Forbes rich list fall prey to high-tech fraudster
News US authorities claim to have cracked a bizarre case of identity theft in which a New York City busboy used high-tech equipment to steal millions from more than 200 of Forbes Magazine's "Richest People in America".
[March 20, 2001, 14:04]
Bill Gates still world's wealthiest
News Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, has topped the Forbes rich list again with an estimated net fortune of $50bn (£29bn), celebrating his twelfth consecutive year as the world's richest man. Two of the top five people in the Forbes Rich List 2006 were...
[March 13, 2006, 14:05]
Gates falls from top of world's rich list
News But now the bid has caused something else to take a tumble; the drop in the value of Microsoft shares has knocked Bill Gates off his perch atop Forbes' rich-list, ending his unbroken 13-year run as the world's richest human.
[March 7, 2008, 14:25]
And the richest man in the world is...
News Bill Gates may not have had much of a pay rise this year but he did manage to add $2bn to his fortune to bring it up to $48bn and stay on top of the Forbes 400 list of wealthy Americans. This is the eleventh year on the trot that Gates has topped...
[September 24, 2004, 16:30]
