Consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader wants to shake up 2016 presidential politics — and is suggesting the names of 20 billionaires, including a crowd from Silicon Valley, who he says can make the White House run and “break …

Mr Koum has been shaped by his experiences, and appears to remain true to his roots, reportedly signing the Facebook deal that is set to make him a billionaire on the door of his old benefits office. No ads. Mr Koum met Mr Acton in 1997, and the two …

Now, the friends behind the hot mobile messaging startup WhatsApp are the newest tech industry billionaires. Facebook this week bought WhatsApp in a stock-and-cash deal worth up to USD 19 billion and gave Koum a seat on the social network's board of …

Yesterday, Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg bought their five-year-old company in the largest Internet deal since Time Warner's $124 billion merger with AOL in 2001, a deal that will almost certainly make Koum and Acton billionaires …

Here are a few billionaires who have made it big in financial services and have committed to giving away at least half of their fortunes to philanthropic causes. John Arnold. “We view our wealth in this light – not as an end in itself, but as an …

Two hedge-fund billionaires with opposite political leanings have just organized themselves and their wealthy friends to inject more than $100 million into this year's electoral campaigns. Their efforts continue the pattern made possible by judicial …

With the founders of WhatsApp owners joining the World's Billionaires club, the list of top 10 richest people in the world is growing faster than seen in the last century. According Forbes, which monitors and tallies the global richest men and women …

The only thing more stunning than WhatsApp's $19 billion price tag is the incredible journey of the messaging app's CEO Jan Koum. Koum was raised in Ukraine, immigrating in the early 1990s to the United States when he was a teenager. Living on welfare …

Millionairess Eva Rausing, 48 – the wife of Tetra Pak billionaire Hans Kristian Rausing – had been dead for eight weeks before her body was found in their £70 million London home in Cadogan Place, Belgravia, in July 2012. Mr Rausing, 49, was given a …