President’s warning he will not give in to ‘coup’ follows reports he agreed to quit within a month in exchange for immunity Yemen’s political crisis has reached a new peak with a defiant President Ali Abdullah Saleh warning that he will not give in to a “coup”, a day after reportedly agreeing to leave office within a month. Opposition activists claimed that Saleh, ready to step down in exchange for immunity from prosecution, was playing for time to avoid the fate of the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt, both overthrown by unprecedented displays of people power that have changed the Middle East and north Africa in the last three months. With Libya engulfed in a bloody civil war and escalating violence in Syria apparently signalling a determination by President Bashar al-Assad to crush mounting protests, the Arab Spring appears to be taking another ominous turn. Reports from the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, described thousands of demonstrators out on the streets demanding Saleh give up power at once and chanting: “No negotiation, no dialogue – resign or flee.” Saleh had on Saturday reportedly accepted a Saudi-led Gulf states initiative under which he would stand down in 30 days in exchange for immunity – evidently fearing the fate of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. But he sent a different signal in an interview on Sunday , fuelling suspicions that the move was just another tactical manoeuvre. “I will not accept being overthrown in a coup,” the Yemeni president insisted to BBC Arabic. “To whom shall I hand over power? Those who are trying to make a coup? No. We will do it through ballot boxes and referendums. We’ll invite international observers to monitor – but a coup is not acceptable.” Saleh, like Gaddafi and more recently Assad, warned that in “the storm of recent events” in the Arab world, al-Qaida stands to gain from chaos in his country. He also blamed Arab satellite TV channels and the western media for misrepresenting the situation. “Al-Qaida is moving into army camps,” Saleh said. “It’s a very dangerous situation. Why is the west not looking at this terrorist activity and the dangers it holds for the future?” In Syria, opposition supporters said 120 people had been killed in the weekend’s violence, most of them on Friday. William Hague, the foreign secretary, urged Assad to “respond to the legitimate demands of the Syrian people” and warned that Britons should leave the country as soon as possible. Syrian troops and security forces set up checkpoints across the country on Sunday amid reports of new shootings and mass arrests by the secret police as funerals took place for people killed on Saturday. Calls for Assad’s overthrow were heard at a funeral attended by thousands in the southern town of Nawa, where four protesters and five members of the security forces were reported killed. “It’s starting to look like the West Bank,” warned Radwan Ziadeh, the US-based head of the Damascus Centre for Human Rights, who has contacts across the country. Yemen Middle East Arab and Middle East unrest Ian Black guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …President’s warning he will not give in to ‘coup’ follows reports he agreed to quit within a month in exchange for immunity Yemen’s political crisis has reached a new peak with a defiant President Ali Abdullah Saleh warning that he will not give in to a “coup”, a day after reportedly agreeing to leave office within a month. Opposition activists claimed that Saleh, ready to step down in exchange for immunity from prosecution, was playing for time to avoid the fate of the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt, both overthrown by unprecedented displays of people power that have changed the Middle East and north Africa in the last three months. With Libya engulfed in a bloody civil war and escalating violence in Syria apparently signalling a determination by President Bashar al-Assad to crush mounting protests, the Arab Spring appears to be taking another ominous turn. Reports from the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, described thousands of demonstrators out on the streets demanding Saleh give up power at once and chanting: “No negotiation, no dialogue – resign or flee.” Saleh had on Saturday reportedly accepted a Saudi-led Gulf states initiative under which he would stand down in 30 days in exchange for immunity – evidently fearing the fate of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. But he sent a different signal in an interview on Sunday , fuelling suspicions that the move was just another tactical manoeuvre. “I will not accept being overthrown in a coup,” the Yemeni president insisted to BBC Arabic. “To whom shall I hand over power? Those who are trying to make a coup? No. We will do it through ballot boxes and referendums. We’ll invite international observers to monitor – but a coup is not acceptable.” Saleh, like Gaddafi and more recently Assad, warned that in “the storm of recent events” in the Arab world, al-Qaida stands to gain from chaos in his country. He also blamed Arab satellite TV channels and the western media for misrepresenting the situation. “Al-Qaida is moving into army camps,” Saleh said. “It’s a very dangerous situation. Why is the west not looking at this terrorist activity and the dangers it holds for the future?” In Syria, opposition supporters said 120 