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Date:
Sun, 11 November 2007 9:53 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Charles Prince Resigned from Citibank
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Citigroup Chairman and CEO Charles
Prince speaks during an unveiling ceremony for the group's new logo
at Citibank Korea head office in Seoul, in this March 30, 2007 file
photo. A report in the online edition of The Wall Street Journal on
Sunday Nov. 4, 2007 says Charles Prince has resigned as Citigroup
Inc. chairman and chief executive officer, and that former Treasury
Secretary Robert Rubin will become the chairman of the nation's
biggest banking company.
(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon,
File)
AP - Sun Nov 4, 6:16 PM
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Former Citigroup Inc.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Charles Prince points as he
speaks during the opening ceremony for Citibank Japan Ltd.'s second
branch in Chiba, east of Tokyo, July 9, 2007. Citigroup Inc, the
largest bank in the United States, said on Thursday that its former
Chairman and Chief Executive, Charles Prince, will take home roughly
$40 million as he retires from the company.
(Issei
Kato/Reuters)
Reuters - Thu Nov 8, 8:23 PM ET |
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Former US Secretary of
the Treasury Robert Rubin leads a discussion between former military
and political leaders during a mock global energy crisis at the
Ritz-Carlton 01 November 2007 in Washington, DC. The world's biggest
bank Citigroup named Rubin as its new chairman Sunday, replacing
Charles Prince who retired after its poor performance in the
subprime mortgage crisis.
(AFP/Getty
Images/Chip Somodevilla)
AFP/Getty
Images -
Mon
Nov 5, 12:12 AM ET
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In this file
photo, former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin listens during a
panel discussion, Friday, Sept. 28, 2007, at the Clinton Global
Initiative Annual Meeting in New York. Citigroup Inc. Chairman and
Chief Executive Charles Prince, beset by the banking company's
billions of dollars in losses from investing in bad debt, reportedly
agreed to resign Sunday Nov. 4, 2007, and was being replaced as
chairman by former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.
(AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, file)
AP - Sun Nov 4, 6:27 PM ET |
Following my previous letter of "Your
'Forum' Photo Background"
dated 3 November 2007, came the news about Charles Prince, Chairman and CEO of
Citigroup Inc., announcing his resignation on 4 November 2007. Recognizing that
Citigroup Inc. is the largest bank in the United States, and his name sounds
like the name of British Monarchy's Prince Charles, I think some consideration
should be made here.
When I made some paintings and wrote some letters to
Prince Charles' former wife, Lady Diana, it started approaching the end of 1995.
A few months later on August 1996 Prince Charles officially divorced Lady Diana,
or it was also known as "Decree Absolute". Then a year later she died in a car
accident in Paris.
So now I think the message here is about my previous
letter "Your
'Forum' Photo Background", it should not necessarily inspired any divorce
from a marriage couple with the wife's name begin with the letter "M". Because
according to my believe, a divorce is something that although not prohibited but
God hates it.
On the other hand, if the husband becomes worry that
his having a wife with the name beginning with letter "M" could make him had the
destiny like my uncle Noel who died a few years ago, especially since recently "Tropical
Storm Noel" appeared along with the news of "Mukesh
Ambani" becoming the
richest man in the world, whose name has the initial of "M.A." that sounds like
aunt Emma the wife of my uncle Noel, so....... I think I am in a difficult
situation now.
If I prevent the divorce, and then the husband
really died, I would be blamed for not doing sufficient effort to save life.
Especially if the husband is someone who is a genius, whose ideas is still
required by this world. On the other hand, if I let the divorce happened, and
then the wife turned to become my wife to make it commensurate with my consent
to move out of this world, I would be blamed for ruining a marriage.
What I can do now is to pray to God to let whatever
best for this world to happen, because after all only God who knows what is best
for this world.
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Date:
Sun, 11 November 2007 10:40 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Your Recent Selling of 2 Million Shares
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AP
Microsoft Chair Bill
Gates Sells Shares
Monday November 5, 6:19 pm ET
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Sells
2 Million Shares
NEW YORK (AP) -- Bill Gates, the chairman of
Microsoft Corp., sold 2 million shares of common stock, according to a
Securities and Exchange Commission filing Friday.
In a Form 4 filed with the SEC, Bill Gates reported
selling the shares Wednesday for $36.71 to $36.96 apiece.
Insiders file Form 4s with the SEC to report
transactions in their companies' shares. Open market purchases and
sales must be reported within two business days of the transaction.
Microsoft is based in Redmond, Wash.
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Bill
Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell top list of IT influencers
By
Thomas Claburn
8 November 2007 12:53PM
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bill |
gates |
steve |
jobs |
michael |
dell |
top |
list |
influencers
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Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Michael Dell rank
one, two, and three in a list of the most influential people in IT
over the past 25 years.
The list was compiled by the Computing Technology
Industry Association (CompTIA), a tech trade group with 22,000
members. The poll got 473 votes, mostly from people who have worked
in the tech industry for at least three years.
Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft
Corporation, was selected by 84 percent of the participants. Jobs,
CEO and co-founder of Apple, was selected by 73 percent of those
taking the poll. Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, got the nod
from 53 percent of CompTIA voters.
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating
system, made the list with 47 percent of the vote, tying for fourth
place with Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Coincidentally, Google's vast server infrastructure relies on Linux.
John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems,
came in fifth (44 percent). Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle ranked
sixth (36 percent). Vinton Cerf, who (with Bob Kahn) co-designed the
TCP/IP protocol upon which the Internet is built, placed seventh (35
percent). Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, came in eighth (35
percent). And Meg Whitman, president and CEO of eBay, was ninth (30
percent).
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Other people prospering in this popularity
contest include Craig Barrett of Intel (28 percent), Louis Gerstner
Jr. of IBM (26 percent), Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com (23 percent),
Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems (22 percent), Leonardo
Chiariglione who helped create the MP3 standard among others (17
percent), Paul Otellini of Intel (17 percent), Carly Fiorina of HP
(14 percent), Ray Ozzie of Microsoft (13 percent), Mark Hurd of HP
(11 percent), Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe of MySpace.com (10
percent), Thomas Friedman of the New York Times (4 percent), and
Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com (3 percent).
Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing of the
World Wide Web, came in near the bottom of the list with 1 percent
of the vote.
Marc Andreesen, co-creator of the Mosaic Web
browser (with Eric Bina) and the co-founder of Netscape, didn't make
the list. Adding insult to that omission, CompTIA voters rated
Internet Explorer (66 percent) as most influential technology
product in the past 25 years, followed by Microsoft Word (56
percent) and Windows 95 (50 percent).
Apple's iPod and Microsoft Excel tied for fourth
place among products (49%).
Strangely absent from the list is anyone
responsible for pushing the computer gaming envelope.
Copyright (c) 2007 CMP Media LLC
All rights reserved.
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The recent news about your selling 2
million shares appeared after my previous letter of "My
Chance of Following Mukesh Ambani’s Destiny" which mentioned my
previous letter of "A
Test of Getting Wealthy", whereas in that "Test" letter I mentioned an
amount of 2 million. It makes me feel like your selling 2 million
shares was inspired by my letter.
If such selling has the meaning of saving life
for your own good, then you could be sure that I am at your disposal in
accordance with my consent to move out of this world.
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