The 2011 World’s Richest Tycoons (Forbes.com)

Forbes  has announced on Wednesday, March 9, 2011, the list of its 25th annual World’s Billionaires. Among the list, Carlos Slim Helu & Family ranked at #1 for a second year as the wealthiest tycoon in the universe.

With a net worth of $74 billion at age 71, Carlos Slim, a Mexican business magnate and philanthropist who is also the chairman and CEO of telecommunications company Telmex and America Movil beat the Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the remarkable investment guru Warren Buffett.

Bloomberg in its today publication reported that Slim’s America Movil SAB is the biggest mobile-phone company in the Americas, with 225 million wireless subscribers. The company also controls Mexico’s largest landline phone carrier, Telefonos de Mexico SAB, and the largest TV and long-distance operators in Brazil, as well as phone and video carriers in Colombia, Peru and other South American countries.

His holdings in Mexico extend from retail, with the Sanborns department store chain, to banking and construction. He holds stakes in U.S. companies including the New York Times Co. (publisher), Saks Inc. (department store operator), Bronco Drilling (oil services company) and also BlackRock Inc. (money manager). Slim’s gains in 2010 included his bank Grupo Financiero Inbursa SAB, which surged 42 percent as it expanded its branches, and Grupo Carso SAB, which almost doubled as it prepared for spinoffs of its mining and real-estate units.

Bill Gates, 55, chairman of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp., was spotted at the second place again as his net worth rose $3 billion to $56 billion. While Warren Buffett, 80, chief executive office of Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., ranked at #3 with $50 billion of net worth.

Forbes.com commented that Gates is no longer the planet’s richest person, but that’s because he’s given away $30 billion to his foundation, The Gates Foundation.

Behind of Buffett on the Forbes list, ranked from #4 to #10 are Bernard Arnauld ($41 billion), Larry Ellison ($39.5 billion), Lakshmi Mittal ($31.1 billion), Amancio Ortega ($31 billion), Eike Batista ($30 billion), Mukesh Ambani ($27 billion) and latest of the top ten list, Christy Walton & family with net worth of $26.5 billion.

Bloomberg.com in its article “Carlos Slim Tops Forbes List of Billionaires for Second Year” reported that there were a record number of billionaires in 2011, with 1,210 in total, compared with the previous high of 1,125 in 2008. Of the 214 newcomers this year, 54 were from China and 31 from Russia. The Asia-Pacific region had more billionaires than Europe for the first time in more than 10 years and gained the most billionaires of any region, with 105 newcomers. Moscow displaced New York as the city with the greatest number of billionaires with 79, compared with New York’s 58.

Explore the complete list from Forbes.com : The World's Billionaires

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