people had been killed in the weekend’s violence, most of them on Friday. William Hague, the foreign secretary, urged Assad to “respond to the legitimate demands of the Syrian people” and warned that Britons should leave the country as soon as possible. Syrian troops and security forces set up checkpoints across the country on Sunday amid reports of new shootings and mass arrests by the secret police as funerals took place for people killed on Saturday. Calls for Assad’s overthrow were heard at a funeral attended by thousands in the southern town of Nawa, where four protesters and five members of the security forces were reported killed. “It’s starting to look like the West Bank,” warned Radwan Ziadeh, the US-based head of the Damascus Centre for Human Rights, who has contacts across the country. Yemen Middle East Arab and Middle East unrest Ian Black guardian.co.uk
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The Liberal Democrat’s Chris Huhne, has said that campaigning by senior Conservatives has undermined their credibility A Liberal Democrat cabinet minister has widened an increasingly damaging rift inside the coalition by warning that the prime minister and other senior Conservatives could face legal action over the manner in which they have campaigned for a no vote in next week’s referendum on a change to the voting system. Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem energy secretary, admitted for the first time that the campaign against the alternative vote by senior Conservatives will make the coalition government “more difficult” to manage in the aftermath of the 5 May referendum. Huhne said the claims made by David Cameron, George Osborne and other Tories undermined their credibility. The energy secretary is concerned about two claims made by the Conservatives – that a move to AV will need new counting machines, and so cost as much as £250m, and that it will favour extremist parties. He said: “If they don’t come clean on this I am sure the law courts will. “Australia’s used [AV] for 80 years without ever using voting machines. If they can’t substantiate that, there’s simple legal redress. They had better come clean pretty fast.” Lib Dems have adopted an increasingly vituperative tone as they attempt to correct what they believe to be “untruths” pushed out by Tories and the no Campaign and match the vigour with which the other side is campaigning. The Lib Dems had not expected senior Tories to take so active a role in the campaign, and only latterly decided to do the same for the yes campaign. Some of the strident language will also be an attempt to persuade their voters of their distance from their Conservative coalition partners in the hope of firming up support for a yes vote, as well as encouraging Labour supporters to come out and vote for electoral reform. In the Independent on Sunday Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister, accused Cameron of “defending the indefensible”, implying he was part of “a rightwing clique who want to keep things the way they are”. The no campaign were putting out “lies, misinformation and deceit”, he said. Huhne also wrote to Osborne, the chancellor, before the weekend, accusing him of lying about the cost of reforming the voting system and asking him to withdraw “untruths” and “falsehoods”. But the threat of legal action would mean coalition relations remain uncomfortable long after the referendum has been decided. Huhne told the BBC: “It is frankly worrying if you have colleagues, who you have respected and who you have worked well with, who are making claims which have no foundation in truth whatsoever. If they don’t come clean on this I am sure the law courts will. “It is going to undermine the credibility of colleague ministers – the prime minister and the chancellor of the exchequer and the foreign secretary [William Hague] – if they use repeatedly allegations that have no foundation in truth whatsoever. “That is not good for the coalition. We have a job to do in the coalition government to clean up the mess we have inherited at the time of the last election. It is going to be a lot more difficult if you don’t have the same respect for colleagues because, frankly, they have departed so far from the foundations of truth in an election campaign.” The Lib Dem deputy leader, Simon Hughes, echoed Huhne’s threat of action, telling the BBC that the Electoral Commission could be asked to investigate the no campaign and to ensure that future elections did not see “untrue statements in official campaigns circulated”. Hague struck a more measured tone, playing down the differences and insisting that the coalition was working well. “We’re used in general election campaigns to accusations flying back and forth and I think a lot of these accusations are directed at the no campaign rather than the Conservative party,” he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show. “These things do get bandied about in a referendum campaign. Feelings run high, people get excited. I think the important thing for people to know is the coalition is working well together. It continues to work well together. “Yes, we all have strong feelings about it and I very much hope people will vote no, but at the end of it the coalition will be working very well together.” Hague also dismissed the idea that Cameron will have to offer more concessions to Clegg in order to bolster the position of the