And Omaha-based SkyVu Entertainment encourages volunteers to test its mobile game franchise Battle Bears.
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By all accounts, hardly anybody scored a single point, including several members of the Omaha-Metro Table Tennis Club.
The state awards its five electoral votes by congressional district, and the Omaha-anchored 2nd District sent a single vote to Obama in 2008.
Founded in 1889, Omaha-based Berkshire owns major stakes in disparate industries, including insurance, railroad, manufacturing, and regulated utilities, as well as in energy, financial and retailing.
Mr. Buffett said the deal will continue local ownership of the company, currently 80%-owned by employees and 20%-owned by the Pieter Kiewit Foundation, an Omaha-based charitable trust formed by the estate of a former World-Herald owner.
But in a Sunday night interview with the Omaha World-Herald, Kerrey sounded a different message.
When Buffett bought the Omaha World-Herald, he fondly recalled his days as a delivery boy for the paper.
Meanwhile shares of TD Ameritrade fell 1.5% after the online brokerage and Omaha, Nebraska-based consumer bank reported a 6% increase in its first quarter profits, in line with analyst expectations.
The team began its first NBA season as the Rochester Royals in 1949, moved to Cincinnati in 1957, was rebranded the Kansas City-Omaha Kings in 1972, then just the Kansas City Kings in 1975 before making the move to Sacramento.
Warren Buffett, Omaha's best-known financier, has already turned the president's words to advantage.
They list the address as 12105 William Plaza, apt 336, Omaha, NE 68144-1416.
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The Oracle of Omaha, a long-time investor in traditional media like newspapers, finally caved Wednesday afternoon and joined the ranks of Twitter.
The oldest of six children from a working-class Omaha family, he spent seven years getting through college, working odd jobs to pay tuition.
The GOP front-runner has been Lee Terry, a seven-year Omaha city councilman, and the son of a former local newscaster who himself was the GOP nominee in 1976.
Strait-laced Omaha, which has no casino gambling, pays many of the social costs of having casinos just across the Missouri river in Council Bluffs, Iowa, while sharing none of the tax revenues.
For seven years Warren Buffett, the so-called Oracle of Omaha, ranked just behind his good friend and bridge partner Bill Gates as the world's second-richest man.
Earlier this year, the Oracle of Omaha said he and his one-percenter peers should be taxed more.
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Here's a rundown of what's happening at the day-long event in Omaha, Neb.
The so-called Oracle of Omaha begins by making the manifestly absurd assertion that tax rates do not influence investment behavior.
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The question of who will succeed Warren Buffett when the 81-year-old Oracle of Omaha steps back from his duties running Berkshire Hathaway has been debated for years.
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Warren Buffett, the so-called Oracle of Omaha, also likes utilities.
The more recent contributions in Peter Krass's collection include an essay by Warren Buffett, the famed Sage of Omaha whose investment approach, so-called focus investing, offers a third way between the indexers and active traders, and is the subject of a whole book by Robert Hagstrom.
OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - The most extensive drought in five decades has left corn plants withered and dying, and crop yields in the largest producing states will be much lower than experts have forecast, scouts said on Friday as they completed a U.S. Midwest crop tour.
Incredible as it may seem, there was the Sage of Omaha sitting alone scarfing down his low-calorie meal of waffles dripping in syrup, slabs of bacon and on top--like the cherry on a sundae--a serving of eggs benedict, all being washed down with a huge glass of cherry Coke, the first of five such libations he drinks every day.
The dedicated deep-value players are your Warren Buffett types, the avid followers of the Oracle of Omaha whose Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) invests primarily in unloved but asset-rich companies, whose stocks are depressed either because they are misunderstood or ignored by impatient investors with a short-term focus.
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The Web site is the creation of a 14-year-old high school freshman from Omaha named Doug Sherrets.
Launched so far in Reno, Tucson, Phoenix and Omaha, each has an 18, 000-square-foot drugstore--bigger than a typical Walgreens --inside a full supermarket.
On I-29 between Sioux City and Omaha, Nebraska, a big billboard was rented, displaying, in huge type, those letters, as a way to lure passengers to the airport in Iowa instead of the one in Nebraska.
Born in Nebraska and raised on a 1, 500-acre cattle ranch just outside Omaha, Raikes has a natural ability to wait out the shouting match, to say what no one else will even when it means challenging the formidable Ballmer.
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