Larry Ellison

Gates Overtakes Buffett Atop Forbes List of World's Richest

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 12, 2009 - 8:17am.
New York - Despite losing $18 billion in the plunging stock market, Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) founder Bill Gates leapfrogged financier Warren Buffett to claim the top spot in Forbes' newly released list of the richest people in the world.