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Gates No Longer Richest Man in World

Opinion
Aug 20, 20071 min

Bill Gates fortune of around $60 billion has been eclipsed by that of Mexican telco tycoon Carlos Slim which currently stands at around $68 billion. As an Ars Technica post explained, that amount of money is “almost 12 Steve Jobses” and he’s ahead of Gates by “about half a Steve Ballmer, or two Jeff Bezoses.”

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Mark Gibbs is an author, journalist, and man of mystery. His writing for Network World is widely considered to be vastly underpaid. For more than 30 years, Gibbs has consulted, lectured, and authored numerous articles and books about networking, information technology, and the social and political issues surrounding them. His complete bio can be found at http://gibbs.com/mgbio

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