(Photo credit: Wikipedia). The Macau gaming boom behind the rise of two billionaire newcomers onto the 2014 Hong Kong Rich List unveiled by Forbes yesterday is attracting fresh investment money from another rich list member. International Entertainment …
Intercept's market capitalization jumped to over $5.2 billion, making it a big score for former billionaire Francesco Micheli, chairman of Italian biopharma investment company Genextra, which owns 46% of Intercept stock. Micheli last appeard on the …
International Entertainment Corp. (1009), the company controlled by the family of Asia's fourth-richest man, Cheng Yu-tung, agreed to pay as much as HK$7.35 billion ($948 million) for a Macau gambling-junket operator, seeking to tap a casino boom in …
First job is always memorable. The experiences, the learning, the salary and everything else associated with one's first job are special. There are many who do not start off very well in their career; however, they take their first job as only a …
Texas banked on the 2012 Forbes 400 list, with 46 of the billionaires calling the Lone Star State home. Wal-Mart heiress and Fort Worth resident Alice Walton (No. 8, with a net worth of $26.3 billion) and Austin computer colossus Michael Dell (No. 22 …
The Houston billionaire's club (which may or may not be a real thing) looks like it has a new inductee this year. The Forbes list of the world's billionaires was released this week, including 1,226 individuals who are worth a collective $4.6 trillion …
Two billionaire newcomers have entered into the 2014 Forbes Hong Kong Rich List by riding the gaming boom in Macau. Debuting on this year's list is Lawrence Ho, son of Macau gambling-industry mogul Stanley Ho, thanks to a surge in the share price of …
LAGOS, Nigeria – A pan-African magazine says Africa has many more billionaires than previously reported, 55 of them worth $143.88 billion including a Nigerian said to be the richest black woman in the world. "Move over, Oprah!" Ventures Africa says in …
Other companies have ties to Thomas Peterffy, the Connecticut online-brokerage billionaire; the descendants of a namesake of the Dillon Read & Co. investment bank; and the heirs of a Peruvian sugar plantation, state filings show. Trusts overseen hold …