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Mark Zuckerberg overtakes Michael Dell as 5th richest amid Dell selloff

The hardware firm’s stock has cooled since skyrocketing to an all-time high last month.

  • By Ty Roush
  • Forbes Staff

Exclusive: Canva’s billionaire cofounders reveal next step in plan to give away vast majority of their fortune

In an interview with Forbes, the design software giant’s CEO Melanie Perkins discusses her and husband Cliff Obrecht’s latest philanthropic initiative.

  • By Madhulika Pathak

How Bending Spoons built a $18.4 billion empire by buying internet has-beens like AOL

Buying busted apps made Bending Spoons’s four cofounders billionaires. Now their stakes have collectively jumped to $8.9 billion after the Milan-based startup scrap yard listed on Nasdaq at an $18.4 billion valuation.

  • By Iain Martin

The numbers behind the 2026 World Cup

Twenty-five teams—and two billionaire players—are still competing for a $713,000 trophy and $50 million in prize money. Here are more figures to know about the World Cup.

  • By Brett Knight
  • Forbes Staff

The top 10 richest people in the world (August 2026)

There’s a new member of the $300 billion club and a second sibling from America’s richest family among the planet’s ten wealthiest people.

  • By Forbes Staff

Larry Ellison’s net worth plunges $100 billion amid Oracle slide

The Oracle chairman ranked the world’s second-richest person earlier this month.

  • By Ty Roush
  • Forbes Staff

Airwallex mega raise nearly doubled its valuation in a year

Titans of finance including Baillie Gifford and T. Rowe Price have backed Airwallex in the startup’s US$320 million Series H, which values the Australian-born startup at $16 billion.

  • By Daniel Van Boom
  • Business Journalist

Elon Musk’s net worth drops $350 billion in massive SpaceX selloff—but he’s still a trillionaire

A selloff for Musk’s rocket maker wiped out roughly $900 billion in market value.

  • By Ty Roush
  • Forbes Staff

Elon Musk-Mark Zuckerberg fight talks were ‘real’, says UFC’s Dana White

The UFC CEO said a proposed fight at Rome’s Colosseum would have cost an estimated $150 million.

  • By Zachary Folk
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Australia’s VC sector is the fastest growing in the world – but one key pool is drying up

Australia’s VC industry is on track to have its biggest year since 2022, a new report from Side Stage Ventures and the Australian Investment Council says, but most of that is going to the top end of town.

  • By Daniel Van Boom
  • Business Journalist
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