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Investor and political activist Bill Browder (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (right)TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images (left), Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images (right) Bill Browder once ran Russia’s largest foreign investment fund — now he’s Putin’s “enemy.” In an interview with The New York Times, he said remaining in Russia is like doing “business in Nazi Germany.” He said all companies have a “moral obligation” to leave Russia, “no matter what the cost is.” Bill Browder — an… Source link

Yahoo just got caught in a major plagiarism scandal and is having to pay up big. A federal jury in Oakland says the Sunnyvale-based web portal and online services company has to give a software company $15 million for infringing on its search technology patent. A Texas-based software company called Droplets Inc. has a patent on software, dating back to 2004, that lets users reach specific portions of a website without having to download the entire page, as the Chronicle reports. Other… Source link

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Nicknamed “the Bond King” by Fortune Magazine in 2002, Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) founder Bill Gross made both a name and a very profitable empire managing bond funds. At the height of his career, Gross earned over $300 million in net returns and had accumulated almost $500 billion in assets. Then it all came tumbling down. Gross stepped down from PIMCO following a widely-publicized internal conflict between him and fellow chief executive Mohamed A. El-Erian. More… Source link

Asset manager Bill Browder, who for years specialized as an investor in major Russian firms, told Yahoo Finance on Tuesday that cryptocurrency exchanges should be closed if they do not suspend accounts owned by Russians. The remarks come days after Ukraine’s vice prime minister called on a slew of major cryptocurrency exchanges — including Coinbase (COIN) and Binance — to stop servicing Russian accounts that may help the country blunt or circumvent sanctions. Coinbase and Binance rejected… Source link

Bill Browder has pondered how best to put the squeeze on Vladimir Putin and Russia for nearly 20 years now. The financier and head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign has been targeted by Putin for over a decade now and, in a new interview with Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer, offered up his grade of where things stand on sanctions so far. Those sanctions got a failing grade from Browder early on. Before the invasion, he gave the West just a two out of 10 and said the actions… Source link

Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., conduct a news conference in Capitol. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Two senators introduced a new bill Wednesday that would give online platforms a duty to act in kids’ best interests and prevent or mitigate the risk of certain harms including suicide, eating disorders and substance abuse. The Kids Online Safety Act was introduced by Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., respectively… Source link

A forthcoming book chronicling a turbulent 18-month snapshot of American politics will claim some new details surrounding one of the higher-profile rejections that former President Donald Trump experienced during his time in office: the refusal of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick. In the book “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns share an April 2021… Source link

Five years ago this month, William Stephen Belichick was entered as a possible material witness in the Aaron Hernandez double-murder trial. Ultimately, those proceedings came and went without the New England Patriots coach being called for testimony. But if you’re listening to Brian Flores right now, things could go far differently in the class-action lawsuit filed by the former Miami Dolphins coach. Because the more Flores speaks, the more he appears to point to Belichick as being a… Source link

A 3D printed Google logo is placed on the Apple Macbook in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) – The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to approve a bill that would rein in app stores of companies they said exert too much market control, particularly Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O). The measure, sponsored by Democratic Senators… Source link