The Perseid meteor shower is putting on an incredible celestial show this week as tons of meteors crash into Earth's atmosphere and light up the night sky.

The meteor shower happens every year starting in late July and lasting through most of August, but there is always a peak viewing time where stargazers can spot about 100 meteors an hour, and sometimes even "moon flashes" that happen when meteors crash into the moon.

This year the Perseid meteor shower peaked early in the morning on Thursday, Aug. 13, and it coincided with a new moon. With no moonlight to compete with, the meteor shower was even more brilliant than usual this year. So brilliant, in fact, that you could even spot a few meteors in New York City.

Still, a meteor shower looks more impressive far away from city lights. We've rounded up some of the best images of the Perseid meteor shower peak from around the world.

A Roman theater in the ruins of Acinipo, near Ronda in southern Spain.

Windmills at the San Gregornio Pass Wind Farm near Whitewater, California.

The Maculje archaeological site near Novi Travnik in the early morning of Aug. 13.

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Samsung just announced two brand new smartphones: the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 Edge+.

They're both giant phones with 5.7-inch screens, making them just slightly larger than the iPhone 6 Plus.

Samsung has also added a few new software features to its new phones, too.

Here's a look at what you can do with the Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+ that you can't do with an iPhone. 

You can pay with your phone at any magnetic stripe terminal when Samsung Pay launches. Apple Pay only works with NFC.

You can draw on the screen even when it's turned off when using the Galaxy Note 5.

You can add shortcuts to your favorite apps and contacts on the Galaxy S6 Edge+. Just swipe out from the phone's curved edge.

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Great music can be found all across the country. And every state has a famous band that hails from it.

To determine the most famous band from every state, we looked at reputation, record sales, and awards, considering each band within their own era.

We used the term "band" loosely here, including any musical act consisting of more than one person. We focused mostly on the state where each band originally formed, but also considered where their music was popularized, as well as artists' hometowns.

Check out which band is making your state proud.

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ALABAMA: Alabama

One of the most successful bands of all-time, Alabama has sold over 73 million records and has seven multiplatinum albums and two Grammys. The band sold more records during the '80s than any other band. Not only is their success impressive by any measure, but they also managed to make country music popular in the mainstream.

ALASKA: Portugal. The Man

Portugal. The Man released their debut album, "Waiter: You Vultures!" in 2006 and booked their first headlining tour the next year. The rock band released three more albums — including breakout record "The Satanic Satanist"— before signing with Atlantic Records in 2009. Danger Mouse, known for working with artists like Beck and The Black Keys, produced Portugal. The Man's most recent album, "Evil Friends."

ARIZONA: Alice Cooper

The first of the many shock-rock bands of the '70s, Alice Cooper kept fans entranced with their gender-bending outfits and dark, on-stage theatrics — concert-goers could expect performances to include stunts like Cooper's faux beheading via guillotine. But it's the music that kept fans coming back for more, and their riff-heavy brand of hard rock produced a string of hits including "School's Out" and "Be My Lover." Alice Cooper was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.

Samsung announced its newest flagship devices, the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus and Galaxy Note 5, on Thursday.

If the popularity of Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edge is anything to go by, it makes sense that it was going to offer a larger-screened device with curved edges. But instead of making a Note 5 with curved edges, Samsung decided to make a larger version of the popular Galaxy S6 Edge. 

Both phones have large, sharp 5.7-inch displays, and they both feel positively premium. Samsung has ditched any trace of plastic on the exteriors of both phones. 

Samsung also showcased its answer to Apple Pay, aptly named Samsung Pay. It uses MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission), which is the same technology that reads the magnetic strip on the back of your credit cards.

You can check out photos and more features of the new phones below.

Here they are: The Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Galaxy Note 5, Samsung's newest flagship devices.

Let's start with the new Galaxy Note 5.

It takes a lot of cues from the Galaxy S6, like a shiny pearl sheen effect on the front and back.

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Time for our annual August report called “Charts for the beach”. After applying SPF 30, take a look at five of our favorite charts that highlight what we think consensus is currently missing. Don’t forget suntan lotion on the ears!

