Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — The $19 billion deal to sell WhatsApp Inc. to Facebook Inc. started at Yahoo! Inc. more than five years ago, when Jan Koum became disillusioned at the way Internet companies were fixated on advertising. He left Yahoo in 2007 with …

Meet Silicon Valley's newest billionaires: Yahoo alums who co-founded WhatsApp. WhatsApp co-founders Jan Koum, left, and Brian Acton. Sequoia Capital. Shares. Tweets; Stumble. Email; More +. What a difference five years can make. In 2009, Brian Acton …

Last year Forbes also removed Guzman from our annual list of the World's Billionaires. Although it is highly likely that Guzman and his family have socked away at least a billion in narco-profits over the years, proving it is simply impossible. He …

A Chinese billionaire, Liu Han, stands accused of running a “mafia-style gang'' that ran roughshod over one of the country's most populous provinces for more than a decade, reportedly killing nine people and bullying villagers into surrendering their …

Bloomberg News. Manila Parking Garage Art Fair Lures Billionaires, 'Miss Saigon'. By Frederik Balfour February 20, 2014. Art Fair Philippines. Philippine artists Rodel Tapaya, left, Marina Cruz, center, and singer/actress Lea Salonga pose for a …

Koum and his family spent days on food stamps during their initial days in the country and he is today a billionaire heading a Silicon Valley Company. The two had met while working at Ernst & Young which was a turning point in their lives as well as …

America, there is a question before you: if someone works forty hours a week, should they need government assistance to meet their basic expenses? If you think not, we should raise the minimum wage. If you think so, why don't we just go all out, and …

Outsiders — widely known as billionaires — have their own agendas, which are not uniformly consistent with the GOP base's. Nor are they necessarily sinister, though this most likely will be the spin from Democrats. (Page 2 of 2). Wherever …

It added that there were now two more local billionaires, bringing the number to 33, while the combined wealth of the top 40 richest Malaysians weighed in at RM217.8 billion or some 11 per cent better than they had been in the previous year. According …