The World's Youngest Billionaires 2014: 31 Under 40

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Getting to the $1 billion mark isn’t a race, but some just get there faster.

Of the 1,645 members of the Forbes Billionaires list, 31 are under the age of 40. That elite group no longer includes the  Google guys, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, both of whom have crossed into their 40′s. One unexpected twist: this year’s group includes a new youngest billionaire.

Little-known Perenna Kei, a newcomer to the list, displaces former Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz as the very youngest billionaire. Hailing from Hong Kong, Kei oversees an 85% stake in Logan Property Holdings through various companies and a family trust. Her father, Ji Haipeng, serves as chairman and CEO of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed company, which went public in December.

The 39 youngest people on the 2014 Billionaires list have a combined net worth of $115.7 billion. Facebook employees past, present and future–including Sean Parker, Mark Zuckerberg and WhatApp’s Jan Koum–account for 42% of that. Koum,  a newcomer following Facebook’s decision to purchase WhatsApp, is worth $6.8 billion. He sold his mobile messaging company to the Menlo Park, Calif.-based social networking company for $19 billion in stock and cash last month.

Thirteen of the world’s young and wealthy call the U.S. home, while the others hail from the rest of the globe. Find the full list below.

No. 1: Perenna Kei & family

Age: 24

Net Worth: $1.3 billion

The world’s youngest billionaire title goes to Perenna Kei, who owns an 85% stake in Logan Property Holdings through different companies and a family trust. Logan’s chairman and CEO, Ji Haipeng, is her father. Previously known by the name “Ji Peili,” Kei is a non-executive director at the company, and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance from the University of London.

No. 2: Dustin Moskovitz

Age: 29

Net Worth: $6.8 billion

No longer the world’s youngest billionaire, Dustin Moskovitz will turn 30 this year. Mark Zuckerberg’s former roommate, Moskovitz helped kick start the social network from a Harvard dorm, dropping out of school after two years to work on the venture full-time as Facebook’s third employee. He left Facebook in 2008 to start Asana, a software company that aims to improve how people work with project collaboration tools. He got married in the past year to longtime girlfriend Cari Tuna.

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Microsoft Is Doing Us All A Favor By Killing Windows XP

The end is nigh. No, really. Less than a month from now Microsoft MSFT +0.32%will officially stop supporting the Windows XP operating system. Many security experts predict that it won’t be pretty for Windows XP users once the security patches stop rolling out, and some feel that pulling the plug on support is a mistake that will come back to bite Microsoft. The reality, though, is that Microsoft is doing us a huge favor that will make us all more secure—albeit with some potential short-term growing pains.

A recent post from ComputerWorld’s Gregg Keizerasserts that Microsoft is risking its security reputation by retiring support for Windows XP. He cites a different post he wrote in October of last year where he reported that Microsoft itself predicts that the rate of malware infection for Windows XP may jump by up to 66 percent once Microsoft stops developing patches for the archaic OS.

That is a very real, and very serious concern. Recent estimates suggest that the number of Windows XP systems still in use may be as high as 500 million (Keizer calculates the number to be 488 million). Even if we assume many of those will be upgraded by the April 8 cutoff, and conservatively cut that number in half, we’re talking about a quarter of a billion Windows XP systems begging to be compromised.

Will that impact Microsoft’s reputation? There is a very good chance that it could. When Bill Gates wrote the infamous Trustworthy Computing memo, and started Microsoft down the path of developing more secure software, he also recognized that Microsoft needed to play a broader role in helping vendors and partners embrace security because ultimately any security issue on a Windows-based PC reflects poorly on the Microsoft and Windows brands. If the Windows XPocalypse actually happens, there will definitely be those who point the finger and blame Microsoft.

Too bad.

The reality is that Windows XP is significantly less secure than its successors. Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 all include security features and controls designed to thwart attacks, and reduce the potential impact of successful attacks. There are many flaws that exist across all supported versions of Windows, but they are easily exploitable on Windows XP, and only moderate threats on later versions of Windows. The reality is that Windows XP is already a ticking time bomb, and the only thing that has allowed the ancient OS to maintain the façade of functionality are the valiant efforts of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing.

Instead of focusing on Microsoft’s supposed “obligation” to continue providing support to users—most of whom have contributed little or nothing to the PC revenue stream in the last decade—we should be focusing on the responsibility those users have to adopt more current, more secure operating systems if they want to continue to share the Internet with the rest of us.

Read more:http://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2014/03/11/microsoft-is-doing-us-all-a-favor-by-killing-windows-xp/

Old Dachshund was found outside a vet’s office

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No Paws Left Behind seeks sick dog's owner

This 13 ½ year old Dachshund was found outside a vet’s office with a desperate and heart wrenching plea.. “He is sick.. We are both seniors, sick with no money. We cannot pay for vet bills.. He has never been away from us.. Please put him to sleep”. What happened to the dog and why there is now a desperate search for his owners. Click here:http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/story/24942452/no-paws-left-behind-seeks-sick-dogs-owner

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A 13-year-old dachshund is left at a vet's office to be put to sleep because the owners couldn't afford to take care of it.

Now, the animal loving organization, Leave No Paws Behind, steps in to try to reunite the dog with the owners.

The dachshund was left in the Baldwin Park shelter in a basket with a note from the owners explaining he was sick.

