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| Mar.21 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Zuckerberg 'sorry' over Cambridge Analytica 'breach'
Facebook founder has admitted that the social network 'made mistakes' that led to millions of users having their data exploited by a political consultancy
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| Feb.4 |
South Korea |
Samsung heir freed from S Korea jail
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| Oct.12 |
South Korea |
Samsung Electronics CEO resigns
| Aug.27 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Uber names ex-Expedia boss Dara Khosrowshahi as CEO pick
| Aug.16 |
Washington |
Business councils disband over Trump remarks
| Jun.13 |
China |
Wu Xiaohui steps aside as Anbang chairman
| Apr.11 |
Chicago |
United Airlines CEO sorry for 'horrific' passenger removal
Oscar Munoz has apologised for the 'truly horrific' incident in which a passenger was forcibly dragged, screaming, from a flight
| Mar.8 |
South Korea |
Samsung chief Lee Jae-Yong on trial for bribery |
| Feb.20 |
Spain |
Gibraltar seizes Russian's superyacht |
| Feb.2 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Uber boss quits Trump advisory board |
| Jan.11 |
Washington |
Trump Organization handover plan slammed by ethics chief
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| Dec.12 |
USA |
Trump delays announcement on his business empire |
| Dec.10 |
USA |
Trump presidency: Exxon's Rex Tillerson for top diplomat? |
| Dec.6 |
Bolivia |
Chapecoense plane crash: Bolivia arrests LaMia airline boss |
| Dec.5 |
South Korea |
South Korean firms face rare corruption hearing |
| Oct.2 |
USA |
Trump 'a genius' if he paid no taxes - allies |
| Sep.14 |
Athens |
UEFA presidency: Slovenian Aleksander Ceferin to replace Michel Platini |
| Mar.6 |
Iran |
Iran billionaire Babak Zanjani sentenced to death
| Feb.24 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple boss Tim Cook hits back at FBI investigation |
| Jan.19 |
Switzerland |
Davos: Chief executives ‘more pessimistic’ about growth |
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| Dec.13 |
Shanghai |
Fosun founder Guo Guangchang appears in public |
| Dec.11 |
China |
Chinese tycoon Guo Guangchang detained by police |
| Oct.7 |
USA |
Volkswagen US boss told about emission cheat in 2014 |
| Sep.29 |
West Germany |
Volkswagen staff acted criminally, says board member |
| Sep.23 |
West Germany |
Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn resigns |
| Sep.8 |
Chicago |
United Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek quits amid probe |
| Aug.28 |
Canada |
Ashley Madison founder steps down |
| Jul.31 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to become a father |
| Jul.10 |
Massachusetts |
Reddit's Ellen Pao resigns after community's criticism |
| Jun.16 |
Manhattan |
James Murdoch to become Fox chief executive on 1 July |
| Jun.11 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Twitter's Dick Costolo steps down |
| Jun.7 |
West Germany |
Deutsche Bank bosses resign in the wake of Libor scandal |
| Jun.3 |
Madrid |
Real Madrid names Rafael Benitez manager |
| Jun.1 |
Bangladesh |
Murder trial over Rana Plaza factory collapse |
| Apr.25 |
West Germany |
Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piech quits
| Feb.8 |
Sichuan |
China executes 'mafia-style' mining tycoon Liu Han
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| Dec.28 |
Malaysia |
AirAsia: Boss 'devastated' by missing Indonesia jet
| Dec.11 |
South Korea |
Korean Air chair apologies over daughter's nut rage Cho Yang-ho apologized for the behavior of his adult daughter who delayed a flight in an incident now dubbed 'nut rage'
| May.25 |
Kiev |
Petro Poroshenko claims Ukraine presidency
Ukrainian confectionery tycoon Petro Poroshenko has claimed outright victory in the country's presidential election
| May.7 |
South Korea |
South Korea ferry company chief detained |
| May.4 |
Libya |
Libya appoints businessman as new PM The Libyan parliament has elected a businessman, Ahmed Maitig, 42, to become the country's next prime minister, in a controversial vote
| Feb.4 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft names Nadella as new boss
Indian-born Satya Nadella is currently Microsoft's head of Cloud and Enterprise. He takes over from Steve Ballmer who announced plans to step...
