Bill Gates dethroned - Biggest Tech News Of 2008

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Bill Gates dethroned

This year tech tycoon Bill Gates not only made his exit from the company he founded, but also lost his position as the world's richest man, a title he had held since 1995. Gates' friend and investment mogul Warren Buffett, succeeded him as world's richest man according to Forbes magazine's annual ranking of the world's wealthiest people.

The magazine estimated Buffett's worth at $62 billion, and Gates' fortune not too far behind at $58 billion. But Gates didn't slipped one position down, Carlos Slim, a Mexican telecom tycoon, came in second with an estimated worth of $60 billion.

Riding the surging price of Berkshire Hathaway stock, America's most beloved investor Warren Buffett saw his fortune up $10 billion from a year ago.

The exit of Bill Gates marked an end of era. Gates retired from Microsoft, the company he co-founded with college-friend Paul Allen in 1975. In June, Gates quit as full-time chairman and software architect of the world's largest software company to work full-time at his charitable organisation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates will remain the company's non-executive chairman.

Source : IndiaTimes