Breaking: Microsoft is acquiring advertising network aQuantive, the parent company to Avenue A | Razorfish, Atlas and DRIVEpm, for roughly $6 billion in an all-cash transaction, the company said this morning.aQuantive is a public company (AQNT) and had a market cap of just $2.8 billion as of yesterday. The acquisition price of $6 billion is […]

The number 13 has long been considered unlucky by superstitious people around the globe. How fitting, then, that Bill Gates‘ reign as the world’s richest person ends after his 13th year at the top.Despite being worth $58 billion, $2 billion more than last year, Gates is now just the world’s third-richest person, ceding the top […]

Empire builders like Bill Gates and Sam Walton aren’t just great businessmen. They are bona fide revolutionaries.Self-made billionaires don’t dominate industries–they transform them and spawn new ones. That takes more than intelligence, courage and luck. It takes divine-like vision.
Billionaire entrepreneurs are “not working within the confines of the current market,” says Gerald Kraines, chief executive […]