Mark Zuckerberg overtakes Warren Buffett, becomes third richest man

Facebook co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken Warren Buffett as the world’s third richest person, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Zuckerberg, who is behind Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, surpassed Buffett on Friday when Facebook shares climbed 2.4 percent. According to the Bloomberg Index, it is the first time the three […]

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FORBES LIST: Jeff Bezos named world’s richest man

The Forbes magazine has named the Amazon founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos, as the world’s richest man with 112bn dollar fortune. Bezos replaced the Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, who fell back into second place with $90bn. Forbes calculated that Bezos’s fortune, which is mostly held in Amazon shares, increased by 39.2bn dollars over the past year. The […]

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