Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is the eighth richest person in the world, due largely to the stock’s sharp rise in the ...

With a market capitalization of $2.89 trillion as of April 9, Microsoft is the world’s second-largest company by that measure — just behind Apple. But market cap only tells part of the story. To get a ...

Soaring AI stocks this year have led to massive wealth gains for US tech billionaires. Seven tech billionaires have collectively gained $230 billion thanks to their rising AI stocks. Jensen Huang is ...

That has helped push shares up 13% since Trump took office, adding nearly $20 billion to the Oracle of Omaha’s net worth. Other big billionaire winners so far: Peter Thiel (up $4.9 billion) and ...

Bill Gates is worth 8 times less today than if he had kept his 45% stake in Microsoft from after the IPO in 1986. Bill Gates has $163 billion in net worth. If Bill Gates did not sell shares during the ...

Lucy Lazarony is an experienced personal finance journalist and writer who got her start in 1998 writing about financial topics. She writes accessible and easy-to-understand articles about credit, ...