Lib Dems in the coalition. The foreign secretary said: “What we are doing in government is finding the right way forward together. It doesn’t normally work in the manner of concessions to one side or the other.” Hughes said the Tory party co-chairman Lady Warsi had been “peddling untruths” that the British National party would gain in any move to AV. But Hague said: “I think she’s right, because what do you do in a system where there are third and fourth preferences? “Will the candidates in marginal seats have to think about how they’re going to get the second, third and fourth preferences of people who have voted for the BNP? These things are therefore not disputed facts, they’re matters of opinion about the implication of AV and they should be understood as that.” He also said “there was no doubt” that having a more complicated system would cost more and that it was a legitimate issue to raise in a campaign. Putting the case against AV, Hague said: “You can argue for a decisive system, which we have most of the time in this country, or you can argue for a proportional system as they have in Germany.” Cameron acknowledged last week that the referendum campaign, which lines up most of the Conservative party against the Liberal Democrats, had created a “choppy” period for the coalition. A Guardian/ICM poll published last week suggested the no campaign had gone into a 16-point lead, by 58% to 42%. Alternative vote Chris Huhne Liberal-Conservative coalition Liberal Democrats Conservatives Electoral reform Allegra Stratton guardian.co.uk
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The Liberal Democrat’s Chris Huhne, has said that campaigning by senior Conservatives has undermined their credibility A Liberal Democrat cabinet minister has widened an increasingly damaging rift inside the coalition by warning that the prime minister and other senior Conservatives could face legal action over the manner in which they have campaigned for a no vote in next week’s referendum on a change to the voting system. Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem energy secretary, admitted for the first time that the campaign against the alternative vote by senior Conservatives will make the coalition government “more difficult” to manage in the aftermath of the 5 May referendum. Huhne said the claims made by David Cameron, George Osborne and other Tories undermined their credibility. The energy secretary is concerned about two claims made by the Conservatives – that a move to AV will need new counting machines, and so cost as much as £250m, and that it will favour extremist parties. He said: “If they don’t come clean on this I am sure the law courts will. “Australia’s used [AV] for 80 years without ever using voting machines. If they can’t substantiate that, there’s simple legal redress. They had better come clean pretty fast.” Lib Dems have adopted an increasingly vituperative tone as they attempt to correct what they believe to be “untruths” pushed out by Tories and the no Campaign and match the vigour with which the other side is campaigning. The Lib Dems had not expected senior Tories to take so active a role in the campaign, and only latterly decided to do the same for the yes campaign. Some of the strident language will also be an attempt to persuade their voters of their distance from their Conservative coalition partners in the hope of firming up support for a yes vote, as well as encouraging Labour supporters to come out and vote for electoral reform. In the Independent on Sunday Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister, accused Cameron of “defending the indefensible”, implying he was part of “a rightwing clique who want to keep things the way they are”. The no campaign were putting out “lies, misinformation and deceit”, he said. Huhne also wrote to Osborne, the chancellor, before the weekend, accusing him of lying about the cost of reforming the voting system and asking him to withdraw “untruths” and “falsehoods”. But the threat of legal action would mean coalition relations remain uncomfortable long after the referendum has been decided. Huhne told the BBC: “It is frankly worrying if you have colleagues, who you have respected and who you have worked well with, who are making claims which have no foundation in truth whatsoever. If they don’t come clean on this I am sure the law courts will. “It is going to undermine the credibility of colleague ministers – the prime minister and the chancellor of the exchequer and the foreign secretary [William Hague] – if they use repeatedly allegations that have no foundation in truth whatsoever. “That is not good for the coalition. We have a job to do in the coalition government to clean up the mess we have inherited at the time of the last election. It is going to be a lot more difficult if you don’t have the same respect for colleagues because, frankly, they have departed so far from the foundations of truth in an election campaign.” The Lib Dem deputy leader, Simon Hughes, echoed Huhne’s threat of action, telling the BBC that the Electoral Commission could be asked to investigate the no campaign and to ensure that future elections did not see “untrue statements in official campaigns circulated”. Hague struck a more measured tone, playing down the differences and insisting that the coalition was working well. “We’re used in general election campaigns to accusations flying back and forth