Microsoft founder Bill Gates as urged billionaires to follow his own example and give away their wealth to charitable causes, suggesting that they might even get to like it.
Gates has used much of the personal wealth accumulated through Microsoft to form and support the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an organisation focused on the eradication [...]
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UK Finance: Bill Gates urges billionaires to give away their fortune
John Williams - Thursday 04.06.09, 13:04pm
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UK Finance: Mortgage Approvals up in April
John Williams - Tuesday 02.06.09, 13:16pm
Data released from the Bank of England(BoE) shows that the number of mortgage approvals for April grew for the third successive month, reaching 43,201, an increase on the March figure of 40,038 and better than analysts’ forecasts of 41,000.
However the figure is well down compared to April 2008 when approvals stood at over 55,000 in [...]
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