The bidders were either powerful Greek families or shipping magnates.
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Even billionaire business magnates appreciate the routine moments with family.
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Local magnates are as keen to build as the government.
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In the late 1800s, local coal magnates built flamboyant mansions here.
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You so-called high officials and VIPs magnates, national cadres, public servants.
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King Brothers, a trio of pinball-machine magnates turned minor movie moguls.
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Will 30-something tech magnates connect to Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor?
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Space travel today is largely ruled by government agencies and billionaire tech magnates.
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Shipping magnates, on the other hand, have their exemptions written into the constitution.
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They introduced a bill in 1930 to expropriate big banks and stock magnates.
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Local leaders have adopted the mien of real estate magnates, using borrowed money.
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Nevertheless, jokes at the expense of clueless software magnates and opportunistic bigots still sting.
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Construction magnates Herman and George Brown had been major financiers of Johnson's political career.
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By 22013, Liverpool and both Manchester clubs had also been purchased by foreign magnates.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Three Australian business magnates plan to financially support Ten Network Holdings TEN.
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In particular, the parks laid out by 18th-century European magnates often fit these criteria.
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FOR YEARS Wall Street's magnates have worried that Silicon Valley's giants will shake up finance.
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At the least Lula showed poor judgment in drawing so close to the construction magnates.
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Fossil fuel magnates, happy to drain the planet's resources for some extra cash, love him.
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Another of India's god-magnates and a purveyor of traditional medicines is Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
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Obama's team saw an opportunity, and targeted new-money Silicon Valley magnates that Clinton neglected to chase.
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The Meruelo family—real estate magnates with properties on both coastlines—has owned the hotel since 2004.
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Monessen was created by steel magnates who built factories in a stretch of flatlands along the Monongahela.
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Meanwhile, buying politicians is a pretty good business investment for fossil-fuel magnates like the Koch brothers.
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And he suggests there are others in Thiel's community of magnates who may already be doing it.
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Magnates and friends of T. Boone Pickens remembered him fondly in comments to CNBC following his passing.
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I'd been covering hackers and tech companies for long enough to have met other peach-fuzz magnates.
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Many high-profile business magnates, billionaires, and celebrities believe money shouldn&apost be handed to their children.
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Nigeria's major business magnates have remained more or less the same regardless of the party in power.
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He has now become a test case for how the Indian authorities deal with heavily indebted business magnates.
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The media magnates of that era were businessmen, first and foremost, looking to make money from the news.
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See if you recognize any of these stars who've moved on to become lawyers, hairdressers, and business magnates.
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The Bills wound up being sold to the Pennsylvania fracking magnates Terry and Kim Pegula for $1.4 billion.
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These magnates and scions don't need another Dan Rooney to handhold them to an acceptable minimum of progress.
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Don't weep too much for the $3 trillion industry's magnates: there were still plenty of billions to go around.
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Using the graphic above, take your turn at the tap, tighten the squeeze, and feel the oil magnates' pain.
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EDT: Ice cream magnates Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield join the Sidewire app to talk about the 2016 election.
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It is also the delight of property buyers, from billionaire magnates to young couples scrambling onto the housing ladder.
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When Donald J. Trump ran for president, Indian real estate magnates bet that licensing his name would sell apartments.
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Chinese interests are increasingly intertwined with real estate interests, with Hong Kong magnates developing large projects on the Mainland.
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"Parece que los magnates de Silicon Valley prefieren gastar dinero en proyectos remotos inverosímiles pero que, en papel, lucen sorprendentes".
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Mr. Deripaska has been under sanctions imposed by the United States along with other Russian magnates close to the Kremlin.
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The concept of a Space Force emerged in a bipartisan fashion, and it has the support of major industrial magnates.
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That has led to some speculation about what the two Silicon Valley magnates will now do with their spare time.
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Regardless of the exact details of Trump's tax shenanigans, Congress should put a stop to tax breaks for real estate magnates.
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I discovered that I liked walking backward down Franklin Street, pointing out landmarks built by whale-oil magnates in the 1800s.
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Shops opened near the depot, and wealthy magnates built mansions in the surrounding countryside, giving the area the Gold Coast label.
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It is made up of business magnates, artists, monks, non-communists and other representatives of broader society, but has no legislative power.
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Between that massive crew of songwriting magnates and production whizzes, they've apparently turned out 500 sketches of songs that Rihanna and co.
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He and his brother are tobacco magnates, behemoths of a corrupt industry, and I've received a contract to eliminate one of them.
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And they have shown a taste for more bare-knuckled and populist politics than most of Mr. Mercer's fellow hedge fund magnates.
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Beckham co-owns Inter Miami with construction magnates Jorge and Jose Mas, Bolivian billionaire Marcelo Claure and Korean-Japanese entrepreneur Masayoshi Son.
