F or a country poised to grow faster than the rest of the Group of Seven industrialised nations, Britain retains a curious inferiority complex about its entrepreneurial culture. Politicians fret that the UK creates plenty of traders and property …

It has recently emerged that America's two richest men share not only a fondness for bridge, but identical taste in literature. Both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett – according to an essay this week from Gates – count Business Adventures by John Brookes …

Jeffrey Skoll is among the first billionaires who responded to the pledge. He was the first employee and also first president of Internet auction firm eBay. He used the wealth to become a philanthropist, particularly through the Skoll Foundation, and …

U.S. sanctions, introduced before the MH17 atrocity, have already hit Russian state-run companies as well as several billionaire businessmen close to Putin. OAO Novatek (NVTK), a gas producer partly owned by Putin ally Gennady Timchenko, saw its market …

July 21 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg's Matt G. Miller breaks down losses by Russian billionaires from sanctions imposed by the United States and Europe for the nation's actions in Ukraine. He speaks on “In The Loop.” Please enable JavaScript to view the …

Russia's 19 billionaires have lost $14.5 billion since January, data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index shows. America's 64 billionaires have gained $56.5 billion over the same time period. Alisher Usmanov, Russia's richest man who amassed his …

A long-shot effort to break California into six separate states got a boost on Monday, when the billionaire venture capitalist behind the proposal said he had gathered enough signatures to place it on the ballot in two years. Timothy Draper, a founder …

The Mellons are billionaires, quite naturally. Millionaires are so last century. A stunning photograph shows four of the Mellons, a sleek Mr. and Mrs. Mellon standing on either side of a sleek dining room table with the two adorable little Mellons …

Russia's richest businessmen are increasingly frantic that President Vladimir Putin's policies in Ukraine will lead to crippling sanctions and are too scared of reprisal to say so publicly, billionaires and analysts said. Read the story here. READ MORE …