From soy farmer to the Brazilian senate, ex soy king joins FORBES billionaire list. read

Kenneth Rapoza, Contributor

Billionaire and tech company reach detente, but Icahn still thinks PayPal is more valuable on its own. read

Steve Schaefer, Forbes Staff

Baidu s annual report for 2013 didn t make much news when it was announced at the end of March, but it appeared to hold one little noted piece of information for investors that track insider sales.

Melissa Ma, the wife of chairman Robin Li, seemingly lowered the number of shares she holds by about 6% between February 28 of this year and read

Russell Flannery, Forbes Staff

Feng Lun s China Center proudly became the first tenant to sign a commercial lease for One World Trade Center in New York during the U.S. economic downturn back in 2009. An enthusiast about New York s role in U.S. China business, Feng is gearing up to open up six floors in America s tallest building that will include a club, restaurant and read

Russell Flannery, Forbes Staff

Selling business software tools to the largest companies in the world without a sales staff, Atlassian has forged its empire with an emphasis on corporate culture and long term prosperity read

Alex Morrell, Forbes Staff

Kenyan multi millionaire and manufacturing magnate Manu Chandaria, the chairman of Comcraft Group, plans to list some subsidiaries of his conglomerate on a stock exchange. read

Mfonobong Nsehe, Contributor

Just Marketing Inc (JMI), the sponsorship agency which is responsible for some of the most well known brand partnerships in NASCAR, has revealed that it has done more than $1 billion of deals since it was founded in 1995.

Although its origins lie in NASCAR, the company s chief executive Zak Brown says that 70% of its profits now come read

Christian Sylt, Contributor

Looking back a quarter of a century, to around the time when Forbes started tallying billionaire fortunes globally, Europe has kept pace with the rest of the world in terms of fortune creation, according to Behind the Staying Power of Wealth Creation in Europe Family, Long Lived and Long Term Oriented.

Twenty five years ago read

Kasia Moreno, Contributor

By Cecilia Ma Zecha

Microsoft founder and leading philanthropist Bill Gates is not a man who projects intimidation in fact he is warm and gracious. He just appears as if he is calculating how best to use his resources every minute of the day. If he is sitting down with me for a 25 minute interview in Singapore on April read

Forbes Staff, Contributor

Hip hop s top moguls have spent the past two decades accumulating massive fortunes so much so that FORBES started keeping tally, beginning with the first Hip Hop Cash Kings package (measuring annual earnings) in 2007 and continuing with the first Forbes Five special report (measuring net worth) in 2011.

For the latter, the one constant read

Zack O’Malley Greenburg, Forbes Staff

Four billionaires, including retail maven Tory Burch and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, are among the 11 new ambassadors selected by President Barack Obama to help develop the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Known as the Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship, these honorees will work closely with the Commerce Department, read

Natalie Robehmed, Forbes Staff

Carlos Slim, Latin America s wealthiest businessman, has long enjoyed a dominant position in Mexico s telecom sector. New rules spearheaded by the administration of Mexican President Enrique Pe&ntilde a Nieto, however, could threaten Slim s position in the market.

Right now Slim and his company, America Movil, have a behemoth presence in read

Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Contributor

If the oil price is tipped to fall by 25% to $75 a barrel over the next few years, which it is, why does Australian billionaire Kerry Stokes reckon now is a good time to add oil and gas to his diverse asset portfolio?

Bottom fishing is the answer because Stokes, via the Australian stock exchange listed company he controls, Seven read

Tim Treadgold, Contributor

Shares in Wasu Media Holding rose by their 10% daily limit at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange today after it said an investment firm controlled by billionaire Jack Ma would purchase a 20.6% stake for $1.05 billion.

The purchase will be financed by a loan of almost the same amount by Alibaba Group, the Chinese e commerce company industry read

Russell Flannery, Forbes Staff

In a talk at a marketing conference in San Francisco, Hillary Clinton talked about social media at the State Department, dysfunction in Washington D.C., and what she is pondering regarding a run for the White House. read

Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes Staff