By all accounts, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla should have become the world's first billionaire thanks to lucrative royalties. So how did he end up dying alone, senile and bankrupt?

Mark Zuckerberg has been one of the richest people in the world for the last decade. But he has never been as rich as he is right this moment.

Though the gift is only now being reported, Springer actually made it back towards the end of 2020, with an aim towards bringing IPI up to scale, hiring more personnel, upgrading equipment, and more.

In 1998, two Stanford grad students convinced their professor to invest $100,000 in their search engine startup company. That startup's name? Google.

Hopefully your 2022 was full of prosperity, good fortune, and romance. You might not be a billionaire, but that also means you don't have to worry about seeing your name on a list of the biggest billionaire losers of 2022 ("losers" meant purely in...

A $200 billion loss of wealth is enough to qualify Musk's as the biggest billionaire loss of the year, but it's also much more than that – probably the most money anyone in modern history has ever lost.

Roughly a year ago, controversial Tesla/Twitter CEO Elon Musk had a staggering net worth of $340 billion, while Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was worth $210 billion. Now, neither man has a fortune that even comes close to the $200 billion mark.

Rich people — they're just like us. Well, at least in the sense that they've also had a rough 12 months. And some have lost a TON of money.

The report is timed to shine a light on increasing income inequality at the start of this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Thanks to their soaring business empires, Indian billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani just joined the centibillionaires club for the first time.

If you believe that Vladimir Putin really is worth $200 billion, he just became the richest person in the world... thanks to the market chaos he created.

He's the CEO of the largest crypto exchange in the world. Most average people have never heard his name. And now he's one of the 10 richest people in the world.

These 10 billionaires gained a collective $500 BILLION in net worth in 2021.

The richest tech billionaires in the United States have had a very good year. Their net worths have grown at insane rates since the COVID-19 pandemic started. In many cases, their net worths have nearly doubled.

Elon Musk's net worth just crossed an unfathomable milestone. As I type this article he is officially worth a QUARTER TRILLION dollars.

Scott Hassan is the low profile "third founder" of Google. As a result, he is a billionaire. Unfortunately his low profile is about to be blown thanks to a very high profile public divorce battle.

It's been a tough few weeks for Jeff Bezos. His beloved rocket launch was widely mocked as a pointless, penis-shaped, waste of money. He's no longer CEO of Amazon. And worst of all, he's no longer the richest person in the world. That crown now re...

There are 10 people walking the earth this weekend with net worths larger than $100 billion. This has never existed previously.

It's been a good news/bad news day for Steve Ballmer. On the one hand he joined the $100 billionaire club. On the other hand...

A Chinese battery company you've never heard of has minuted more billionaires than Facebook and Google combined... actually more than any single company ever!

There are a few thousand billionaires in the world. Roughly 100 are "millennials." These are the 11 richest.

For the first time in world history, the combined net worth of the 10 richest people in the world has breached $1.3 trillion.

At today's market close, the top 8 richest people in the world had a net worth north of $100 billion. That's never happened before in history.

If you want to become a billionaire at a young age technology is the industry to go into. Think about all the billionaires now in their 40s, 50s, and 60s who've been billionaires for decades already – Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, and Lar...

When you take inflation into account, who was the richest American of all time?