The net value of the entire cluster of Batista's businesses, each branded with a letter X, a symbol for the multiplication of wealth, has turned to dust. As it turned out, … After all, he sat on mountains of ultra high grade Colombian coal and his …

A native of the large southern province of Surat Thani, the savvy 64-year-old has held high political office himself, including a stint as a deputy prime minister under Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in the last, Democrat Party-led government, which …

According to a report by Wealth-X, Japan's Masayoshi Son ranked sixth with a $10.3 billion gain in the year to December 11, while Hong Kong-based Lui Chee Woo ranked ninth with an $8.3 billion rise in net worth. The survey of individuals with net …

Among the high-profile execs who have come and gone—some by their own choice, others at Armstrong's insistence—are chief financial officer Artie Minson, Huffington Post Media Group publisher Janet Balis, Huffington Post executive editor Tim O'Brien …

From a Supreme Court ruling that allowed police to examine a few days worth records about calls to one number, we've arrived at secret courts holding that the Fourth Amendment has nothing to say about capturing comprehensive records of everyone's phone …

Among the high-profile execs who have come and gone—some by their own choice, others at Armstrong's insistence—are chief financial officer Artie Minson, Huffington Post Media Group publisher Janet Balis, Huffington Post executive editor Tim O'Brien …

The surprisingly public purges of high-ranking party cadres; the family members of those purged, in true Soviet fashion, are carted off to camps; any image of the purged is digitally removed from videos and photos; and in a moment of true Orwellian …

Chairman of Toronto-based Leon Frazer & Associates, who invested in companies with high dividends during his seven decades as a fund manager. Died Feb. 6. Rem Vyakhirev, 78. He was CEO of OAO Gazprom, the world's biggest natural-gas producer, …

… many wellheeled entrepreneur. Soaring hanghai stocks, coupled with government stimulus and an explosive property market has converged to make the Chinese tycoon the world's most potent high net worth individual," says Daniel Paterson, Senior Market …