| Larry Page Posted: 29 May 2013 09:56 PM PDT Larry Page, Google's cofounder and CEO since April 2011, saw the company through the $50 billion revenue milestone in 2012. The stock rose nearly 30% in the past year, adding more than $4 billion to Page's net worth. With Google's desktop search business beginning to mature, Page is focusing more of his attention on mobile, an area which he called "uncharted territory" during the company's  |
| Jeff Bezos Posted: 29 May 2013 09:55 PM PDT Jeff Bezos' Amazon.com is the world's largest internet retailer of any kind, reporting more than $61 billion in 2012 sales, up $13 billion from the previous year. A 40% surge in the price of the company's stock added $6.8 billion to Bezos' net worth over the past year. The Seattle company continues to separate from the pack on service and speed, adding 20 new shipment hubs in 2012. It just  |
| Karl Albrecht Posted: 29 May 2013 09:54 PM PDT Karl Albrecht owns Aldi Sud, a giant German discount supermarket chain, with 4,600 stores in 9 countries, including 1,200 locations in 32 U.S. states. Revenues of the private company grew an estimated 9% in 2012 to $46.5 billion, according to analysts. Growth was strongest in Ireland and the UK. To keep costs low, Aldi stores do not accept credit cards. Karl and his late brother Theo began  |
| S. Robson Walton Posted: 29 May 2013 09:53 PM PDT Wal-Mart heir S. Robson Walton, eldest son of visionary retailer Sam, has been the company's board chairman since 1992. Wal-Mart, founded by Sam and his brother James in 1962 in Rodgers, Ark., now has sales of $444 billion and employs 2.2 million people worldwide. Rob received more about $440 million in dividends in 2012. Before joining Wal-Mart, he was a partner with the law firm of Conner  |
| Alice Walton Posted: 29 May 2013 09:51 PM PDT Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton gave $1.7 million to a Washington D.C. charter schools initiative alongside fellow billionaires Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer. The Walton family's most generous philanthropist, her ambitious Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., opened in 2011 featuring works donated from her personal collection--which is valued in the hundreds  |
| Sheldon Adelson Posted: 29 May 2013 09:50 PM PDT Sheldon Adelson, the owner of the Las Vegas Sands casino empire, was dealt a losing hand in the November election. The Republican donated at least $53 million to super PACs backing Mitt Romney and a slew of defeated congressional candidates. But his casinos continue to win: shares are up more than 20% since the summer, despite an ongoing Federal investigation alleging LVS violated the  |
| Jim Walton Posted: 29 May 2013 09:49 PM PDT Wal-Mart heir Jim Walton's net worth breached $27 billion for the first time this year based on the company's strong stock performance. He is the youngest son of retail visionary Sam (d. 1992), who founded the massive retailer with his brother James, opening a single store in Rogers, Ark. in 1962. Wal-Mart now has sales of $444 billion and employs 2.2 million people worldwide. Jim received  |
| Michael Bloomberg Posted: 29 May 2013 09:48 PM PDT Now well into his final term as New York's Mayor, Michael Bloomberg has a new mission for his post-political life: eradicating gun violence. He's emerged as a leading donor to pro-gun control causes and candidates. Many see the February victory of anti-gun candidate Robin Kelly in an Illinois congressional primary as a tipping point: Bloomberg spent some $2 million backing her through his  |
| Stefan Persson Posted: 29 May 2013 09:47 PM PDT Chairman of global cheap chic apparel retailer Hennes & Mauritz Stefan Persson has lately been making news for his high profile real estate investments. He bought the village of Linkenholt in Hampshire, England in 2009. In March, he picked up an entire block in Paris, for a reported $219 million, becoming the landord to tony Burberry, Moschino, and Bally. He also owns numerous properties  |
| Stefan Persson Posted: 29 May 2013 09:44 PM PDT Chairman of global cheap chic apparel retailer Hennes & Mauritz Stefan Persson has lately been making news for his high profile real estate investments. He bought the village of Linkenholt in Hampshire, England in 2009. In March, he picked up an entire block in Paris, for a reported $219 million, becoming the landord to tony Burberry, Moschino, and Bally. He also owns numerous properties  |
| Christy Walton Posted: 29 May 2013 09:44 PM PDT Wal-Mart widow Christy Walton's net worth reached new highs as Wal-Mart stock jumped in 2012. She remains the richest woman in the United States. Christy inherited her wealth when husband John Walton, a former Green Beret and Vietnam war medic, died in an airplane crash in 2005. John's side investment in First Solar had boosted Christy's net worth well above the rest of her family, but the  |
| Bernard Arnault 2013 Posted: 29 May 2013 09:43 PM PDT The world's most influential tastemaker, Bernard Arnault fell from No. 4 in the world to No. 10 not because his luxury goods powerhouse LVMH dropped in value - its shares were up 6% in fact - but due to more information on his ownership stake and a revised valuation method. Another factor: His fortune is mostly held in Christian Dior, which has a 41% stake in LVMH and trades at a near 20%  |
| Bernard Arnault Posted: 29 May 2013 09:40 PM PDT The world's most influential tastemaker, Bernard Arnault fell from No. 4 in the world to No. 10 not because his luxury goods powerhouse LVMH dropped in value - its shares were up 6% in fact - but due to more information on his ownership stake and a revised valuation method. Another factor: His fortune is mostly held in Christian Dior, which has a 41% stake in LVMH and trades at a near 20%  |
