Fictional Billionaires
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Mickey Mouse may be 75, but age hasn't put a damper on his earning power. Last year Mickey and Disney pals Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Pluto and Goofy grossed &#36;5.8 billion from toys, movies and the like. That's 23% more than the year before, when Disney's Winnie the Pooh topped the list. Why the mouse's rebound? Credit hoopla and new products--including adult apparel--tied to Mickey's milestone birthday last year. For more details, stories and methodology, go to forbes.com/extra.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Russian billionaire pays over Â£25m for treasures Â· Usmanov coup follows major Arsenal investment
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There is a fortune to be made from selling naming rights to New Yorkâs five Mafia families.
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The recent philanthropic moves by Warren E. Buffett raise the question of exactly what the other billionaires have in mind for their money.
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Will superhero creator Marvel produce super-sized returns for investors?
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Sim Strife Perhaps your real life is so rich you don't have time for another.â¦
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Nobody can say billionaires aren&#39;t competitive: First Richard Branson announces he&#39;s going up against Paul Allen in consumer space travel.
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Iâm suspicious of sequels. They can be rotten at their core, like reeling in a wealthy elderly spouse - not to carry on a legacy, but to carry off the money.
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Inside the unfathomable superhuman future after the 'singularity.' By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine.
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Comment is free: Robert Peston: The world of the super-rich non-dom is a truly absorbing place. Here, a Â£30k levy is a fleabite
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The US' richest tycoons increased their wealth in the past year, with the top 400 worth $1.125 trillion, says Forbes magazine.
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Artificial Life, a brazen Hong King Company has invented a new (and I use the next term very loosely) game. For those men without a girl, and who have exhausted every other method of finding companionship, comes the Virtual Girlfriend.
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LONDON, Dec. 8 -- No ordinary billionaire, Boris Berezovsky is a onetime mathematician who travels around London with a posse of bodyguards. He openly taunts Russian President Vladimir Putin and once wore a rubber cartoonish mask of his face. Accustomed to drama, he is now a central figure in the fatal poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the most sensational case of international intrigue since the Cold War....
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Companies that mimic Mother Nature could create investing opportunities.
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The latest work by million-selling novelist Michael Crichton is a futuristic thriller set in the present. "Next," to be released Nov. 28 by HarperCollins, has an announced first printing of 2 million and a storyline the publisher bills as "fast, furious and out of control."
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Two business moguls announce plans to capitalize on the current hubbub over private spaceflight. Also: Speculation increases on whether SpaceShipOne will carry passengers on its second prize-attempt flight.... and more. By Dan Brekke.
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NEW YORK, Nov 20 (Reuters Life!) - Move over Santa. The red-clad philanthropist has lost the top slot on Forbes magazines' list of the 15 richest fictional characters to defense contractor Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks.