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Just a few years ago, Canva co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins was named the youngest billionaire in Australia. Now, she’s one of the richest. Canva’s valuation is now a whopping $15 billion, and since it’s still a privately held company, it’s made

In 2011, Forbes first mentioned Kim Kardashian because of her insane Twitter following—6.6 million, to be exact. At the time, this put her just below Barack Obama. A few years later, her mobile game, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, earned her a cover. But

The world's billionaires, including those in the Philippines, grew their wealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, while millions either lost their jobs or struggled to make ends meet during the prolonged quarantine, according to Forbes Magazine.Sixteen of the 17 Filipinos in the 2,755-long billionaires

Melanie Perkins, a 32-year-old Filipino-Australian, is now Australia’s youngest ever billionaire with a net worth of US$2.5 billion. This makes her Australia’s third-richest woman thanks to Canva, a graphic design company she co-founded less than a decade ago.According to the Australian Financial

In his nationwide address last Monday, March 16, President Rodrigo Duterte escalated the general community quarantine of the National Capital Region to the "enhanced" community quarantine of mainland Luzon. The city of Taguig has been placed under lockdown since Wednesday due to

Ah, billionaires! Sans the ludicrous bank account, they're just like us. Upon waking up in the morning, Oprah likes to walk her dogs, Elon Musk drinks coffee (while answering all his critical emails), and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg—you guessed it!—checks his Facebook

For the first time, two women from the Philippines were included in US magazine Forbes’ rankings of the world’s billionaires. Filipino tycoons on the annual lists have always been predominantly male.The two women that were on the latest rankings are Teresita Sy-Coson and

Though most people know Chryseis Tan as the daughter of the 20th richest man in Malaysia, she is more than just an heiress. Not only is she the CEO of Berjaya Times Square, she's also an investor in Goxip, a popular fashion

Ever wonder what it'd feel like to swim in a pool of your own money? These billionaires sure don't, they're actually living the reality (in a figurative way, of course). We scanned the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest and found these