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| Bill Gates, World's Richest Man |
Bill Gates became world’s
richest man again for the first time since 2007. The co-founder of
Microsoft regains the world richest title from the Mexican investor Carlos Slim on 16th May
2013. His amount of fortune is $72.7 billion, up 16% year-to-date. Last year
his amount of fortune was $61.0 billion. "When they're talking about
reform in a country that's generally poor, and the guy shows up No. 1 on the
list — not a good thing," said Greg Lesko.
However, Bill donated $28 billion of his
fortune to the 14-year-old Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which he and
his wife and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett operate as one of the world's
wealthiest philanthropic organizations.
After becoming the World’s richest man Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, spoke
before a senate committee on labour and education, asked Congress to increase
the number of H-1B visas.
Before this calculation Microsoft's Windows Phone grabbed third place from BlackBerry, which launched Z10 just a
few months back, in global
smartphone shipments in the first quarter, market researcher IDC said Thursday.
Windows Phone accounted for shipments of 7 million smartphones, earning itself
a market share of 3.2 percent last quarter. That was a gain from the first
quarter of 2012, which saw shipments of 3 million and a market share of 2
percent.
Microsoft also helping Google with support for a feature to let browsers
flexibly handle input from touch screens, mice, and pens. Monday, the
Redmond-based company, which recently appointed Amy Hood as their first female CFO, announced on the Blink mailing list that
it's planning to write a version of its Pointer Events technology for Blink,
the open-source browser engine project at the heart of Google's Chrome browser.
Mexico's Congress passed a law to abrogate
the telecom company that could force Slim to break up America Movil or charge lower rates in Mexico. Because of that
Slim's America Movil, the largest mobile-phone operator in the Americas, has
dropped 14% this year and its stock price drop has slashed some $3 billion from
the telecom tycoon's net worth.
The new president of Mexico, Enrique Peña
Nieto, and the country’s major political parties, are cracking down on
monopolies. Though Slim denies the accusations, many opponents have called him
a monopolist and, indeed, his $16 billion (2012 revenues) company does control
70% of Mexico’s wireless market and approximately 80% of land lines.
It has to be mentioned here that the American
investor Warren Buffett is the
world's third-richest person. His amount of fortune is $59.7 billion, according
to the Bloomberg ranking. Buffett, 82, is worth about $3.7 billion more than
Amancio Ortega Gaona the fourth richest man of the world. Buffett is chairman
and CEO of investing conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, headquartered in Omaha,
Neb.
Amancio Ortega (age 77) the fourth richest man of the world
is co-founder of the Spanish fashion apparel company Inditex group. Inditex'
most well-known brand is its Zara apparel-store chain. His amount of fortune is
$57.0 billion.
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