Bill Gates tops Forbes' list of billionaires
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversNew York (NY) - Bill Gates leads Forbes' list of the world's richest people for the 13th time in a row. The Microsoft co-founder's wealth is estimated at $56 billion.
Following Gates are Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, a diversified company at which you would have to invest close to $109,000 to own just one share of common stock. Following on the heels of Buffett, who is estimated to own about $52 billion, is Carlos Slim Helu, who controls a telecom empire in Mexico and has arrived at $49 billion.
The billionaire list now ranks a total 946 billionaires who own a combined $3.5 trillion. There were 178 new entries in the list this year and especially countries such as Russia (53 billionaires) and India (35) are establishing a presence among the world's richest people.
The U.S. tech industry is represented throughout the list, for example with Oracle founder Larry Ellison at #11 ($21.5 billion), Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at #26 ($16.6 billion each), Michael Dell at #30 ($15.8 billion), Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at #31 ($15.0 billion), Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar at #76 ($8.8 billion), Google CEO Eric Schmidt at #116 ($6.2 billion), Apple CEO Steve Jobs at #132 ($5.2 billion), Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at #188 ($4.4 billion) and Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who is also known as author of "Moore's Law" at #243 ($3.6 billion).
source: tgdaily
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Comments(5)
hording money like that should not be something to brag on. shows you do not care about
your fellow humans and this planet. look at the poverty and global warming. money greed =
evil
global warming is as overrated as dice-k matsusaka the new boston pitcher from japan.
enough wealth that every single person could be a multi-millionaire.
earth
should be a well planned utopia, even the super wealthy that exist would be happier in
such a world.
todays world is instead a nightmare.
why?
disgusting... i work hard i've tried setting up my own business and got shit on time and
time again. i currently owe more than i earn and not through spending but from money
greedy wankers slapping interest on everything i owe and this bastards make me want to
throw this keyboard through my window.
i bet £100,000 is out the question?
zomg, i lov yew bil gaetes
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By Bob on 11.03.2007 - 22:03