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Credit-related assets should be avoid as the credit bubble deflates.

Our first chart shows the relative performance of credit-related asset classes during the gradual inflation of the global credit bubble (1998-2008) versus the relative performance since the credit bubble started to deflate (2008- today).

It makes sense that the asset classes most sensitive to credit creation would outperform as the credit bubble inflated, but we continue to believe that these asset classes should generally be avoided as the bubble deflates.

Energy and commodities are pulling down master limited partnerships. Four years of dividend payments have been wiped out yet investors are still complacent.

Energy and commodities are credit-related asset classes (see Chart 1) and have significantly underperformed as the credit bubble deflated. It is curious though that investors have thought that MLPs would be immune. MLPs are now in a bear market with some of the highest quality MLPs leading the decline (weren’t they supposed to be the ones least effected by the fall in the commodity price?).

The MLP industry has been free cash flow negative for some time, which questions the companies’ abilities to continue growing, maintain distributions, or both. The recent volatility has wiped out about four years of dividend payments, yet investors generally seem complacent (see Chart 2).

China's demographics are a big problem. Depreciating the currency won't help them compete. And selling of currency reserves could grow exponentially.

We have long thought that China’s demographics would ruin their long-term growth story, but investors have chosen to ignore that secular issue. Investors in China may be ignoring another important long-term problem. Our theme of a “Wal-Mart World” is based on global overcapacity, the lowering of prices, and the resulting fight for market share.

Our overweight of Japan in our portfolios reflects that Japan seemed to be the first country to recognize the Wal-Mart World and significantly depreciated the Yen. Since we took our initial positions, the Yen has depreciated about 65% versus the US dollar.

Despite recent events, China can’t drastically depreciate their currency and compete in a Wal-Mart World for two reasons:

1) The world would raise trade barriers and add tariffs to Chinese goods if China depreciated the Yuan to any significant extent. Japan can easily depreciate the Yen because, unlike twenty years ago, no one considers Japan a threat anymore. China is now considered the threat, and any depreciation could have significant political ramifications.

2) Chinese companies have issued dollar-denominated debt. Depreciating the Yuan implies a larger proportion of corporate cash flows would necessarily go to debt payments. Chinese companies’ profitability isn’t strong, and increasing debt service payments would exacerbate the corporate sectors’ problem.

The result is that China is attempting to keep the Yuan reasonably stable, but not be uncompetitive in the Wal-Mart World. They’re trying to have the best of both worlds, and they are doing this by selling their reserves for the first time (see Chart 3).

China has large reserves and this can go on for quite some time. However, the selling of their reserves is likely to grow exponentially as the domestic economy’s woes compound.

There's nothing Instagrammers love more than a good food photograph or an amazing landscape shot— and popular Instagram account @FoodInTheAir combines these styles to create delicious photos. 

Founded by five friends in 2014, the account has gained over 200,000 followers. Their pictures all follow the same style: food, like a sandwich or ice cream cone, being held up in front of a scenic backdrop.

With photographs from around the globe, churros in front of the Eiffel Tower is a popular shot, it's easy to see how Food In The Air, or FITA, has kept its followers hungry for more. 

Check out 25 delicious pictures from Food in the Air. 

"Food in the Air is the first and only food Instagram account to incorporate your meal with the surrounding scenery by, you guessed it, holding it in the air," explains the FITA website.

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The account is managed by four sisters — Patty, Carolyn, Meg, and Charlotte Niemann — and their friend, George Broadbin.

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The five friends were inspired when they saw a similar style Instagram of a bagel being held up against the Manhattan skyline.

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If you're craving some Lay's chips in London or a Burger King meal in Australia, you're in luck because those brands exist abroad.

The only problem is that you might never be able to find them.

Famous brands in America often go by completely different names abroad. Sometimes the change makes sense, other times the changes are so small and random they seem pointless.

See if you can identify what famous brands are called outside of the US.

Laura Stampler contributed to the original version of this post.

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It's known as KFC practically everywhere...

Except in Quebec, where it's known as PFK. The Quebec language watchdog insists the name of a business in the region must be French — but not all big brands comply.

