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Kakao Corp founder's $6 bn surge unseats Samsung heir as richest Korean

Brian Kim, the founder of South Korean messaging giant Kakao Corp., is now worth $13.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after Kakao shares rose 90% in 2021 alone

Dubai tycoon slaps $8 bn suit on BoB, EY in New York for ignoring 'fraud'

Founder of Dubai-based firm NMC Healthcare, B R Shetty, claims it sank because the two entities turned a blind eye to a series of allegedly fictitious transactions

Superyacht is at the heart of talks to settle London's biggest divorce case

Luna is the largest and most expensive single asset held by companies linked to oil and gas tycoon Farkhad Akhmedov.

Indian-origin billionaire brothers buy popular UK fast food chain Leon

The brothers look to grow their foodservice operations in Britain

Mukesh Ambani is again richest Asian as China's Zhong loses $22 billion

With a net worth of about $80 billion, Ambani is again richer than Zhong Shanshan, whose bottled-water company tanked a record 20 per cent this week

Creo Syndicate: Secret club for billionaires who care about climate change

Creo acts like an investment bank, vetting about 300 deals per year, connecting investors with possible partners, and conducting research on technologies

Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos gain most on day one of post-election limbo

US billionaires add $57.4 billion as stock markets climb

Billionaires have plenty to celebrate despite contested US election outcome

Across the board, the 167 US billionaires also gained $57.4 billion on Wednesday as investors bid up stocks, sending major averages to the biggest rallies in five months

Billionaires worldwide are now lining up to take their companies private

Companies have already announced $26 billion of transactions to be taken private by a related party this year, up about 2,500% from the same period in 2019

Amazon's Jeff Bezos becomes first person ever with worth of over $200 bn

The net worth of the world's richest person went up by $4.9 billion after Amazon stock edged up 2% as of Wednesday afternoon

Ant's mega IPO set to turn early investors, employees into billionaires

Ant Chairman Eric Jing's fortune will swell to $2.9 billion, and another 17 current and former Alibaba and Ant executives will join the ranks of billionaires

PR disaster to investors' darling: How the year turned around for Elon Musk

Tesla Inc., his electric car-maker, recently celebrated its fourth straight quarter of profit and may soon join the S&P 500 Index

Musk soars past Warren Buffet to become 7th richest billionaire: Report

Tesla chief's fortune rose by $6.07 billion on Friday, following a 10.8% jump in the electric carmaker's stock, Bloomberg News reported.

World's richest in pics: Jeff Bezos to Mukesh Ambani, top 10 billionaires

According to the Bloomberg's Billionaires Index, daily ranking of the world's richest people, Jeff Bezos's wealth soars to record $171.6 billion

Richer in pandemic: Bezos, Musk among US billionaires whose net worth rose

The wealth surge of America's richest men happened during a period marred by the coronavirus crisis, when as many as 22 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits

Harvard professor Timothy Springer reaps 17,000% return on Moderna bet

Moderna is among firms seeking to develop corona vaccine

India added 3 billionaires each month in 2019; Mukesh Ambani richest

China and the US occupied the first and second spot with 799 and 626 billionaires, respectively

Bill Gates to Kylie Jenner: World's richest gained $1.2 trillion in 2019

Jeff Bezos was down almost $9 billion, but that drop is because of his divorce settlement with MacKenzie Bezos.

Swinging fortunes: Rich list shrinks, but top 10 add $40 billion to wealth

Richest 10 account for 41% of promoter wealth, up from 33% in December 2018

How mobile games and Ronaldo made a 'Free Fire' 39-year-old a billionaire

The executive holds an 8.4 per cent stake in the company and is worth $1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. A company representative declined to comment on his net worth