Ten richest people of 2011

2011 is lesser than a month old and there have been many surveys carried out on various aspects of our daily lives, politics, business, money, crises, war, discoveries and technological inventions. Behind all such inventions and business re some men who not only make fortunes, but also make a difference to how we live and how should our future be shaped as.

10 richest people of 2011

These are the rich men - who make money through innovations and converting ideas into reality. I came across a list of the riches people of 2011 and thought it may interest my readers, if they already have not read it. Interestingly, tow of the richest are from India and the list also includes a woman - perhaps to equate the list and not make it a pure male specific listing.

Herein under is the list - find these out of the photos above. and one more thing before you scroll down: Most of the people listed below are either drop outs or have attained simple Bachelor level education - amazing, isn't it?

Carlos Slim (71), Mexico city, Mexico
Title: Chairman of Telmex.
Net worth: $63.3 B
Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Bill Gates (56), Medina, WA, US
Title: Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
New Worth: $59 B
Education: Drop Out, Harvard University

Warren Buffett (81), Omaha, NE, US
Title: Ceo, Berkshire Hathaway
Net worth: $39 B
Education: Master of Science, Columbia University; Bachelor of Arts / Science, University of Nebraska Lincoln

Bernard Arnault (62), Paris, France
Net Worth: $41 B
Title: Chairman, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH)
Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Ecole Polytechnique de Paris

Larry Ellison (67), Woodside, CA, US
Net worth:$33 B
Title: CEO, Oracle
Education: Drop Out, University of Illinois at Urbana; Drop Out, University of Chicago

Lakshmi Mittal, 61, London, United Kingdom
Title: Chairman, ArcelorMittal
Net Worth: 19.2 B
Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, St Xavier”s College Calcutta

Amancio Ortega (75), La Coruna, Spain
Net Worth: $31B
Title: Chairman of Inditex

Eike Batista (54), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Net worth: $30B
Education: Drop out, RWTH Aachen University

Mukesh Ambani (54), Mumbai, India
Net Worth: $22.6 B
Title: Chairman, Reliance Industries
Education: Drop Out, Stanford University; Bachelor of Science in Engineering, University of Bombay

Christy Walton (56), Jackson, NY, US
Net Worth: $24.5 B

For sure you would be able to find out Bill Gates and Christy Walton. For more on these riches and who is who in the above collage, read the full post at: Men's Vanity

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30 Best Google Doodles of 2011

[ via Mashable ] 1 Jan

his year, more than ever, visiting Google’s homepage became a bit of a surprise. Google Doodles have come a long way from the first one, which showed Burning Man’s iconic logo. It’s now become customary to the search engine’s homepage, and last year, we saw many that were colorful, interactive and crazy.

Here are just some of the Google Doodles of 2011. Which is your favorite? Let us know in the comments.

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2011: 8 Hilarious Internet Jokes, Memes and Parody Accounts

[ via Mashable ]

As the year 2011 wraps up its last day today, more and more of interesting things that happened are being shared on the internet around the world. 

Here is a selection from some of the best Hilarious Internet Jokes, Memes and Parody Accounts:

• Photoshop Looter
• Livetweeting Twilight
• Conspiracy Keanu
• Scumbag Steve
• The Cosby Equation
• Ryan Gosling
• Texts From Bennett
• Sexy Sax Man

Read full story to watch a slide show on each above and welcome 2012 with a smile 

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5 Video Game Moments that Defined 2011

[ via Mashable ] 30 Dec

It seems like every single year is “the year of gaming,” if only because the genre keeps getting bigger and bigger. Everyone thought 2006 was going to be the high water mark with the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii all battling for supremacy. Then 2009 upped the ante with a rush of top-tier, high-selling games.

2011 was no slouch in terms of gaming. This year we caught a glimpse of the next generation of systems — portable and otherwise. Social networks entered mainstream games, motion gaming promised to further revolutionize how we play, mobile games proved they are here to stay and gamification showed that pretty much anything you do online can be turned into a video game.

