Jeff Bezos topples Bill Gates as world’s richest

Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos unseated fellow tech billionaire Bill Gates as the richest person in the world briefly on Thursday. He  profited in early trading  from the e-commerce company’s meteoric stock rise to reach a fortune of 90.6 billion dollars, Forbes reported. Gates is worth $90.1billion. Amazon shares jumped 1.6 per cent at the start of trading on Thursday, boosting the net worth of Bezos – the company’s founder and largest shareholder – by 1.4 billion dollars,according to Forbes, which tracks the world’s wealthiest. Bloomberg however estimated Bezos…

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