But eventually, it got the attention of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka Shing.
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And you'll also be investing along with Li Ka Shing, who has a pretty good eye for opportunity to say the least.
Facebook and Spotify share a number of investors: billionaire Li Ka Shing has a stake in Facebook and Spotify.
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It will help establish the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology.
Others who stand to benefit from a purchase include Waze investors Kleiner Perkins, billionaire Li Ka Shing, Blue Run Ventures, Magma Venture Partners and Vertex Venture Capital.
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Stanford University is home to the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge, a medical education building that opened in the fall of 2010 and includes facilities for hosting conferences.
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At UCSF, the Li Ka Shing Foundation gift will be used to create a worldwide network of researchers and doctors, leadership exchanges between China and the U.S., and forge a program to create more precise medicines.
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The container terminal is controlled by Hong Kong billionaire, and Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing.
As his sons rise, Li Ka-shing will be freed to take on even bigger things.
Spotify's owners include billionaire Li Ka-shing, chairman of Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
In 2011, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd.
He had also offered his services to Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's most powerful tycoon.
Seven are big-spending Internet content companies, the most well-known being billionaire Li Ka-shing's Tom.com.
Tom.com was particularly favored, prompting accusations that influential tycoon Li Ka-shing was being given special treatment.
Not that long ago, the local press would refer to the richest tycoon, Li Ka-shing, as Superman.
He is often said to be "in the pocket" of big property developers, including tycoon Li Ka-shing.
Interestingly, one of the players that bid and won a British license is Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa.
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The acquisition of the first 10% block of shares from Li Ka-shing was an overnight decision.
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Medical care, it turns out, is a big part of what Li Ka-shing is already doing in China.
It is backed by Hong Kong's most famous billionaire, Li Ka-shing, and is the pride of government leaders.
Unlike Xinhua's oppressive, shabby quarters, the commission is shiny new, paid for by Li Ka-shing, a local developer-turned-patriot.
Li Ka-Shing is playing host on the top floor of his cheung kong Center tower in Hong Kong's Central.
Hongkong International Terminals a unit of tycoon Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
Signing up Li Ka-shing as one of its investors will certainly help put SecondMarket on the map in Asia.
Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man, is lowering prices on apartments developed by his flagship Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd.
Here was the region's richest resident, Li Ka-shing, tying the milestones of his 78 years to a crowning wish.
The building is the headquarters of Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, who owns strike-hit port operator Hong Kong International Terminals.
Ding shopped the firm around to investors, including a tech firm run by Li Ka-shing, but found no takers.
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But there is anger over the apparent greed of the development companies, controlled by Li Ka-shing, that run South Horizons.
The university itself bumped along for two decades but is enjoying a renewed push under Li Ka-shing Foundation director Solina Chau.
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