More than a tenth of the world's billionaires have held or sought political office, according to a new study published in Perspectives on Politics.
Political science
Oct 30, 2023
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Americans may respect and admire how individual billionaires—think Oprah Winfrey or Bill Gates—made their billions, even as they rage against the "top 1%" as a group, new research finds.
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2021
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BlackBerry's largest shareholder has reached a tentative agreement to pay $4.7 billion for the troubled smartphone maker, even as many investors fret about its potential demise.
Business
Sep 23, 2013
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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk released rough plans last week for a "Hyperloop" that would shoot capsules full of people at the speed of sound through elevated tubes connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco. Then he urged ...
Engineering
Aug 23, 2013
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Twice as fast as an airplane, cheaper than a bullet train and completely self-powered: that's the mysterious transportation system for which inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk is promising to reveal design plans Monday.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 12, 2013
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(AP) -- Facebook co-founder and former Mark Zuckerberg roommate Dustin Moskovitz is by many accounts the world's youngest self-made billionaire. But the 27-year-old isn't sipping champagne in the Caribbean.
Business
Apr 29, 2012
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turns up at business conventions in a hoodie. "Cocky" is the word used to describe him most often, after "billionaire." He was Time's person of the year at 26.
Business
Feb 1, 2012
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Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz unveiled his highly anticipated new company, a developer of software that aims to help people work more efficiently.
Internet
Nov 3, 2011
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he was forced to give up on the social networking phenomenon Facebook after too many people wanted to be his friend.
Internet
Jul 26, 2009
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Sixty years after acing astronaut tests but barred because she was a woman, Wally Funk will rocket into space alongside Jeff Bezos in just three weeks.
Space Exploration
Jul 1, 2021
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A billionaire, in countries that use the short scale number naming system, is a person who has a net worth of at least one billion units of a given currency, usually the United States dollar, Euro, or Pound sterling. Forbes magazine updates a complete list of U.S. dollar billionaires around the world every year.
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