Spending a Billion

1. Fund.com, $9.99 million 

2. Porn.com, $9.5 million

3. Diamonds.com, $7.5 million

4. Toys.com, $5.1 million

5. Vodka.com, $3 million

6. CreditCards.com, $2.75 million

7. Computers.com, $2.1 million

8. Seniors.com, $1.8 million

9. DataRecovery.com, $1.66 million

10. Cameras.com, $1.5 million

10. Tandberg.com, $1.5 million

Source: ABC News

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Age 57

Born April 19, 1957 , Colony of Aden, Yemen

Nationality Indian

Industry Manufacturing

Occupation Chairman, Managing Director of Reliance Industries

Net worth US$20.8 billion (as of November 2008)

Ranking 5th world’s richest person (In the beginning of 2008)

Awards Most Influential Person in Telecommunications in 2004 by Total Telecom

Extra Notes

- He leads Reliance Industries, India’s most valuable company by market cap.

- He directed and led the creation of the world’s largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, Gujarat, India.

- He was chosen the businessman of the year 2007 by a public poll in India conducted by NDTV.

- Ambani owns the Indian Premier League team Mumbai Indians.

Art Marcovici has done it for you, up on the picture there are 12 standard pallets, alltogether 10 million 100 USD notes. Equally impressive with the size of 1 billion dollars is what you can do with it. WallStats has some cool graphics to show you how much 1 billion really is :

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Age 57

Born 15 June 1951, Sadulpur, Rajasthan, India

Nationality Indian

Industry Manufacturing

Occupation Chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal , a non-executive director of Goldman Sachs, EADS and ICICI Bank

Net worth US $46.0 Billion

Ranking 4th world’s richest person

Awards 2006: Person of the Year - Financial Times

Extra Notes

- The Mittal family owns a controlling majority stake in ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel company.

- Longtime resident of London is Europe’s richest resident.

- In 2007 it was announced that the Mittal family had purchased a 20 per cent shareholding in Queens Park Rangers football club .

-Mittal’s house in Kensington, London is decorated with marble taken from the same quarry that supplied the Taj Mahal.

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This luxury phone comes from Peter Aloisson, who is a jeweler and Austrian designer. The iPhone is made of solid 18 carat yellow gold, white gold and rose gold. The white gold line is encrusted with a total of 138 brilliant cut diamonds. The main feature of this spectacular phone is it’s home button. It carries a rare 6.6 carat diamond.

So what does it take to make you feel as a king ? No more or less than $2.5 Million .

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Age 68

Born January 28, 1940 , Mexico City, Mexico

Nationality Mexican

Industry Communication

Occupation Chairman and CEO, Telmex, Telcel and América Móvil

Net worth $60.0 billion USD

Ranking 2nd world’s richest person





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- He started as a taxi driver in Mexico, and studied engineering at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

- Carlos Slim Helú has had good few years, his fortune has doubled in just two years to $60 billion.

- Slim has a substantial influence over the telecommunications industry in Mexico and much of Latin America as well

In the real estate world from US there is a new record for the most expensive property on the market in the US today. This house is on the market for $165 million, and for this huge sum of money you get - 6.5 acres of land that include four houses, an apartment and a cottage for the security staff. The stats here are dazzling: three separate pools, 29 bedrooms, a movie theater and a disco (the main house has just nine bedrooms). The home was built in 1927 for banker Milton Getz and designed by Gordon Kaufmann. Hearst bought for $120,000 in 1947. The LA times reports that the home is currently owned by attorney-investor Leonard M. Ross, who is looking for a “lifestyle change.” Ross bought the home in 1976.

If you had acted fast 20 years ago, when the home was briefly on the market, you could have picked this place up for $25 million. As Curbed LA mentioned the home has been in several movies including The Godfather, The Jerk and The Bodyguard.

It’s claimed to be the fastest ever open topped Ferrari !
If you’re wondering what 16M stands for — it’s “16th Manufacturers”; as in the 16th F1 Constructors title Ferrari won in 2008.  Aside from the obvious lack of a roof, the only differences that visually set the coupe and spider versions apart are the unique side-badging and a new center stripe package. With a top speed of almost 200mph, the car will also sprint from 0-62mph in only 3.7 seconds.

By the way, The Scuderia Spider 16M is the first car with at personalized 16GB iPod Touch.

The sword is for auction at Christie’s for about $441,000 -  $588,000 . Not a bad decoration to put on the mantelpiece.

Tula, circa 1800
The steel blade is moderaltely curved, the upper part  inlaid in gold with the coat-of-arms of Tula and the  Russian inscription below ‘[Execured] with zeal by the  Tula armoury makers’, the other upper part of the other  side of the blade with the gold inlaid imprint of the seal  of Count Sergei Semenovich Uvarov: ‘Glory, Honour, Good  use’, the scabbard applied with shagreen within steel  mounts, each decorated with rows of stylized steel balls  faceted as diamonds. The full steel hilt and box with  stylized balls faceted as diamonds. the pommel of the  grip shaped as a stylized head of an eagle executed in the  same diamond faceting technique, with similar chain  hanging from the beak of the eagle
35 in. (89 cm.) long