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The Queen Monster's $90 million in earnings and mastery of social media pushed her past perennial winner Oprah Winfrey. Not that Oprah's doing badly.

In real estate, the battle to be America's most expensive neighborhood is fierce. Yet the question of which zip code is the priciest and whose home is the costliest is only half the story: Putting those prices in the context of average Americans' income is the real shocker.

Forbes Media is reaching outside the family ranks for the first time to name a new CEO, the company announced Tuesday. Veteran venture capitalist and media executive Mike Perlis will assume his new post Dec. 1, replacing longtime CEO and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes.

By Luisa Kroll, Forbes.com The Forbes 400 richest Americans regained lost ground in 2010, while most were still smarting from the recession. The total worth of the Forbes 400 was up 8% to $1.37 trillion, well out-earning the 1% rise in the S&P 500 index over the same period of time. More...

For many rap and hip-hop artists, behind all the trash talk and posturing, it's all about business. Forbes recently released its Hip Hop Cash Kings list, and the 20 big names on it racked up a total of about $300 million, despite the weak economy and the Internet revolution that is killing the CD business.

Forbes Media bought the financial education website was amid much fanfare after Elevation Partners took a big stake, with the promise of turning things around. But things got worse, and now Investopedia has found a new home.

True/Slant, the blogging network that sought to match experienced writers with advertisers, will cease publishing new stories at the end of the month.

When Lewis Dvorkin founded True/Slant, his expert blogging community, his goal was nothing less than inventing a new business model for journalism. Now, Dvorkin is attempting to install that nimble but high-quality model at Forbes Media.

Just in time for Mother's Day, Forbes magazine is out with a story about the World's Richest Moms. The article reveals that there are only 70 billionaires on the planet who are mothers, and "just eight of these (women) built their own fortunes." The rest inherited money from their fathers or late...

This week, Forbes takes a peek inside the world of professional nannies and finds that some of them are making more than $100,000 a year. It seems like a crazy number, when you take it at face value. Factor in the fact that many of these nannies have Ivy League degrees, medical certifications and...