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| Jun.4 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Investor steps up Yahoo campaign| Outraged by new details about Yahoo efforts to complicate Microsoft takeover bid, Carl Icahn says he believes Yahoo's board will have to be fired | | |
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| Apr.25 |
 Argentina |
Economy minister steps down Martin Lousteau has resigned in the wake of a crippling farmers' strike that emptied store shelves and cut exports
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| Apr.21 |
 South Korea |
Samsung chief resigns from post Lee Kun-hee has quit after he was charged with tax evasion and breach of trust
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| Mar.6 |
 USA |
Buffett named world's richest man Forbes' list of the world's wealthy has named Warren Buffett the richest person on the planet, surpassing his friend Bill Gates
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| Jan.30 |
 Paris |
Societe Generale CEO keep jobs| Chairman and chief executive Daniel Bouton will stay on despite massive trading losses of more than $7.2 billion | |
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| Nov.4 |
New York |
World's biggest bank's boss quits  | Charles Prince, the chairman and chief executive of the Citigroup, will be replaced as chairman by former US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin | |
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| Jul.20 |
New York |
DJ director quits to protest sale A director on the board of Dow Jones & Co has resigned because he could not support its endorsement of a $5 billion takeover
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| Jun.18 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo boss steps down from post The chief executive of internet search firm, Terry Semel, has quit his position and has been replaced by co-founder Jerry Yang
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| Oct.14 |
 Sweden |
Trade minister to quit Maria Borelius is to resign over allegations of tax evasion after just one week in office
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| Jul.2 |
Paris |
EADS and Airbus bosses both quit
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| Jun.25 |
USA |
Buffett gives $30 billion Gates Foundation Buffett, 75, plans to commit 10 million class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway, to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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| Jun.15 |
Microsoft |
Gates to end daily Microsoft role Bill Gates will end his day-to-day role as head of software giant by July 2008 to spend more time at his charity
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Three Gorges dam wall complete
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| Jan.23 |
Japan |
Livedoor CEO held on fraud charges
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| Dec.4 |
Iran |
MPs consider new oil nominee
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| Dec.2 |
Greece |
Onassis heiress to wed in Brazil
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| Oct.24 |
Washington |
Bush Selects Bernanke as New Fed Chief
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| Jun.27 |
USA |
Crash kills Wal-Mart billionaire
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| Mar.16 |
Washington |
Wolfowitz to run World Bank President Bush has nominated US Deputy Defense Secretary as the next head of the World Bank
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| Mar.13 |
Southern California |
Disney names Iger as Eisner replacement
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| Mar.7 |
Seattle |
Boeing fires CEO over relationship
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| Feb.9 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Fiorina forced out at HP
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| Oct.11 |
Norway |
Pair share Nobel economics prize
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Oil rises to $50
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| Jul.2 |
Italy |
Finance minister 'resigns'
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| Apr.16 |
 Germany |
Bundesbank boss resigns Ernst Welteke has resigned following investigations into a hotel stay paid for by Dresdner Bank
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| Nov.4 |
Moscow |
Russian-born American heads Yukos
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| Nov.3 |
 Moscow |
Khodorkovsky resigns Jailed Yukos CEO has resigned as head of the embattled Russian oil giant
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| Sep.17 |
New York |
$140m NYSE chief Grasso resigns A special board meeting called to address the furor over CEO's pay and retirement package
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| Apr.17 |
 England |
Billionaire Getty dies Sir John Paul Getty II was admitted for treatment for a recurrent chest infection. He was 70
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| Jan.12 |
New York |
Case resigns as AOL chairman
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| Dec.9 |
Washington |
Bush taps Snow for Treasury
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| Dec.6 |
Washington |
Treasury chief O'Neill, Lindsey resigned Both men were asked to resign by the White House, continuing the house cleaning of the Bush's economic team
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| Oct.1 |
Senegal |
Transport minister quits
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| Sep.29 |
Japan |
Koizumi ousts key finance minister
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| Aug.9 |
Turkey |
Economy minister resigns
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| Jul.9 |
Washington |
 Bush called for integrity in corporations The President called for longer prison sentences for corporate fraudsters and more money for SEC
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| Jul.8 |
 U.S. Congress |
Bush wants new laws on corporate abuse| Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers and ex-CFO Scott Sullivan take Fifth on Capitol Hill | |
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WorldCom in accounting trouble, cut jobs
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| Feb.4 |
Texas |
 Former Enron chief quits board Congress was considering whether to force Kenneth Lay to appear before inquiry panels
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| Jan.25 |
Texas |
Former Enron VP commits suicide John C. Baxter discovered inside a vehicle. A suicide note was found at the scene
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| Jan.23 |
Texas |
Enron chairman resigns Kenneth Lay had run Enron since it was founded in 1986
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| Jan.14 |
 Seattle |
Microsoft CEO Gates Steps Down| Bill Gates is handing the reins to his former Harvard classmate, Steve Ballmer, the company's president | | |
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