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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turns up at business conventions in a hoodie. "Cocky" is the word used to describe him most often, after "billionaire." He was Time's person of the year at 26.

Malaysian billionaire Syed Mokhtar Al-Bulkhary's DRB-Hicom Bhd. said it's open to selling unprofitable sports-carmaker Lotus Group International Ltd.

Ajay Piramal is sitting on a mountain of cash. Yet the billionaire Indian tycoon, working in one of the world's fastest growing economies, is struggling to figure out what to do with the money.

Major League Baseball approved billionaire Drayton McLane 's sale of the Houston Astros and the team's 38% interest in new regional sports network, dubbed Comcast SportsNet Houston , to Jim Crane for $610 million yesterday.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says the recent leadership changes in Italy and Greece should help those countries, but Europe's debt concerns will continue to hurt the economy.

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich hit back against fellow oligarch Boris Berezovsky on Monday, telling a court he was never the older man's protege and does not owe him a cent.

Shares of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. surged Tuesday amid speculation that billionaire investor Carl Icahn has taken a stake in the company.

Some of the self-made billionaires on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans List have something in common: they either did not go to college, or they dropped out of college.

Some would say that this helps spur the debate that continues among the next generation of entrepreneurs: is formal education necessary?

Billionaire Warren Buffett urged Congress to raise taxes on the nation’s wealthiest individuals to help cut the U.S. budget deficit, saying it won’t inhibit investment or job growth.

June 16 -- Billionaire Alexey Mordashov, chief executive officer of OAO Severstal, discusses the appeal of India for business development.