Bill Gates has slipped down to the second spot as the world’s richest man. Carlos Slim Helu of Latin America’s largest mobile company, America Movil has overtaken Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates by $8.6 billion.
Carlos Slim Helu’s worth is estimated to be $67.8 billion, whereas Gates’s wealth is estimated to be around $59.2 billion. Soaring stock prices of America Movil has made Mr. Slim climb onto the top spot.
If you compare philanthropy, Mr. Bill Gates has a huge lead over Carlos Slim. According to Wikipedia, Bill Gates has donated $29 billion to charities since 2000. Mr. Slim has committed to donate $4 - $10 billion over the next four years, which is certainly a non-comparable number. Here’s the top 10 list of industries wealthiest people:
- Carlos Slim Helú ? ($67.8 billion) Telmex, América Móvil.
- William H.Gates III ? ($59.2 billion) Microsoft
- Lawrence Ellison ? ($21.5 billion) Oracle
- Paul Allen ? ($18.0 billion) Microsoft
- Larry Page ? ($16.6 billion) Google
- Sergey Brin ? ($16.6 billion) Google
- Michael Dell ? ($15.8 billion) Dell
- Stevan Ballmer ? ($15.0 billion) Microsoft
- Naguip Sawiris ? ($10.0 billion) Orascom Telecom Holding
- Sunil Mittal ? ($9.5 billion) Bharati Telecom.
The list of billionaires is really long. According to Forbes there are 946 billionaires around the world, with a combined wealth of 3.5 trillion. Wow?. That’s huge!
[via: CyberNet]
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wrote, on July 5th, 2007
Where are our Ambanis?
wrote, on July 5th, 2007
I read about this in today’s paper, but according to forbes, its still Bill.
wrote, on July 6th, 2007
[...] I was just talking about Microsoft, this is a very interesting article that I just saw on TechBuzz: Bill Gates has slipped down to the second spot as the world’s richest man. Carlos Slim Helu of [...]
wrote, on July 6th, 2007
A lot of dudes from Microsoft. Thats really interesting. What do you think maybe the reason ?
wrote, on July 6th, 2007
ohh man who would have ever thought the day would have come.. i wonder if he even cares?.. he always said he’d rather be number 2!
wrote, on July 6th, 2007
Great Post!!
I think Bill Gates will retain its spot within 1 or 2 years!Because of their Windows Vista and upcoming IE8.
wrote, on July 7th, 2007
He has risen to no 1 position because the shares which he holds rose in prices…if the shares go down he will also get down to no 2
wrote, on July 7th, 2007
Where is the name of L.N. Mittal, he was 3rd Richest person in world, also Warren Buffet name is missing.
wrote, on October 30th, 2007
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