King.com chairman Melvyn Morris and CEO Riccardo Zacconi both were set to become billionaires if the stock, listed on the NYSE as KING, took off. But when the stock closed down more than 15 percent on the first day, the pair leading the Dublin-based …

A couple of months after stepping down from the job in which he is credited with averting a global financial crisis that could've eclipsed the Great Depression, Ben Bernanke appears to be enjoying his time alongside billionaires and financiers. The …

Martin Bouygues, head of the number three mobile operator in France, has mounted a €15.5bn bid for number two SFR, owned by Vivendi, in which Vincent Bolloré is the largest shareholder. Another billionaire, Patrick Drahi, is determined to win SFR for …

BILL Gates, world's richest man, and Warren Buffet, the fourth richest man, made headlines in 2010 when they, together with 38 other billionaires, pledged to give at least half of their wealth to charity. They appealed globally to other billionaires to …

Romania has three billionaires in dollars, and two more people should reach this status in the next ten years, according to a a recent report by Knight Frank. Romania, Estonia and Bulgaria have the lowest number of wealthy people in the ranking that …

BANGALORE: There are a number of billionaires who contribute a big chunk to their country's GDP. These people wield a lot of power, influence the political decision making in their respective countries and some of them have gone to the extent of …

And if taxing the rich doesn't work and billionaires won't give large chunks of their wealth away to charity, the government will just have to take it under penalty of prosecution and arrest, he said. Check out Shiller's chilling comments of what would …

It's hard to describe the nonstop onslaught from the Democrats' PACs and campaigns against the billionaire libertarian brothers. Democrats run ads, complain about them in mailers and jabber about them on cable TV shows. The brothers seem, in some …

Billionaires caught out in ugly Twitter war · Billionaires caught out in ugly Twitter war. WHEN a business deal goes bad, things get messy. When it's billionaires on Twitter, it's even worse. Check out this very public battle of the billionaires.