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Facebook Founder Youngest Billionaire on the Planet

Facebook Founder Youngest Billionaire on the Planet

Originally posted 03/05/2008 06:35PM

Investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates still lead the pack when it comes to being well-heeled, but in terms of new riches, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is a force to be reckoned with.

Worth $1.5 billion, the 23-year-old debuts on this year's Forbes magazine's list of the World's Billionaires – where he is ranked 785th.

First- and third-ranked Buffett and Gates (who held the top spot for the previous 13 years running) have fortunes valued at $62 billion and $58 billion, respectively. No. 2 on the list, Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu, has $60 billion, says Forbes.

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Bono, The Gateses 'Persons of the Year'

Bono, The Gateses 'Persons of the Year'

Originally posted 12/19/2005 08:00AM

Time magazine named Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates its "Persons of the Year," citing the U2 rocker's and the Microsoft founder and his wife's charitable work and activism aimed at reducing global poverty and improving world health.

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Jamie Foxx Scores Top TiVo Oscar Moment

Jamie Foxx Scores Top TiVo Oscar Moment

Originally posted 03/02/2005 08:40AM

COUNTED: Jamie Foxx's passionate recollection of his late grandmother during his Best Actor acceptance speech for Ray was the Oscar moment most replayed by TiVo digital video recorder customers, the company announced, basing its sample on 10,000 anonymous TiVo households. The second most-popular TiVo moment was Clint Eastwood's Best Picture win for Million Dollar Baby. Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet proved the big TiVo stars of ABC's pre-Oscar show. Blanchett's arrival in a yellow Valentino gown was the most replayed red-carpet moment, followed by Winslet's entrance in a blue Badgley Mischka dress.

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NEWS BRIEFS: P. Diddy Back in Court

Originally posted 01/26/2004 01:00PM

DEFENDED: Jury selection begins in Manhattan Monday for a $3 million lawsuit against Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, 34, filed by his former chauffeur, Wardel Fenderson, 45, according to published reports. Fenderson contends he was forced by the music mogul and his bodyguards to speed away from a Times Square nightclub on Dec. 27, 1999, ignoring police orders to stop after a shooting took place. Combs, who was cleared of weapons charges in the case, is expected to take the stand in the suit, and his companion at the time, Jennifer Lopez, reportedly has been subpoenaed.

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Sniper Arrests Upstage Gates Gathering

Originally posted 10/24/2002 11:00AM

Bill Gates, upstaged? Lenny Kravitz, likewise?

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Movie Mocks, Then Kills Bill Gates

Originally posted 01/02/2002 01:05PM

A filmmaker who co-wrote the Off Broadway hit "Bat Boy: The Musical" now focuses on the Microsoft CEO, whom he blows off in a movie.

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Gates Beaten -- At Last

Originally posted 11/07/1997 12:00AM

Gates Fund Grants a Million

Originally posted 11/28/1997 12:00AM

EXPECTING:

Originally posted 03/17/1998 12:00AM

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Gates's Giveaway

Originally posted 01/26/1999 12:00AM