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There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:

The search engine, which is being sued for $1bn by the media company Viacom for alleged copyright infringement, said it would destroy huge tracts of identifying information it holds on internet searches.

he owner of MTV and Nickelodeon accused Google in illegal spreading of it’s content via YouTube. According to the words of representatives of media giant Viacom, members from YouTube downloaded about 160 thousands copyrighted video clips and teleshows and they all were overlooked by 1,5 billion surfers.

The 2006 net profits of China Mobile are projected to reach RMB63.8 billion (8.24 billion USD), up 19% over 2005. The business volume of the telecom giant in 2006 was RMB 288.7 billion (around 37.3 billion USD), and an 18.8% gain over 2005,according to a research report released by the Macquarie Securitization Shanghai Co. Ltd.

Just over two months after Katrina, defense contractor Northrup Grumman received over $2.7 billion from the Navy and Fema to rebuild shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi. But workers say very little has trickled down to them.