<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cd024943-b83d-49c9-b6f3-b86983760945/F1C51973-70E7-4BC3-B7EB-741B9EAC3564/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy" href="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy" style="font-size: 11px;">mail.google.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy"><P>Riding the surging price of <B>Berkshire Hathaway</B> (nyse: <A target="_blank" href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=BRK">BRK</A> - <A target="_blank" href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/company_news.jhtml?ticker=BRK"> news </A> - <A target="_blank" href="http://www.forbes.com/peopletracker/results.jhtml?startRow=0&name=&ticker=BRK"> people </A>) stock, America's most beloved investor has seen his fortune swell to an estimated $62 billion, up $10 billion from a year ago. That massive pile of scratch puts him ahead of <B>Microsoft</B> (nasdaq: <A target="_blank" href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=MSFT">MSFT</A> - <A target="_blank" href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/company_news.jhtml?ticker=MSFT"> news </A> - <A target="_blank" href="http://www.forbes.com/peopletracker/results.jhtml?startRow=0&name=&ticker=MSFT"> people </A>) co-founder Bill Gates, who was the richest man in the world for 13 straight years. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy"><P>Gates is now worth $58 billion and is ranked third in the world. He is up $2 billion from a year ago, but would have been perhaps as rich--or richer--than Buffett had Microsoft not made an unsolicited bid for <B>Yahoo!</B> (nasdaq: <A target="_blank" href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=YHOO">YHOO</A> - <A target="_blank" href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/company_news.jhtml?ticker=YHOO"> news </A> - <A target="_blank" href="http://www.forbes.com/peopletracker/results.jhtml?startRow=0&name=&ticker=YHOO"> people </A>) at the beginning of February. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkovy"><P>Microsoft shares fell 15% between Jan. 31, the day before the company announced its bid for the search engine giant, and Feb. 11, the day we locked in stock prices for the 2008 World's Billionaires list. More than half of Gates' fortune is held outside of Microsoft shares. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F1C51973-70E7-4BC3-B7EB-741B9EAC3564/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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