In a fascinating interview in Financial Times Magazine, Bill Gates took a shot at tech billionaires trying to provide internet connections in the developing world, dismissing their efforts as unimportant when compared to providing the basics like …

loading. Three billionaires reduced EMC Corporation ( EMC ) in the third quarter, but a large group of billionaires remains heavily invested in the global data storage company, and here's why. EMC has invested $17 billion in acquisitions in the last 10 …

Her name may not have household recognition like other billionaires who regularly make appearances in newspaper and magazine headlines, but Abigail Johnson is arguably the most powerful woman in finance. Johnson is President of Financial Services at …

With recent public hearings on national Common Core education standards by Wisconsin lawmakers in October, another element of the national battle is becoming increasingly obvious: This has become a fight largely between concerned citizens and parents …

Democrats and liberal interest groups spent much of 2012 bemoaning an avalanche of outside spending from billionaires on the right, warning that ideological tycoons like the Koch brothers and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson could threaten the legitimacy …

The world's first billionaire and by some measures the richest person in history, John D. Rockefeller, was once asked how much money was enough. He replied, “Just a little bit more.” Today's most ambitious and innovative hundred-millionaires must know …

America is a land of billionaires, boasting five of the 10 richest people on the planet as of the most recent Forbes 500 list. Then again, we're a large country, and in per capita terms, we lag behind several smaller states. Many of these—like world …

Former billionaire Eike Batista's oil firm OGX OGX filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday in the largest corporate default in Latin American history. OGX had defaulted on a $45 million bond payment in early October and was in the process of …

Located in an area now being nicknamed the 'billionaire's row', because of luxury penthouses contracted to come up at $90-$95 million or upwards of $11,000 a square foot on nearby 57th street, Pontiac Land's skyscraper will house galleries of the …