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These ultra-wealthy individuals range from real-estate magnates and private investors to hot pot billionaires and even the cofounder of Facebook.
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Among them: slot machine magnates Craig and Patricia Estey of Nevada, who each gave $250,000 to one of Trump's joint fundraising committees.
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But they could seriously disrupt the way potential buyout targets are valued and how quickly private equity magnates can reap their rewards.
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Two magnates, Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn, led its transformation in the late 23.1s from Sin City to a convention and entertainment destination.
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Other Australian mining magnates such as Gina Rinehart, one of Asia's richest women, and Andrew "Twiggy" Forest have also seen their fortunes plummet.
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There are just ten property magnates on the list, but they are said to be responsible for stealing 40% of all the money.
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It is made up of business magnates, artists, monks, non-communists and other representatives of broader society, but it has no legislative power.
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Combined traffic on Israel-based Finance Magnates and ForexLive surpasses 1.5 million visitors per month according to analytics site similarweb, the statement said.
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As Donald J. Trump prepared to run for president, Indian real estate magnates made a bet that licensing his name would sell apartments.
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The annual event hosted by firm Allen & Co will give them the opportunity to meet with a number of tech and business magnates.
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Flying on a private jet is a luxury form of travel usually associated with the ultra-wealthy, celebrities, business magnates, and world leaders.
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Energy magnates Charles and David Koch have long been outsized players in Republican politics, but they never warmed to Trump during the 2016 campaign.
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Now, Lopez Obrador says, he wants to free up the economy by reducing the influence well-connected business magnates hold over the federal government.
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" Hilda C. Heine, the President of the Marshall Islands, told Finance Magnates at the time, "It is another step of manifesting our national liberty.
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These people, the aristocracy and the oil magnates and the hidden movers and shakers behind the curtains of existence, are concerned about climate change.
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Only now, it is tech entrepreneurs, casino magnates and hedge fund billionaires who are seizing control of the press, simply by writing a check.
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But few bonds run deeper than shared association in this most exclusive club of American fat cats, the 19823 magnates who own N.F.L. franchises.
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A trio of tech magnates are publicly fretting about the rise of Chinese companies — betraying Silicon Valley's concern about a looming threat from Beijing.
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In "Winners, " Campbell draws on interviews with a range of successful people, from elite athletes to business magnates, to get to the heart of success.
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It is no coincidence that thousands of government officials and magnates from around the globe have turned to Panama for ways to hide their cash.
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Tech founders and fashion magnates may sit atop the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, but it&aposs a Chinese pig farmer who has its fastest-growing fortune.
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Online, an assortment of social media magnates owns every tweet, post and comment — and only begrudgingly returns them to their creators after many months, if ever.
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The firm possessed a prime address — 58 Wall Street — and a board of trustees populated by some of the city's wealthiest merchants, bankers and railroad magnates.
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Roughly 40,000 people have been arrested across Turkey since the summer, and an increasing number are businessmen, from construction magnates to owners of chains of baklava stores.
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The novel, titled Snow Falling, takes place in Miami in 1902, a time when the Magic City was expanding, railroad magnates thrived and hotels proliferated and prospered.
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At the very center of the page—a space normally occupied by heads of state, religious leaders, and business magnates—a Poliwhirl leaped out at the reader.
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The richest people in Singapore include real-estate magnates, private investors, the cofounder of Facebook, and hot pot billionaires, according to Forbes&apos Real-Time Billionaires list.
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It contained 96 oligarchs, including Vladimir Potanin, co-owner of Norilsk Nickel, metals magnates Alisher Usmanov and Alexei Mordashov and CEOs of two big state-run banks.
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Alongside well-known cronies and old friends of Mr Putin are fairly neutral executives, Russian citizens who operate mostly abroad and magnates who have clashed with the Kremlin.
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While other successful business magnates, including Arianna Huffington and Bill Gates, join Bezos in making sleep a priority, there's another camp of successful people who do the opposite.
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Republican politicians used it to reward the industrial magnates who financed their campaigns, win the votes of the working class, and even buy off the Civil War veterans.
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"Aquarius," while also touching on such tension, goes further by exploring the model of urban development prevailing in cities across Brazil, where construction magnates operate largely with impunity.
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Many of the inaugural donors, revealed in forms that were released on Wednesday, are familiar faces in the Trump universe — sports team owners, billionaire financiers and energy magnates.
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Fixes The giving practices of rich magnates and foundations still suggest a colonial mind-set, the author of a new book argues, as he offers ideas for change.
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Megan Taylor, a spokeswoman for Mr. Heller, did not respond to questions about his call with the casino magnates or the prospect of a primary race next year.
