Just a week after jumping Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk has now jumped Bill Gates to become the second-richest person in the world for the first time.

A number of tech billionaires are investing in, creating, or buying some truly unusual and at times bizarre things. When you're worth many tens or even hundreds of billions the sky is quite literally the limit – and even then, a number of billio...

$1 trillion. That's a lot of cash. Like, an unimaginable amount of cash. Yet that is exactly what the 11 richest people in the world control in their combined net worths – well, $1.042 trillion, to be exact. This is an insane concentration of we...

At today's all-time high stock prices (which eventually retreated), Elon Musk was temporarily the fifth-richest person on the planet.

Do you also spend time thinking about how to become a billionaire in some way other than winning the lottery or marrying an heir or heiress? It takes something special – a unique commitment to sheer ambition and your vision that could be great e...

As if the stock grants weren't enough, the filings also disclose a bump in salary along with Pichai's increased responsibilities as CEO, from $650,000 to $2 million.

It goes without saying that there are a lot of rich people in California. From Hollywood to real estate to tech titans, California are bringing home the proverbial bacon by the millions and billions.

Who are the richest people in the world? Many of these names, like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, are familiar, but some will undoubtedly raise eyebrows. We'll also dive into how each of these richest people earned their massive net worths.

You may know who the richest person in the United States is, or even who the wealthiest person in your state is. But do you know who wields the wealth in Iowa or Idaho? There have been a few changes on this list since last year, so let's take a lo...

1990 was 30 years ago. To make the list of the richest people in the U.S., one "only" had to be worth $260 million. Today, to be the poorest person on that list, you'd need a net worth of around $2 billion.

Remember David Drummond? He's worked for Google and its parent company Alphabet since 2002, making him one of the most senior employees, as well as one of the best-paid. He's sold off nearly half a billion in Google stock over the past decade.

Recently, Ashton Kutcher appeared on an episode of Dax Shepard's podcast Armchair Expert and said he wasn't creating trust funds for the two kids he shares with his wife, Mila Kunis.

If you're interested in bumping into a billionaire, statistically speaking, there's really only one place where you can maximize your chances of doing so: San Francisco

David Drummond, one of Google's highest-paid executives, is at the center of allegations that he carried on an affair with, had a baby with, and then abandoned a former Google employee. She's detailed the timeline of their relationships in a new e...

Here are some words of wisdom from some of the wealthiest women on the planet.

Billionaires seem to have special strengths and traits. Let's take a closer look so you can replicate!

The fallout from the college admissions scheme run by William Rick Singer and known in the press as Operation Varsity Blues, just keeps on coming. Tao Zhao, a Chinese billionaire, paid $6.5 million to get his daughter into Stanford.

The latest calculations of who the richest people in the world are is out, and to no one's surprise, tech billionaires have a large presence in the rankings.

Billionaires just love their private jets. Those are one of – if not the most – lavish things they can buy for themselves. And why not, when your annual budget allows you to spend $80 million, why would you deny yourself anything.

Philanthropy is a big part of the lives of some of the world's richest people and thank goodness that's the case! In fact, of the top 50 philanthropists of 2017, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, 60% of them came from the tech industry.

David Copperfield is the first billionaire-magician in history. He's as good at making money as he is at making things disappear! He is the most commercially successful magician of all time. This is how he did it...

Billionaire Jack Dorsey is a riddle of sorts. On one hand, he's very open, yet on the other, he's notoriously close-lipped. Since 2015, he's run two of Silicon Valley's hottest tech companies. In that same time period, his charitable foundation ha...

he wealthiest American billionaires in the United States have net worths that are hard for normal people to comprehend. We've ranked 28 of the wealthiest on a scale of 1 to 5, according to how generous they are.

Here's a multiple choice question for you: What happens when a top male executive sexually harasses a co-worker and is asked to leave the company? Does he 1) Leave with his stock options in place, 2) Leave with nothing, 3) Leave with an extra $90...

Chris Larsen is the co-founder of the cryptocurrency company Ripple Labs. Ripple is the company behind the Ripple blockchain and the digital currency XRP. Larsen has become the first cryptocurrency billionaire to make the list of the 400 richest A...