You might scrub your floors with Mr Clean in the US.

Like tiny houses before them, mirror houses are the latest architecture trend to make design blogs swoon. 

Though mirror-encased homes have mainly been cropping up in Europe over the last few years, US design minds are taking notice. These reflective homes capture the stunning (and often secluded) environments that surround them, creating structures that seamlessly blend into nature. Most of the mirrors are built with UV-reflective glass — a pattern that is nearly invisible to humans but visible to birds — to help ensure safety to the natural environments in which they stand.

Keep scrolling to see the breathtaking illusion these homes create as they disappear into forests, deserts, and snow-covered expanses. 

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Designed by architect Peter Pichler, these two mirror houses sit side-by-side in the South Tyrolean Dolomites, just outside the city of Bolzano, Italy. The homes were designed as vacation rentals and are available for booking.

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Pichler's homes are surfaced with a mirrored exterior laminated in UV coating, which helps prevent bird collisions. Pictured here is the back facade of the homes, which beautifully reflect the surrounding Dolomites mountain range.

Meanwhile, the duplex's west facade captures a panorama of the area's apple orchards.

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Most of us spend more waking hours in the office than anywhere else — so it's only natural that we want to enjoy our time at work. And perks help...significantly. 

Luckily, employers are catching on and starting to find creative ways to make employees feel valued and appreciated. (And we're not just talking about free food!)

We turned to Glassdoor and searched the web to find 15 companies that offer unique perks employees can enjoy both inside and outside of the office.

Aaron Taube contributed to an earlier version of this article.

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Adobe

Computer software company Adobe offers their employees much-needed downtime by shutting down the entire US office for one week during the holidays and the summer. Employees also rave about the ample opportunities for paid time off. 

Adobe recently announced that through the combination of medical and parental beave, new birth mothers will receive up to 26 weeks of paid time off beginning November 1, 2015.

Asana

The communication app company Asana caters to employees' well-being by providing them with access to life coaching outside of the company. They also give employees a generous fixed budget to build the office desk and computer setup of their dreams.

Facebook

Facebook is known for its incredible perks like its great parental leave policy, beautiful offices, and gourmet meals. But employees say Facebook also provides them with a more unique perks: The company gifts workers with Facebook ad credits to donate to the charity or cause of their choice, according to employees who reviewed the social media giant on Glassdoor. 

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College costs can vary widely across the US, with tuition costing significantly more in some states than others. 

To chart this range, we found the most expensive college in each state, based on overall direct costs for the upcoming academic year.

Like last year, California's Harvey Mudd College is the most expensive college in the US, with an overall price tag of $67,255 for 2015-2016. On the other end of the spectrum, the University of Wyoming — the most expensive college in that state — charges only $25,668 for an out-of-state student.

We found these numbers by examining the average cost of tuition, fees, room, and board that an incoming student would face over the 2015-2016 academic year.

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ALABAMA: Spring Hill College — $46,181

ALASKA: University of Alaska Anchorage — $27,431

ARIZONA: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University — $41,498

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"Fantastic Four" is a strange comic book movie, one that's very shy on the actual superheroics. This could have been one of the film's great strengths, but ultimately served to cripple it in the long run. But how much of it comes from the source material?

Quite a bit, it turns out. 

If there's any direct comic book parallel to the story in "Fantastic Four," it's in the comic book series "Ultimate Fantastic Four," a 2003 comic book series that rebooted Marvel's First Family in a 21st century context. 

While "Ultimate Fantastic Four" was probably pitched as a radical reinvention, it really just ended up making the characters younger (they're adults in the mainstream "Fantastic Four" comics that kicked off in the '60s) and updated their origin a bit (from "spaceship bombarded with cosmic rays" to "interdimensional teleportation accident").

This worked out just fine, though, since — barring maybe the final few installments of its impressive 60-issue run — "Ultimate Fantastic Four" remained very accessible to readers who didn't follow other superhero comics. 

Unfortunately, while the new movie takes a lot of cues from the "Ultimate" origins, much of the comics' spirit (read: fun) was left out. But how about the look? 

