source: Entrepreneur
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is retiring within the next 12 months. With this retirement comes a huge cash out of Microsoft stock. SPCapitalIQ says that Ballmer owns 333 million shares of Microsoft stock. If he is to exercise this options he’ll net a cool $840 million.
As of March 2013, Forbes reports his net worth as $15.2 billion.
Ron Wayne sold his 10 percent stake in Apple for $800 just days after he helped found it. It’s now worth $22 billion.
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The Elmiraj Concept (500 horsepower), a new design vision for a grand coupe expressing the pure enjoyment of driving. The appearance is streamlined and pure, a fresh new expression of Cadillac’s Art & Science design philosophy. The Concept also represents an exploration of how Cadillac designers are approaching the expansion and elevation of the top of the range.
In Grand Theft Auto Online, players have the freedom to explore alone or with friends, work cooperatively to complete missions, band together to participate in activities and ambient events, or compete in traditional game modes with the entire community, all with the personality and refined mechanics of Grand Theft Auto V.
“The future of CNN is as much about digital as about television, if not more.”
With those words, CNN President Jeff Zucker kicked off a press event in Manhattan on Wednesday, where the network unveiled its impending digital makeover. It’s a multi-platform effort CNN is planning to spend $15 million on this year.
On the consumer-facing side, CNN will get a new website — a darker, more streamlined version of its current site, which was released in 2009. Gone is the long left-hand column with dozens of linked headlines; the site gives play to a single big story above the fold, both on the homepage and on its section pages, like The Huffington Post‘s front page.
source: Mashable
David Karp, 27-year old founder of Tumblr, is set to earn a bonus of $81 million in addition to his salary if he stays at Yahoo! for the next four years. Tumblr was launched in Feb. 2007 by Karp, a New York City high school drop out and acquired by YAHOO for $1.1 billion in May 2013.
A new study released Wednesday by Domo and CEO.com found that nearly 70% of Fortune 500 CEOs have no presence whatsoever on any major social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+. Of the 30% that choose to engage in social media, nearly all of them (28%) do so through LinkedIn. And while the number of CEOs utilizing the other three networks is small, it appears that Twitter is the only other social channel Fortune 500 CEOs are moving toward (albeit, slowly).
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| Rank |
Name
|
Website
|
Year Website Launched
|
Net Worth
|
|
1
|
Larry Page
 |
1998
|
$18.5 Billion
|
|
|
2
|
Sergey Brin
 |
1998
|
$18.5 Billion
|
|
|
3
|
Jeff Bezos
 |
Amazon |
1994
|
$8.7 Billlion
|
|
4
|
Pierre Omidyar
 |
eBay |
1995
|
$6.3 Billion
|
|
5
|
Eric Schmidt
 |
1998
|
$5.9 Billion
|
|
|
6
|
Ronald Burkle
 |
Yahoo |
1995
|
$3.5 Billion
|
|
7
|
Mark Cuban
 |
Broadcast.com |
1995
|
$2.6 Billion
|
|
8
|
Jerry Yang
 |
Yahoo |
1995
|
$2.3 Billion
|
|
9
|
Omid Kordestani
 |
1998
|
$1.9 Billion
|
|
|
10
|
David Filo
 |
Yahoo |
1995
|
$1.7 Billion
|
|
11
|
Kavitark Ram Shriram
 |
1998
|
$1.7 Billion
|
|
|
12
|
Todd Wagner
 |
Broadcast.com |
1995
|
$1.5 Billion
|
|
13
|
Peter Thiel
 |
PayPal |
1998
|
$1.3 Billion
|
|
14
|
Niklas Zennstrom
 |
Skype |
2003
|
$1.3 Billion
|
|
15
|
Janus Friis
 |
Skype |
2003
|
$1.3 Billion
|
|
16
|
Jack Ma
 |
Alibaba |
1999
|
$1.1 Billion
|
|
17
|
Mark Zuckerberg
 |
2004
|
$700 Million
|
|
|
18
|
Simon Nixon
 |
MoneySuperMarket | 1999 | $680 Million |
|
19
|
Andrew Gower
 |
Runescape |
2001
|
$650 Million
|
|
20
|
Reid Hoffman
 |
2003
|
$500 Million
|
|
|
21
|
Zhang Chaoyang
 |
Sohu |
1996
|
$425 Million
|
|
22
|
Steve Chen
 |
YouTube |
2005
|
$350 Million
|
|
23
|
Elon Musk
 |
PayPal |
1998
|
$328 Million
|
|
24
|
Chad Hurley
 |
YouTube |
2005
|
$300 Million
|
|
25
|
Duncan Cameron
 |
MoneySuperMarket | 1999 | $280 Million |
|
26
|
Marc Andreesen
 |
Netscape |
1994
|
$253 Million
|
|
27
|
Reed Hastings
 |
NetFlix |
1997
|
$150 Million
|
|
28
|
Blake Ross
 |
Mozila | 1998 | $120 Million |
|
29
|
Andrew Michael
 |
Fasthost |
1999
|
$110 Million
|
|
30
|
Max Levchin
 |
PayPal |
1998
|
$100 Million
|
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