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Jeff Bezos is world’s richest person

New York : Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has unseated fellow tech billionaire Bill Gates as the richest person in the world, profiting from the e-commerce company's meteoric stock rise to reach a fortune of $90.6 billion. Amazon shares jumped 1.6 percent at the start

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Published 30 October 2017, 8:00 · Updated 18:22

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Jeff Bezos is world’s richest person

New York : Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has unseated fellow tech billionaire Bill Gates as the richest person in the world, profiting from the e-commerce company’s meteoric stock rise to reach a fortune of $90.6 billion. Amazon shares jumped 1.6 percent at the start of trading on Thursday, boosting the net worth of Bezos - the company’s founder and largest shareholder.

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