and I think a lot of these accusations are directed at the no campaign rather than the Conservative party,” he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show. “These things do get bandied about in a referendum campaign. Feelings run high, people get excited. I think the important thing for people to know is the coalition is working well together. It continues to work well together. “Yes, we all have strong feelings about it and I very much hope people will vote no, but at the end of it the coalition will be working very well together.” Hague also dismissed the idea that Cameron will have to offer more concessions to Clegg in order to bolster the position of the Lib Dems in the coalition. The foreign secretary said: “What we are doing in government is finding the right way forward together. It doesn’t normally work in the manner of concessions to one side or the other.” Hughes said the Tory party co-chairman Lady Warsi had been “peddling untruths” that the British National party would gain in any move to AV. But Hague said: “I think she’s right, because what do you do in a system where there are third and fourth preferences? “Will the candidates in marginal seats have to think about how they’re going to get the second, third and fourth preferences of people who have voted for the BNP? These things are therefore not disputed facts, they’re matters of opinion about the implication of AV and they should be understood as that.” He also said “there was no doubt” that having a more complicated system would cost more and that it was a legitimate issue to raise in a campaign. Putting the case against AV, Hague said: “You can argue for a decisive system, which we have most of the time in this country, or you can argue for a proportional system as they have in Germany.” Cameron acknowledged last week that the referendum campaign, which lines up most of the Conservative party against the Liberal Democrats, had created a “choppy” period for the coalition. A Guardian/ICM poll published last week suggested the no campaign had gone into a 16-point lead, by 58% to 42%. Alternative vote Chris Huhne Liberal-Conservative coalition Liberal Democrats Conservatives Electoral reform Allegra Stratton guardian.co.uk
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The Liberal Democrat’s Chris Huhne, has said that campaigning by senior Conservatives has undermined their credibility A Liberal Democrat cabinet minister has widened an increasingly damaging rift inside the coalition by warning that the prime minister and other senior Conservatives could face legal action over the manner in which they have campaigned for a no vote in next week’s referendum on a change to the voting system. Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem energy secretary, admitted for the first time that the campaign against the alternative vote by senior Conservatives will make the coalition government “more difficult” to manage in the aftermath of the 5 May referendum. Huhne said the claims made by David Cameron, George Osborne and other Tories undermined their credibility. The energy secretary is concerned about two claims made by the Conservatives – that a move to AV will need new counting machines, and so cost as much as £250m, and that it will favour extremist parties. He said: “If they don’t come clean on this I am sure the law courts will. “Australia’s used [AV] for 80 years without ever using voting machines. If they can’t substantiate that, there’s simple legal redress. They had better come clean pretty fast.” Lib Dems have adopted an increasingly vituperative tone as they attempt to correct what they believe to be “untruths” pushed out by Tories and the no Campaign and match the vigour with which the other side is campaigning. The Lib Dems had not expected senior Tories to take so active a role in the campaign, and only latterly decided to do the same for the yes campaign. Some of the strident language will also be an attempt to persuade their voters of their distance from their Conservative coalition partners in the hope of firming up support for a yes vote, as well as encouraging Labour supporters to come out and vote for electoral reform. In the Independent on Sunday Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister, accused Cameron of “defending the indefensible”, implying he was part of “a rightwing clique who want to keep things the way they are”. The no campaign were putting out “lies, misinformation and deceit”, he said. Huhne also wrote to Osborne, the chancellor, before the weekend, accusing him of lying about the cost of reforming the voting system and asking him to withdraw “untruths” and “falsehoods”. But the threat of legal action would mean coalition relations remain uncomfortable long after the referendum has been decided. Huhne told the BBC: “It is frankly worrying if you have colleagues, who you have respected and who you have worked well with, who are making claims which have no foundation in truth whatsoever. If they don’t come clean on this I am sure the law courts will. “It is going to undermine the credibility of colleague ministers – the prime minister and the chancellor of the exchequer and the foreign secretary [William Hague] – if they use repeatedly allegations that have no foundation in truth whatsoever. “That is not good for the coalition. We have a job to do in the coalition government to clean up the mess we have inherited