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• As Walton Family Solidifies Majority, Wal-Mart Workers Promise Dissent For Fair Pay

  

  Janet Sparks addressing the Wal-Mart shareholders conference. Photo: Wal-Mart Corporate Janet Sparks was never the first to raise her hand in class as a child. Even today she doesn't like speaking up in church. [...] more>>

  Clare O'Connor,Forbes Staff

• Inside Wal-Mart's Shareholders Conference

  Every year, 14,000 Wal-Mart associates and shareholders from around the world descend of Bentonville, Ark. for the retail giant's annual meeting. Take a peek. [...] more>>

  Clare O'Connor,Forbes Staff

• Former Bangladesh Sweatshop Worker To Billionaire Walton Family: Use Your Wal-Mart Fortune To Stop Worker Deaths

  An hour into the dog and pony show that is Wal-Mart's annual shareholder meeting, a former sweatshop worker from Bangladesh addressed the world's richest siblings, the Waltons, asking them to fix these buildings using their great wealth. [...] more>>

  Clare O'Connor,Forbes Staff

• Inside Wal-Mart's Shareholders Conference

  Every year, 14,000 Wal-Mart associates and shareholders from around the world descend of Bentonville, Ark. for the retail giant's annual meeting. Take a peek. [...] more>>

  Clare O'Connor,Forbes Staff

• Wal-Mart's annual meeting has glitz, songs, protests

  comments made at last year's event. "You operate with integrity, our company was founded on integrity," Chief Executive Mike Duke told the crowd. "For Wal-Mart, compliance is an absolute. Make no mistake about it, we will do the right thing." This year there [...] more>>

• Richest people in the world, according to Forbes

  Liliane Bettencourt, 90, $30B 10. Bernard Arnault, 63, $29B 11. Christy Walton, 58, $28.2B 12. Stefan Persson, 65, $28B 13. Michael Bloomberg, 71, $27B 14. Jim Walton, 65, $26.7B 15. Sheldon Adelson, 79, $26.5B 16. Alice Walton, 63, $26.3B 17. S. Robson Walton, [...] more>>

• Davos Billionaires No Longer Discuss Inequality

  Bajaj Group. “If we don’t take cognizance of it and try to solve this problem, it can create a chaotic upheaval globally,” said Azim Premji, who is worth $16 billion. When I arrived in Davos last January, I took a shuttle van to “Igloo City,” the makeshift [...] more>>

• Early Dividend for Wal-Mart Is Latest Move in Tax Scramble

  What a difference six days makes. April L Brown/Associated Press From left, Jim Walton, Alice Walton and Robson Walton, the children of Wal-Martâs founder, Sam Walton. Walton family members on the board recused themselves from the dividend vote. The Walt [...] more>>

• Wal-Mart moves up dividend to avoid "fiscal cliff"

  higher taxes on dividends paid after December 31 unless Congress takes action. Two of Sam Walton's sons, Rob Walton and Jim Walton, are board members, and Chairman Rob Walton's son-in-law, Gregory Penner, is also on the board. The Waltons and Penner recused [...] more>>

• UPDATE 3-Wal-Mart moves up dividend to avoid 'fiscal cliff'

  and Penner recused themselves from the board discussion and vote on the dividend date change, Wal-Mart said. Rob Walton and Jim Walton are the 9th and 7th richest Americans, respectively, according to Forbes. Two other members of the Walton family are also [...] more>>

• UPDATE 1-Wal-Mart moves up dividend to avoid 'fiscal cliff'

  to pay much higher taxes on dividends paid after Dec. 31 unless Congress takes action. Two of Sam Walton's sons, Rob Walton and Jim Walton, are board members, and Rob Walton is chairman of the world's largest retailer. In 2003, President George W. Bush and [...] more>>

• Charles Ergen is top Coloradan on Forbes 400 list of richest Americans

  John Malone, a media mogul and the largest landowner in the U.S., ranks 57th, at $5.6 billion, up from 69th last year. James Leprino, who turned his family business into the world's largest mozzarella-cheese producer, is 170th among the richest Americans, [...] more>>

• Forbes list of 400 richest Americans includes 3 new Michigan billionaires

  Michigan billionaires have joined the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans. Brothers Hank, 60, and Doug Meijer, 58, took the 69th spot on the list, with a combined wealth of $4.9 billion, claiming the Forbes 400 spot of their father, Frederik, who died [...] more>>

• Forbes list of 400 richest Americans includes 3 new Michigan billionaires

  net worth for entry, up from $1.05 billion a year ago. Among the freshly minted are Shahid Khan, owner of the NFLs Jacksonville Jaguars, at No. 179; Judy Faulkner, founder of health records firm Epic Systems, at No. 285; Andrew & Peggy Cherng, the husband [...] more>>

• Forbes' 10 richest Americans

  uber-elite for the 19th year in a row with $66-billion (U.S.), up $7-billion from a year earlier. (JIM URQUHART/REUTERS) Warren Buffett, 82, sings with University of Nebraska cheerleaders during the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, [...] more>>

• Bill Gates tops Forbes rich list

  of the top 10 into 12th place compared with a year ago. But the biggest drop was seen by Facebook founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, who fell from 14th to 36th place in the wake of a disappointing stock market listing of his company. He lost nearly [...] more>>