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The world’s richest person got even richer this year. Bill Gates’s net worth rose to $79.2bn in 2015 from $76bn last year, Forbes said.

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is back on top of Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s richest people.

The surging price of Microsoft shares returned US tech tycoon Bill Gates back to the top of Forbes’ world’s billionaires list, with his $76bn (€55bn) beating Mexico’s Carlos Slim’s $72bn.

The 85 wealthiest people in the world spent $1.8trn on luxuries last year. But what did they buy and for how much, wonders Rita de Brun.

Forbes released its annual list of the top 400 richest Americans.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is still America’s richest man, taking the top spot in the Forbes 400 list for the 20th-straight year with a net worth of US $72bn (€54bn).

Roman Abramovich has been relegated to second position — in the super-yacht leagues at least.

The net worth of the richest Americans grew by 13% in the past year to $1.7 trillion (€1.3tn), Forbes magazine said, and a familiar cast populated the top of the annual list, including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison and the Koch brothers.

The 3,200 people living on a rural Hawaiian island that will soon be purchased by billionaire Oracle Corp chief executive Larry Ellison have a laundry list of what they’d like to see him provide.

An Irish subsidiary of US software giant Oracle last year recorded a 79% increase in pre-tax profits to $55m (€41m).

Mexico telecoms czar Carlos Slim topped the Forbes annual world’s richest list, holding the edge over Microsoft’s Bill Gates who continued to give away billions to charity.

Technology giant Apple’s famous penchant for secrecy remained intact today as the company’s shops were closed and employees were tight-lipped about a private memorial service to celebrate the life of company co-founder Steve Jobs.

Computer firm Apple is to close its shops while it holds a memorial service for employees to celebrate the life of company co-founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs.

BILL GATES has topped this year’s Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans with a net worth calculated at 59 billion US dollars (€43.2bn).

THINGS are on the up for US billionaires with more than half of them adding to their net worth in a year which once again saw Bill Gates as the richest of them all, Forbes magazine said.

THE main Irish subsidiary of US software giant Oracle increased its pre-tax profits by 51% to €707 million in the year to the end of May last year.

A BILLION dollars is no longer enough to secure a place on Forbes’ rich list of Americans, the business magazine said yesterday.

EARNING $1 million per hour, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has shot to number three on the latest Forbes magazine American rich list, the first on which all 400 members were billionaires.

PeopleSoft has agreed to be bought by Oracle for $10.3 billion.

US software firm PeopleSoft has urged shareholders to reject an improved $9.4bn (€7.35bn) hostile takeover offer from rival Oracle.

The board of software maker, PeopleSoft is preparing to reject Oracle's latest hostile takeover bid due to fears of violating antitrust laws, according to reports.

PeopleSoft has formally rejected the $5.1bn (€4.3bn) hostile takeover bid from Oracle.

AMERICA’S Cup holders Team New Zealand stole the limelight from challengers Alinghi and Oracle BMW Racing, when they revealed a radical new hull design at an unveiling ceremony yesterday.

HEAVY winds and high seas have forced the postponement of racing in the America’s Cup challengers semi-finals, with Swiss syndicate Alinghi just one win away from reaching the final.

THE BOATS, if these computer-sculpted splinters can be called watercraft at all, are utterly charmless.

DENNIS CONNER’S America’s Cup team said yesterday they would use a boat which sank to the ocean floor only four months ago for their sudden death challengers quarter-final against Britain’s GBR Challenge.

THE British crew in the Louis Vuitton Cup, the challenger series for the America’s Cup, took a step up into what has been described as the ‘middle league’ the four teams likely to tussle over the valuable fourth semi finals spot when they dispatched Sweden’s Victory Challenge yesterday by a comfortable 48 seconds.

THEY MAY have been jousting there for the last two months, jostling, sandbagging and sprinting to see whose latest boat has the edge, and whose despite the millions invested in research and development may yet be ‘off the pace’, but the real 2002/3 America’s Cup story starts to unfold in earnest next Tuesday.

Wall Street’s fortunes turned negative again today as a downgrade of chip makers by Merrill Lynch and retailers’ disappointing sales gave investors more reasons to doubt the strength of a business recovery. Stocks fell sharply, with the tech sector suffering the heaviest losses.

Oracle shares fell on Monday after a it warned that its third quarter earnings would fall short of expectations. It said that it expected Q3 earnings of 9 cents a share compared with 10 cents a share earned in the same quarter last year.

Oracle's profits have dropped following what the company described as its toughest quarter for more than a decade.

Share prices closed sharply higher, with the DJIA ending above 10,000 points and the Nasdaq composite finishing above 2,000 for the first time in months, after the NAPM's non-manufacturing index for the services industry indicated that the sector expanded last month, countering the overall recessionary trend, dealers said.

The flight of Taliban forces from Afghanistan's capital gave US investors a surge of optimism and sent stocks climbing sharply.

Bill Gates is still a multi-billionaire, but not quite as wealthy as he was a year ago.