Warren Buffett
News and interviews on Warren Buffett including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.
Bill Gates pips Warren Buffett to head list of richest AmericansFriday, 19 September 2008
Google and Apple might be snapping at the heels of software giant Microsoft, but founder Bill Gates is still on top of the pile that matters most. ...
Myths and lessons about global investing
Monday, 11 August 2008
There is enormous scope to enhance returns through global investment. But what does global investment actually mean? Combining two ultra-generic words to give us something doubly generic certainly hinders our quest to answer this most basic question. ...
The Chefs Toolbox holds the ingredients for success
Friday, 09 May 2008
Founder David Mills followed master investor Warren Buffett into a party plan business with a focus on cooking. He shares his winning recipe with MIKE PRESTON ...
Central banks have saved the global economy: Kohler
Monday, 05 May 2008
Warren Buffett is right – the Federal Reserve has done a wonderful job in handling the credit crisis and was right to step in on Bear Stearns. In fact, when the history books are written about this crisis, all of the world’s central banks are going to come ...
Bumper surplus puts Swan under pressure: Economy roundup
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
News that the Federal Government collected $2.1 billion in revenue in February suggests that higher interest rates and the credit squeeze have done little to slow the flow of money into Treasury coffers. Converted into a 12 month figure, that would leave ...
Gates no longer world’s richest man: Forbes
Friday, 07 March 2008
The winds of change blew through the ranks of the world’s richest men and women in 2007, with a new richest man on both the world stage and in Australia, and a surge in the number of developing world billionaires. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been toppled ...
Turn, turn, turn again
Thursday, 06 March 2008
The good news is the economy is on the turn. The bad news is good times are a year down the track. In the meantime... ...
Ferrari or Ford?
Wednesday, 06 February 2008
A flashy red sports car just isn't my style – no matter how well it fits the stereotype. ...
Focus and business fortunes
Friday, 02 November 2007
How to get things out of the too-hard basket. ...
Buffett: Tax me more... BlackBerry wins survey... Facebook facing developer flurry... Game-ercise for kids
Thursday, 01 November 2007
Buffett: Tax me more BlackBerry wins survey Facebook facing developer flurry Game-ercise for kids Tax me more: Buffett The second richest man in the world wants to pay more tax. Warren Buffett has complained to the Bush Government that it is unfair ...
Money vs love... Consumers rate sectors... Fast movers love social media... Aussie-trained students in demand overseas
Monday, 13 August 2007
Money vs love Consumers rate sectors Fast movers love social media Aussie-trained students in demand overseas Quote of the Day Money vs love You need money and a partner in life to be happy, according to the latest Australian Unity Wellbeing Index. The ...
Loud and clear
Thursday, 02 August 2007
M2 Telecommunications founder Vaughan Bowen bought into the industry in 1999, and has hit the $100 million revenue mark in quick time. He tells AMANDA GOME his lessons and strategies. ...
NEW: John Addis
Friday, 27 July 2007
Someone once said, ‘The errors maketh the man’, or at least they should have. Which is why Nightmare on Spring St has a Hollywood ending. ...
Loud and clear
Thursday, 26 July 2007
M2 Telecommunications founder Vaughan Bowen bought into the industry in 1999, and has hit the $100 million revenue mark in quick time. He tells AMANDA GOME his lessons and strategies. ...
Facebook, Digg next takeover targets?... SMS spam... Labour and capital balance shifts... Quote of the day
Monday, 25 June 2007
Digg, Facebook next takeover targets? SMS spam Labour vs capital Quote of the Day Digg, Facebook the next big takeover targets? Jay Meattle, the in-house blogger for online metrics company Compete, says the frenetic growth of leading web 2.0 social media ...
NEW: John Addis
Friday, 13 April 2007
My experiment with staff bonuses illustrated surprising things about the power of incentives to change behaviour, for better or worse. ...
Our productivity not up to it... Top earners; where they live... The world's 20 richest... Water plan delays... NSW highest taxed state... Skype hits milestone... Late payers rife
Friday, 09 March 2007
US productivity out of Australia’s reach Australia will probably never reach the productivity levels achieved in the US, and it is unrealistic to even try, according to a new working paper by Productivity Commission researchers. Australia’s isolation from ...