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The two magnates put in a sweetened offer to counter CBS' A$201.1 million ($160 million) bid on Friday after the Australian Senate voted to relax ownership rules.
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Net worth: $42.0 billion2019 gain: $12.08 billionLike other French luxury magnates, Francois Pinault saw his net worth grow substantially in 2019 amid increasing Chinese demand for luxury goods.
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So Janis exhorts group leaders to emulate church magnates from centuries past, conscripting contrary voices to widen the range of views and bolster collective deliberations and decision-making.
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"Although the first months (of the year) are usually better than traditionally slow December, this time the rebound was not that spectacular," Finance Magnates said in the quarterly report.
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Several deals to sell iron ore and coal to Chinese state-owned enterprises propelled him close to the top of a growing legion of super-rich Australian mining magnates.
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Back in February, the livestreaming magnates over at Boiler Room teamed up with our favorite forward-thinking DJ collective Discwoman to celebrate Black History Month in Brooklyn's Good Room.
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The potential witness list, reflecting Mr. Hubbard's business-friendly approach to politics, is a lineup of the state's power elite, including bank executives, construction magnates, legislators, lobbyists, former Gov.
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In 1933, Ferdinand Pecora, backed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, exposed a whole host of self-dealing and fraud among bankers and utility magnates, the tech titans of the time.
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Steel magnates like Andrew Carnegie resented any incursions on their freedom to set wages and working conditions at will; they wanted the right to squeeze labor to maintain profitability.
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On balance, women magnates procure more online followers, with an average of 53,448,255 across three networks, whereas men secure an average of roughly 3,229,248 followers via the same platforms.
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An automated future looms on the horizon, and tech magnates and policy wonks are turning to UBI as a neat solution to the messy problem of technology-induced unemployment.
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They're convenient beliefs for these respective magnates to cling to: Tillerson made money from petroleum and wanted to sow distrust in alternatives; Musk profits by public concern over carbon emissions.
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This has always been an element of the movie series: the idea that the everyday lives of farmers, slavers, gangsters, and mining magnates continue while wars are being waged elsewhere.
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He said Meszaros, who had not held a media portfolio before, joins several other business magnates in building a media foothold after Orban's falling-out with media tycoon Lajos Simicska.
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One who knew his media magnates might note that Fred Ridley was having lunch with Brian Roberts, the chairman of Comcast and the head of the club's digital-technology committee.
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There is a tangled relationship between these magnates and the funding of public arts projects, much like in the past when tobacco companies sponsored the arts in the United States.
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The 28-year-old third-born of hotel magnates Richard and Kathy Hilton tied the knot to socialite Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff on Sunday in a stunning ceremony in St. Barts.
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More than half the shareholders in big Greek shipping companies are based elsewhere, including famous magnates such as George Economou, who lives in Monaco, and John Angelikousis, who lives in London.
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In April, protests from tech employees against excessive overtime surfaced online, sparking an equal pushback from industry magnates such as billionaire Jack Ma of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
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Profiting off these corporate cities were magnates with neither the resources nor inclination to protect users, clinging to an inaccurate and outdated image of their companies as neutral conduits for communication.
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The U.S. Treasury Department last month named major Russian businessmen including the heads of the two biggest banks, metals magnates and the boss of the state gas monopoly on the list.
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In April, protests from tech employees against excessive overtime surfaced online, sparking an equal pushback from industry magnates such as billionaire Jack Ma of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
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Though his family line runs as deeply as any through the rocky New England soil, boasting generations of shipping magnates and Civil War heroes, he carries some meritocratic credentials as well.
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For 15 years, Koch lived in a massive 18-room duplex in a ritzy Manhattan building that John D. Rockefeller, Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman, and other business magnates have called home.
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Mr. Vucic's popularity surged after the arrest and prosecution of Miroslav Miskovic, one of Serbia's wealthiest magnates, who in June was convicted of fraud and sentenced to five years in prison.
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In 2004, the couple's primary residence became a massive 18-room duplex in a ritzy Manhattan building that John D. Rockefeller, private equity billionaires, and other business magnates have called home.
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Normandeau had testified in the Charbonneau Commission, which was struck in 2011 following years of allegations of collusion between Quebec's largest construction union, construction magnates, and officials from the Quebec government.
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It is both a parody of a global art market dominated by price-manipulating fashion conglomerate magnates as well as a serious attempt to create a community of artists and buyers.
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Latino Victory is facing opposition in its efforts to court Hispanic voters from the Libre Initiative, a project financed by the political operation of the conservative oil magnates Charles and David Koch.
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And less than two weeks ago, the Trump administration imposed the first sanctions against Russia for election meddling and cyber attacks, though it held off on punishing business magnates close to Putin.
