Now, how about other tech titans following his lead and becoming more civic minded? Benioff says he would like that, but has been frustrated in his efforts so far. “One of my goals is to be an inspiration to people,” Benioff told Vanity Fair, in an …

The median age of Africa's billionaires stands at 65 years old, with the youngest billionaires both at 38. These young guns are Tanzanian Mohammed Dewji, head of the largest textile manufacturer in sub-Saharan Africa, and Nigerian oil trader Igho Sanomi.

The number of dollar billionaires in China has passed 300 for the first time, an annual ranking of wealth in the world's second-largest economy showed Wednesday. The Hurun Report, a luxury magazine publisher, named property tycoon Wang Jianlin as …

Chemical warfare and car bombings are just a few of the hazards working in war-torn countries such as Iraq and Syria. For Supreme Group BV, it's the cost of doing business. Dubai-based Supreme delivers fuel and food — 100,000 meals a day — to troops …

Moscow has held onto its title as the billionaire capital of the world. This is the fourth time in the past five years that Russia's capital stays ahead of New York on top of our list of billionaire haunts – those cities that are the primary homes to …

In a sit-down with FORBES ahead of his presentation at the National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge, a business-plan contest for high school students run by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Combs spoke candidly about his views on wealth …

Westports (WPRTS) Holdings Bhd. Executive Chairman G. Gnanalingam has become a billionaire as the main operator at one of Malaysia's biggest ports sells shares in the country's largest initial public offering this year. Gnanalingam, 69, and his family …

Germany's richest get richer as number of billionaires rises. The combined wealth of Germany's 100 richest individuals has grown significantly over the past year, breaking the previous record set in 2008. A further 20 people became billionaires in 2013.

The strange contraption slowly being assembled in a modest industrial shed in Breda, a small city in the Netherlands, bears little resemblance to Nautilus, the fictional submarine of Jules Verne's “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” It consists of …