This is the unofficial transcript of the CNBC Town Hall event Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great, taped Thursday, November 12, 2009 at Columbia University in New York City.    Read More

Microsoft's Bill Gates had some words of praise today for Steve Jobs, the CEO of arch-rival Apple, despite the blistering "Mac and PC" television ads that sharply, and humorously, criticize the new Windows 7 operating system.  Here's another highlight from today's taping of CNBC's Warren Buffett and Bill Gates: Keeping America Great.   Read More

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates answered questions from more than 700 cheering Columbia University students gathered in a campus auditorium for a 90-minute CNBC Town Hall event that will air at 9p ET tonight.  Speaking of the severe problems last fall at the height of the crisis, Buffett said, "Our economy was sputtering" and "is still sputtering some."     Read More

Anyone out there feeling like they're willing to take a $340 million bet on the turnaround being right around the corner? That's approximately how much Disney is thinking about shelling out on an overhaul its retail outlets, right now, in the very midst of a recession that has seen consumer spending drop off a cliff.   Read More

Just like flinching from a punch, cost cutting may be instinctual, but it is highly reactive and extremely passive. It is not going to help you win any of the fights you are in, and it is not going to stop the pummeling. Unless your costs are wildly out of control, cost cutting should not be your focus.    Read More

Apple’s iPhone initially caught the public’s imagination because it was the high-fidelity cell phone. Nothing else looked or acted like it.   Read More

It’s as if we each have a channel-changing remote control embedded in our restless, fidgety brains. Is someone taking too long to get to the point? Zap. Are you boring me? Click.   Read More

By now you know the row: Palm co-opts Apple iTunes access for its new Palm Pre smart phone without permission and hails the electronic trespassing as a key selling point for iPhone users to switch platforms...But as you get a little closer to the issues, they get far stickier, and far thornier, for both Apple and Palm.    Read More

There’s a whole class of geniuses who, if you will, are extremely successful because they borrowed someone else’s ideas. Author David Murray calls it, “Borrowing Brilliance.”    Read More

Maybe, a big maybe, the skeptics are finally beginning to embrace just how compelling this story truly is?    Read More