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A wide-reaching investigation launched last week swept up construction magnates accused of attempting to secure contracts by delivering millions of dollars in bribes to officials in former president Cristina Fernandez's government.
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AX said two local media magnates had declined to extend their support for a $150 million debt guarantee past 13 - a move that increases the risk of the troubled broadcaster seeking receivership.
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Prince Miteb is the highest-profile detainee to be released after hundreds of people, including senior princes and Saudi business magnates, were caught up in a wave of arrests on November 4.
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Democrats have often used the Kochs as a cudgel against the Republican Party at large, denouncing them as secretive magnates who funnel money to policies that mostly help their own bottom lines.
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Residents have pushed back against projects that have favored construction magnates, most prominently at the central Taksim Square, where huge protests exploded in May 2013 to save the park from commercial developers.
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Medina, located on a peninsula just across Lake Washington from Seattle, is an exclusive suburb that's also home to Bill Gates, as well as other Microsoft bigwigs, tech entrepreneurs, and telecom magnates.
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He went on in November, under the auspices of an anticorruption purge, to arrest more than 200 Saudi power brokers, including former government ministers, members of the royal family and wealthy magnates.
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The only player who doesn't end up screwed by Nicolò's tactics is Elio, who—in keeping with the traditions of Italian property magnates—continues to spend a significant amount of time in prison.
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The south is not hospitable to sugar cane and coffee, the commodities that drew Portuguese magnates to Brazil's north-east, where they established an economy based on extraction and exploitation of slave labour.
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Business Insider recently released its list of the most powerful people in the world, and 10 of the top 50 included hedge fund managers, bank CEOs, and other magnates in the finance industry.
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In perhaps the most damning case to date, U.S. authorities in 2015 arrested two Venezuelan oil magnates alleging they took part in a billion-dollar conspiracy to pay bribes to secure PDVSA contracts.
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As some speculated, robots triggered a buying frenzy after an April Fools' Day article by Finance Magnates outlined an "emergency meeting" by regulators over the weekend to approve a bitcoin exchange-traded fund.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Currency market news and information website Finance Magnates has agreed to purchase online peer ForexLive for an undisclosed sum, according to a statement from the companies seen by Reuters on Thursday.
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The Golden Age magnates, ordering all their furniture from Paris, along with walls full of Old Masters from Duveen, had zero intrinsic taste, but a lingering memory of, and yearning for, European culture.
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And no, I don't mean the subjects of this data-heavy musical, the beauty-industry magnates Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, though they were certainly no slouches in the art of the deal.
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Indifferent to poverty and inequality, and immune to evidence or irony, India's largely corporate-owned press and television reveled in the fame and wealth of corporate magnates and of cricket and Bollywood stars.
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The week-long international business conference invites world leaders and business magnates like Bill and Melinda Gates and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to discuss the world's most pressing social, political, and economic issues.
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But Carige's top shareholder, the Malacalza family of steel magnates, in December blocked a new share issue of up to 400 million euros that would have been guaranteed by the bond's conversion into equity.
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His artistry trumps everything, and I can't imagine this half of Kimye putting his signature on any deal that's not an expressive outlet for him, which isn't always the end goal for business magnates.
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The indictment against Netanyahu covers three different cases, with his alleged offenses including his receipt of inappropriate gifts from a billionaire and his corrupt arrangements with media magnates aimed at improving his press coverage.
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The magnates who run one of the biggest merchant marine fleets in the world have long argued that if Greece tried to tax them, they would leave - and that their departure would devastate the economy.
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The Wednesday through Saturday forum, which will bring together business magnates and political leaders from around the world, is key to Macri's effort at drumming up investment needed to revive Latin America's No. 3 economy.
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Instead, Mr. Thiam is encouraging his deal makers to support the firm's private bankers in Asia, by providing loans to palm-oil magnates in Indonesia or helping billionaire clients in China with initial public offerings.
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As market rumor had foretold, the two main recipients were Worldwide Warehouse Solutions (WWS), the logistics arm of Noble Group, and Metro, the LME warehousing franchise now owned by metals-property magnates, the Reuben Brothers.
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The U.S. Treasury Department named major Russian businessmen including the heads of the two biggest banks, metals magnates and the boss of the state gas monopoly on a list of oligarchs close to the Kremlin.
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Only three of the 46 magnates examined dropped out of college: Spotify's Daniel Ek, Twitter's Jack Dorsey, and Oracle's Larry Ellison, all managed to achieve the height of entrepreneurship without the help of a diploma.
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Business magnates, current and former government officials, prominent professors trained in the West, religious leaders, media owners, celebrities and even barristers who once advocated democracy for Hong Kong are denouncing calls for independence, sometimes viciously.
