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POPSStanford Tearfully Denies Wrongdoing It has been tough on Stanford since accusations surfaced he is running a Ponzi scheme. This article reports the ex-billionaire has been forced to fly commercial flights after his private jets were seized. "They make you take your shoes off and everything, it's terrible," reportedly said Stanford.
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POPSBillionaire Passes Away Leonore Annenberg died Thursday. In the Forbes list of the world's billionaires published on Wednesday, she was ranked 430th with a fortune of $1.7 billion.
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POPSSEC's Complaint Against Billionaire Cuban The SEC accuses Mark Cuban of avoiding big losses with a dot-com stock by selling on non-public information. According to the SEC complaint, Mamma.com told Cuban that they would be issuing stock that would dilute the value of existing shares. Cuban allegedly agreed to keep that information confidential but then sold his stake in Mamma.com before the stock offering was revealed to the public. According to the SEC, Cuban avoided losses of over $750,000.
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POPSFiveThirtyEight's Final Electoral Projection For the past nine months FiveThirtyEight.com tirelessly gathered data from the many, many polls around and used that to project election results. Until now, we've really had no way of seeing how accurate those projections are. Late tonight/early tomorrow we should know.
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POPSWho's Giving, Who's Not Buffett, Gates, and Eli Broad top a new list from Portfolio ranking the 50 wealthiest Americans on their charitable giving. Rupert Murdoch and Steve Ballmer are at the bottom.
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POPSOne Foilble With New Buffett Bio Snowball packs a ton of detail into its 950 pages. Despite the length of this tome, it's sometimes difficult to figure out why certain investments made Buffett so wealthy.
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POPSMark Cuban On How To Get Rich I'm always amazed that people will shell out money for get-rich-quick schemes. Anybody that has actually earned their riches justly will tell the real way to a fortune is a lot of hard work.
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POPSBillionaires Who Weren't With all the Web titans on our list of the world's billionaires, it's tempting to think that any intelligent person with a decent tech idea in the late 90s became fabulously rich. Definitely not the case. For every billion-dollar success there were plenty of eToys and Pets.com.
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POPSScary Chart The U.S., already in a ton of debt, continues heading in the wrong direction.
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POPSThe Latest Social Network Sounds like it has a decent chance. Gamers spend a lot of time online and Raptr's co-founder has a solid track record. He sold XFire--sort of like a gaming instant messenger--for $102 million in 2006.
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POPSGoogle Billionaire: Goodbye OS's Sergey Brin says that we will likely turn more to Web apps than traditional software in the future. This would shift importance from operating systems-like Windows-to browsers-like Google's new Chrome.
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POPSBuy A Lunch With Buffett Bidding for a lunch with Warren Buffett on eBay has already run over $40k and will certainly go much higher. Last year, the winning bidder paid just over $650k. The proceeds from the auction go to a San Francisco charity.