As the Facebook CEO turns 30 this week, Bloomberg looks at the other top-grossing billionaires all under the young age of 40. — Bloomberg. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's co-founder and chief executive, speaks during a Facebook press event in Menlo Park, …
Billionaire philanthropists are moving beyond traditional charitable causes and tackling policy-oriented issues like climate change, gun control, immigration, and public pensions. And they are stirring controversy as they take a multi-faceted approach …
Other billionaires with local connections include Shop Direct owners Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay. Ranked 16th wealthiest in Britain, the twins have owned the Speke-based online retail giant since 2004 when they bought it from the Moores family.
Today on Flash Point, Kevin Ogle asks is one billionaire battling with other billionaires and oil gas men and women over the hearts and minds of the governor and state legislature? Ogle is referring to a recently posted article about George Kiaser. The …
"SuperEntrepreneurs" are the Cinderellas of the business world. They're the most entrepreneurial of entrepreneurs, the extreme rags to riches stories: they are self-made billionaires. The London-based Centre for Policy Studies identified nearly 1,000 …
LibDem peer Matthew Oakeshott said: “Britain's billionaires are coining it while so many people are struggling. We must tax wealth as well as income – starting with a mansion tax on properties worth more than £2million.” Adam Musgrave, Oxfam's …
Two U.S. billionaires are putting their bets on rival Japanese cities Tokyo and Osaka to be the first to open casino resorts. A powerful group of lawmakers have been pushing for the Japanese government to legalize gambling, and it seems only a matter …
London has more billionaires than any other city in the world, and Britain has more billionaires per head of population than any other country, new data showed on Saturday. The survey of Britain's super-rich compiled for the Sunday Times newspaper is …
The Billionaires' Diet Book would not be a bestseller — or so I judge from limited experience of lunching with the denizens of this week's Sunday Times Super-Rich List. They're just not happy eaters. Lord Bamford (£3.1 billion) described the elegant …