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A November 2019 indictment against Netanyahu covers three different cases, with his alleged offenses including the receipt of inappropriate gifts from a billionaire and corrupt arrangements with media magnates aimed at improving his press coverage.
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Masterminded by Jared Kushner, it is another example of the real estate school of diplomacy that he and his father-in-law — both property magnates — keep trying to apply to the most nettlesome global disputes.
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The Interpreter The #MeToo movement has brought a reckoning to some of the most powerful men on earth, from politicians and movie magnates in the United States to business titans and Bollywood legends in India.
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Over decades, it perfected the art of doling out special privileges to such an array of groups — farmers, notaries, pharmacists, civil servants, teachers and ordinary retirees as well as shipping magnates — that its economy gummed up.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos got a first-ever IAC industry award during the show (it has an actual name but it seems pretty clear it's an invention designed to fish billionaire space magnates to the stage).
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The U.S. Treasury Department named top businessmen including the heads of the two of Russia's biggest banks, metals magnates and the boss of the state gas monopoly on a list of oligarchs close to Russian power.
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Billionaire developers and media magnates have made a fortune off the Olympics; bribe and corruption investigations arising from these Games are a growth industry, with construction companies and hundreds of congressional deputies potentially in the dock.
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Holders of other coal deposits in the basin include some of Australia's wealthiest iron ore magnates such as Gina Rinehart, who has a joint venture with India's GVK Group, and controversial one-term politician Clive Palmer.
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The forum is where hedge fund managers, central bankers, chief executives, social-media magnates, heads of state, self-help gurus, artists, celebrities, fashion models and even archbishops engage in the equivalent of intellectual or corporate speed dating.
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In past cases when magnates have been prosecuted, some in the Russia business community have said the tycoons were victims of a plot by the Kremlin or by politically connected business rivals - though the authorities deny that.
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According to Finance Magnates who devote a section of their magazine to cryptocurrency, the easiest way to know if Shkreli indeed lost 15 million in Bitcoin on a deal would be to simply look at the ledger.
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What to watch: The report calls out real-estate magnates like the Trumps and Kushners who own the types of buildings that are generating climate pollution, which will impact coastal areas like New York in the future.
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He had limited debt, at least compared with his fellow real estate magnates, and cash was pouring in, apparently from TV royalties and licensing deals he had struck to put his name on properties he didn't own.
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Business Insider has compiled a list of 11 high-profile millionaires and billionaires — some of whom are the world&aposs biggest business magnates — who won&apost be signing over their fortunes to their kids in their will.
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As secretary, Perry has led an ill-fated effort to pressure federal energy regulators to offer a financial lifeline to coal-fired power plants, an effort that would benefit coal magnates who were major Trump campaign contributors.
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In perhaps the most damning case to date, U.S. authorities in December arrested two Venezuelan oil magnates, Roberto Rincon and Abraham Shiera, alleging they took part in a billion-dollar conspiracy to pay bribes to secure PDVSA contracts.
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Magnates who are politically astute will still have an edge if knowing how to dodge a price cap imposed on a ministerial whim, for example, is a surer guide to success than knowing how to run a factory.
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Masri's detention unnerved business circles in Jordan and the Palestinian Territories as well as many Arab magnates across the Middle East who have made fortunes in Saudi Arabia, according to several investors who asked not to be named.
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Late on Monday, the Treasury Department named major Russian businessmen, including the heads of the country's two biggest banks, metals magnates and the boss of the state gas monopoly on a list of oligarchs close to the Kremlin.
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The billionaire CEO's move is proof of the immediate effectiveness of the Treasury's sanctions, aimed at throttling Western investment in the country and cutting the international reach of Russian business magnates who act as conduits for that investment.
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To this day, anybody from Mexican cartels to Saudi arms dealers to Russian oligarchs (and even American real estate magnates) can invest money in Britain through anonymous companies registered in Crown Overseas Territories like the British Virgin Islands.
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The investigation, which started as a routine inquiry into money laundering at a gas station, has ensnarled Petrobras, the national oil company, along with more than 280 people, including scores of lawmakers and some of Brazil's wealthiest magnates.
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Chris Bosh and his wife are being sued by the porn magnates who created X-Art (admit it, you know it) ... who claim they rented a sick beach mansion from the NBA star that was literally filled with crap.
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But the ice cream magnates, whose activist political histories have been displayed on every tub of "Rainforest Crunch" or "Imagine Whirled Peace" sold over decades, recently came out in favor of a tax increase on the wealthy — including themselves.
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But Mr. Heller, perhaps the most vulnerable Republican senator on the ballot next year, has by no means escaped the wrath of Mr. Trump and his vocal supporters, including two billionaire casino magnates, Sheldon G. Adelson and Steve Wynn.
