World's Billionaires of 2010

I have been blogging so much about fashion and beauty and stuff like that lately and I thought I need a little rest from that and share to you the list of the billionaires of the world this year according to Forbes. This year, ladies and gentlemen, Bill Gates has been toppled over by another mogul. Read on if you want to know who inched away and got to pocket more moolah.


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What does one have to do or to possess to be the world's richest?

1) Carlos Slim Helu

Net Worth: $53.5 billion
Source: Telecom
Residence: Mexico

• Telecom tycoon who pounced on privatization of Mexico's national telephone company in the 1990s becomes world's richest person for first time after coming in third place last year. Net worth up $18.5 billion in a year.
• Recently received regulatory approval to merge his fixed-line assets into American Movil, Latin America's biggest mobile phone company.
• His construction conglomerate, Impulsora del Desarrollo y el Empleo, builds roads and energy infrastructure.
• Son of a Lebanese immigrant also owns stakes in financial group Inbursa, Bronco Drilling, Independent News & Media, Saks and New York Times Co.
• Newspaper outfit's stock popped in early March on talk he might buy a controlling stake; he denies the rumor.
• Donating $65 million to fund a research project in genomic medicine with American billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad.

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I wonder if these people in this list still have wishlists...