Here are the five games that defined 2011:

1. The Next Generation of Consoles
2. Mobile Gaming is Here to Stay
3. Battlefield Takes On Modern Warfare
4. Motion Gaming
5. Gamification

Read more about each moment in full story at Mashable.

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Asia stocks end 2011 sharply lower, Europe in focus

[ via Reuters ] 30 Dec

 Asian stocks were poised to end their first losing year in three on Friday, having shed nearly a fifth of their value as Europe's debt crisis and financial turmoil took a toll on investors' risk appetite, driving them to safer assets such as the U.S. dollar and gold.

European stocks were set to edge higher on the last session of a dismal year that saw them tumble about 12 percent, while U.S. futures pointed to a weaker opening on Wall Street later in the day, with the S&P 500 looking set to end the year pretty close to where it began. .EU

Commodities such as crude oil and gold fared better this year. Brent crude is set to end the year up nearly 14 percent and at a record high annual average, as political tensions in OPEC member states help negate a global economic slowdown that has dampened oil demand growth.

The oil market will end 2011 the same way it started, with fears of a major oil supply disruption in the Middle East and North Africa supporting prices and the uncertainty is expected to continue into the new year as well.

Read more: Reuters

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Top quirky stories of 2011

[ via LA Times ] 29 Dec

Be it the macabre mummified remains of a Playboy playmate or the odd sentence of the avocado thief, Californians were prominently featured in some of 2011's quirkiest stories.

It wasn't a Michael Bay movie, but for Westside residents the closure of the 405 Freeway for an entire weekend was expected to be a disaster, and was dubbed "Carmageddon." Some, however, took advantage of the closure. Stephen Estes, 23 , looked at the empty 405 Freeway as an invitation to start "planking." Basically, Estes made like a board and lay down on the freeway in a type of craze whose latest incarnation is "Tebowing."

Los Angeles Times have compiled a list of some of our favorites from L.A. 

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6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011

[ via Mashable ] 28 Dec

Startups have an inherently predictive quality. As the innovation engines of the economy, what startups figured out in 2011 will likely appear on other sectors’ trend lists in 2012.

Things change quickly in the start up world, which makes for trends more exciting and more distinct than any other industry. 

These six trends in particular stood out to us in 2011. Let us know what you’d add to the list in the comments below.

• The Evolution of the Checkin
• The Rise and Fall of Independent Group Messaging Apps
• Birchbox for Everything
• Peer-to-Peer Marketplaces Get Local and Real-Time
• Online Goes Offline
• NYC Rises In the Tech Scene

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The killing fields of 2011 in Photographs

I wonder why the world is becoming more violent and deadly with the passage of each day of our lives. I wanted to find a collection of the Best Photos of 2011 - but was appalled to find blood stained and soaked photographs everywhere. It looks as if the world has become a killing field rather than a planet of hope and peace.

WARNING: SOME IMAGES CONTAIN GRAPHIC CONTENT OR NUDITY From the uprisings across the Arab world to the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan, there was no lack of news in 2011. Reuters photographers covered the breaking news events as well as captured more intimate, personal stories. In this showcase, the photographers offer a behind the scenes account of the images that helped define the year.

I am sharing just a few less graphic photos of 2011 - which by the science and art of photography can be rated as the best. But if we view these as human beings, these leave us much to ponder.

For rest of the many more photos, see the slide show at: Reuters.

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11 Biggest PR Disasters Of 2011

[ via Business Insider ] 24 Dec

2011 was filled with PR disasters. And Twitter made all of them exponentially worse. 

"There now seems to be an appetite for getting excited for these blunders," says Paul Argenti, a professor of corporate communication of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business who has advised clients including Goldman Sachs and General Electric on reputation management.

Argenti offered us his list of the top 11 PR disasters of 2011: 

1. Netflix
2. Olympus
3. Rupert Murdoch
4. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) 
5. Anthony Weiner
6. Penn State
7. Warren Buffet
8. Silvio Berlusconi
9. US Congress Deficit Supercommittee
10. Charlie Sheen
11. Kim Kardashian

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Top 20 IT Trends In 2011

[ via Information Week ] 

Cloud computing, the rise of enterprise social networks, a revolving door at Hewlett-Packard, and the passing of Steve Jobs all had a major impact on the business technology sector in 2011. 