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General Quevedo broke with the nationalist rhetoric of his predecessors to hand over operational control of joint oil projects to partners that include Chevron, Russia's state-run company, Rosneft, some European and Chinese companies and groups of Venezuelan magnates.
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Bloomberg recently reported that a growing band of magnates from America, Russia and China (among them Jack Ma of Alibaba, reckoned to be China's richest man) have bought, or want to buy, hideaway homes in safe and beautiful New Zealand.
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Moonves joins the growing list of powerful men who have been forced out of their jobs amid the #MeToo movement and allegations of misconduct and abuse, a list that also includes fellow media magnates Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, and Harvey Weinstein.
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MOSCOW, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday named major Russian businessmen including the heads of the two biggest banks, metals magnates and the boss of the state gas monopoly on a list of oligarchs close to the Kremlin.
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Las Vegas casino titans Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn both gave the maximum they could to the campaign during the last campaign fundraising quarter, yet neither of the magnates has given large checks to the pro-Cruz super PAC effort.
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Because their wealth comes largely from finance and is no longer attached to the country's material infrastructure—they are not steel magnates or railroad barons—modern plutocrats no longer use their fortunes to secure a legacy of contributing to public needs.
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Some magnates, like Mr. Buffett and Mr. Gates, have pledged to give at least half of their wealth to charity during their lifetimes, which still leaves them — and not the government — in control of how those vast sums will be spent.
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His job included calculating and recalculating the wealth of titans like the Marinhos of the Globo TV empire, of construction magnates like the Camargo family and even of Edir Macedo, the founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God.
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Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett&aposs "Ready or Not" drops us into the twisted world of board game magnates right alongside new in-law Grace, who must suddenly fight for her survival against a wealthy family protecting their own.
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Russian's well-connected magnates may have to be cajoled into investing at a critical juncture for the economy, but could in the long term end up with valuable assets at bargain prices, leaving the Kremlin open to accusations of sweetheart deals.
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Metro, once infamously owned by Goldman Sachs and now owned by metals and property magnates the Reuben Brothers, has cut its aluminum rental fee from 77 cents per ton to 60 cents in the United States and lower at other locations.
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That was seen as a manoeuvre to release Ten from expensive licensing contracts with U.S. studios such as CBS before the magnates followed up with a takeover offer, but instead it allowed the U.S. network to jump in with a bid.
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When asked for further comment, an ASKfm spokesperson rebuked the spread of false and unconfirmed information surrounding this incident and referred Gizmodo to Tsaryk's interview with the outlet Finance Magnates, in which the CEO discussed the event and chastised coverage of it.
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Like the railroad, coal, and steel magnates of old, these companies have used their size and influence to create de facto monopolies over online advertising, controlling the system from end to end and reaping the vast majority of the profits for themselves.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Ten Network Holdings said on Monday that three media magnates have put up A$30 million ($23 million) to keep it running until the end of August while the television broadcaster looks to secure a deal with a buyer.
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The backlash against Omar began when the first-term Congress member from Minnesota tweeted that American politicians' support for Israel was "all about the Benjamins," which many saw as directly tied to an anti-Semitic conspiracy about Jewish magnates buying off American politicians.
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The Clinton Foundation was a problem you could see coming a mile away, back when the Times reported that Canadian mining magnates were plowing millions of dollars into the foundation even as they helped Rosatom purchase uranium interests in the United States.
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While casino magnates like Sheldon Adelson may support outlawing online games as a way to drive business to their brick-and-mortar casinos, even Georgians who oppose gambling should recognize this as a subtle attempt to centralize even more power in Washington.
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At a gathering of business magnates in Riyadh last year — dubbed by some attendees as "Davos in the desert" — Prince Mohammed announced his idea for a $500 billion city, Neom, to showcase life in the future and to be staffed by robots.
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A small number of African-Americans were among the pioneers who helped establish San Francisco, including William Alexander Leidesdorff, a merchant of mixed Danish and Caribbean ancestry who arrived before the gold rush and was one of the city's early business magnates.
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As magnates began going to prison, a fate that several veteran politicians implicated in the scandal feared, a coalition of lawmakers in December 2015 set in motion a plan to impeach Ms. Rousseff for tapping into central bank funds to conceal budget shortfalls.
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Number of ultra-prime sales ($25 million or above): 35Average ultra-prime sale: $81.8 millionMount Nicholson Road is in the Peak, Hong Kong's most exclusive neighborhood that overlooks the city and is home to bankers, expatriates, business magnates, celebrities, and millionaires and billionaires.
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As several women involved told the Times, there's pressure to stay silent because so many of the investors and magnates holding the Valley's purse strings are men—and upsetting a powerful person could directly affect whether or not your venture or start up gets funding.
