5) Wedding Ring cost Prince William $11,000
At fifth spot of this list, we have the Wedding Ring given by Prince William to Kate Middleton which cost him $11000. That is not too expensive however the engagement ring worn by Kate Middleton is of her late mother in law Princess Diana and is worth $1 Million now.
4) Royal Wedding Cakes cost $80,000
At fourth place in this list, we have the royal wedding cakes. First one of them was multi-tiered fruit cake covered in white cream and icing, decorated with flowers and was designed by using the Joseph Lambert technique. The second one was Prince William’s favorite, a chocolate biscuit cake made using a royal family recipe.
3) Wedding Dress of Kate Middleton cost $450,000
The third most notable financial fact about the royal wedding is the money spent on the dresses of bride. Kate Middleton’s wedding gown and other outfits that she’ll wear to receptions have cost around $450,000 and this sum of money was reportedly paid by Kate’s parents.
2) About $800,000 spent Flowers
At second spot of this financial facts list on royal wedding 2011 is the money spent on flowers. The Queen and Prince Charles shared the responsibility to beautify Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace and spent about $800,000 on flowers.
1) $32 Million spent on Security
Thousands of police officers accompanied the bridal procession and armed military personnel escorted the couple from church service. Since, it was a national holiday the officers were paid double time and that makes the security expenses top the list of financial facts about royal wedding 2011.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Worlds People In Technology: These are men of TECH
Rank |
Name |
Net Worth |
Age |
Source |
Country of Citizenship |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Bill Gates |
$56 B | 55 | Microsoft | United States |
| 5 | Larry Ellison |
$39.5 B | 66 | Oracle | United States |
| 24 | Larry Page |
$19.8 B | 38 | United States | |
| 24 | Sergey Brin |
$19.8 B | 37 | United States | |
| 30 | Jeff Bezos |
$18.1 B | 47 | Amazon | United States |
| 36 | Azim Premji |
$16.8 B | 65 | Software | India |
| 44 | Michael Dell |
$14.6 B | 46 | Dell | United States |
| 46 | Steve Ballmer |
$14.5 B | 55 | Microsoft | United States |
| 52 | Mark Zuckerberg |
$13.5 B | 26 | United States | |
| 57 | Paul Allen |
$13 B | 58 | Microsoft, investments | United States |
| 95 | Robin Li |
$9.4 B | 42 | Internet | China |
| 110 | Steve Jobs |
$8.3 B | 56 | Apple, Pixar | United States |
| 136 | Eric Schmidt |
$7 B | 56 | United States | |
| 141 | Hasso Plattner |
$6.9 B | 67 | SAP | Germany |
| 141 | James Goodnight |
$6.9 B | 68 | SAS Institute | United States |
| 143 | Cher Wang & Wenchi Chen |
$6.8 B | 53 | electronics | Taiwan |
| 145 | Pierre Omidyar |
$6.7 B | 43 | Ebay | United States |
| 179 | Terry Gou |
$5.7 B | 60 | electronics | Taiwan |
| 182 | Hiroshi Mikitani |
$5.6 B | 46 | online retailing | Japan |
| 182 | Shiv Nadar |
$5.6 B | 65 | Information technology | India |
| 208 | Ma Huateng |
$5 B | 39 | Internet | China |
| 268 | Walter Haefner |
$4 B | 100 | Software | Switzerland |
| 268 | Gordon Moore |
$4 B | 82 | Intel | United States |
| 297 | Xavier Niel |
$3.7 B | 43 | internet, telecom | France |
| 310 | Ray Dolby |
$3.5 B | 78 | Dolby Laboratories | United States |
| 323 | Henry Ross Perot Sr |
$3.4 B | 80 | computer services, real estate | United States |
| 323 | John Sall |
$3.4 B | 63 | SAS Institute | United States |
| 347 | Jeffrey Skoll |
$3.2 B | 46 | Ebay | Canada |
| 376 | Barry Lam |
$3 B | 62 | electronics | Taiwan |
| 420 | Dustin Moskovitz |
$2.7 B | 26 | United States | |
| 440 | David Sun |
$2.6 B | 59 | computer memory | United States |
| 440 | John Tu |
$2.6 B | 69 | computer memory | United States |
