learned that the richest person on the planet was no longer from the PC industry, Mr Bill Gates of Microsoft in the USA, but that title had been taken over by Mr Carlos Slim , the mobile telecoms tycoon from Mexico whose America Movil network stretches across 240 million people and most of Latin America. Cool. This industry produced the richest person on the planet. Three years ago I reported that mobile had passed the Trillion dollar level in annual revenues and in so doing, had become in fact the fastest new industry to reach that lofty level - television and radio never became that big, the PC industry and the internet even combined, are not that big today. Print media - all books, magazines and newspapers printed annually - never reached that level. Mobile is not just one of a handful Trillion-dollar size giant global industries like the automobile business or food or construction or banking or military spending; but mobile has set the record for the fastest growth from zero to one Trillion dollars in annual revenues. We have literally witnessed the setting of a world record in growth of any industry. Even as the world went through two economic downturns in the past ten years, mobile grew strongly through both of them. Then last year we had Apple fighting for the lead for the most valuable corporation by market capitalization (which it has since seized and is now increasing that lead). But few remember that less than