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...In 2014, when he was 21, he sold Oculus, the virtual reality headset business he started in his parents’ garage, to Facebook for $2bn. The next year, he was on the cover of Time magazine....
...The thieves, they were eventually caught, but the paintings were long gone, they were sold to an unknown buyer. And for years no one knew where the Van Goghs could be....
...Miles JohnsonEric Montalvo is an attorney in Washington DC. Before getting into law he served for 21 years as an active duty Marine in the US military....
...The flurry of activity was unknown to most of FTX’s staff....
...Nestled in a red-brick business park on the outskirts of the city, the office is located in an unprepossessing site, with carpet tiles, low-slung suspended ceilings and strip lighting that is a fraction...
...It said Maheshwari left SSG to spend more time with his family and pursue other interests, and has said any offshore entities were for legitimate business purposes....
...Among the foreign families are Denmark’s Kristiansens, of Lego fame, who run their wealth from the village of Baar in the canton of Zug, through an entity called Kirkbi....
...Someone had imported a bit of white and gold sand, to satisfy the LA business folk, but where you wanted to be was way out on the pulverised lava bordering the cobalt Pacific....
...But the property-developer dream faded after an MBA at UCLA’s business school....
...For centuries one of China’s biggest ship builders, it is now turning its attention to the ocean floor....
...More of New York’s moneyed families soon followed and the seven-block stretch of Fifth Avenue between 14th Street and Washington Square Park eventually came to be known as the Gold Coast because of its wealthy...
...Other changes at the Grand Palais include the introduction of an international vetting committee, a sharp rise in the number of foreign exhibitors and a drop in the number of big-name jewellery booths. biennale-paris.com...
...A lack of properties on the market and fewer foreign buyers are to blame for much of the slowing, says Ron Wilson, a broker with Century 21 All Island....
...“The market in Charlotte is growing,” says Ryan Hollins of agents Century 21 At The University. “And developers, big and small, are reacting to that with new properties.”...
...Around the country, foreign companies with ambitions to do business in Myanmar are only too aware that land can be a flashpoint....
...But, at 1,000 pages, this is a formidably detailed, closely argued study of the making of one of the giants of 20th-century foreign policy....
...For the developers it is part of an ambitious vision for 21st century Bahrain....
...On a royal child’s first birthday, the infant was weighed and an equivalent amount of gold presented to the deity....
...Susan Athey, an economics professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, told a New York regulatory hearing last month: “I don’t think this is a great investment for small investors, just like investing...
...Set in 19th-century New Zealand during its gold rush, Catton’s intricately constructed novel was described by the prize judges as “luminous” – and also as an accomplished work of traditional storytelling...
...“It’s a hot tech start-up, mixed with emerging markets, mixed with gold, mixed with forex [foreign exchange]. It’s a gold rush. It’s a land-grab. It’s the Wild West....
...India probing more than 100 overseas deals for tax evasion The finance ministry has begun its maiden investigation into over 100 offshore “financial structuring deals” undertaken by Indian business entities...
...Total gold demand in China last year was nearly 400 tonnes, up by 21 per cent from 2007. But Chinese people like their gold purer than their western counterparts: 24 carat, rather than 18 carat....
...In his home near the 16th century Portuguese slave fort in Axim, Awulae Attibbrukusu III, the leader of 22 western chiefdoms, says the area deserves an extra slice of oil funds to avoid the problems of Nigeria...
...This will enable the State Governments to raise additional open market loans of about Rs.21,000 crore in the current year....
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