The World's Billionaires 2012
Record Numbers, Record Wealth: 128 new billionaires made their debut this year, while 117 dropped out of the ranks. The net result is a record 1,226 b...
Record Numbers, Record Wealth: 128 new billionaires made their debut this year, while 117 dropped out of the ranks. The net result is a record 1,226 b...
Forbes | Luisa Kroll and Kerry A. Dolan | Posted 05.25.2011
By Forbes.com: This 25th year of tracking global wealth was one to remember. The 2011 Billionaires List breaks two records: total number of listees (...
AP | Jim Efstathiou Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The New York Times Co. intends to pay back a $250 million loan from billionaire Carlos Slim in 2012, three years ahead of schedule, a...
The New York Observer | Dana Rubinstein | Posted 05.25.2011
Carlos Slim Helu, the richest man in the world, is in contract to buy an office building on Fifth Avenue, according to a source close to the transacti...
AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 05.25.2011
MEXICO CITY — Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, jumping past Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become t...
Posted 05.25.2011
The New York Times' lack of coverage on a major lawsuit involving its billionaire shareholder Carlos Slim has at least one writer wondering if Slim ha...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
The New York Times is making a massive gamble that consumers will be interested in reading a hard-copy version of its free online edition -- and willing to pay $2 a day for it.
nytimes.com | MARC LACEY | Posted 05.25.2011
MEXICO CITY - Carlos Slim Helu was clearly annoyed. He had invited dozens of foreign correspondents to lunch one day last fall and, after many questio...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The New York Times Co. says it has approved a $250 million investment by Mexican telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim Helu. Th...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK -- Mexican financier Carlos Slim Helu and members of his family now own 6.4 percent of publicly traded shares in The New York Times Co., acco...
Motley Fool | Rich Greifner | Posted 05.25.2011
It's not easy being Bill Gates. First, Yahoo! rejected Microsoft's $44.6 billion buyout offer. Then Gates got absolutely worked in a Guitar Hero comp...
Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 05.25.2011
Sprint Nextel has no shortage of supposed suitors: Pretty much every phone company, Google (GOOG), and Comcast (CMCSA) have all been rumored as intere...
New York Times | Landon Thomas, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
The global wealth boom has created a new breed of billionaire in once-destitute countries like Turkey, India, Mexico and Russia. Propelled by their ri...
Forbes | Luisa Kroll and Kerry A. Dolan | Posted 03.07.2012