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" Finally, and staying dark, you should listen to this episode of "Reveal," based on Aaron Glantz's book "Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream.
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Since the intercepts were released, justices on Brazil's Supreme Federal Tribunal have suspended that nomination, citing concerns that Mr. da Silva's nomination could obstruct Judge Moro's investigation, which has already resulted in the imprisonment of construction magnates, oil executives and confidants of Mr. da Silva.
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MOSCOW — One of Russia's most influential business magnates on Wednesday said the country has become a "quasi-monarchy" — a sign of how President Vladimir V. Putin's move this week to clear the way to rule until 313 has changed the landscape of Russian politics.
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Unlike the Canadian booze magnates of yore, who used their heft to muscle out smaller players once alcohol became legal in the United States following Prohibition, several of the bigger marijuana companies say they would potentially welcome, and even buy from, growers like Michael.
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" Why it matters: "Like the other billionaire resident of Washington who rode prime-time television into national prominence, Rubenstein is capitalizing on the market's clearest trend: a new regime in which magnates can, apparently, do anything — not despite the poor fit but perhaps because of it.
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"With their money, they bought politicians, attacked unions, exploited workers and left us with a toxic reminder of what happens when our democracy is put up for sale," Mr. Bullock said of Montana's powerful copper magnates, as he stood over a polluted old mine in Butte.
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As rigs are decommissioned—whether now or later—magnates like Harold Hamm and Trump's other wealthy friends will walk away unscathed as wildcatters are left to deal with layoffs, poisoned air and water, and an ever-warming world; coal miners know this dynamic all too well.
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As locals complained, Pittsburgh's overall affordable housing and world-class technical breakthroughs from Carnegie Mellon and U Pittsburgh drew the attention of tech magnates like Google, focusing on machine learning and engineering, Uber, testing out driving-cars on local roads and Amazon, all with offices in the area.
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CST's Chiu reportedly has close relationships with some of China's richest real estate magnates, including one man who a number of Chinese media reports have claimed orchestrated the investment into Faraday Future: Hui Ka Yan, the chairman of Evergrande Group, one of the country's biggest real estate companies.
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The elites who spearheaded political fear during the McCarthy years, for instance, included anti-modern, pro-big business, and often racist officials like J. Edgar Hoover and Mississippi congressman John Rankin; liberals like Harry Truman, Hubert Humphrey, and Herbert Lehman; industrial magnates; Hollywood moguls; university presidents; and newspaper columnists.
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People don't think that, but you have 32 people, many of them just really motley and not people you'd want running your businesses, who are these magnates who ... Jim Irsay is the king of Indianapolis and Martha Ford, who is this 93-year-old matriarch of the Detroit Lions.
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For being one of the most powerful real estate magnates in New York's cut-throat market, Mr. Ratner managed to preserve a reputation for being "one of the good guys", said Diane Coffey, a managing director at boutique investment bank PJ Solomon, who has known him for four decades.
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Among the heavy-hitters also in attendance were outspoken Trump supporter and billionaire investor Carl Icahn along with casino magnates Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn and NFL owners Daniel Snyder, Robert Kraft, Shad Khan, and Woody Johnson who Mr. Trump has tapped to be the new Ambassador to Great Britain.
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Third, Nunberg assumed, given his knowledge of the common tax practice of New York real estate magnates, there would likely be a vast discrepancy between Trump's net worth and what his tax returns showed -- and that this might be difficult to explain to voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
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Social figures, fashion magnates, models and actors, and rafts of the largely unsung fanned out their finery as they filed into the vaulted auditorium, transforming what might have been a melancholy hour into a certified social event — the kind of gala affair, in short, that Mr. Cunningham might have relished himself.
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If he was not exactly entering the lion's den, it was nonetheless a fraught moment for both sides as the America First president ventured into the lair of the we-are-the-world banking titans, corporate magnates and international leaders who have spent decades preaching the virtues of global integration.
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His business thrived as he produced custom interiors for homes of the wealthy in New York as well as in San Francisco's Nob Hill, where the railroad magnates known as the Big Four — Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker and Mr. Huntington — built mansions after completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.
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The Gateses, who released their foundation's annual letter this week, are not cartoonishly out-of-touch like Stephen Schwarzman, the private equity billionaire who gave Yale $150 million for a performing arts center; they're not magnates attempting to use their money to swing elections like Charles and David Koch or Tom Steyer.
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Chairman Andrea Bonomi, one of Italy's most famous business magnates who set up the European buyout group in 1990, told Reuters the firm was on track to become carbon positive across all of its investments by the end of 2020 - meaning it will offset more than the carbon emissions of portfolio companies.
