Investment of Prince Alwaleed Kingdom to Twitter, $300 Million

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the biggest individual investor in Citigroup Inc., and his Kingdom Holding Co. invested $300 million to take part for a “strategic stake” in microblogging service Twitter Inc.

“The investment is the result of several months of negotiations,” Kingdom Holding said in a statement to the Saudi bourse today. 

Prince Alwaleed’s several investments include stakes in General Motors Co., News Corp. and Apple Inc. The prince, a nephew of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, was ranked the richest Arab businessman this year by Arabian Business magazine with assets valued at $21.3 billion. Kingdom Holding, 95 percent owned by the prince, is building the tallest tower in the world in Jeddah at a cost of 4.6 billion riyals ($1.23 billion).

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It is not easy to acquire property like these. Showing you the home of some influential people in Tech World.

After knowing of Steve Jobs' soon-to-be demolished historic home, and Mark Zuckerberg's life as a month-to-month renter, we decided to show you other types of real estate today's tech titans like to call a home. Here's where some of the biggest (and richest) tech-industry moguls take a break from their Web-ruled world.

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder
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