Top 10 technology titans who are richest billionaires in the world

Forbes recently released its annual World's Richest list. Like every year, the year 2016 edition too names the richest on the planet. We have picked 10 top technology titans from the list, the men who owe their fortune to the technology industry.

Here's over to 10 wealthiest tech billionaires of the world.

Bill Gates

Net worth: $75 billion

Country: United States

On the top of the world's wealthiest tech billionaires list is Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Also the world's richest man, Gates was born in Seattle in 1955. Alongwith partner Paul Allen, he built the world's largest software business.

Gates still owns just under 3% of Microsoft, which according to Forbes, accounts for less than 20% of his fortune. Some of his other investments include stakes in Canadian National Railway, Deere & Co, Republic Services Ecolab.

In June 2008, Gates moved out of a day-to-day role in Microsoft to spend more time with his philanthrophic initiative Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

It takes care of issues like improving health care and the use of vaccines in developing countries.

Jeff Bezos

Net worth: $45.2 B

Country: United States

Next on the list is Jeffrey Preston Bezos, the founder and chief executive officer of e-commerce giant Amazon. Princeton University graduate, Bezos is aming the world's most active angel investors.

Some of his investments include Grail, Convoy, Fundbox and General Fusion. In 2000, Bezos founded Blue Origin, a human spaceflight startup company.

Mark Zuckerberg

Net worth: $44.6 B

Country: United States

Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is third on the list, adding $11.2 billion to his fortune in last 12 months. Zuckerberh started Facebook in his college dorm room in 2004 with roomates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. He was 19 at that time.

Larry Ellison

Net worth: $43.6 B

Country: United States

Oracle founder Larry Ellison is next on the list. Ellison founded Oracle in 1977 and and served as CEO until September 2014. He is known for racing sailboats, flying planes and playing tennis and guitar.

Larry Page

Net worth: $35.2 B

Country: United States

Larry Page, the CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet is next on the list. In December 2015, Alphabet's stock hit an all-time high surpassing Apple as the world's most valuable company after posting strong quarterly earnings in February 2016.

Page cofounded Google in 1998 with fellow Stanford PhD student Sergey Brin and was its first CEO until 2001.

Sergey Brin

Net worth: $34.4 B

Country: United States

Sergey Brin is president of Alphabet, the new parent company he and Google cofounder Larry Page announced in August 2015. The companies under Alphabet's umbrella include Calico, Nest, Google Ventures and Google X.

Sergey holds a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Steve Ballmer

Net worth: $23.5 B

Country: United States

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is next on the list with a net worth of $23.5 billion. Ballmer resigned as Microsoft CEO and director in 2014, however, he retained his 4% stake in the company.

"I'd like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die," Ballmer told Forbes in 2014. He is Microsoft's biggest shareholder owing more shares than co-founder Bill Gates.

Jack Ma

Net worth: $20.5 B

Country: China

Alibaba founder and CEO Jack Ma is seen as the symbol of China's rise in the global internet industry. Alibaba Group's IPO in New York in 2014 set a record as the world's biggest public stock offering. He has made investments across industries including in movies like 'Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation'.

Michael Dell

Net worth: $19.8 B

Country: United States

Michael Dell is the chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Dell, the company he founded in 1984 in his Texas dorm room when he was just 19. In 1992, Michael became the youngest CEO ever to earn a ranking on the Fortune 500.

According to Forbes, he still holds a 70% stake in the company. Most of his fortune reportedly lies in his private investment firm MSD Capital, whose wide array of investments includes car deal Asbury Automotive, PVH Corp (parent to Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein) and DineEquity (operator of IHOP and Applebee's).

Ma Huateng

Net worth: $16.6 B

Country: China

Ma Huateng is co-founder and CEO of Tencent Holdings. Tencent's QQ.com is one of the world's 10 largest websites. Also known as Pony Ma, he was in charge of research and development for internet paging system development at China Motion Telecom Development Limited.

Source: techgig.com