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"The Wellcome Trust, a large charitable foundation in the UK that funds scientific and medical research, earned over $100 million from Twitter's high-profile IPO earlier this year.\r\n\r\nIn its annual results for 2012/13, the Wellcome Trust admitted that its 1 percent stake, acquired privately from founders and employees who wanted some liquidity, &amp;quot;was marked up by more than $100 million&amp;quot; after Twitter floated last month.\u00A0A report by Management Today\u00A0says that based on the company's share price, which is currently hovering at around $56, the Trust's stake is worth roughly $313 million at the moment.\r\n\r\nThe charity also has a $185 million investment in Facebook, $219 million in Apple and $200 million in Microsoft.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Annual Report and Financial Statements 2013\u00A0[Via The Huffington Post]\r\n\r\nImage Credit:\u00A0EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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