at the time of the last election. It is going to be a lot more difficult if you don’t have the same respect for colleagues because, frankly, they have departed so far from the foundations of truth in an election campaign.” The Lib Dem deputy leader, Simon Hughes, echoed Huhne’s threat of action, telling the BBC that the Electoral Commission could be asked to investigate the no campaign and to ensure that future elections did not see “untrue statements in official campaigns circulated”. Hague struck a more measured tone, playing down the differences and insisting that the coalition was working well. “We’re used in general election campaigns to accusations flying back and forth and I think a lot of these accusations are directed at the no campaign rather than the Conservative party,” he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show. “These things do get bandied about in a referendum campaign. Feelings run high, people get excited. I think the important thing for people to know is the coalition is working well together. It continues to work well together. “Yes, we all have strong feelings about it and I very much hope people will vote no, but at the end of it the coalition will be working very well together.” Hague also dismissed the idea that Cameron will have to offer more concessions to Clegg in order to bolster the position of the Lib Dems in the coalition. The foreign secretary said: “What we are doing in government is finding the right way forward together. It doesn’t normally work in the manner of concessions to one side or the other.” Hughes said the Tory party co-chairman Lady Warsi had been “peddling untruths” that the British National party would gain in any move to AV. But Hague said: “I think she’s right, because what do you do in a system where there are third and fourth preferences? “Will the candidates in marginal seats have to think about how they’re going to get the second, third and fourth preferences of people who have voted for the BNP? These things are therefore not disputed facts, they’re matters of opinion about the implication of AV and they should be understood as that.” He also said “there was no doubt” that having a more complicated system would cost more and that it was a legitimate issue to raise in a campaign. Putting the case against AV, Hague said: “You can argue for a decisive system, which we have most of the time in this country, or you can argue for a proportional system as they have in Germany.” Cameron acknowledged last week that the referendum campaign, which lines up most of the Conservative party against the Liberal Democrats, had created a “choppy” period for the coalition. A Guardian/ICM poll published last week suggested the no campaign had gone into a 16-point lead, by 58% to 42%. Alternative vote Chris Huhne Liberal-Conservative coalition Liberal Democrats Conservatives Electoral reform Allegra Stratton guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …As embattled author and philanthropist Greg Mortenson finds himself facing allegations of fraud, he also faces a health scare. Mortenson, whose charity is under investigation by the Montana attorney general, canceled an appearance in Massachusetts next month after being hospitalized for heart surgery. Officials for the group sponsoring the May…
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House of Rainbow church offers underground prayer and preaching to Christians ostracised by rampant homophobia When Ade’s aunt learned he was gay, the then 16-year-old Nigerian was made to go through an exorcism to expel “the demon of homosexuality”. “The priest came to the house with candles, holy water and anointing oils. I had to kneel down, holding candles in my hands,” recalls Ade, now 25, as he sits in a cafe in Lagos. He does not wish to reveal his full name. “He kept shouting ‘Come out! Come out! Come out!’ in a fevered voice … I was allowed to go back to church after that but I had to pretend to be straight.” In a country where homosexuality is punishable by up to 14 years in prison, it is no surprise that many of Ade’s friends – those who, like him, are both gay and religious – stay away from church altogether for fear of being outed. However, an alternative could soon be at hand. Ade is helping to resurrect a religious refuge for himself and his friends. He is part of the team restarting House of Rainbow, the country’s only gay church, which was forced to close in 2008 after a witch-hunt stirred by exposés in local newspapers. The Rev Rowland Jide Macaulay, the gay minister who founded the church, is leading the comeback even though he remains in self-imposed exile in London. “Religion is a backbone to life in Nigeria, so we all want to go to church,” he says. “But we don’t want to lie to God about who we are.” Macaulay first set up House of Rainbow in 2006, when he openly held Sunday services in a Lagos hotel hall decked out with rainbow flags. A public backlash culminated in members being beaten as they left church. Macaulay fled to the UK after death threats. This year, he has recruited a small team that includes Ade as his local leader in Lagos. In his voluntary role, Ade started holding prayer sessions and Bible study groups at his house at the end of last month. A full church might be set up again if it is considered safe. The project could even spread beyond the borders of Africa’s most populous country. Macaulay has recently