Today the Wall Street Journal reported that the San Francisco-based car service company raised $1.2 billion from Blackrock, Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments and Wellington Management (Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Menlo …

Anyone who thought billionaires do not have their hand in protest movements should think again. Billionaire Ukrainian chocolate magnate Petro Poroshenko had his hand in the recent Maidan movement that toppled a government and sent the Crimea …

Wealthy Germans prospered during the economic crisis, with a 27 per cent rise in multimillionaires and a 54 per cent increase in billionaires over the past four years, according to research published yesterday. The number of German dollar millionaires …

Gupta, 77, and his family control almost 62 percent of the company, according to exchange filings, a stake valued at $1.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Anil Sharma, a spokesman for Havells, yesterday confirmed the family stake …

Israel's richest people are feeling the pressure – or at least that's the impression they want to give. In the United States, the past year was that of the “crybaby billionaires,” as many of the wealthiest Americans expressed their disgust at the mere …

The geniuses at national real estate brokerage Redfin recently conducted an analysis of some of the wealthiest people in the U.S. to see just how many homes they could afford to buy. In many cases, these billionaires could buy all of the homes in an …

High-profile Taiwan real estate billionaire Chao Teng-hsiung has been detained and is being held incommunicado in a bribery probe, Taiwan's official Central News Agency reported today. The Taipei District Court today reversed an earlier decision to …

The recent Sunday Times Rich List revealed London is home to more billionaires than anywhere else in the world: 72 in total. Poor old Moscow only managed 48, while practically penniless New York had just 43. So let's not be so hard on ourselves: this …

Billionaire David Cheriton, who wrote Google its first check, is now suing Arista Networks, a company he cofounded that is on the verge of an IPO. (Martin Klimek / Getty Images). By Ryan Mac and Alex Konrad. Arista Networks' initial public offering was …