[7] Corus and Valkia Limited were two of the primary employers in South Wales, particularly in Ebbw Vale, Llanwern, and Port Talbot.^[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amancio_Ortega_Gaona
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Amancio Ortega Gaona (born March 28, 1936) is a Spanish fashion entrepreneur. He is the founder, along with his then-wife Rosalía Mera, and chairman of the Inditex Group. He is ranked by Forbes as Spain's richest man; Europe's second richest man; and the seventh richest man in the world in 2011 ^[2]. He currently lives with his second wife in a discreet apartment building in the centre of A Coruña.

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/Boycotts/successfulboycotts.aspx
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2005

October - The Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT) stated that Inditex Group, which owned fashion chain Zara, had decided to withdraw fur from all the group's 2,064 stores in 52 countries. The fur was phased out over a period of several weeks and Inditex ceased sale of fur in its shops from 31 December 2004.
Inditex stated in a letter to its customers that a formal policy had been established and as of 1st January 2005 no fur was to be used in Inditex Group clothes or other products. The policy was announced 3 days before a planned international day of action against Zara.
Inditex stated in a letter to its customers that a formal policy had been established and as of 1st January 2005 no fur was to be used in Inditex Group clothes or other products. The policy was announced 3 days before a planned international day of action against Zara.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eike_Batista
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He married the famous Brazilian actress, Playboy cover girl, and carnival queen Luma de Oliveira in 1991 and had two children with her, Thor and Olin, before divorcing in 2004.^[5]
Batista is known for maintaining a high profile. He is outspoken about his target of becoming the richest person in the world.^[6] His donations often make headlines, as when he bid R$ 500,000 on a suit used by President Lula on inauguration day, with proceeds going to charity.^[7] Batista pledged to donate R$ 20 million yearly, for five years, to the Pacifying Police Unit program in Rio de Janeiro.^[8]
Batista is superstitious, with a particular fondness for the number 63, the Sun, and the letter X, that is featured in all his companies' names for its supposed money-attracting quality.^[6]
Batista's oil company OGX was created in 2007 and will start oil production in 2012; the first time a company has started oil production in such a short time.^{[citation needed]}

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a2exSoF.ys4o&refer=latin_america
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Batista's Offices Raided by Police; OGX Shares Plunge (Update3)

By Adriana Brasileiro and Jeb Blount - July 11, 2008 18:40 EDT

Members of federal police leave the offices of Batista

Eike Batista of MMX Mineracao e Metalicos

July 11 (Bloomberg) -- The home and offices of Eike Batista, Brazil's richest man, were raided by the federal police today as part of a probe into alleged fraud and tax evasion. The shares of three companies controlled by Batista tumbled, wiping out as much as $3.26 billion in market value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukesh_Ambani
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Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (born on 19 April 1957) is an Indian business magnate is the current chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries,^[4] the largest private sector enterprise in India, a Fortune 500 company,^[5] and one of the largest private sector conglomerates in the world. His personal stake in Reliance Industries is 48%.^[6]
In 2010, he was named among the most powerful people in the world by Forbes in its list of "68 people who matter most"^[7] As of 2011, he is the second richest man in Asia^[8] and the ninth richest man in the world with a personal wealth of US$27 billion. In 2007, a strong rally in the Indian stock market and the appreciation of the Indian rupee boosted the market capitalisation of Reliance group companies, briefly making him the world’s richest man.^[9]^[10]^[11] According to Forbes Magazine forecasts, he is expected to regain the title of the richest man in the world in 2014.^[12]^[13]
He is a member of the board of directors of Bank of America Corporation and a present member of the international advisory board of the Council on Foreign Relations.^[14]^[15]^[16]

http://www.emergingmoney.com/bric/india/another-corporate-scandal-for-india/
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Another corporate scandal for India?

By Tim Seymour
February 10th, 12:36 pm

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

When it rains, it pours. We keep talking about the strategic opportunities in India, but we have also stressed corporate governance concerns. Here is another reason why that has been the case.
News that Anil Ambani’s side of the Reliance corporate empire got notices from regulators regarding potential accounting “errors” — that could lead to fines or sterner action — pushed shares down as much as 10% to 19% on Wednesday, cracking new 52-week lows in the process.
Anil Ambani’s companies include Reliance Capital, Reliance Communications, Reliance Power and the center of the gossip, Reliance Infrastructure. All are publicly traded and represent part of the country’s biggest industrial complex, the sprawling Reliance Group.
Spokesmen have claimed that traders dumping shares of the Reliance companies are indulging in “illegal” behavior and that the regulators have simply asked for publicly accessible documents.

Heavens Task Force

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Billionaires on the Forbes list and some of their companies

Soros, Charles Bronfman mull Mid-East peace lobby

The lobby could face off against AIPAC for support in Washington.

List of World Top Billionaires 2011

2005

Another corporate scandal for India?

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