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Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-that's-so-sad dept.

alphadogg writes "Riding surging prices of his various telecom holdings, including giant mobile outfit America Movil, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth and nab the top spot on the 2010 Forbes list of the World's Billionaires." I'd still let the guy buy me dinner if he's ever in my town. He's probably still good for it even though he's fallen on hard times.

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  1. Re:Wonderful news by witherstaff · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sounds about as clean as a Vice President's past company getting no bid contracts awarded for a war that had nothing to do with Terrorism.