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Gates buys 8% stake in US shipyard
(The Times)
February 22, 2000
By Carl Mortished, International Business Editor
BILL GATES, the world's richest man and icon of the "new economy" has bought a stake in a shipyard. The chairman of Microsoft Corporation has bought an 8 per cent shareholding in Newport News Shipbuilding, a company based in Virginia, which supplies the US Navy with aircraft carriers and submarines. ...... Read more on The Times
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