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Top Tech Richest People 2014 On The Planet

 The Top Tech Richest People 2014 On The Planet Published by Forbes.com yesterday.

Bill Gates is back on top after a four-year hiatus, reclaiming the title of world’s richest person from telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico, who ranked No. 1 for the past four years. Gates, whose fortune rose by $9 billion in the past year, has held the top spot for 15 of the past 20 years.

RankNameNet WorthAgeSourceCountry of Citizenship
#1Bill Gates$76 B58MicrosoftUnited States
#5Larry Ellison$48 B69OracleUnited States
#17Larry Page$32.3 B40GoogleUnited States
#18Jeff Bezos$32 B50Amazon.comUnited States
#19Sergey Brin$31.8 B40GoogleUnited States
#21Mark Zuckerberg$28.5 B29FacebookUnited States
#36Steve Ballmer$19.3 B57MicrosoftUnited States
#48Michael Dell$17.5 B49DellUnited States
#56Paul Allen$15.9 B61Microsoft, investmentsUnited States
#61Azim Premji$15.3 B68softwareIndia
#65Charles Ergen$15 B61Dish NetworkUnited States
#73Laurene Powell Jobs & family$14 B50Apple, DisneyUnited States
#80Ma Huateng$13.4 B42internet mediaChina
#91Robin Li$12.1 B45internet searchChina
#102Shiv Nadar$11.1 B68information technologyIndia
#122Jack Ma$10 B49e-commerceChina
#132Hiroshi Mikitani$9.3 B49online retailingJapan
#132Eric Schmidt$9.3 B58GoogleUnited States
#147Hasso Plattner$8.8 B70softwareGermany
#162Xavier Niel$8.2 B46internet, telecomFrance
#162Pierre Omidyar$8.2 B46EbayUnited States
#168David Duffield$7.7 B73business softwareUnited States
#177James Goodnight$7.5 B71softwareUnited States
#177Klaus Tschira$7.5 B73softwareGermany
#191Dietmar Hopp$7 B73softwareGermany
#202Jan Koum$6.8 B38WhatsAppUnited States
#202Dustin Moskovitz$6.8 B29FacebookUnited States
#263Terry Gou$5.4 B63electronicsTaiwan
#281Gordon Moore$5 B85IntelUnited States
#305Zhang Zhidong$4.8 B42internet mediaChina
#328Jay Y. Lee$4.5 B45SamsungSouth Korea
#328David Sun$4.5 B62computer hardwareUnited States
#328John Tu$4.5 B73computer hardwareUnited States
#354William Ding$4.2 B42online gamesChina
#354Ralph Dommermuth$4.2 B50internet service providerGermany
#367Barry Lam$4.1 B64computersTaiwan
#367Eduardo Saverin$4.1 B31FacebookBrazil
#375Lei Jun$4 B44smartphonesChina
#396Jeffrey Skoll$3.8 B49EbayUnited States
#396Andreas von Bechtolsheim$3.8 B58GoogleGermany
#408Jiang Bin$3.7 B47electronicsChina
#408John Sall$3.7 B65softwareUnited States
#430Reid Hoffman$3.6 B46LinkedInUnited States
#446H. Ross Perot, Sr.$3.5 B83computer services, real estateUnited States
#446Evan Williams$3.5 B41TwitterUnited States
#466John Doerr$3.4 B62venture capitalUnited States
#483Marc Benioff$3.3 B49business softwareUnited States
#483Fu Liquan & family$3.3 B46electronicsChina
#551Brian Acton$3 B42WhatsAppUnited States
#580David Filo$2.9 B47YahooUnited States
#580Walter Scott, Jr.$2.9 B82construction, telecomUnited States
#642Eva Maria Bucher-Haefner$2.7 B57Computer AssociatesSwitzerland
#642Dagmar Dolby & family$2.7 B72Dolby LaboratoriesUnited States
#642Liu Qiangdong$2.7 B39e-commerceChina
#642Robert Pera$2.7 B35technologyUnited States
#663Jason Chang$2.6 B69electronicsSingapore
#663Sean Parker$2.6 B34FacebookUnited States
#687David Cheriton$2.5 B62GoogleCanada
