Masayoshi Son: the founder of SoftBank, the Japanese conglomerate that last year took a majority stake in the Irish company Cubic Telecom, has amassed a fortune, lost it, and re-built it multiple ...

Aug. 16, 2011: Sora Sasaki sets off fireworks with his grandfather, Masao, under the night sky on the last day of the Bon festival in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, to bid farewell to his mother ...

Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His mother, Jacklyn, was a 17-year-old high school student, and his father, Ted Jorgensen, was 19 years old.