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Forbes' latest list of billionaires, which was published on Wednesday, has a few surprises on it. The world has now 1,210 billionaires, with a total net worth of $4.5 trillion. The number of billionaires has doubled in China while Moscow surpasses all other cities in the number of billionaires.

2011 Forbes list of Americas top ten wealthiest men.

Mark Zuckerberg edged out Larry Page and Sergey Brin for the first time on the Forbes 400, its annual list of the richest people in America.

Investor George Soros, at 81, has for the first time made the list of the 10 wealthiest Americans, Forbes Magazine reported on Wednesday in the 2011 edition of its annual rich list.

Defending his company’s business practices on Capitol Hill for the first time after the mounting inspection of its operations, Google Inc. Chairman, Eric Schmidt, directly declined that his company was manipulating its search engine results to steer users to its own online services.

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt began testifying before a U.S. Judiciary Subcommittee Wednesday over the company's business practices, striking a conciliatory tone with skeptical lawmakers.

The richest people in America revealed

Next week a high-ranking Microsoft Corp executive will stand on stage and show off a new version of Windows on a tablet computer.

Bono defends Steve Jobs for supporting charities

AT&T and T-Mobile shouldn't have even dreamed of merging; it defies history, technology and consumer interests.

In March of 2009, when the Annenberg Space for Photography opened in Century City in Los Angeles, the most remarked-upon guest at the gala was David LaChapelle's date, Courtney Love.

Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the richest person in the world for the second year in a row, Forbes said on Wednesday.

Steve Jobs is the co-founder, chairman, and former chief executive officer of Apple Inc.

The impending threat that Apple will see Jobs-less days had been looming since CEO Steve Jobs announced his medical leave in January.

Apple’s former CEO Steve Jobs once reflected upon his thoughts about Microsoft founder Bill Gates that actually reflected a lot about Jobs’ past and pre-Apple days.

Probably the only reason why Steve Jobs quit as CEO of the company he co-founded and made into a world leader is because the end of his life is near. His body is breaking down and, as usual, neither he nor Apple will discuss it.

Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO

Hewlett-Packard is dumping its TouchPad tablet just shy of 50 days after its anticipated introduction, and while the fire sale price of $99 might be tempting, there are a few things to consider before snatching one up.

HP is 'reinventing' itself, shedding its PC division and the division responsible for its TouchPad tablet -- the would-be iPad contender -- but that means it can now be yours for $99. So should you run out and get one?

HPQ shares are down about 6.1 percent as of 3:15 p.m. (New York time).

HPQ’s chief executive Leo Apotheker has already said he wants to grow the company’s presence in so-called “cloud computing” while shedding lower-margin businesses like PCs.