#687Jack Dangermond$2.5 B68mapping softwareUnited States
#731Bharat Desai & family$2.4 B61outsourcingUnited States
#764Jia Yueting$2.3 B41entertainmentChina
#764Xue Xiangdong & family$2.3 B55softwareChina
#796Naruatsu Baba$2.2 B36smartphone game makerJapan
#796Jack Dorsey$2.2 B37TwitterUnited States
#796Martin Haefner$2.2 B60technology, investmentsSwitzerland
#796Romesh T. Wadhwani$2.2 B66softwareUnited States
#828Taizo Son$2.1 B-gamingJapan
#828Jerry Yang$2.1 B45YahooUnited States
#828Zhou Hongyi$2.1 B43InternetChina
#869Thomas Siebel$2 B61business softwareUnited States
#869Meg Whitman$2 B57EbayUnited States
#925Henry Samueli$1.95 B59semiconductorsUnited States
#931Mo Tianquan$1.9 B50internet information providerChina
#931Bob Parsons$1.9 B63web hostingUnited States
#973Hans-Werner Hector$1.85 B74SAPGermany
#973Li Zhongchu$1.85 B50information technologyChina
#973Kavitark Ram Shriram$1.85 B57venture capital, GoogleUnited States
#988Irwin Jacobs$1.8 B80semiconductorsUnited States
#988Eric Lefkofsky$1.8 B44GrouponUnited States
#988Neal Patterson$1.8 B64health ITUnited States
#988H. Ross Perot, Jr.$1.8 B55computer services, real estateUnited States
#988Gil Shwed$1.8 B46softwareIsrael
#1046Lin Xiucheng & family$1.7 B58electronicsChina
#1046N.R. Narayana Murthy & family$1.7 B67software servicesIndia
#1092Scott Cook$1.6 B61softwareUnited States
#1092Phillip Ragon$1.6 B64health ITUnited States
#1092Yoshikazu Tanaka$1.6 B37social networkingJapan
#1092Tsai Ming-Kai$1.6 B63semiconductorsTaiwan
#1154Chen Tianqiao$1.5 B41online gamesChina
#1154Senapathy Gopalakrishnan & family$1.5 B58softwareIndia
#1210James Clark$1.4 B69Netscape, investmentsUnited States
#1210Hong Ra-Hee$1.4 B68SamsungSouth Korea
#1210Kagemasa Kozuki$1.4 B73gamingJapan
#1210Marius Nacht$1.4 B48softwareIsrael
#1210Nandan Nilekani & family$1.4 B58software servicesIndia
#1270Jonathan Oringer$1.35 B39stock photosUnited States
#1284Aneel Bhusri$1.3 B48business softwareUnited States
#1284Bruce Cheng$1.3 B78electronicsTaiwan
#1284Henry Nicholas, III.$1.3 B54semiconductorsUnited States
#1284Shaul Shani$1.3 B59technologyIsrael
#1284Charles Simonyi$1.3 B66MicrosoftUnited States
#1284Wang Wenjing$1.3 B49softwareChina
#1284Nicholas Woodman$1.3 B38video camerasUnited States
#1355Kim Jung-Ju$1.29 B46online gamesSouth Korea
#1356Yusaku Maezawa$1.25 B38online retailJapan
#1372Steve Case$1.2 B55AOLUnited States
#1372Drew Houston$1.2 B30DropboxUnited States
#1372Michael Krasny$1.2 B60retailUnited States
#1372Jeff Rothschild$1.2 B59FacebookUnited States
#1372Tian Ming$1.2 B60measuring instrumentsChina
#1442Lee Hae-Jin$1.15 B46Internet portalSouth Korea
#1442Qi Xiangdong$1.15 B43softwareChina
#1465Goh Peng Ooi$1.1 B59softwareMalaysia
#1465Mark Pincus$1.1 B48online gamesUnited States
#1540K. Dinesh & family$1.05 B59software servicesIndia
#1540Sheryl Sandberg$1.05 B44FacebookUnited States
#1540Wang Laichun$1.05 B46electronics componentsChina
#1540Wang Laisheng$1.05 B49electronics componentsChina
#1540Yao Wenbin$1.05 B43softwareChina
#1565Fred Chang$1 B57online retailingUnited States
#1565Morris Kahn$1 B84softwareIsrael
#1565Michael Lynch$1 B49softwareUnited Kingdom
#1565John Morgridge$1 B80CiscoUnited States
Source:  Forbes.com

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