What follows is my list, in reverse order, of the most important themes, events, products, and people in business technology of the past year, says Eric Lundquist of Information Week.

1. Consultant nation
2. Musical chairs at HP
3. New development platforms
4. New boss at IBM
5. Big data
6. Stuxnet
7. CMOs as techies
8. NBA
9. Virtualization
10. Vertical integrity
11. BI from the outside in
12. IT as a service
13. Social networks go enterprise
14. Steve Jobs' death
15. P/C/S
16. Prosumer
17. Economy
18. Mobility
19. Cloud Computing
20. IT is too slow

Read Information Week fr detail on each above - also find out which way is this listing!!

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YouTube's Most-Watched Commercials of 2011

[ via Business Insider ] 21 Dec

One of the great things about Top 10 advertising lists that are based on what consumers actually watched, as opposed to the lazy judgments of know-nothing critics, is how surprising they are.

Forced to guess ahead of time, you might think that Apple's first ad for the iPhone 4S featuring Siri would have been one of the top YouTube ads of the year -- but it's waaaay down the list. Even Smartwater's contrived Jennifer Aniston viral video beat Apple.

So here they are, the most-watched YouTube ads of 2011. The entry point was 4.3 million views.

T-Mobile "Royal Wedding"

• Adidas D Rose: adiZero Rose 2: "The Bull"
• Samsung: "Unleash Your Fingers" 
• Apple: "Introducing Siri on iPhone 4S" 
• Old Spice: "Scent Vacation" 
• Hot Wheels: "The Yellow Driver's World Record Jump" 
• Smartwater: "Jennifer Aniston Goes Viral" 
• DC Shoes: "Ken Block's Gymkhana Four; the Hollywood Megamercial" 
• Chrysler: "Imported From Detroit" 
• T-Mobile: "Royal Wedding" 
• Volkswagen: "The Force" 

Watch these commercials at: Business Insider and find out which commercial drew 42.5 million viewers.

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9 Bad Tech Ideas That Expired In 2011

[ Business Insider ] 22 Dec

In high-tech rends and product ideas come and go.

So here's our raspberry to some bad tech ideas that finally died in 2011.

1. Flash on mobile devices
2. HP saying goodbye to its computer business
3. Crummy tablets that cost too much
4. Netbooks
5. Google's lame social experiments
6. Nokia's do-nothing smartphone strategy
7. Would-be Foursquare killers
8. Dozens of "me too" daily deals sites
9. The imaginary tech bubble

Read details on each above at Business Insider

Let's hope they don't rise from the dead in 2012...

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5 Biggest Mobile Stories Of 2011

[ via Information Week ]

2011 was another crazy year in the mobile industry. The industry was rife with action, growth, progress, conflict, winners, and losers. We saw the birth of the Android tablet; the rebirth of the Android, iOS, and Windows Phone platforms; the death of webOS-based phones and tablets; the failed AT&T-T-Mobile merger; and all sorts of industry records for apps, downloads, sales, and much, much more.

Boiling an entire year's worth of industry events into a single post doesn't do justice to the accomplishments contributed by all of the people involved, but there were five stories that stood above the rest in scale and importance to the industry. Here they are.

1. Android domination
2. AT&T/T-Mobile merger
3. Good tablets, bad tablets, ugly tablets
4. Four-G fight
5. iPhone 5

For details on each, read  Information Week

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Google Reveals The Most Popular Search Terms Of 2011

[ via Business Insider ] 21 Dec

Google just turned in its "annual report" of sorts as it has for the past several years in the form of Zeitgeist.

After sorting through billions of search terms, Google reveals the most popular things people searched for in 2011.

From pop culture to natural disaster, here are the 10 fastest rising search terms in the world for the year to date (to be read from least to best liked).

