Saudi Billionaire Sinks $300 Million in Twitter

[Guest]

Twitter has just received $300 million in funding from Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal and his investment company Kingdom Holding Company (KHC).

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[polly the parrot]

I would not mind having $300 million.

 

[AznCracker]

Damn oil princes...

 

[chumly]

This is a good idea, let's start letting the money control the internet media as well. Maybe we can use it to sway the popular opinion on wars that will make the rich richer and then we can start censoring people, and spying on what they do, then we can strip away what little freedoms they enjoy in exchange for what they are fed: bullshit.

Great idea.

 

[dimar]

??tallest building, waste of time and energy...
How about building schools and universities, instead? Or solar panels on every roof in the world?

 

[_Cubase_]

Didn't somebody tell him you don't have to pay to use Twitter?

 

[mostafaoraby]

dunno why the writer of this article made it look like its a "Donation"
the fact is that this saudi guy "Al-Waleed bin Talal" bought 3.75% share in twitter for $300 mil.

 

[billybobser]

Ironic really, given the Arab uprising and the crackdown on social media.

If the Saudi's didn't throw money at the governance problem, would they hold social media in such a light?

 

[madooo12]

[citation][nom]dimar[/nom]??tallest building, waste of time and energy...How about building schools and universities, instead? Or solar panels on every roof in the world?[/citation]
in his neighbouring country Egypt (where I live) universities teach crap loads of waste, thousands of students who can barely listen to one professor or even sit on the floor suffer from bad professors, corrupt systems, no equipment, everything is bad, instead of paying 300M to twitter he sould pay them to us, i'd love to know why only suckers who only care about themselves are billionaris

 

[cold fire]

Now women must have male guardians before they can tweet.

 

[COLGeek]

Like investing $100 for "regular" people.....

 

[Guest]

About the complaining poeple, Its his money so he gets to decide what to do with it.

 

[digiex]

Saudi Billionaire Sinks $300 Million in Twitter

Sinking it down the drain?

 

[madooo12]

[citation][nom]mobrocket[/nom]how would he make money giving away solar panels or donating money to school?[/citation]
why would he make money, he already has what would make him, his children , his grand children, and his great grand children happy for their lives??

he can make others happy too who aren't as wealthy

 

[madooo12]

[citation][nom]Erwink[/nom]About the complaining poeple, Its his money so he gets to decide what to do with it.[/citation]
how is it his, it's oil money, it's not his, it would be his if he had worked to get it but he didn't he just found some oil near his tent and sold it to some oil company for those billions, the natural resources aren't anybodys property, except if you're in a kingdom of course

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]madooo12[/nom]i'd love to know why only suckers who only care about themselves are billionaris[/citation]
Nicolas Berggruen, BIll Gates, Jeff Skoll, Jon M. Huntsman Sr., Warren Buffett to name of few give away HUGE amounts of their money (Buffett pledging to give away about 99% of his wealth) to charities, grants and scholarships amongst other things. Not only self centered people are billionaires, it's just that the ones you are exposed too are the ones who want to keep it all, the ones who give it all away tend to not want the spotlight or aren't controversial enough for the media.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]madooo12[/nom]how is it his, it's oil money, it's not his, it would be his if he had worked to get it but he didn't he just found some oil near his tent and sold it to some oil company for those billions, the natural resources aren't anybodys property, except if you're in a kingdom of course[/citation]
The fact that he is making money off that oil shows it is property and his does it not?

 

[john_e]

Geez another Billionaire that has no life. What he going to do twitter all day?

It would have been better if he invested his money in AMD R&D and compete with Intel.

 

[madooo12]

[citation][nom]Camikazi[/nom]Nicolas Berggruen, BIll Gates, Jeff Skoll, Jon M. Huntsman Sr., Warren Buffett to name of few give away HUGE amounts of their money (Buffett pledging to give away about 99% of his wealth) to charities, grants and scholarships amongst other things. Not only self centered people are billionaires, it's just that the ones you are exposed too are the ones who want to keep it all, the ones who give it all away tend to not want the spotlight or aren't controversial enough for the media.[/citation]
i guess you're right, i'm saying that alwalid dod no effort to get that money
otheres actually did work to get that money, like bill gates and others

[citation][nom]Camikazi[/nom]The fact that he is making money off that oil shows it is property and his does it not?[/citation]
it shouldn't be his, it should be the country's

[citation][nom]john_e[/nom]Geez another Billionaire that has no life. What he going to do twitter all day?It would have been better if he invested his money in AMD R&D and compete with Intel.[/citation]
most of the guys who did no effort to get their money are clueless, and they are only self-centered, they don't care about competition, they can afford expensive processors

 

[maestintaolius]

[citation][nom]madooo12[/nom]how is it his, it's oil money, it's not his, it would be his if he had worked to get it but he didn't he just found some oil near his tent and sold it to some oil company for those billions, the natural resources aren't anybodys property, except if you're in a kingdom of course[/citation]
It's good to be the king. (or at least related to him)