Meet the billionaire winners and losers of the dot-com bubble, Great Recession and Covid-19 crash. Crashes, wipe-outs, recessions. Fortunes are often forged, or fumbled away, in the...
Redmond, Washington-based satellite tech firm Kymeta has closed an $85.2 million investment round led by billionaire Bill Gates, as the company looks to develop its antenna...
It’s not just Amazon stock that has boosted the fortunes of its billionaire backer. Dramatic changes in the share prices of Tesla, Reliance and Microsoft have...
One of the most powerful women in the world is teaming up with one of the richest women in the world—Melinda Gates and MacKenzie Bezos, respectively—to host...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $1.6 billion to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, for life-saving vaccines. The Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has...
President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S.—the largest sponsor of the World Health Organization—will halt payments to the body in the midst of a pandemic because...
One of the world’s ultimate taste-makers, Bernard Arnault entered an ultra-rarefied club this week. As of Thursday June 20, he was worth just over $100 billion,...
The net worths of big tech’s blue chip billionaires jumped Thursday as soon as stock markets opened. The gains came after both Facebook and Microsoft reported...
The once and future richest person in the world (once the Bezos divorce finalizes), Bill Gates will happily apply the dispassionate, sharp-elbowed logic that made him...
The gap between the really rich and the merely rich continues to widen, as fortunes soar to new heights. A record 2,208 billionaires made Forbes’ 32...