Billionaires
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India's 100 richest add $257 billion to their cumulative wealth in 2021
More than 80 percent billionaires on the list saw their fortunes grow this year, with 61 adding $1 billion or more. There are six newcomers and eleven dropouts
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India has high quality AI scientists but Indian businesses yet to make the most of AI solutions: Romesh Wadhwani
The Indian-American billionaire and CEO of SymphonyAI on his 50-year entrepreneurial journey and why businesses that are early adopters of AI will be the ones to create sustained business advantages
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George Soros is making changes at his foundation while he still can
The sprawling foundation Soros has funded for decades wants to refocus while he can still weigh in on the question that many large philanthropies face, which is how to keep the vision of the founder alive after he or she is gone?
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Who gets the LLC? Inside a Silicon Valley billionaire's divorce
Technology billionaires have typically divorced quietly behind closed doors, rarely willing to trade blows in a public courtroom and expose the complex web of their personal finances
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Cover story: Inside Mukesh Ambani's green gambit
Reliance Industries' bold plan to move into the green energy space—with an investment of ₹75,000 crore—is in keeping with its 2035 net carbon zero commitment. It also has the potential to catapult RIL into the largest green energy business in India
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How the Adani Group became India's largest airport operator
After becoming India's largest private port operator, the Gautam Adani-led Adani group has turned all its attention to its airport business, which it forayed into barely a year ago
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Can Mukesh Ambani do a Jio with India's green energy space?
Reliance Industries is planning to move away from the hydrocarbon business. With Rs 75,000 crore in tow, can RIL become the largest green energy business in India? Subscribe to Forbes India for early access to our latest cover story
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27 years and $203 billion later, Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon CEO
Jeff Bezos started Amazon in the garage of his home in Seattle. A behemoth that contains ecommerce, cloud computing, and much more, Amazon's reins are going to Andy Jassy. Here's a look at Bezos' timeline from a high school in Miami to sub-orbital space
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How A Velumani, a landless farmer's son, built Thyrocare into a billion-dollar behemoth before a surprise sell-off
The deal with PharmEasy, India's first e-pharmacy unicorn, will give Thyrocare an opening into B2C business and its founder an investing foray into the burgeoning healthtech sector
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Being an old-school fundamentals guy in the era of Amazon, Tesla, GameStop and Bitcoin
Growth, momentum and investor psychology are the most important drivers of success on Wall Street today. But at 85, street legend Carl Icahn is one of the last remaining OG corporate raiders who still like asset- and cash-rich companies in need of a shake-up
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The real problem is of unequal opportunities: Maitreesh Ghatak
It leads to an uneven distribution of gains, of growth and limited upward mobility. The thrust of our development policy initiatives should focus on how to deal with that, Indian economist and a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, writes