Most popular billionaires in the technology field.

1. No. Name Net Worth Source Founding Date Listed Date Short Summary
1 Jack Ma 20.8 Billion AliBaba 4 April 1999 19-Sep-14 Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) is a Chinese e-commerce
company that provides consumer-to-consumer &
business-to-consumer sales services via web portals. It also provides
electronic payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric
cloud computing services.
2 Masayoshi Son 16.8 Billion Various 1990 2000 Founder of Asia's leading Internet venture, Softbank, is benefiting
from his acquisitions and investments; stock price is up 115%. In
October Softbank picked up stakes in Finnish gamemaker Supercell
and U.S. mobile phone distributor Brightstar.
3 Azim Premji 16 Billion Wipro 1945 2000 Wipro Limited (Western India Products Limited) is an Indian
multinational IT Consulting and System Integration services company
headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. On 31 March 2014, its
market capitalisation was approximately INR1.27 trillion ($20.8
billion), making it one of India's largest publicly traded company and
seventh largest IT services firm globally.
4 Robin Li 15.7 Billion Baidu 2000 2007 Baidu offers many services, including a Chinese language-search
engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu offers 57 search
and community services including Baidu Baike (an online
collaboratively built encyclopedia) and a searchable, keyword-based
discussion forum. In December 2007, Baidu became the first Chinese
company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 index.
5 Ma Huateng 14.8 Billion Tencent Holdings 12-Nov-98 2004 Chinese investment holding company whose subsidiaries provide
mass media, entertainment, Internet and mobile phone value-added
services, and operate online advertising services in China. Tencent's
many services include social network, web portals, e-commerce, and
multiplayer online games. Mobile chat service WeChat has helped
bolster Tencent's continued expansion into smartphone services.
6 Niraj Goel 12.95 Billion Variousi 1989 2010 On July 4 2014, “The Singapore Innovation League” was launched.
The league has been created to help technology start-ups that
display potential. Niraj Goel has pledged a total of SGD 1.50 billion to
this project of creating a silicon valley in Singapore. Notable projects
“YAY” , Clone Algo , YAY Smart human devices.

2. 7 Shiv Nadar 11.7 Billion HCL Group 11-Aug-76 2000 HCL is a global technology and IT enterprise that operates in 31
countries. The company comprises two publicly listed companies,
HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. HCL was focused on
addressing the IT hardware market in India for the first two decades
of its existence with some activity in the global market. HCL
Technologies focuses on the global IT services market, whereas HCL
Infosystems focuses on the IT hardware market in India and in APAC
countries. HCL has since then operated as a holding company.
8 Lee Kun Hee 11.4 Billion Samsung 1938 1994 Samsung entered the electronics industry in the late 1960s and the
construction and shipbuilding industries in the mid-1970s; these
areas would drive its subsequent growth. In 1987, Samsung was
separated into four business groups – Samsung Group, Shinsegae
Group, CJ Group and Hansol Group. Since the 1990s Samsung has
increasingly globalized its activities, and electronics, particularly
mobile phones and semiconductors, have become its most important
source of income. Samsung Electronics is the world's largest
information technology company measured by 2012 revenues, and
4th in market value.
9 Lei Jun 8.8 Billion Xiaomi N.A. N.A. Privately owned Chinese electronics company headquartered in
Beijing. It is one of China's biggest electronics companies that
designs, develops, and sells smartphones, mobile apps, and
consumer electronics. Since the release of its first smartphone in
August 2011, Xiaomi has gained market share in mainland China and
expanded into developing a wider range of consumer electronics
10 Lie Qiangdong 7 Billion JD.com Jul-98 N.A. a Chinese electronic commerce company headquartered in Beijing. It
is one of the largest B2C online retailers in China by transaction
volume. Its English website, for worldwide shipping, launched on
October 18, 2012. Its' B2C platform went online in 2004. It started as
an online magneto-optical store, but soon diversified, selling
electronics, mobile phones, computers, etc. Jingdong Mall changed
the domain name to 360buy.com in June 2007, and to JD.com in
2013