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Religious leaders, business magnates, lawyers, and judges, along with human rights activists—groups that would rarely find common ground on an issue—all raised their own concerns about the bill that was seen broadly as another effort to make Hong Kong "just another Chinese city," in the words of those who opposed it.
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The joke in town is that the most famous rivalry in modern Greek history — between Stavros Niarchos and Aristotle Onassis, shadowy shipping magnates who spent their lives feuding over business and romantic interests — now plays out along Siggrou Avenue and through the prolific cultural programming, grants, residencies and public works of their respective legacy foundations.
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"It's a fun way to help a good cause, but we've done it for 10 years, and it's time to freshen up the idea," he said, between greeting fellow machers Jay Penske, Jeff Bewkes and Tom Freston, the media magnates; Jonelle Procope, chief executive of the Apollo foundation; and Richard D. Parsons, its chairman.
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"It's a fun way to help a good cause, but we've done it for 10 years, and it's time to freshen up the idea," he said, between greeting fellow machers Jay Penske, Jeff Bewkes and Tom Freston, the media magnates; Jonelle Procope, chief executive of the Apollo foundation; and Richard D. Parsons, its chairman.
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Weird tech magnates crafting strange new devices in isolation, while ignoring plutocrats stomping all over the poor, racist gangs gathering together to assuage their insecurities with violence and hatred, surveillance capitalism, and increasingly unchecked authoritarian power … I mean, there might be a certain steampunk narrative appeal to that if it were a novel, but, alas, this is real life.
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" Now working on a paper with Skandier on the prospects for nationalizing fossil fuel companies, Paul argues that instead of a bailout for oil and gas magnates, "What we should be talking about is a bailout for fossil fuel workers who have put their lives on the line to make sure we can charge our cell phones and laptops.
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Broidy's ambassador picks who were selected include George Glass, an Oregon businessman and a major Trump donor, who is the ambassador to Portugal; Robert Kohorst, a wealthy donor from Pasadena, California, ambassador to Croatia; real estate magnates "Papa Doug" Manchester (Bahamas) and Carla Sands (Denmark); former LA Dodgers co-owner Jamie McCourt (France); and Bay Area tech entrepreneur Trevor Traina (Austria).
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The Amazon Delivery Service Partner program wants entrepreneurs to start your very own package delivery business — even if those entrepreneurs have no prior experience with shipping logistics.. A brochure about the new program details everything that interested would-be shipping magnates will need to launch their delivery business, and that means purchasing vans, handheld devices, uniforms, car insurance, fuel cards, and hiring drivers.
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"The corruptive ties that he was able to expose between timber magnates and the government really helped, I think, raise a lot of awareness both within Cambodia and outside" about the downsides of land concessions, said David Gordon, executive director of the Goldman Environmental Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that awarded Mr. Leng a $175,000 prize on Monday for his work.
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The coupling of Indian and Chinese, then, would seem like another superfluous mashup if it weren't for the fact that it was conceived not by overzealous food magnates but by Hakka immigrants living in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) more than a century ago, owing as much to homesickness as to a genuine affection for the sweetness and pungent heat of their adopted country.
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It has been a decade in which soccer teams, and soccer tournaments, were squabbled over and bought up not only by plutocrats and tycoons and magnates but also by nation states, when Manchester City and Paris St.-Germain became an arm of foreign policy, when clubs and players suddenly had to worry that they might incur the wrath of the Chinese government.
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Schwarzman's Blackstone and its subsidiaries swept up legions of such properties at foreclosure, thereby transferring billions of dollars of residents' equity to Blackstone, as the journalist Aaron Glantz demonstrates with macroeconomic rigor and novelistic intimacy in Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream.
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John McCainJohn Sidney McCainOverwhelming majority of voters say civility is needed in politics Jill Biden on Lindsey Graham: 'We used to be great friends, and now he's changed' Juan Williams: Team Trump is wrong to underestimate Sanders MORE relished skewering the soap opera producers and hotel magnates appointed as ambassadors by President Obama for their lack of basic knowledge of the designated countries' language, culture or politics.
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After Mandela was released from prison, he'd befriended white mining and insurance magnates; in the late 2000s, before Zuma became president, an interpretation circled around Diepsloot that the deal Mandela and the ANC had negotiated for black people had been a Nobel Peace Prize-friendly abrogation of justice that had left apartheid's brutally unequal economic system—and the racism and classism that enabled it—intact.
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Amid songs, drumbeats and free paella on Election Day, Beckham and his new partners — including Jose and Jorge Mas, the Miami-based construction magnates; Masayoshi Son, the billionaire Japanese owner of SoftBank; Marcelo Claure, the former chief executive of Sprint telecommunications; and the pop-music mogul Simon Fuller — celebrated victory in a public referendum that had granted them the right to enter into a noncompete bidding process for the Melreese property.
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