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A shareholder or stockholder is an individual or institution (including a corporation) that legally owns any part of a share of stock in a public or private corporation. Shareholders own the stock, but not the corporation itself. (Fama 1980).
Stockholders are granted special privileges depending on the class of stock. These rights may include:
Stockholders or shareholders are considered by some to be a subset of stakeholders, which may include anyone who has a direct or indirect interest in the business entity. For example, labor, suppliers, customers, the community, etc., are typically considered stakeholders because they contribute value and/or are impacted by the corporation.
Shareholders in the primary market who buy IPOs provide capital to corporations; however, the vast majority of shareholders are in the secondary market and provide no capital directly to the corporation.
Therefore, contrary to popular opinion, shareholders of American public corporations are not the (1) owners of the corporation, (2) the claimants of the profit, nor (3) investors, as in the contributors of capital.
Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born American business magnate, engineer and inventor. He is best known for co-founding SpaceX, Tesla Motors and X.com, which later became Paypal after acquiring the service. He is currently the CEO and Chief Designer of SpaceX, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla Motors and Chairman of SolarCity. While at those companies, Musk co-designed the first viable electric car of the modern era, the Tesla Roadster, a private successor to the Space Shuttle, Falcon 9/Dragon, and the world's largest Internet payment system, PayPal.
Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, the son of a Canadian-American mother and a South African father. His maternal grandfather was from Minnesota, and had moved to Saskatchewan, where Musk's mother was born. His father is an engineer and his mother is an author, nutritionist and model, appearing on the cover of New York Magazine in 2011 and a Time Magazine supplement in 2010.
Musk bought his first computer at age 10 and taught himself how to program; by the age of 12 he sold his first commercial software for about $500, a space game called Blastar.
Actors: Tom Wilkinson (actor), Helena Bonham Carter (actress), Barry Pepper (actor), Joel Thingvall (actor), Lew Temple (actor), Stephen Root (actor), William Fichtner (actor), James Frain (actor), Rance Howard (actor), W. Earl Brown (actor), Joaquín Cosio (actor), Johnny Depp (actor), Damon Herriman (actor), Johnny Depp (producer), Jerry Bruckheimer (producer),
Plot: In the 1930s, an elderly Tonto tells a young boy the tale of John Reid, the Lone Ranger. An idealistic lawyer, he rides with his brother and fellow Texas Rangers in pursuit of the notorious Butch Cavendish. Ambushed by the outlaw and left for dead, John Reid is rescued by the renegade Comanche, Tonto, at the insistence of a mysterious white horse and offers to help him to bring Cavendish to justice. Becoming a reluctant masked rider with a seemingly incomprehensible partner, Reid pursues the criminal against all obstacles. However, John and Tonto learn that Cavendish is only part of a far greater injustice and the pair must fight it in an adventure that would make them a legend.
Keywords: adaptation, ambush, bank-robbery, based-on-radio-show, based-on-tv-series, battle, betrayal, blood-on-one's-mouth, box-office-flop, brass-bandActors: Lung Ti (actor), John Chong (producer), Matt Chow (actor), Alfred Cheung (actor), Vincent Kok (actor), Leon Lai (actor), Shaw Yin Yin (actress), Pou-Soi Cheang (actor), Lap-Man Tan (actor), Mark Lui (composer), Chi-kin Kwok (director), Chi-kin Kwok (writer), Shirley Lau (producer), Wilfred Lau (actor), Matthew Hui (editor),
Plot: (Cantonese with English Subtitles) A young 20-year-old-woman named Wing visits her grandfather's laboratory in Hong Kong.By accident, Wing opens a chamber and resurrects a woman about her age. Wing then discovers the woman awaken is her mother Gigi, who was cryogenically frozen shortly after becoming involved in a fatal car accident some 20 years ago.
Genres: Fantasy, Romance,Actors: Ryan Kavanaugh (producer), Albert Wolsky (costume designer), Julia Roberts (actress), Tom Wilkinson (actor), Ulrich Thomsen (actor), James Newton Howard (composer), Brandon Slagle (actor), Timothy J. Cox (actor), David Boston (actor), Robert Bizik (actor), Paul Giamatti (actor), Clive Owen (actor), Denis O'Hare (actor), Al Cerullo (miscellaneous crew), Hélène Cardona (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Ray works for MI6, Claire for the CIA. She burns him in Dubai. Jump ahead five years: he sees her in Grand Central and confronts her. Both now work in industrial security for corporate giants whose CEOs hate each other. Flashbacks fill us in: is it coincidence that he sees her in Grand Central? In about a week, one of the firms is going to announce a revolutionary product. Under the guise of helping that corporation's rival, can Ray and Claire work their own theft and find an independent buyer? To work together, using the corporate rivalry to their advantage, they would have to trust one another - difficult, if not impossible. Or, is one playing the other?
