Granted, the new chief executive, Dick Costolo, is a smart guy with a firm hand, but the founders — newly minted billionaires Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey — have had a famously volatile approach to managing the company, which I suspect has left …

It gets even more revolting when we realize that the financial billionaires who are profiting so handsomely from the recovery are the very same who took down the economy in the first place. They were the ones who created and pedaled the toxic …

A recent report on the number of super-rich around the world found that China was second only to the U.S. in sheer numbers of billionaires, with 157 billionaires compared to 515 the states. That's impressive, but the report found something else perhaps …

London: India has more number of billionaires than France, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Hong Kong and is home to the sixth largest group of super rich population in the world, says a report. Moreover, the country's financial capital Mumbai with 30 …

That comes after more than a decade of the same bill providing millions in farm subsidies to billionaires' businesses, according to a report released Thursday by the Environmental Working Group, a left-leaning think tank. Those billionaire subsidies …

Twitter IPO creates paper billionaires. With Twitter stock up 73% from Wednesday's price, top execs and major investors are in the catbird seat. Seventy million shares were sold, raising $1.82 billion. print. Comments. 1 …

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter's rocketing IPO takes two of its founders on a ride into billionaire territory and a wave of millionaires along for the journey. The micro-blogging service, based here, went public on the NYSE as shares opened at $45.10 and …

Staff St. Louis Business Journal. Twitter, which begins trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange, priced its shares Wednesday at $26 apiece, valuing the company at more than $18 billion and lining up the world's newest billionaires.

A new billionaire census report has revealed that the number of billionaires in the UAE has gone up to 37 this year compared with 35 last year. According to the 2013 Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire Census, the UAE billionaires hold a total of $45 billion …