Archive for the ‘gates’ Category
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is in talks with Microsoft about joining in its contested bid for Yahoo, according to people involved in the discussions. The combination, which would join Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and News Corporation's MySpace, would create a behemoth that would upend the Internet landscape.Read the full story
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Lawmakers have introduced bills to expand the program. But pro-immigration legislation is making little headway in this election year, and the H-1B program has been criticized by some for taking away U.S. jobs, lowering wages or being abused by foreign companies in the United States to bring in foreign workers.Read ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
"I'm an optimist, but I'm an impatient optimist," he said to the standing-room-only crowd. "The world is not getting better fast enough, and it's not getting better for everyone."Read the full story
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Three weeks ago, on a flight home from a New Zealand vacation, Mr. Gates took out a yellow pad of paper and listed ideas about why capitalism, while so good for so many, is failing much of the world.Read the full story
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Time to impeach? Defense Secretary Robert Gates will ask Congress on Wednesday to approve nearly $190 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008, increasing initial projections by more than a third.Read the full story
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Gates is surpassed by Mexican telecom giant.Read the full story
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