| Liliane Bettencourt 2013 Posted: 29 May 2013 09:38 PM PDT At age 90, Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest woman, and returns to the top ten wealthiest for the first time since 1999. She and her family own more than 30% of L'Oreal, which her father founded. They've gotten far richer this year, thanks to a boost in the French cosmetics powerhouse's stock. However she had her fortune placed under the guardianship of her daughter Francoise  |
| Li Ka-shing Posted: 29 May 2013 09:37 PM PDT Asia's richest person Li Ka-shing added $5.5 billion to his fortune as shares of his biggest holdings, Cheung Kong, Hutchison Whampoa and Husky Energy, all jumped 10% or more. He scooped up another $860 million in dividends in 2012. At age 84, Li still oversees one of the world's most far-reaching empires with 260,000 employees in 52 countries. Li controlled companies bought British gas  |
| David Koch Posted: 29 May 2013 09:36 PM PDT Tied with older brother Charles as the world's sixth-richest person, David runs the chemical equipment side of Koch Industries from his home in New York. His wealth climbed $9 billion last year, mostly on surging refining and chemical profits as the price of natural gas, an important feedstock, fell. More active than Charles in politics, he bet a lot on ejecting Barack Obama from the White  |
| Charles Koch 2013 Posted: 29 May 2013 09:35 PM PDT The world's sixth-richest person (tied with brother David) built his fortune around refining and chemicals, the right places to be last year amid falling natural-gas prices and recovering demand. Koch Industries, with an estimated $115 billion in sales, climbed more than $20 billion in value, mostly on surging refining profits but also improving operations at Koch's large Georgia-Pacific  |
| Larry Ellison 2013 Posted: 29 May 2013 09:34 PM PDT In the past year, Larry Ellison, America's third richest man, has been on a real estate buying spree. In June, he bought 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai from David Murdock. That purchase, for a reported $500 million or more, gave Ellison almost all of the 141-square mile island, including two resort hotels and a housing development. Adding to his real estate purchases, Ellison has also  |
| Warren Buffett 2013 Posted: 29 May 2013 09:33 PM PDT Warren Buffett struck again in February, announcing a deal with Brazilian billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann's 3G Capital to snap up iconic ketchup producer H.J. Heinz Co. for $23.2 billion. It wasn't the only deal for Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway lately. In November 2012 Berkshire acquired Omaha-based party supplier Oriental Trading Co. and in December 2012 the company purchased $1.2 billion of  |
| Amancio Ortega 2013 Posted: 29 May 2013 09:33 PM PDT Amancio Ortega Net Worth $57 B As of March 2013 Follow (615) At a Glance Age: 77 Source of Wealth: Zara, self-made Country of Citizenship: Spain Marital Status: Married Children: 3 Forbes Lists #3 Billionaires #1 in Spain #5 in 2012  |
| Bill Gates 2013 Posted: 29 May 2013 09:32 PM PDT Bill Gates, the world's most generous person, says that as long as he helps eradicate deadly diseases like polio and malaria, he doesn't care if he's forgotten after his death. Not that there's any chance of that: Gates has already given more than $28 billion, but said in his fifth annual letter for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that the total amount invested is less important than  |
| Carlos Slim Helu & family Posted: 29 May 2013 09:29 PM PDT Source:forbes Carlos Slim Helu is the world's richest man for the fourth year in a row. He clocks in at $4 billion more than a year ago, thanks to surging stock prices at his financial arm, Grupo Financiero Inbursa, and at his Grupo Carso industrial and retail giant. Pan-Latin American mobile telecom outfit America Movil remains his most valuable holding at $36.3 billion; the  |
| Philippines Defies Asia Slowdown With Best Growth Since 2010 Posted: 29 May 2013 09:24 PM PDT Philippine growth unexpectedly quickened to the fastest pace in almost three years, defying a regional slowdown as President Benigno Aquino boosted investment and state spending. The peso reversed its decline. Gross domestic product rose 7.8 percent in the three months through March from a year earlier, compared with a revised 7.1 percent gain in the previous quarter, the National  |
| DBS Bank Deal Seen Derailed as Indonesia Bars Control: Real M&A Posted: 29 May 2013 09:23 PM PDT Investors are betting that Indonesia will drive DBS Group Holdings Ltd. (DBS) to abandon Southeast Asia's largest bank takeover. Indonesia's central bank last week gave approval for Singapore-based DBS, which bid $6.8 billion for all of PT Bank Danamon Indonesia, to buy only 40 percent of the company as the regulator pushes for Indonesian banks to have equal access in Singapore. With the  |
| PetroChina Said to Sell Stakes at Home for Cash to Spend Abroad Posted: 29 May 2013 09:22 PM PDT PetroChina Co. (857), the world's second biggest publicly traded oil company, is set to sell minority stakes in oil and gas fields as well as gas pipeline projects in western China to raise cash for overseas acquisitions, said a person familiar with the plans. Some agreements may be announced in the next few months, said the person who asked not to be identified because the information isn't  |
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