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Davita agrees to pay $4.42 billion for HealthCare Partners
DaVita Inc., whose biggest shareholder is billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., agreed to pay about $4.42 billion in cash and stock to acquire HealthCare Partners, continuing an international spending spree on providers of medical care....Tags: General Practitioners, Healthcare Industry, Warren Buffett, Companies and Corporations, DaVita Incorporated
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Buffett and Berkshire bet on print, buy 63 Media General papers
Former paperboy and current Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett is throwing the weight of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. behind the newspaper industry, buying the majority of Media General Inc.'s papers months after picking up his hometown publication.
Berkshire...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Companies and Corporations, Media Industry, Tampa, Sales
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Avon gets kiss-off from Coty, stock plunges
Beauty company Coty Inc. is no longer interested in wooing Avon Products Inc., withdrawing its takeover bid and sending Avon’s stock plummeting more than 10%. In a "Dear Avon" letter Monday night, Coty Chairman Bart Becht bashed the struggling...
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Coty boosts buyout bid for Avon to about $10.7 billion
Beauty products maker Coty Inc. is raising its buyout offer for direct seller Avon Products Inc.by about 6.5% to almost $10.7 billion, with help from billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. Avon, whose brands include Skin-So-Soft,...
Tags: Warren Buffett, Leveraged Buyouts, Avon Products Incorporated
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Howard Buffett, Warren's farmer son, nurtures a cause
DECATUR, Ill. — Wearing a black fleece pullover and blue cargo pants, Howard Buffett loaded his jumpy Slovakian-born German shepherd Bolek into his Ford F-250 Super Duty and radioed his crew that he was on his way.
"Beans don't do well in the...Tags: Politics, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Migration, Career and Workplace, Melissa Harris
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On Facebook stock, what would Warren and Woz do?
This is the week for Facebook's much-discussed debut on Nasdaq. While multibillionaire Warren Buffett is non-committal on Facebook's pending initial public offering, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak most certainly is not. Warren would wait, but Woz would...
Tags: Warren Buffett, Media Industry, Bloomberg L.P., Stock Market, Social Media
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Warren Buffett seeks to reassure shareholders
OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett worked to reassure shareholders that he's feeling good after his recent prostate cancer diagnosis, and that Berkshire Hathaway is ready to replace the revered 81-year-old investor when the need arises. Based on the...
Tags: Prostate Cancer, Warren Buffett, Companies and Corporations, Annual and Special Corporate Meetings, Economy, Business and Finance
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Berkshire holders trust Buffett on health outlook
Warren Buffett insists that he's feeling good after his recent prostate cancer diagnosis. Based on the questions he got at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, shareholders are taking him at his word. Despite the fact that Buffett just disclosed his...
Tags: Prostate Cancer, Companies and Corporations, Corporate Officers, Business, Railway Transportation
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Warren Buffett's statement on his cancer diagnosis
Warren Buffett issued this statement on the Berkshire Hathaway website Tuesday afternoon: "To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway: This is to let you know that I have been diagnosed with stage I prostate cancer. The good news is that I’ve...
Tags: Prostate Cancer, Republican Party, Warren Buffett, Cancer, MRI (imaging)
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Who is Warren Buffett's replacement?
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett's successor is already picked. The only problem is: Who is it? The Oracle of Omaha said in February that the Berkshire Hathaway board had selected his successor, but then did not actually name the CEO-in-waiting....
Tags: Republican Party, Prostate Cancer, Warren Buffett, MidAmerican Energy Company, Corporate Officers
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Jailed oligarch says tax rich Russians: 'the Khodorkovsky rule'
World NowFrom his prison cell in remote northwest Russia, jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky proposed his own version of the "Buffett rule," the brainchild of Berkshire Hathaway CEO and billionaire Warren Buffett to ensure that households with more than $1 million...
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