World's richest man Jeff Bezos now worth $100 billion

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is now worth $100 billion, keeping his title of the world’s richest man intact.

The Amazon founder's wealth wasup $2.4 billion after his shares rose 2 per cent, thanks to Black Friday sales.

Online purchases also went up 18.4 per cent for the day, as compared to last year, according to reports by Adobe Analytics.

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The mogul's fortune increased $32.6 billion this year with Amazon's valueclimbing 5 per centthis week itself, Bloomberg Billionaires Index reports.

Bezos owns 78.9 million shares of Amazon which are worth approximately $93.6 billion.

That however does not account for all his holdings, the two other high-profile companies he owns are the newspaper 'The Washington Post' and space tourism company 'Blue Origin.'

Bezos became the world's richest man (for a day) in July this year, overtaking Bill Gates.

He then moved back ahead of Gates in October.

In June this year, Bezos tweeted that he was looking for ideas on how to share his wealth to help people.