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Google founders listed in Forbes list of wealthy Americans
New York: Google Inc's two co founders have entered the Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans after the company's mammoth initial public offering closed.

The Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans is topped by Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp's co-founder and chairman, (net worth $51 billion), for the 11th straight year followed by Warren Buffett's $40 billion, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman and chief executive.

Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were ranked 16th by Forbes with $11 billion each, up from no. 43 last year when they each had a net worth of $4 billion.

Google went public last year, and returned to the capital markets this month with a follow-up offering of shares that raised $4.18 billion. The company has earned $1 billion since going public.

Collectively, the top 10 richest Americans saw their collective net worth climb $125 billion, the magazine said. The poorest members of the list each had a net worth of $900 million.
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New appointments at Infosys
Bangalore: Director and co-founder, Infosys Technologies, S D Shibulal has been given appointed the global sales head of the company on the resignation of Basab Pradhan.

Shibulal served as a director at Infosys from 1984 to 1991. From 1981 to 1991, Shibulal worked for Infosys in the US on projects in manufacturing and retail industries.

According to Infosys, Shibulal is responsible for the performance of practice units in terms of constant improvement in the quality of customer deliverables, timelines, profits and targets, and employee productivity.

Infosys has also announced the appointment of Bikramjit Maitra as head-HRD after its vice-president -HR Hema Ravichander quit the company. Mohandas Pai retains the post of CFO and will also hold the post of director HR at Infosys.
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