| 440 | William Ding |
$2.6 B | 39 | Internet | China |
| 488 | Jay Y. Lee |
$2.4 B | 42 | Samsung | South Korea |
| 512 | Andreas von Bechtolsheim |
$2.3 B | 55 | Germany | |
| 540 | John Doerr |
$2.2 B | 59 | venture capital | United States |
| 540 | Yoshikazu Tanaka |
$2.2 B | 34 | social networking | Japan |
| 540 | Hans-Werner Hector |
$2.2 B | 71 | SAP | Germany |
| 540 | Bharat Desai & family |
$2.2 B | 58 | Syntel | United States |
| 540 | Jack Dangermond |
$2.2 B | 65 | mapping software | United States |
| 564 | Marc Benioff |
$2.1 B | 46 | Salesforce.com | United States |
| 595 | Zhang Zhidong |
$2 B | 39 | Internet | China |
| 595 | N.R. Narayana Murthy & family |
$2 B | 64 | Software | India |
| 595 | Walter Scott |
$2 B | 79 | construction, telecom | United States |
| 595 | Henry Samueli |
$2 B | 56 | Broadcom | United States |
| 595 | Klaus Tschira |
$2 B | 70 | SAP | Germany |
| 651 | Mike Lazaridis |
$1.9 B | 50 | Research in Motion | Canada |
| 651 | Lin Xiucheng & family |
$1.9 B | 55 | electronics | China |
| 692 | James Balsillie |
$1.8 B | 50 | Research in Motion | Canada |
| 692 | Henry Nicholas |
$1.8 B | 51 | Broadcom | United States |
| 692 | David Cheriton |
$1.8 B | 59 | Canada | |
| 692 | Nandan Nilekani & family |
$1.8 B | 55 | Software | India |
| 692 | Gong Hongjia & family |
$1.8 B | 46 | electronics | Hong Kong |
| 692 | Michael Moritz |
$1.8 B | 56 | venture capital | United States |
| 736 | Thomas Siebel |
$1.7 B | 58 | Siebel Systems | United States |
| 782 | Eric Lefkofsky |
$1.6 B | 41 | technology | United States |
| 782 | James Kim & family |
$1.6 B | 75 | microchips | United States |
| 782 | Eduardo Saverin |
$1.6 B | 29 | United States | |
| 782 | Sean Parker |
$1.6 B | 31 | United States | |
| 782 | Kavitark Ram Shriram |
$1.6 B | 54 | Venture capital, Google | United States |
| 782 | Jack Ma |
$1.6 B | 46 | Internet | China |
| 782 | Senapathy Gopalakrishnan & family |
$1.6 B | 56 | Software | India |
| 782 | Irwin Jacobs |
$1.6 B | 77 | Qualcomm | United States |
| 782 | Gil Shwed |
$1.6 B | 43 | Software | Israel |
| 833 | Ralph Dommermuth |
$1.5 B | 47 | internet service provider | Germany |
| 833 | Michael Chiang |
$1.5 B | 58 | TPK Holdings | Taiwan |
| 879 | David Filo |
$1.4 B | 45 | Yahoo | United States |
| 879 | Romesh T. Wadhwani |
$1.4 B | 63 | Software | United States |
| 879 | Scott Cook |
$1.4 B | 58 | Intuit | United States |
| 879 | Henry Ross Perot Jr |
$1.4 B | 52 | computer services, real estate | United States |
| 879 | Jiang Bin |
$1.4 B | 44 | electronics | China |
| 879 | Vinod Khosla |
$1.4 B | 56 | Sun Microsystems, venture capital | United States |
| 879 | Michael Federmann & family |
$1.4 B | 67 | defense, hotels | Israel |
| 938 | David Duffield |
$1.3 B | 70 | PeopleSoft | United States |
| 938 | Jerry Yang |
$1.3 B | 42 | Yahoo | United States |
| 938 | Steve Case |
$1.3 B | 52 | AOL | United States |
| 938 | Meg Whitman |
$1.3 B | 54 | Ebay | United States |
| 938 | Tsai Ming-kai |
$1.3 B | N/A | semiconductors | Taiwan |
| 993 | Chen Tianqiao |
$1.2 B | 38 | entertainment | China |
| 993 | John Morgridge |
$1.2 B | 77 | Cisco | United States |
| 993 | K Dinesh & family |
$1.2 B | 56 | Software | India |
| 1057 | Michael Krasny |
$1.1 B | 57 | CDW Corp | United States |
| 1057 | S.D. Shibulal & family |
$1.1 B | 56 | Software | India |
| 1140 | Li Zhongchu |
$1 B | 48 | Information technology | China |
| 1140 | Wang Wenjing |
$1 B | 46 | Software | China |
| 1140 | Mark Pincus |
$1 B | 45 | Zynga | United States |
| 1140 | Yuri Milner |
$1 B | 49 | social networking | Russia |
| 1140 | Marius Nacht |
$1 B | 45 | Software | Israel |
| 1140 | Morris Kahn |
$1 B | 81 | Software | Israel |
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