TECH TITANS RULE RICH LIST

A strong reporting quarter led to a surge in share prices of Facebook, Amazon and Google parent Alphabet, adding a combined $5.6 billion to their founders’ fortunes this week. These gains are reshaping the dynamic at the top of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. As many as six of the top 12 billionaires on the list owe their fortune to their technology firms. At the start of 2015, only two — Bill Gates and Larry Ellison — among the world’s 10 richest people had made their fortunes in technology, A look at the six richest tech titans and how much they gained this week