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World’s Top 10 Richest People 2010
Posted by Jules in business, Interesting News on March 11th, 2010
Here is a list of the World’s top 10 richest people, all of which had their wealth increased in the time of recession:
- Carlos Slim, Age 70, (Telecommunications) $53.5 billion (Up $18.5 billion)
- Bill Gates, Age 54, (Chairman of Microsoft Corp) $53 billion (Up $13 billion)
- Warren Buffett, 79, (Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.) $47 billion (Up $10 billion)
- Mukesh Ambani, 52, (Reliance Industries Ltd) $29 billion (Up $19.5 billion)
- Lakshmi Mittal, 59, (CEO ArcelorMittal) $28.7 billion (Up $9.4 billion)
- Larry Ellison, 65, (Chief Executive Oracle Corp.) $28 billion (Up $5.5 billion)
- Bernard Arnault, 61, (Chairman /Chief Executive LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA) $27.5 billion (Up $11 billion)
- Eike Batista, 53, (Mining) $27 billion (Up $20 billion)
- Amancio Ortega, 73, (Chairman /Founder Inditex SA) $25 billion (Up $6.7 billion)
- Karl Albrecht, (Co-Founder Aldi Group) $23.5 billion. (Up $2 billion
Get your Personal Genome Sequence
Posted by Capes in Science, Technology on November 15th, 2009
Do you have USD70,000 to spare? If so, why not get your genome sequenced and stored on a USB drive. The Times newspaper have reported that a number less than a hundred of the Word’s elite have opted for this must have accessory, and the number is slowly growing.
Jorge Conde, CEO of Knome, the American company supplying this service say that can get your genome sequenced within 8 weeks. Mr Conde said that until 2007 only 3 people have had personalised genome sequence.
It is expected that the price of this service will fall significantly, and could as much as 1000 dollars by 2015 and the a couple of days to map your complete human DNA.