Dan Gilbert

Technology giant Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is making its way to downtown Detroit. Microsoft will move its Michigan presence from a Southfield office to the Quicken Loans headquarters in downtown Detroit in early 2018, said Microsoft's general manager of the Great Lakes region Tracy...

The Bad Boys are back in town. Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores, Detroit Red Wings and Little Caesar’s owner Mike Ilitch and Detroit mayor Mike Duggan formally announced that the Pistons will begin playing in downtown Detroit for the 2017-2018 season in a press conference Tuesday afternoon...

For Detroit, things have been looking up. In an interview with CNBC, Chris Ilitch (president and CEO of Ilitch Holdings), and Dan Gilbert (founder of Quicken Loans and Rock Ventures), discussed their investments in revitalizing downtown Detroit. Ilitch said his company has announced $1.2...

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The city of Detroit, unlike almost any other in the United States, was hard hit during the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Auto related jobs were destroyed, the government was forced to raise billions of dollars of debt and the city itself was forced to file for bankruptcy. The American spirit...

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) announced its plan to purchase Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) operating business for $4.8 billion Monday morning after a series of talks between Yahoo, AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), Liberty Media Group (NASDAQ: LMCA) and Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert. Chowdhry's...

While driving to work in the morning, you can always count on Mojo In The Morning for a good laugh. Mojo, Spike and Shannon -- the hosts of Detroit's Channel 955 flagship show -- set out to entertain thousands of listeners every morning with different segments including phone scams, war of...

Allen & Co, a boutique investment bank firm with a focus on media and entertainment companies, hosts an annual shindig for the "who's who" of the industry. Last year's event at Idaho's Sun Valley Resort attracted more than 300 executives in the media, finance, politics and technology spaces....

It seems billionaire and investor Warren Buffett has had a real estate partnership of sorts with Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert for a year according to Reuters — and no one seems to have noticed. The dynamic duo made news recently when Buffett agreed to help back Gilbert financially should...

After a lengthy and somewhat confusing bidding process to buy Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)'s Internet assets, Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) are said to be preparing their final offer. According to Reuters, the two rival telecommunications companies will...

Eminem might have puked on his sweater in his come-up, but now that the platinum-selling rapper has established himself as a mogul, he’s looking to keep his sneakers fresh with a new investment. The artist (Marshall Mathers) revealed he and his longtime manager Paul Rosenberg will invest...

When discussing the resurgence of Detroit, two names quickly come to forefront: Dan Gilbert and Mike Ilitch. Both entrepreneurs have built very successful companies (Quicken Loans and Little Caesar's Pizza, respectively). Both have purchased professional sports and parlayed their success in...

Dan Gilbert is the founder of Quicken Loans and his name has been thrown around as a potential suitor to acquire Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)'s Internet properties as part of a partnership with Warren Buffett. Gilbert was quick to point out he can't publicly comment on his involvement...

Shares of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) were trading higher by more than 2 percent early Monday following news reports that Dan Gilbert, Quicken Loans founder, is not only interested in acquiring the company's internet assets, but has the financial backing of Warren Buffett. It was reported...

Statistics is a growing sub-industry within the sporting world, where the analysis of games is exponentially helpful to teams, coaches, recruiters and individual players. Enter Krossover. The New York-based firm recently closed a Series B round of investing totaling $20 million, funded in part by...