Buffett is focused on Berkshire Hathaway now, at least, having renounced some his more time-consuming board memberships like Coca-Cola and the Washington Post.
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It's driven some to search Google through a Bulletin Board System-like interface or, in the case of programmer Peter Nitsch, it's compelled him to graft ASCII art onto the physical world.
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The business is now considered so mainstream that it is not just technology-related companies that are eager to jump on board -- global brands like Gillette and Coca-Cola are keen to get a piece of the action, too.
For his pay package to make sense, he must be compared to the CEOs of top Wall Street firms whose CEOS serve on the NYSE board--executives like Henry Paulson , CEO of Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), William Harrison of J.
He can purchase anything from a seat on a high-profile board like Apple and Google, the boards he's on now.
"It's much easier to make a board like this -- it took only two weeks -- whereas if we want to make a miniature board it would take a lot longer and cost a lot more, " Migicovsky said.
With senior Republican Robert McDowell also departing the commission in the next few weeks, two places on the FCC's five-person board will need filling -- with names like Tom Wheeler, Karen Kornbluh and Catherine Sandoval being bandied about as replacements.
The Santa Fe school board, like other school-prayer advocates, contends that football prayers fall into a different category.
While room-and-board costs generally qualify, must-haves for the dorm, like the bed sheets and a mini-fridge, don't, unless they're charged to the student by the university.
We were also shown a Tegra single-board computer measuring no larger than a single small-outline DIMM like you'd find in a modern laptop, proof that this action can be scaled way down depending on the kinds of devices manufacturers are looking to make.
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The Boogie Board Jot Folio is a leather-like case with a convenient flip-over design similar to a traditional stenographer notepad.
Guests board vehicles that look like over-sized Fettuccini-brand tires, accommodating up to two adults and one child, or one adult and two children.
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On the software side, meanwhile, HP's pre-installing a few board games like EA Monopoly, and there's a physical key you can use to flip the screen orientation when it's another player's turn.
The Veedam's failing grade is uncommon in the cruise ship industry, an industry that has tried in recent years to keep on-board environments sanitary after illnesses like the Norwalk virus sickened passengers and caused a public relations nightmare.
Within a country, secondary trading can consolidate in one place--like Nasdaq in the United States or a secondary board, as is the case in Tokyo--but there is little impetus to move to another country.
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By law, the across-the-board cuts are supposed to be taken in equal measure from front-line programs like air traffic control, meat inspection and the Border Patrol and lower-priority items such as agriculture research and subsidies for airline travel to rural airports.
Fujitsu intelligent phone prototype This speedy quad-core smartphone prototype has a 13.1-megapixel camera on board and is waterproof like its Japanese compatriot the Panasonic Eluga.
Being able to play in this value chain will be critical to raising operator revenues in the future and it's fantastic to have a high-profile merchant like Skype on board.
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"You can go with the gadfly--or at least make noises like you are--and attempt to shake up the board and get them to act, " he says.
With little competition--and partners like food-distributor giant Sysco and grocery chains like Kroger, Shop Rite, Giant and Harris Teeter on board--Davidson's plan looks unbreakable.
And he promised to give large emerging markets--like India and China--a bigger say on the Fund's board.
The Kursk had suffered two on-board explosions, and sunk to the bottom like a stone.
Indulge in epicurean delights like a Vermont cheese board, butter-poached Maine lobster, or a miso-glazed dry-aged strip steak.
No deliberations over a Hurd or an Apotheker can mean much when the board is content to let a company like H-P lurch from pillar to post in hopes of quick revenue injections to stave off inevitable market share erosions.
Concerns over the debt ceiling debate in the U.S., along with sovereign debt woes in Europe sending peripheral debt to nearly unsustainable levels, have put pressure on risk assets across the board and sent investors fleeing for safe-haven assets like gold and the Swiss franc.
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First of all, you can't overlook the fact that they've moved to a Cortex A8-based OMAP3530, an appreciable boost from the ARM11 core it replaces, but it turns out there are a whole bunch of subtler changes too, like the inclusion of on-board audio out (pictured above toward the left of the base), HD video out capability through a module, and a second microSD slot.
Global regulators like the Basel-based Financial Stability Board claim the repo market is opaque and a menace to financial stability.
It gets relayed to a "question board" and also flashes on a crawl--much like a stock ticker--across the bottom of the screen.
In the past year, Facebook held occasionally tense negotiations with the biggest social game developers like Zynga to bring them on-board with the program.
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Board members with intimate knowledge of ongoing experiments like asset-centric project financing and virtual discovery and development models would bring a new perspective into the strategic dialogue.
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