Keywords: 2000s, argument, bare-chested-male, bonsai, bowling, cell-phone, champagne, character-says-i-love-you, chemical-structure, cleveland-ohioActors: John Benfield (actor), Stephen McKeon (composer), George Anton (actor), Dave Hill (actor), Richard Durden (actor), Jeremy Clyde (actor), Barry Jackson (actor), James Keast (costume designer), Michael Culver (actor), Laura Mackie (producer), Ian Redford (actor), Geoffrey Hutchings (actor), Clare Holman (actress), Liza Marshall (producer), Alan Williams (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Bruce French (actor), Adam Sandler (actor), John McEnroe (actor), Peter Gallagher (actor), Blake Clark (actor), Jared Harris (actor), Erick Avari (actor), David Boston (actor), Allen Covert (actor), Steven Brill (actor), Erik Betts (actor), Steve Buscemi (actor), Eric Bruno Borgman (actor), Al Sharpton (actor), Rob Schneider (actor),
Plot: When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds. Of course, Deeds' sincere naiveté has Babe falling in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn't necessarily need to change him.
Keywords: abbreviation-in-title, apple-tree, bare-butt, billionaire, blown-cover, butler, car-accident, car-crash, cat, character-name-in-titleActors: Bruce French (actor), Adam Sandler (actor), John McEnroe (actor), Peter Gallagher (actor), Blake Clark (actor), Jared Harris (actor), Erick Avari (actor), David Boston (actor), Allen Covert (actor), Steven Brill (actor), Erik Betts (actor), Steve Buscemi (actor), Eric Bruno Borgman (actor), Al Sharpton (actor), Rob Schneider (actor),
Plot: When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds. Of course, Deeds' sincere naiveté has Babe falling in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn't necessarily need to change him.
Keywords: abbreviation-in-title, apple-tree, bare-butt, billionaire, blown-cover, butler, car-accident, car-crash, cat, character-name-in-titleActors: Lynn M. van Kuilenburg (miscellaneous crew), Randy Quaid (actor), Sean McNamara (director), Sean McNamara (writer), Cathy Moriarty (actress), Gregory Hobson (editor), Henry Winkler (actor), Al Sapienza (actor), Jim Meskimen (actor), Kacee DeMasi (actress), Jessica Alba (actress), Scott L. Schwartz (actor), Russ Fega (miscellaneous crew), Robert E. Baruc (producer), Dawn C. Dreiling (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A group of misfit teens evade a corrupt scientist when they steal and attempt to return a suit that delivers supernatural strength to its wearer.
Keywords: acronym-in-title, independent-film, super-strength, title-spoken-by-characterActors: Lefteris Kaponis (writer), Antonis Yakovakis (actor), Giorgos Theodosiadis (composer), Hronis Theoharis (miscellaneous crew), Vagelis Protopapas (actor), Stathis Psaltis (actor), Tasos Psomopoulos (actor), Giorgos Triandafyllou (editor), Apostolos Souglakos (actor), Kostas Raftopoulos (editor), Mary Halkia (actress), Giorgos Georgiou (actor), Kaiti Finou (actress), Pepi Stavropoulou (actress), Makis Kostinis (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Kaarlo Saarnio (actor), Yrjö Tuominen (actor), Sven Relander (actor), Joel Rinne (actor), Artturi Laakso (actor), Vilho Siivola (actor), Jorma Nortimo (actor), Eino Kaipainen (actor), Jalmari Rinne (actor), Aku Korhonen (actor), Ossi Korhonen (actor), Matti Aulos (actor), Uuno Montonen (actor), Siiri Angerkoski (actress), Hannes Veivo (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Kaarlo Saarnio (actor), Yrjö Tuominen (actor), Sven Relander (actor), Joel Rinne (actor), Artturi Laakso (actor), Vilho Siivola (actor), Jorma Nortimo (actor), Eino Kaipainen (actor), Jalmari Rinne (actor), Aku Korhonen (actor), Ossi Korhonen (actor), Matti Aulos (actor), Uuno Montonen (actor), Siiri Angerkoski (actress), Hannes Veivo (actor),
Genres: Drama,