Bloomberg/Getty Images Mike Lynch, a British tech entrepreneur, is missing after a luxury yacht sunk off the coast of Sicily. After co-founding British tech firm Autonomy in 1996, and backing several successful tech firms, the businessman was regarded by some as the UK’s answer to Microsoft founder Bill Gates. One person is dead and six...
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Captain describes moment British technology tycoon’s luxury yacht started to sink off Sicily
Captain Karsten Borner has recalled the tragic moments he witnessed the capsizing of a luxury yacht after it was struck by an unexpectedly violent storm and sank off the Sicilian capital Palermo. Search and rescue operations were under way on Monday 19 August after one man died and six people were missing after a 56-meter-long...
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‘I said goodbye to everyone, because I didn’t know if I’d be coming back’: Billionaire Mike Lynch spoke of his ‘second life’ just weeks before going missing on superyacht – after he was acquitted of fraud charges in US where he faced 25 years
Just weeks ago, a tearful Mike Lynch returned to Britain a free man after being acquitted of fraud charges that could have landed him 25 years in a US jail. The tech tycoon, once described as ‘Britain’s Bill Gates‘, told of his ‘second life’ after finally winning a 13-year legal fight over the £8.3billion sale of his...
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British tech tycoon Mike Lynch among missing after Bayesian yacht capsized: Latest
Coastguard searches for missing after British-flagged yacht capsizes in tornado off Italy For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails British technology tycoon Mike Lynch is missing after a British-flagged luxury superyacht sank in bad weather...
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British tech entrepreneur, Americans among missing after yacht sinks off Italian coast, killing at least 1
British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, known as Britain’s Bill Gates, and two Americans are among six missing after a luxury superyacht sank off the coast of Italy, killing at least one man. The 184-foot British-flagged Bayesian carrying foreign tourists capsized and sank off Sicily in bad weather early Monday. One body was found, six people...
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UK Tech Tycoon Missing After Superyacht Sinks Off Sicily In Italy
Mike Lynch’s wife was among 15 people rescued after the luxury yacht sank. London: UK businessman Mike Lynch, who was recently acquitted in the United States of an $11 billion fraud, is among those missing Monday after a superyacht sank off southern Italy, according to the head of the Civil Protection Agency. The 56-metre-long luxury...
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UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch missing as Bayesian superyacht sinks off Sicily
UK businessman Mike Lynch, who was recently acquitted in the United States of an $11 billion fraud, is among those missing Monday after a superyacht sank off southern Italy, according to the head of the Civil Protection Agency. The 56-meter-long luxury yacht, The Bayesian, had been moored off Porticello, east of Palermo, when the storm...
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Who is Mike Lynch? The UK tech tycoon feared dead after sinking of Bayesian superyacht
British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch is reportedly among four of the bodies recovered from the wreck of the luxury Bayesian yacht after it sank off the coast of Sicily. The 56m-long vessel with 22 people on board went underwater near the Italian city of Palermo after being hit by a heavy storm in the early...
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Mike Lynch, the Autonomy founder finally cleared of fraud after more than decade
British technology tycoon Mike Lynch – reportedly one of six tourists missing after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Italy – founded software giant Autonomy in 1996, and made his name as one of Britain’s most influential entrepreneurs through the company. He has been described at points as the Bill Gates of Britain,...
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UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch missing, 1 dead after yacht sinks off Sicily
The names of the dead and missing were not immediately released, but a person familiar with the rescue operation confirmed that Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, were not accounted for. Among the missing and feared dead were Lynch’s lawyer Christopher Morvillo and Morvillo’s wife, according to a colleague. Italian media said the dead man...
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British tech tycoon Mike Lynch missing after superyacht sinks
The superyacht, named Bayesian, capsized at about 5am off Palermo and had mostly British passengers on board British technology tycoon Mike Lynch who is missing after the luxury yacht, Bayesian sank in bad weather off the coast of Sicily(Image: Yui Mok/PA Wire) British technology tycoon Mike Lynch is among six tourists missing after a luxury...
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Who is Mike Lynch, the UK tech boss missing in superyacht sinking?
Mike Lynch, the software millionaire missing after the sinking of a superyacht off the coast of Sicily, is one of the few examples of a UK entrepreneur to create a global technology company. That fact led to seemingly obligatory descriptions of him as “Britain’s Bill Gates” but, in truth, his story differs hugely from that...