The World's Billionaires 2015 The World's Billionaires 2015 The World's Billionaires 2015 edition was the 29th annual ranking of The World's Billionaires by "Forbes" magazine. The list estimated the net worth of the world's richest people. The new list was released online on March 2, 2015. As of 2015, Bill Gates had been placed at the top of this list 16 times. Bill Gates was again named the richest person in the world in "Forbes" Magazine's annual list of the world's billionaires. This is the 16th time that the founder of Microsoft has claimed the top spot. Carlos Slim, Mexican business magnate, came in
Grupo Salinas region and by 1987, 59 stores. Elektra Group became a publicly traded company listed on the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, the Mexican Stock Exchange. In 1993, Grupo Elektra bought the Imevisión government television network and renamed it TV Azteca. TV Azteca created an initial public offering in 1997 on the Mexican and New York stock exchanges. In 2012, Grupo Elektra, a wholly owned subsidiary of Grupo Salinas, acquired Advance America for an estimated $780 million USD. In 2003, Grupo Salinas purchased the telecommunicaions company Iusacell and the mobile phone company Unefón. Iusacell was sold to AT&T in 2014, and rebranded