1. iPad2
2. Steve Jobs
3. TEPCO
4. Adele
5. iPhone 5
6. Battlefield 3
7. Casey Anthony
8. Ryan Dunn (of "Jackass" fame)
9. Google+
10. Rebecca Black (of YouTube fame)

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DSK Wife named France's Woman of Year

[ via Newser ] 20 Dec

Standing by her man has made Anne Sinclair a very popular woman in France. Dominique Strauss-Kahn's wife has been named as woman of the year by a French women's magazine after topping an opinion poll, the New York Post reports. 

DSK and his wife Anne Sinclair

With 25%, Sinclair came out ahead of Christine Lagarde, Strauss-Kahn's successor as IMF chief, who scored 24%. Tristane Banon, who accused DSK of attempted rape, came in last in the poll, with 4%.

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And The Most Popular Gadget Of 2011 Is...

[ via Business Insider ] 18 Dec

Apple iPhone 4S - this is what you said? Well if you did, you are in for a big surprise. Google's annual Zeitgeist is out for 2011, listing the top searches in a broad range of categories.

Given herein under is a ranking of Google's "Fastest Rising Gadgets" in the United States this year. That means they're ranked based on how popular the searches were at a specific time. For example, searches for "iPhone 4S" didn't begin until Apple announced the device in October.

Since the survey is USA specific, you may not find brands that are generally not availabe in USA.

The ranking starts from the lowest to the highest and you will be surprised to see the last entry !!

• TI Nspire Cx
• Palm Pre 3
• HTC Sensation
• iPad 2
• HTC Inspire
• HTC Thunderbolt
• HP Touchpad
• Sidekick 4G
• iPhone 4S
• Kindle Fire

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Most Popular Female Athletes on Internet In 2011 [ Survey ]

[ via Business Insider / Sports Page ] 17 Dec

Total Pro Sports put together a list of the 30 most Googled female athletes of 2011, measured by the amount of search results from the past year.

A selection of most popular athletes on Internet 2011 - Can you guess who tops the list?

And in 2011, it seems people were busy searching for female tennis players. And good news for Tennis enthusiasts as most favorite ladies on the tennis court took the top five spots, followed by skiers, soccer players, and even MMA fighters.

The list seen from Bottom to Top reads names as under:

• Gina Carano
• Michelle Wie
• Petra Kvitova
• Maria Kirilenko
• Hope Solo
• Ana Ivanovic
• Danica Patrick
• Lindsey Vonn
• Venus Williams
• Anna Kournikova
• Caroline Wozniacki
• Maria Sharapova
• Serena Williams

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Time names "The Protester" 2011 Person of the Year

[ via Reuters ] 14 Dec

From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movement, "The Protester" was named Time magazine's 2011 Person of the Year on Wednesday, reports Reuters.

Time defines the Person of the Year as someone who, for better or for worse, influences the events of the year.

Read full story for the rest of the selections - though Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, who married Prince William in April, rounded out the Time short list.

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Top 10 Most Rated Android Games For 2011

[ via Chip Hazard ] 13 Dec

Google celebrated their 10 Billion downlaods from their Android market this year where most of the downloads came from the countries including South Korea, Hon Kong, Taiwan, U.S and Singapore. 

Four of the 10 selected android games

The most contribution of the downloads were dominated by games. With that in mind, we have compiled a list of Top Ranked games for the year which you might like to choose from.

Here are the Top 10 Most Rated Android Games For 2011:

1. Shadowgun
2. Angry Birds Rio
3. Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus
4. World Cruise Story
5. Symphony of Eternity
6. 9mm HD
7. Raging Thunder 2
8. Phage
9. Hot Springs Story
10. Army Sniper

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The 10 Best Mac Apps of 2011

[ via Mashable ] 13 Dec

The Mac App Store launched at the beginning of 2011 and has already surpassed 100 million downloads. The Mac App Store isn’t the only place for users to get Mac apps — and not all apps (or publishers) are in the Mac App Store — but the uptake amongst developers and users has been swift.

As 2011 comes to a close, Mashable says it wanted to look at 10 of our favorite Mac App Store apps from its first year of existence. The list is as under: 

1. Apple's OS X Lion
2. Fantastical 
3. Flare and Analog
4. Pixelmator
5. Alfred
6. Reeder
7. Marked
8. Camtasia 2
9. Clarify
10. CloudApp

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