At Bloomberg's Next Big Thing conference in Sausalito today, local billionaires Ron Conway and Chamath Palihapitiya got into a shouting match about how to solve San Francisco's housing crisis, and whether Mayor Ed Lee is doing a good job of it. You can …

A recent article in the Chicago Tribune shined light on Bill Gate's wealth — given his $77.5 billion fortune, he could theoretically purchase all residential properties in Boston worth $76.6 billion, leaving him to practically own the entire city. The …

However, if you are corporate moguls, billionaires, and privatization advocates, the only reason nine poor students failed is because of public school teachers' due process protections. Due process protections include not being fired without a reason, …

As an intellectual exercise, imagine how many heads would have publicly exploded, and the wall-to-wall media coverage if, instead of a billionaire who happens to be an Obama sympathizer, the Koch brothers had attempted a similar coup. No, really, think …

For instance, the IT-affiliated billionaires from the United States or China are rapidly and steadily expanding their territory in all of the industry's core sectors ― software, e-commerce, IT services and online games ― whereas more and more …

money and investing Billionaires Portfolio: Yesterday, Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IDIX) was acquired by Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) for a 229% premium. That's one of the biggest one day moves ever for a stock listed on the New York Stock …

Big money is big money, and the distinction between right and left, or Democrat and Republican, will matter less and less as billionaires become the only real voters in the democratic process. In that sense, unregulated campaign spending is bad for …

European aircraft maker Airbus Ltd. wanted to get more of an insight into the travel needs of billionaires in the Middle East, China and Russia – the target audience for Airbus's ACJ line of corporate jets. It commissioned London-based Ledbury Research …

From notorious fashion violators like Mark Zuckerberg and Mary-Kate Olsen (who works in fashion) to businessmen who forgot the no-casual-Fridays memo, these multi-millionaires—and, ahem, billionaires—look like they scored their dubs from what Miranda …