recruited a local leader in Accra, the capital of nearby Ghana. He is considering applications from Rwanda and Zimbabwe. Religious groups are central to Nigeria’s culture of homophobia. Pentecostalism, an evangelical school of Christianity thought to have started in America just over a century ago, has blossomed in southern Nigeria and across Africa in recent decades. The “megachurches” in and around Lagos can attract tens of thousands of worshippers to a single service. Pentecostal pastors often see gay desire as the work of demons. “You might start casually but, once you get into it, you will be possessed by the spirit,” says Emmanuel Owoyemi, a pastor in Lagos. Meanwhile, in Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north, 12 states have adopted sharia law over the last decade. Gay sex carries the death penalty under sharia, although no executions have yet taken place. A national anti-gay marriage bill, which pushes for jail sentences for anyone who even assists gay marriage, has been before Nigeria’s parliament since 2009. Being gay is regarded as an offence across much of Africa. Uganda’s parliament continues to debate a proposed law that would introduce the death penalty in some cases. Malawi’s president only pardoned a gay couple last year sentenced to 14 years in jail after an international outcry. Apart from being on the wrong side of the law, many homosexual Nigerians say exclusion from church is one of the hardest parts of being gay. “We are brought up to believe that you should belong to a religion. We feel that, if we don’t go to church, God will not answer our prayers,” says a young gay man in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. “When I recently told a friend I was having financial difficulties, he said, ‘When did you last go to church?’” In oil-rich Nigeria, where corruption robs many of even basic services, religious groups provide more than spiritual assistance. Muslim movements such as Izala have built schools in the north, while southern pentecostal groups such as the Redeemed Christian Church of God run universities. “[We] lose out on all these services,” says the young man. Some argue that African homophobia is slowly waning. Marc Epprecht, an expert on sexuality in Africa at Queen’s University in Canada, says the continent’s growing number of gay rights groups are challenging negative stereotypes. He adds that despite the bad press it attracts, African homophobia is not markedly stronger than that of poor or patriarchal parts of the Middle East and South America. Macaulay, however, is not taking any chances this time. Prayer sessions are being held in secret locations. No unknown newcomers are being admitted. He continues to preach via YouTube from London – he thinks it would be unwise to return home. “We have learnt our lesson,” he says. “It is a hostile situation.” Nigeria Gay rights Christianity Religion guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Chinese police detained at least 30 Christians belonging to an unregistered Beijing church as the congregation gathered today for an Easter service, a church member says. Police stopped the worshippers from the unregistered Shouwang church as they gathered near a public plaza in the city’s university district, then bused them…
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Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, says Steve Jobs is ‘monomaniacal’ and describes Google duo’s ‘elbows and claws’ Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, has lashed out at internet rivals such as Apple and described Google as “evil”. After his views on his co-founder, Bill Gates, emerged last month w hen extracts from his memoirs were published in the US , Allen is now focusing on his rivals. He describes Steve Jobs, the boss of Apple who is on medical leave, as “monomaniacal”. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Allen criticises Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the co-founders of Google, for their corporate mission statement: “Don’t be evil”. Allen talked about their “elbows and claws” in their pursuit for growth. “I chuckle when I see people pushing the boundaries all the time of what they can do to monetise things, capture things – and then say, we’re not evil, as if their default is not to push the boundaries,” Allen said. “If your default is to push the boundaries, to just go for it, and then see if you get pushed back, then don’t say you’re not evil,” he added. Google was criticised after it emerged that while it was gathering the images for its Street View site, it was also collecting information on email addresses and passwords. In his autobiography, Idea Man, Allen describes how he and Gates were inseparable at school in Seattle but their relationship later soured and he describes Gates as a sarcastic bully who tried to force him out of the company. Allen describes how Gates brought in Steve Ballmer, the current boss, and how after returning from fighting Hodgkin’s lymphoma he heard the pair trying to reduce his influence – and confronted them about their intentions. It sparked Allen’s resignation and he refused an offer to buy him out for $5 a share – a sensible move given the share price is now $25 and his fortune is estimated at $13bn. Microsoft Computing Internet Apple Google Steve Jobs Sergey Brin Larry Page Jill Treanor guardian.co.uk
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