| Jan.28 |
Hong Kong |
Tycoon's daughter defends sexuality |
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| Dec.20 |
Russia |
Khodorkovsky leaves Russian prison after Putin signs pardon
Map of Segezha Karelia Russia Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky has arrived in Germany after Putin released him Friday following more than 10 years in prison
| Dec.19 |
Moscow |
Putin 'to pardon' jailed former oil tycoon Khodorkovsky |
| May.8 |
Northern England |
Man Utd's Sir Alex Ferguson to retire
| Feb.27 |
European Union |
EU agrees to cap bankers' bonuses
| Feb.5 |
Texas |
Dell to be bought back by founder |
| Jan.5 |
Venezuela |
Italian fashion boss Missoni missing off Venezuela
Map of Los Roques Venezuela A small plane carrying six people, one of them Vittorio Missoni, a director of Italy's Missoni fashion house, is missing off the coast of Venezuela
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| Sep.13 |
Karachi |
Factory owner investigated after fire kills 250 |
| Aug.31 |
London |
Russian oligarchs end $4.75bn UK court battle |
| Jul.16 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo names Google exec as new boss
| Jul.3 |
London |
Barclays Bank boss Diamond resigns Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond has resigned a week after the bank was fined a record amount for trying to manipulate inter-bank lending...
| Jul.1 |
London |
Barclays chairman to quit over rate fix |
| May.13 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo CEO Thompson quits his post
| May.2 |
New York |
News Corp. board backs Murdoch |
| Feb.15 |
Japan |
Former Olympus chairman arrested |
| Jan.26 |
Southern France |
PIP breast implant boss charged
| Jan.23 |
Canada |
Blackberry-maker CEOs step down
Blackberry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has said its co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have stepped down in a shake-up
| Jan.22 |
New Zealand |
Megaupload boss seeks bail in NZ |
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| Dec.7 |
Japan |
Panel: Olympus management 'rotten' |
| Oct.5 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dies 
Former chief executive and co-founder of US technology giant Apple Steve Jobs has died, the company says. He was 56
Jobs announced he was suffering from pancreatic cancer in 2004. Jobs introduced the colourful iMac computer, the iPod and the iPhone to the world. He was indistinguishable from his company, which he co-founded in the 1970s
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| Aug.24 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Steve Jobs quits as Apple chief
Apple founder Steve Jobs has resigned as chief executive of the technology giant and will be replaced by its chief operating officer Tim Coo...
