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Our favourite billionaire for 2010 was the Sudanese, Mohamed Ibrahim a staunch advocate for Africa and a contributor to socio-political issues across the continent. Mohamed Ibrahim who also made it onto the MyWeku rainmakers list for 2010 did not make the cut for this year’s (2011) Forbes Rich List.Our favourite billionaire for 2010 was the Sudanese, Mohamed Ibrahim a staunch... more
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Millions of young men across the world would like to be on his place. Mark Zuckerberg probably likes Forbes today: the magazine has named him the 35th richest – as in most valuable – person in the US, passing Apple’s Steve Jobs (42nd) and News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch (38th) on the way.
The co-founder of Facebook, aged 26, is estimated to be worth $6.9bn, based on his shareholding in the social networking site, which boasts 500 million members worldwide. The value is calculated based on recent investments in his company by outside businesses in return for shares.
After starting the website as a computing student in 2004, Mr Zuckerberg now ranks 35th above well-known, and much older, heavyweights such as Rupert Murdoch, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs and film director George Lucas.
But while they have been at the top of the annual Forbes 400 list for years, Mr Zuckerberg is the star earner this year after his worth went up by 245 per cent – the largest relative increase on this year’s Forbes US rich list.
The complete Forbes list of the 400 richest people in the US is topped, as it has been for years, by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, who has since left it to carry out charitable work in the developing world. His shares in the company are valued at $54bn – up by $4bn from last year.
Since taking a back seat from the company he has also become one of the most generous people in America, donating more than $26 billion to charity through his own foundations.
And Mr Zuckerberg has followed the Microsoft founder’s relatively modest approach to life, as Facebook has grown to more than 500 million users, knocking Google off its perch as the top website. The 26-year-old lives in a humble rented home in Paolo Alto, California and drives a $20,000 car.
Luisa Kroll, Forbes global wealth editor said Facebook.com was the success story of this year which is still suffering from the fallout of the global recession.
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Eduardo Saverin the co-founder of the Face Book is the newest member on the Forbes Magazine’s America’s 400 richest people. Eduardo Saverin is one of the co-founders of FaceBoook. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg who was Eduardo Saverin’s classmate at the time in Harvard in 2004 built this social network website.
http://www.buzztab.com/famous-personalities/eduardo-saverin-facebook-co-founder-forbes-list/Eduardo Saverin the co-founder of the Face Book is the newest member on the Forbes... more
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