I had an real moment while at the Nintendo booth on Wednesday at E3. As I waited in line to play the latest console edition of Super Smash Bros, I saw the crowd of people building around the demo stations. It was just past lunch, and everyone seemed to …

The boss of Blackstone's hedge fund business, who was supposedly the inspiration for Gordon Gekko in the iconic film Wall Street, has become a billionaire on the back of a surge in the private equity group's share price. James Tomilson Hill, known as …

Moise Safra, a Brazilian banking billionaire, died Sunday, reportedly from complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 79. According to Glamurama.com, which first reported the news of Moise's passing in Brazil, the billionaire was hospitalized at the …

After researching a recent article I wrote on the aftermath of the financial crisis, I decided to dig deeper into the story that Bill Ackman (rockstar hedge fund manager, CEO of Pershing Square Capital, and on-again/off-again arch-nemesis of Carl Ichan …

Chung Mong-Jin, the 53-year-old CEO of South Korean manufacturer KCC Corp., has joined the billionaires' club thanks to a rise in KCC's stock price, which nearly doubled over the past year. The big jump in the stock was driven by an increase in demand …

Ukrainians elected billionaire Petro Poroshenko as president, two exit polls showed, handing him the task of stemming deadly separatist violence that's threatening to rip the former Soviet republic apart. Poroshenko garnered more than half of the vote, …

Back in February, Golf Digest reported that Woods had become the first billionaire athlete, estimating his net worth to be around $1.3 billion, the vast majority of which he's earned from endorsements. Like Woods, Jordan's fortune isn't derived from …

Since the low-point of the Great Recession in March 2009, the total wealth of the world's billionaires has more than doubled from $3.1 billion to $6.5 billion, more than the GDP of every country in the world expect the U.S. and China. At the end of …

It remains to be seen whether Chinese billionaires can kick the national team into shape. China's place on the ranking of national teams has mostly stayed within a range of 70 to 100 out of 207 teams since 2008, according to FIFA World Ranking …