| Jul.15 |
London |
Murdoch apologizes as deputies resign
Two key executives in the media empire resigned, and their former boss began a series of apologies in the phone-hacking scandal
| Feb.6 |
Cairo |
Missing Google exec to be released |
| Jan.20 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Schmidt to step down as Google CEO
| Jan.17 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Apple boss takes 'medical leave' |
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| Dec.30 |
Moscow |
Khodorkovsky jail term increased Imprisoned former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, has been sentenced to six more years in jail for fraud
| Dec.11 |
Manhattan |
Madoff's son found hanged in NY Mark Madoff, 46, one of convicted US fraudster Bernard Madoff's sons has committed suicide in his apartment
| Aug.4 |
USA |
US billionaires in charity pledge |
| Jul.27 |
United Kingdom |
BP ousts CEO Hayward Tony Hayward will step down amid ongoing outrage over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and will be replaced by American Robert Dudley
| Jul.26 |
London |
BP boss set for £600,000 pension |
| Jul.25 |
United Kingdom |
BP boss Hayward 'negotiates exit' |
| Jun.19 |
Washington |
BP CEO Hayward criticised for yacht trip |
| Jun.17 |
U.S. Congress |
Congress tells BP ignored oil well dangers |
| May.17 |
China |
Tycoon Huang Guangyu jailed for bribery
| Apr.24 |
New York |
Goldman executives in crash profit boasts |
| Mar.29 |
China |
Rio sacks staff jailed by China for bribery |
| Mar.10 |
Mexico |
Mogul Slim is world's richest person
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| Dec.1 |
New York |
General Motors chief Henderson resigns |
| Oct.21 |
Washington |
Plans bailout firm bonus cut |
| Sep.17 |
European Union |
EU agrees on bonus claw-back call
| Sep.4 |
London |
Bonus row opens up G20 divisions |
| Jun.4 |
New York |
Fraud charge for Countrywide boss |
| Apr.24 |
Washington |
G7 offers hope crisis is easing |
| Apr.22 |
Washington |
Freddie Mac chief found dead |
| Mar.29 |
Detroit |
GM chairman to leave car maker The chief executive of struggling General Motors - Rick Wagoner - has agreed to step down immediately at the request of the White House
| Mar.24 |
Washington |
Fed wanted to block AIG bonuses |
| Mar.23 |
New York |
Top AIG bosses 'to repay bonuses' |
| Mar.16 |
Washington |
Obama anger at AIG bonus payouts |
| Jan.6 |
West Germany |
Billionaire Adolf Merckle kills self
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| Dec.17 |
New York |
Madoff under curfew on $10m bail |
| Nov.17 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Jerry Yang to quit as Yahoo boss |
| Jul.15 |
South Korea |
Ex-Samsung boss convicted
| Jan.30 |
Paris |
Societe Generale CEO keep jobs |
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| Nov.4 |
New York |
World's biggest bank's boss quits |
| Jun.18 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Yahoo boss steps down from post |
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| Oct.14 |
Sweden |
Trade minister to quit |
| Jun.25 |
USA |
Buffett gives $30 billion Gates Foundation |
| Jun.15 |
Microsoft |
Gates to end daily Microsoft role |
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| Mar.16 |
Washington |
Wolfowitz to run World Bank
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| Apr.16 |
Germany |
Bundesbank boss resigns |
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| Nov.3 |
Moscow |
Khodorkovsky resigns |
| Sep.17 |
New York |
$140m NYSE chief Grasso resigns
| Apr.17 |
England |
Billionaire Getty dies |
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| Dec.6 |
Washington |
Treasury chief O'Neill, Lindsey resigned
| Jul.9 |
Washington |
Bush called for integrity in corporations |
| Jul.8 |
U.S. Congress |
Bush wants new laws on corporate abuse
| Feb.4 |
Texas |
Former Enron chief quits board |
| Jan.25 |
Texas |
Former Enron VP commits suicide
| Jan.23 |
Texas |
Enron chairman resigns |
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| Apr.3 |
Moscow |
Bosses ousted at Russia's NTV
| Jan.4 |
Portugal |
Gunman-businessman surrenders |
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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
before year 2000
|
| May. 25, 1879 |
Canada |
Lord Beaverbrook born
Map of Maple Ontario Canada An Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, newspaper proprietor and writer who was an influential figure in British society | |
| Jul. 30, 1863 |
U. S. Midwest |
Henry Ford born
Map of Greenfield Township Michigan USA An American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique | |
| Feb. 11, 1847 |
Ohio |
Thomas Alva Edison born
Map of Milan Ohio Ohio An American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world | |
| Jul. 9, 1839 |
Upstate New York |
John D. Rockefeller born
Map of Richford New York USA John Davison Rockefeller Sr was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He was a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company | |
| Nov. 25, 1835 |
Scotland |
Andrew Carnegie born
Map of Dunfermline Fife United Kingdom A Scottish American industrialist and philanthropist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry