Friday, September 23, 2011

Zuckerberg surpassed Google founders in Forbes rich list ranking

Zuckerberg surpassed Google founders in Forbes rich list ranking

The latest Forbes list of richest Americans could be dropped handlebars
Facebook Mark Zuckerberg: He then has namely his two major rivals Google
Sergey Brin and Larry Page just overtaken. The U.S. magazine estimates
Zuckerberg assets to 17.5 billion U.S. dollars, while it ascribes to the
Google founders, respectively $ 16.7 billion.

In the previous year Zuckerberg had been as far behind Google's
founders, but he made this year the biggest leap of all financial
super-rich and appealed to the assets by 10.6 billion dollars (7.9
billion euros). He pushed forward from the previous year from rank 35 to 14.

Neither Zuckerberg nor his opponents Google have billions lying on the
account. Your fortune lies mainly in their companies. Their evaluation
will serve as the basis for the Forbes estimate. For Google, it is
relatively easy because the search engine Primus is listed in Facebook
as a privately held company will share sales extrapolated beyond the
stock market. After that Facebook is worth $ 66.5 billion, Google is in
the stock market to $ 174.1 billion.

The rich rankings leads back to Bill Gates. His giant Microsoft is in
the stock market with $ 217.8 billion, according to Forbes his own
assets increased by 5 billion to 59 billion dollars. The fortune of
Gates's friend Warren Buffett, however, shrank by 6 billion to 39
billion dollars. The slump may also be due to the turmoil in financial
markets on which mixes together the 81-year-old with his holding company
Berkshire Hathaway.

The overwhelming majority of the super rich in the U.S. have been able
to determine, however, told Forbes in New York. On average have each of
the 400 richest Americans $ 3.8 billion on the high edge, which means an
increase of 12 percent compared to 2010. The total assets amounted to
1.5 trillion dollars.

Worldwide, the Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is considered the
richest man before Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. According to the
latest Forbes estimate made in March Slim comes to 74 billion dollars.

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