Bill Gates

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    Bill Gates' newest purchase Is £500m superyacht from the future

    Bill Gates has reportedly purchased a £500m environmentally-friendly superyacht. The billionaire is the first to commission the luxury vessel, which is powered by liquid hydrogen and therefore would emit only water, and not carbon. The

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    Ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos pledges half her fortune to charity

    The ex-wife of Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos has pledged half her fortune to charity, following in the footsteps of billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. MacKenzie Bezos finalised her divorce in April and reportedly got a

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  • LifestyleAOL

    14 billionaires giving fortunes away

    Not all billionaires want to blow it all on super-mega-yachts, diamonds the size of their own head, or Premiership football clubs: some want to change the world for the better instead. In fact 14 billionaires have just promised to give huge

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    Is Bill Gates set to be the world's first trillionaire?

    If you think a million dollars is hard enough to fathom, what about a trillion? The world's richest man, Bill Gates could go from being a billionaire to the world's first trillionaire in just a matter of 25 years - that's as much

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  • BusinessAOL

    A new richest man in the world - for just two days

    How must it feel to be the richest man in the world - and then to be knocked from the slot after just two days? That's what happened to Amancio Ortega, the founder of Spanish shopping chain Zara, who briefly toppled Microsoft founder Bill

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  • BusinessAOL

    Bill Gates is richer than ever before...

    Bill Gates is currently the richest he's ever been with a wealth of $90 billion behind him. That's up from the $83.3 billion he was reportedly worth in March of this year, Bloomberg reported. The spike in wealth is said to be from

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  • BusinessAOL

    The richest men in the world: surprise for Mark Zuckerberg

    The annual Bloomberg list of the world's richest billionaires has been published, revealing that Bill Gates remains the richest man in the world - with a total estimated fortune of $85.2 billion. Nowadays Microsoft is a tiny fraction of his

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