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Fame Vs. Celebrity: A New York Story

I have seen or run into literally hundreds of celebrities -- ranging from global icons to the Andy Warhol ‘fifteen-minute’ variety -- in Manhattan over the past two decades.

Ted Forstmann, Private Equity Pioneer and Philanthropist, Dies at 71

Ted Forstmann
Wall Street legend Ted Forstmann, who died of brain cancer on Nov. 20, helped launch the private equity industry. The colorful financier was as known for his Republican leanings, charity work, and relationships with Princess Diana, Elizabeth Hurley and Padma Lakshmi as for his late-in-life warnings about Wall Street excesses.

Occupy Wall Street Number Crunch: Is It Really 1% vs. 99 %? [VIDEO]

Protesters march with a large banner outside a Bank of America office at an Occupy LA protest in Los Angeles, California
A new video takes the OWS protest cry we are the 99 percent and examines the numbers behind the movement's message. Who are the 99 and 1 percent, respectively, in America? How does U.S. wealth divide itself, and how did it do so before the financial crisis? The shocking statistics paint a picture even more provocative than Occupy protesters assert, including info on the 0.01 percent vs. the 99.9 percent.
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Microsoft shareholders grumble at brief annual meet

Microsoft Corp shareholders filed out of the software giant's annual meeting grumbling that they did not get to ask more questions in their once-a-year opportunity to quiz Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer.
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iPhone 4S vs Samsung Focus S: Microsoft vs Apple

Steve Jobs would have been proud of the unavoidable iPhone 4S collision with the Samsung Focus S. He famously called former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates unimaginative in the Walter Isaacson biography, 'Steve Jobs.' Gates probably didn't have anything to do with the Focus S, the newest and arguably finest device to wear the Microsoft operating system, so maybe that's why this new Samsung device has its sights set on Apple?
International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Managing Director Christine Lagarde, is poised to secure more than $400 billion in additional funds to backstop the euro zone sovereign debt crisis

IMF's Lagarde Joins China-Style Twittersphere

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has joined a growing panoply of Western luminaries and celebrities such as Bill Gates and actress Emma Watson on China's most popular microblogging platform, Weibo -- and received a warm response.
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IMF's Lagarde joins China-style Twittersphere

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has joined a growing panoply of Western luminaries and celebrities such as Bill Gates and actress Emma Watson on China's most popular microblogging platform, Weibo -- and received a warm response.
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Mark Zuckerberg Visits Harvard

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, visited Harvard University today for the first time since he dropped out to move Facebook to California.
IMF chief Lagarde stands with European Central Bank President Trichet at the start of the G20 meeting in Paris

Groups urge G20 not to ignore development agenda

Global development groups on Friday called on G20 leaders to step up to their commitments to tackle global food security and come up with new ways to boost world growth that also benefit the poorest.
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'Celebrating Steve Jobs': As Biography Released, Apple Posts Memorial Service [VIDEO]

Here, watch the full video from Apple's Celebrating Steve, a Oct. 19 private memorial service for Steve Jobs. Jobs, who died at 56 from pancreatic cancer. Jobs was honored by Al Gore, Tim Cook and Bill Gates, and musicians Joan Baez, Bono and Coldplay. The video also shares personal reminiscences of the Apple CEO, and the reactions of those who gathered to bid the Apple co-founder one final good-bye.

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