Beijing: The number of billionaires from China has declined for the first time due to the sluggish domestic stock market and government curbs on sectors like real estate. The number of Chinese, who dominated the Forbes Billionaires List in the past, dropped from 115 last year to 95 this year. The list contained 1,226 billionaires from all over the world. A total of 40 former billionaires from China, who are...
04:52 PM, Mar 09, 2012
New York: India is home to over four per cent of the world's billionaires, including the likes of the Ambani brothers, Azim Premji and NR Narayan Murthy alongside Warren Buffet and Bill Gates in Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's richest people. Forbes's list of 1226 billionaires is topped by Mexico's 72-year-old telecom czar Carlos Slim, boasting of a networth of $ 69 billion. Slim retained his title as...
08:26 AM, Mar 08, 2012
On March 24, 2011, two significant events took place. In the first, millions of Indians sat glued to their televisions as India beat Australia to enter the semi-finals of the cricket World Cup. Sitting in the crowd at the Ahmedabad stadium were many of India's richest businessmen and celebrities. Less than 1,000 km away, in Delhi, the world's second and third richest persons, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, respectively, were...
01:18 PM, Jan 03, 2012
It isnt called a big fat Indian wedding for nothing. It is when families " regardless of their social or economic standing " apply the full force of their bank accounts and social networks. It is when even the most tight-fisted and austere loosen their purse-strings. It is often a show of pomp a family prepares for years to put up. But, among the wealthy, a wedding is all this,...
10:55 AM, Nov 10, 2011
London: Britain's billionaires are more likely than their US counterparts to have made their own money rather than inherited it, a study has found, challenging popular perceptions of greater social mobility in America. A survey by French bank Societe Generale and Forbes of super-rich people in 12 countries, many of whom are billionaires, found 80 per cent of the British sample entirely "self-made", as opposed to inherited wealth or a...
11:50 AM, May 27, 2011
New York: There are a record number of billionaires around the world in 2011, but just 14 percent are eligible, Forbes said on Wednesday. "It's possible to meet a billionaire, fall in love and live happily ever after, but it's not all that likely," Forbes Senior Editor Luisa Kroll said after analyzing the Forbes annual list of the world's richest people, which was released last week. Of the world's 1,210...
10:24 AM, Mar 17, 2011
Washington: Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani were counted among the world's ten richest persons as 50 Indians made it to the Forbes list of World Billionaires 2011. Here is a complete list of Indian billionaires in order of India Rank, World Rank, Name, Net Worth, Age, Source: 1.. 6 Lakshmi Mittal $31.1 B 60 Steel 2.. 9 Mukesh Ambani $27 B 53 petrochemicals, oil & gas...
12:23 PM, Mar 10, 2011
New York: Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani has slipped from fourth richest person to ninth richest in the world, while NRI steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal ranked sixth, according to the US magazine Forbes. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim remained the richest person in the world with $74 billion in assets in the US magazine Forbes annual list of world's top billionaires. Telecom tycoon Helu, whose worth increased by $20.4 billion from...
09:50 AM, Mar 10, 2011
London: From a battered 80-year-old boat to a swanky yacht, life has come a long way for humble British fisherman Guy Barnett who married a multi-billionaire's daughter after a whirlwind fairytale romance. Guy Barnett sailed into his old home port in Dartmouth, Devon with bride Sarah Risley, 35, so they could entertain friends and family on the luxurious 100 million pounds, six-deck Northern Star that has a helipad. The vessel...
12:19 PM, Aug 19, 2010
Vinod Khosla, an Indian American billionaire, is the cofounder of Sun Microsystems. ...
11:02 AM, Apr 23, 2010
Mark Zuckerberg has a net worth of $4 billion according to Forbes. ...
08:35 PM, Mar 17, 2010
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