Showing posts with label Richest Person. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richest Person. Show all posts

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Michael Dell - richest man, CEO of Dell Computer Corporation

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Michael Saul Dell is an American business industrialist and the founder and chief executive officer of Dell Inc. He is one of the richest people in the world, with a net value of US$14 billion in 2010. In January 1984, Dell record his company as "PC's Limited". In May, Dell incorporated the company as "Dell Computer Corporation" and move to a business center in North Austin. In 1992 at the age of 27, Dell became the youngest CEO to have his business ranked in Fortune magazine's list of the top 500 corporations.

In 1996, Dell in progress selling computers over the Web, the similar year his company launched its first servers. Dell Inc. soon statement about $1 million in sales per day from dell.com. In July 2010 Dell agreed to pay a $4 million fine to settle SEC charges of disclosure and accounting fraud in relation to hidden payments from Intel Corporation. Dell Corporation and two other company executive also paid to resolve all the charges. As of 2010, Forbes guess Dell's net worth at $13.5 billion. In 2004, Susan and Michael Dell were among 53 donor of $250,000 to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush.

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Date of Birth

February 23, 1965

Place of Birth

Houston, Texas, U.S.

Occupation

CEO and founder, Dell Inc.

Net worth

US$14 billion (2010)

Spouse

Susan Dell

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Michael Bloomberg - World's Most Powerful Billionaires 2010

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Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is the recent Mayor of New York City, and the 10th richest person in the United States, having net worth of US$18 billion in 2010. He is the founder and 88% owner of Bloomberg L.P., a financial news and information services media business. A lifelong Democrat before seeking elective office, Bloomberg switches his registration in 2001 and ran for mayor as a Republican, winning the voting that year and a second term in 2005.

He was repeatedly mentioned as a possible independent candidate for the 2008 presidential election and fueled that speculation when he left the Republican Party in June 2007 to become an independent. There was also speculation that he would run as a vice presidential contestant. Bloomberg did not, however, seek the presidency nor was he chosen as a running mate by any of the presidential candidates. In the fall of 2008, Bloomberg successfully campaign for an amendment to New York City's term restrictions law, in order to allow him to run for a third term in 2009. Bloomberg is won the election on November 3, 2009.

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Born

February 14, 1942

Birth Place

Boston, Massachusetts

Political party

Democratic (until 2001)

Republican (2001–2007)

Independent (2007–present)

Alma mater

Johns Hopkins University (B.S.)

Harvard University (M.B.A.)

Religion

Judaism

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Larry Page

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Lawrence "Larry" Page is a American computer scientist and industrialist, who co founded Google Inc., along with Sergey Brin. Page is an active investor in option energy companies, such as Tesla Motors, which developed the Tesla Roadster, a 220-mile range battery electric vehicle. He continues to be dedicated to renewable energy technology, and with the help of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, promotes the acceptance of plug-in hybrid electric cars and other alternative energy investments.

In 1998, Brin and Page established Google, Inc. Page ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric Schmidt as Chairman and CEO of Google. Together Page and Brin earn an annual compensation of one dollar. In 2004, Page and Brin were name "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight. Page acknowledged an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan on May 2, 2009 during the commencement ceremony exercises of the class of 2009. In 2009, he was ranked 26th on the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires and as the 11th richest person in America, in spite of his compensation of one dollar annually. In 2009, Brin and Page were ranked fifth on Forbes' "The World's mainly Powerful People" list.

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Birth Date

March 26, 1973

Birth Place

East Lansing, Michigan

Birth Name

Born Lawrence "Larry" Page

Nationality

American

Occupation

Computer scientist, technology innovator, entrepreneur

Known for

Co-founder of Google Inc.

Net worth

US$17.5 billion

Spouse

Lucinda Southworth

Monday, September 20, 2010

Larry Ellison

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Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison is an American business magnate, co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, a foremost enterprise software company. As of 2010 he is the sixth richest person in the world, with an individual wealth of US$28 billion. During the 1970s, Ellison worked in a Ampex Corporation. One of his projects was a database for the CIA, which he was named "Oracle". Ellison was stimulated by the paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database systems called "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks."

He founded Oracle in 1977, putting up a sheer $1400 of his own money, under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1979, the company was renamed Relational Software Inc., afterward renamed Oracle after the flagship product Oracle database. IBM dominated the mainframe relational database market with its DB2 and SQL/DS database products, it late entering the market for a relational database on UNIX and Windows operating systems. This left the door open for Sybase, Oracle, and Informix (and eventually Microsoft) to control mid-range systems and microcomputers.

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Born

August 17, 1944

Birth Place

Manhattan, New York, USA

Birth Name

Lawrence Joseph Ellison

Nationality

American

Occupation

Co-founder & CEO of Oracle Corporation

Salary

$70.1 Million

Net worth

US$28 billion

Spouse

Adda Quinn, Nancy Wheeler Jenkins,

Barbara Boothe, Melanie Craft

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