For people who enjoy reading stories about extreme wealth, March 13 should be a holiday. What happened 35 years ago today? A little software company in Seattle called Microsoft went public.

Sheldon Adelson is sometimes called a "rags to riches" success story. In reality, he grew up so poor his family couldn't even afford rags. He just died at the age of 87. At the time of his death he was the largest casino mogul in the world and ha...

Jeff Bezos just passed a milestone. On Monday, he saw his fortune increase by $13 billion on the strength of Amazon's stock. Bezos is now worth $190 billion and $75 billion of that has been added to his net worth since January.

In 1990, billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison, then 46, had a net worth of $365 million and was the 264th-richest person in the U.S. Today, Ellison, 75, is worth $53 billion, is the 5th-richest American this year, and the eighth-richest perso...

Owning a pro-sports team is a very exclusive club. In fact, it's a club open exclusively to billionaires. That's true in the NFL, NBA, and the NHL. The 15-richest NHL hockey team owners have a combined net worth near $115 billion.

Warren Buffett isn't the only person who has benefitted from the success of Berkshire Hathaway. At least seven other people and families have become members of the 10-figure club thanks to their stakes in Buffett's conglomerate. Stewart Horejsi is...

Ross Perot, self-made billionaire, two-time presidential candidate, Texan, patriot, and philanthropist has died at 89 after a five month battle with leukemia.

Gates didn't become a billionaire on the day in 1986 when Microsoft went public. The opening stock price was $21. After the trading day, the stock closed at $27.75 and Bill's 45% was worth $350 million.

This is your Daily Double! For $800, can you tell us what's the most money ever won on Jeopardy? What's the most money won on a single day? What's the most money won cumulatively on all game shows? And who accomplished these remarkable feats, res...

Can you imagine having $8 billion in cash to buy a pre-IPO software company? That's what SAP just did when it acquired the survey software company Qualtrics just before its planned IPO. Qualtrics is a direct competitor of SurveyMonkey, which had i...

Here's a breakdown of how much the it costs to keep the biggest names in the tech industry like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg safely shuttled from place to place.

Today, Steve Ballmer is a billionaire with a net worth of $28.5 billion. But back when the now 62-year-old was 24, he dropped out of the MBA program at Stanford to take a job at his former Harvard classmate Bill Gates' new company Microsoft. That...

Byron Allen is the lowest-profile entertainment mogul in the world... but maybe not for long!

Oracle released its first quarter earnings report last Thursday and it was not good news for founder Larry Ellison's net worth.

The largest landowner in the U.S. is probably not someone you've heard of. He is a cable TV mogul who currently owns the $24 billion company Liberty Media.

Raymond Huger and his company, Paradigm Solutions, owe more than $4 million in back-due federal taxes.

Tech entrepreneurs and CEOs dominate the list of the year's highest-paid chief executive officers.

These Fortune 500 companies are hoarding tons of untaxed cash outside of the United States. But if Trump has his way, it may all be coming back very soon.

Craigslist is a cash cow. The site took in more than $690 million in revenue in 2016 – most of that net profit–and that has made its founder Craig Newmark a billionaire.

Warren Buffett has most of his money in five companies you've probably heard of.

Tennis legend Serena Williams has been named the world's highest-paid female athlete, after earning almost $29 million in the past 12 months.

Terry Gou is a Taiwanese entrepreneur who founded Foxconn, a company that makes electronics for companies like Apple. Basically, he makes our iPhones affordable.

Yahoo has been on shaky ground for some time. Now it appears that the pioneering Internet search engine is putting itself on the market and an unlikely pair of billionaires has teamed up to pursue a possible purchase.

Especially if you had to pay additional taxes while filing this year, the information in this article might make you quite upset.

Benioff has taken up social justice as his pet cause. He is committed to bringing down state laws that encourage discrimination against LBGQT people.