Category: <span>Wealth</span>

Forbes’ annual world’s billionaires list includes a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires, with Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos topping it for the fourth consecutive year, the media company said on Tuesday. The ranks of the ultra-wealthy are expanding after a year in which the coronavirus pandemic upended world economies and threatened the livelihoods of people across the...

“The top business leaders have equally scarce and impressive skills and should receive the same respect as their counterparts in sport, music, or movies. This may even help young people to pick business leaders as role models instead of the politicians who vilify them to the detriment of the economy – MyBroadband.” MyBroadband

Michael Jordan has been a household name for over 35 years for his supreme athleticism and motivational outlook on life and success. He’s considered to be one of the greatest NBA players of all time and has become the wealthiest former professional athlete in the world with an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion, according...

Oprah Winfrey continues to show that she is indeed where the money resides! This time around she’s sold some of her ownership of the OWN cable network — 20.5 percent to the network’s majority owner, Discovery. Forbes reports Winfrey has sold that percentage of her share in the network in exchange for 1.34 million shares of...

Tesla co-founder Elon Musk is now the world’s second richest person after he leapfrogged Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, which tracks the wealth of the world’s 500 richest people. The 49-year-old entrepreneur, who is also the co-founder of space exploration firm SpaceX, saw his net worth rise by $7.2 billion to $128...

Aliko Dangote, Nigerian business tycoon and billionaire, is both the richest man in Africa and the richest black man in the world.  With a net worth of almost $15 billion, Dangote continues to grow his fortune on the back of investment in flour, cement, and sugar. Get to know more about Aliko Dangote below.  Early Life...

As controversial as he is successful, Elon Musk undoubtedly stands out as one of the most innovative—and infamous—visionaries of our time. The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, who also has The Boring Company, Neuralink, and X.com (basically the first iteration of PayPal) under his belt, may have gained widespread fame due to his public persona,...

Women can change the world. It was with this conviction that more than 200 people linked to the business sector, gathered in Lisbon around the issues of mobility and innovation. A reflection promoted by the Federation of Women Entrepreneurs of the CE-CPLP, which was attended by Eng.ª Isabel dos Santos. Zap Viva: How have women broken the paradigms...

Sindika Dokolo, the Congolese businessman and owner of one the world’s most important African art collections, has died aged 48.According to a tweet posted to Dokolo’s verified Twitter account, he died on October 29 in Dubai. The post went on to say that his family had made the announcem ent with “the deepest sorrow and immense sadness”...

The richest people on Earth are not immune to the coronavirus. As the pandemic tightened its grip on Europe and America, global equity markets imploded, tanking many fortunes. As of March 18, when we finalized this list, Forbes counted 2,095 billionaires, 58 fewer than a year ago and 226 fewer than just 12 days earlier,...