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Gates cedes Microsoft shareholder crown to former No. 2, Ballmer

2014-05-05 12:59:08| InfoWorld: Top News

Bill Gates last week ceded his title as Microsoft's largest individual shareholder to former CEO Steve Ballmer. It was the first time in Microsoft's nearly 40 years that Gates, 58, was not the company's top shareholder.Gates, who co-founded Microsoft in 1975, served as CEO until 2000 and only stepped down as chairman in February, sold a total of 7.85 million shares in transactions on April 29 and 30, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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Ballmer Overtakes Gates as Largest Individual Microsoft Shareholder

2014-05-05 03:38:46| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

At Gates's rate of selling shares, he'll be completely untangled from his pool of Microsoft stock by mid-2018.

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Virgin says it has won 2 gates to fly from Dallas Love Field

2014-04-25 20:12:55| Airlines - Topix.net

The airline said Friday that it had won the rights to fly from Love Field to New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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Blackstone's Gates buyout one of 2014's largest for U.S. M&A

2014-04-11 17:29:04| Food - Topix.net

The deal is the second-largest U.S. leveraged buyout financing of the year, according to Thomson Reuters data, and is also the largest private equity buyout of an industrial company in more than four years.

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