 "We are both seniors, sick, with no money. We cannot pay for vet bills or to put him to sleep. He has never been away from us in all those years. He cannot function without us. Please put him to sleep. That just rips your heart," reads Leave's No Paws Behind Rep, Toby Wiskenski.

Toby Wisneski with Leave No Paws Behind, picked up the dog and brought him to East Valley Veterinary Clinic.

 "He has a skin condition right now that's treatable and it will take a few months but definitely something we can treat," explains veterinarian, Danielle Chapman.

He has arthritis and some other issues, which will take time and money.

He obviously has plenty of drive left so and that's where Leave No paws Behind comes in.

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The dachshund was left in the Baldwin Park shelter in a basket with a note from the owners explaining he was sick.

Flight MH370: Plane Missing Mystery

Flight MH370: officials 'puzzled' by Malaysia mystery as search widens

Teams from nine countries working non-stop, officials say, as hunt goes on for plane missing with 239 people on board 

Follow events live as the search for flight MH370 continues

A relative of a passenger on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 waits for news in Beijing on Monday. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images

Search crews involving nine countries are working “every hour, every minute, every second” across a huge swathe of the South China Sea but have yet to find any evidence of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, the country’s civil aviation chief said on Monday.

Almost 60 hours after flight MH370 vanished from radar screens in the early hours of Saturday officials remain “puzzled” by its sudden disappearance and are considering all possible angles, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said.

“Unfortunately, we have not found anything that appears to be an object from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft,” he said.

The Beijing-bound flight was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew when it went missing around 40 minutes after its 12.41am take-off from Kuala Lumpur, over the seas between Malaysia and Vietnam. The Boeing-777 was cruising at 35,000 feet when it disappeared in apparently good weather, gave no indication of any problems and did not issue a distress call.

Rahman added: “There are many theories that have been said in the media; many experts around the world have contributed their expertise and knowledge about what could happen, what happened....We are puzzled as well.

“To confirm what happened on that particular day on this ill-fated aircraft...we need concrete evidence, parts of the aircraft for us to analyse, for us to do forensic study.”

He said that the government had not discounted speculation about a hijack, but was looking at every possible explanation, noting that it took two years to determine the cause of the 2009 Air France crash.

He confirmed that five passengers had checked in for the flight but not boarded, adding that their baggage was removed from the aircraft as necessary in such cases.

Concerns that terrorist might be responsible have been fuelled by the fact two passengers were travelling on stolen European passports - although experts have said that fraudulent documents are reasonably common on regional flights for a variety of reasons.

Suspicious Jet Passengers

4 passengers' IDs being checked on missing jet

ALTERNATE CROP OF XHG102 A woman cries at the arrival hall of the International Airport in Beijing, China, Saturday, March 8, 2014. Relatives and friends were arriving at Beijing airport for news after a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 was reported missing on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing Saturday. Photo: Ng Han Guan, AP

Suspicious jet passengers

Up to 4 with suspect identities were able to board missing 777.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia intelligence agencies are investigating how up to four passengers with suspect identities were able to board the missing Boeing 777 jet, the government said, as planes and ships from across Asia resumed the hunt Sunday for the plane.

There was still no confirmed sighting of wreckage from the Boeing 777 in the seas between Malaysia and Vietnam where it vanished from screens early Saturday morning en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board. The weather was fine, the plane was already cruising and the pilots had no time to send a distress signal — unusual circumstance for a modern jetliner to crash.

A family member of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane is mobbed by journalists at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, March 8, 2014. Search teams across Southeast Asia scrambled on Saturday to find a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 239 people on board that disappeared from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early that morning.

 Photo: Lai Seng Sin, AP

MIssing Plane Investigation Widens

Malaysia Airlines: missing plane investigation widens 

• No wreckage found in search for MH370, which went missing on Saturday en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing

• Four passengers’ identities under investigation, two of whom were travelling on stolen passports

• More than 40 ships and 22 aircraft involved in search operation

What is believed to be an oil slick off the Vietnamese coast, pictured from a Vietnamese Air Force plane. Photograph: Hoang Ha/EPA

The Malaysia Airlines press conference in Beijing has just wrapped up. The Guardian’s Jonathan Kaiman was there:

A senior manager at Malaysia Airlines, Ignatius Ong Ming Choy, has finished his press conference at hotel near Beijing Airport. He emphasised that the aeroplane had not yet been located.

“MA has informed family members to expect the worst,” he said.

The airline will send two family members for each passenger down to Kuala Lumpur on Monday if they desire to wait for further information there. Choi did not elaborate on reports two passengers were travelling on stolen passports, noting only that the names on the passports matched those on the passenger lists.

“We’re waiting for more information - this is all that we can say. If we have more information we’ll inform everyone,” he said.

He confirmed the report that the aeroplane appeared to have turned back towards Kuala Lumpur but added that there was no distress signal issued. He said that they were expecting another announcement on the suggestion the plane had turned back. 
He added: “Fearing the worst, disaster specialists from the USA will be assisting Malaysia Airlines out of Kuala Lumpur as we speak.”

On Sunday afternoon the scene at the Lido hotel in Beijing - where about 100 family members are reportedly waiting for further information - was more subdued than on Saturday. The hotel seemed more prepared for the influx of media, with chairs and tables strewn throughout the lobbies and hallways. Volunteers from a Buddhist organisation have been dispatched to help family members cope with their emotional distress.