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Facebook is richer than Google

According to calculations by Forbes, the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the mogul has become the third richest in the world of technology.

With a fortune estimated in shares around 18 billion dollars, the employer would have exceeded even the twenty-seven co-founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

Facebook’s Zuckerberg is richer than Google by Forbes

Facebook's Zuckerberg is richer than Google

The Mountain View giant appears to have suffered a setback and, in maintaining with the bi-weekly, in March the fortune of the two founders of Google had dropped to 17 from 19.8 billion dollars calculated in the same period last year.

Whereas estimates of the worth of Facebook, which isn’t listed, proceed to rise. Two days ago the bottom GSV Capital has bought 225,000 shares of social networks at an average price of $ 29.28 per share, with assessment of the company in Palo Alto $ 70 billion.

This is an increase of 40 percent in comparability with the appraisal made ​​by Forbes in February, when an estimated fortune of about Zuckerberg were 13.5 billion dollars.

After having climbed within the fall the founding father of Apple, Steve Jobs, to turn out to be the ‘richest businessman in the technology sector has but to beat Zuckerberg Bill Gates , the founder of Microsoft , who has a fortune of $ 56 billion, and Oracle founder Larry Ellison. In line with Forbes it has a wealth of 39.5 billion dollars.