8/7/07

Mexican Billionaire Donates Laptops

Mexican telecom mogul billionaire Carlos Slim promised to donate hundreds of thousands of laptop computers to Mexican children.

He pledged to donate 250,000 low-cost laptops to children by the end of the year and as many as 1 million in 2008, saying 'digital education' holds the key for Mexico's poor.

Slim is listed by Forbes as the world's second-richest man with holdings worth US$53 billion (euro38.79 billion), but some financial analysts say he may have overtaken Microsoft founder Bill Gates as the world's richest.

[The New York Times]

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