Prague, March 18 (CTK) – Czech billionaires seem to be planning new investments in commercial radio stations after they recently took control of most of the domestic press market, daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes Tuesday. Approximately 1.5 billion …

Billionaires made out like some fat rats in public housing takeover. Public records reveal that the out-of-state billionaires got a sweet deal for their efforts to grab Berkeley's public housing units from the poor. It cost The Related Company around …

From disease research and underwater exploration, to space travel and climate change denial, billionaires are funding just about all aspects of science — or pseudoscience — in America today. As a result, basic science research, which is most often …

There is no widespread peer pressure on our billionaires and no general expectation in the community or the media that the richest will, as a matter of course, direct some of their wealth explicitly for the benefit of others. The impact that this …

So consider this front-page Sunday headline from the 16 March New York Times: “Billionaires with big ideas are privatizing American science.” Sometimes a journalist, in need of a story, yokes together three similar incidents and elevates them to trend …

A mystery billionaire from Silicon Valley has purchased a $201 million life insurance policy, smashing the previous record of $100 million by the entertainment mogul in 1990, according to Guinness World Records. The billionaire chose to stay anonymous, …

Billionaire Alisher Usmanov sold shares in Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc., focusing on technology investments in China such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and may expand stakes in Russian assets, an executive said. “Chinese companies account for about …

Wong's rise was as meteoric as his fall: he left school and his impoverished family behind at 14 and by his mid-30s had already attained billionaire status after founding Gome, China's largest electronics retailer. Wong made $230 million on Shenzhen …

The Forbes global billionaires list is generally seen as a celebration of entrepreneurial success. Yet, as one looks a little deeper, deviance always manages to seep out. Currently, six members of our list are either behind bars or have been served …