The CEO of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has recently recaptured the title of "The Richest Person in the World" from the renowned Mexican magnate and investor Carlos Slim Helu, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The 57-year-old American, co-founder of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), has now got an estimated fortune of around $72.7 billion, 16 percent year-to-date. His brand has hit a five-year high as the original report describes. The largest mobile-phone operator throughout the Americas, Carlos Slim's America Movil (AMXL), has dropped an ...

We're starting a new category here on Luxatic to share with our readers the exciting lives and careers of some of the world's richest people. According to Forbes, there are exactly 1,226 billionaires on the planet in 2012, an all time high, and we'll feature some of the most interesting billionaires on our site in the future. Speaking of future, the first billionaire we're going to feature in here is Elon Musk, a South African born American entrepreneur who managed to ...