Richard Branson
1950-
British entrepreneur and adventurer who with Per Lindstrand made the first transatlantic (1987) and transpacific (1991) hot-air balloon flights. Perhaps best known for his positi...
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Charismatic entrepreneur Richard Branson (born 1950) became well known when his daredevil business tactics were upstaged by his death defying antics as a sportsman.Founder and mastermind of the Virgin...
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London (dpa) - Richard Branson, one of Britain's richest men and a
tycoon with celebrity status, is a risk taker who has never allowed
setbacks to block his road to success....
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Alexis Glick and Kevin Magee, Executive Vice President, FOX News, will be ringing NASDAQ's opening bell at 9:20 AM in celebration. (Watch it here. Scroll down.) Here's the inaugural schedule for e...
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British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group sealed a deal
Friday to buy a 20-percent stake in AirAsia X, Malaysia's new budget
airline that is testing new ground by applying the low-co...
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New Mexico officials have set the ground work to lease part of its commercial spaceport to Virgin Galactic as a base for its space tourism company. British entrepreneur Richard Branson and the stat...
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The official outcome of a vote on a tax to pay for a tourism spaceport in southern New Mexico probably won't be known until Friday, but supporters of the project were already claiming victory.Resid...
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Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says he wants to undertake a zero-gravity flight aboard an airplane this year as a precursor to a journey into space, a newspaper reported Monday."This year I'm plann...
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Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says he wants to undertake a zero-gravity flight aboard an airplane this year as a precursor to a journey into space, a newspaper reported Monday."This year I'm plann...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - There are scores of
eligible Google millionaires, but as of next month, both its
famed billionaire founders appear to be taken. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, ...
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London (dpa) - The British government Monday announced financial
backing on an unprecedented scale to ensure a private sector rescue
of troubled mortgage lender Northern Roc...
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Richard Branson
Richard Branson
PROFILE: Richard Branson - a risk taker not embarrassed by flops
