The youngest billionaire in the world is a resident of Norway. Alexandra Anderson is only 19 years old, and Forbes estimates her fortune at $1,2 billion. The girl got an impressive amount thanks to her family business. As the publication found out, Andersen is the ex-heiress of the tobacco empire, which he founded in 1849...
In New York, Alexander Rovt is one of the richest Russian-speaking Americans. Now the influential magazine Forbes estimates his fortune at more than one billion dollars. And in 2012, the publication included Rovt in the list of the four hundred richest people on the planet. Earn...
American carmaker General Motors is investing $ 500 million in Lyft Inc., which owns a taxi app. In total, within the framework of the cooperation, GM intends to invest about $ 1 billion in Lyft with the aim, among other things, to create a joint service of self-driving taxis for ...
Russian-speaking specialists have taken strong positions in Silicon Valley. In Google, Apple, Facebook and hundreds of smaller companies, Russian is spoken. "Forum" collected five stories about how our people got to work in the most famous companies in Silicon Valley, what ...
The American housing market continues to rise. According to Voice of America, in September the number of cases of forced sale of pledged property for non-payment of debts decreased sharply compared to the same period last year. According to CoreLogic, the number of such cases decreased by 17,6...
Three years ago, Evelyn Teman was sitting at home in Los Angeles playing solitaire on her computer when she saw an advertisement for a site called Poshmark on the screen. The message offered to make money by selling his unnecessary clothes. For three years more than 10 thousand lots were bought from Evelyn, ...
Igor Pasternak, who left Lviv in the early 90s, built a multimillion dollar business in the United States. And then, commissioned by the Pentagon, he designed an airship capable of carrying hundreds of tons of cargo and even being a heavenly hotel or an aerial amusement park. “My story could only happen in ...
Immigration often has a very negative impact on women's careers, forcing them to abandon ambition and focus on caring for the family. “Forum” talked with Russian-speaking women in Silicon Valley, who preferred their business to work in IT. These ladies showed by their own example how you can earn ...
Worldwide sales of goods under animation brands bring their creators billions of dollars. Russian multipliers have also learned to make money on the franchise: last year, their income amounted to almost $ 84 million. Sales of goods under the brand "Peppa Pig" (the heroine of the animated series for babies) in 2014 financial ...
Alexander Krylov lived 20 years in immigration to the United States and brought his business idea from there. It turned out that a purely American "trick" - collecting and reselling autographs of celebrities - took root both in Russia and in Ukraine, and their sale brings round sums. American ...