Let's compare:

"House of Cards" alum Reg E. Cathey plays Dr. Franklin Storm.

An aging scientist who believes his generation has made a mess of the world, Dr. Franklin heads up the think tank that he recruits Reed into. The biological father of Johnny Storm, and the adopted father of Susan, he shepards the teleportation project, and convinces Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Victor von Doom to work together to get it done. 

On the page, Dr. Storm isn't all that different.

There's one big, obvious difference — his race, which also makes him the biological father of only one of the Storm siblings — but his role is more or less the same. He's a mentor to the team, acting as a shield between them and overzealous government liaisons. 

Miles Teller plays Reed Richards, the young genius largely responsible for the accident which creates the Fantastic Four.

In the film, we meet Richards when he's in grade school and causes a blackout with his homemade miniature teleportation device. As he matures, he's quiet, dedicated, and — following the accident — wracked with shame and guilt.

Post-transformation, Reed gains the ability to stretch like rubber, although the film is extremely conservative about showing this power off. His costume is the crudest of the bunch, with wiring and spring-like materials designed to stretch with him.

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Mastering your money has a lot more to do with psychology and mindset than we might think.

That's what Napoleon Hill preached in his bestselling 1937 book, "Think and Grow Rich," the culmination of his intensive study of over 500 self-made millionaires.

Self-made millionaire Steve Siebold, who has interviewed 1,200 of the world's wealthiest people during the past three decades, agrees. As backwards as it sounds, getting rich often has less to do with the money than the mentality, he writes in his book "How Rich People Think."

Here are 21 mindsets of the wealthy that you could adopt today:

Mandi Woodruff contributed reporting to this post.

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Rich people believe poverty is the root of all evil

... while average people think money is the root of all evil. 

According to Siebold, there's a certain shame that comes along with "getting rich" in lower-income communities. 

"The average person has been brainwashed to believe rich people are lucky or dishonest," he writes. "The world class knows that while having money doesn't guarantee happiness, it does make your life easier and more enjoyable." 

Rich people think selfishness is a virtue

... while average people think selfishness is a vice. 

"The rich go out there and try to make themselves happy. They don't try to pretend to save the world," Siebold told Business Insider. 

The problem is that middle class people see that as a negative — and it's keeping them poor, he writes. "If you're not taking care of you, you're not in a position to help anyone else. You can't give what you don't have."

Rich people have an action mentality

... while average people have a lottery mentality. 

"While the masses are waiting to pick the right numbers and praying for prosperity, the great ones are solving problems," Siebold writes.

"The hero [most people] are waiting for is maybe God, government, their boss, or their spouse. It's the average person's level of thinking that breeds this approach to life and living while the clock keeps ticking away." 

The Honest Company is a Los Angeles-based startup that makes household products with a conscience.

Founded by actress Jessica Alba, ShoeDazzle founder Brian Lee, and friends Christopher Gavigan and Sean Kane in 2011, the company focuses on creating baby and household goods that use only nontoxic, environmentally friendly ingredients. 

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the Honest Company has raised an additional $100 million in venture capital funding at a nearly $1.7 billion valuation. An IPO is reportedly in the works. 

We recently stopped by the startup's office to get a feel for its culture. We couldn't help but agree with our guide that the space looked just like a Pinterest page that had come to life. 

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The Honest Company is headquartered in beautiful, sun-filled offices in Santa Monica, California.

Inside, you'll see plenty of Honest products and logos, including this flower wall by the kitchen area.

There's a large common area with long tables in which employees can eat lunch.

Today, landmarks like the Statue of Liberty and the Mount Rushmore monument attract people from around the world who marvel at their impressive design.  

But before they stood in all their grandeur, these iconic structures went through complex constructions that included risky and fascinating tactics used by its workers. 

We've put together a collection of rare historic photos that display how some of the country's most well-known landmarks came to be, from the meticulous carving of Mount Rushmore to the renovation that helped save the White House from completely collapsing.

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Before the Statue of Liberty stood high and mighty as the iconic figure we know today in New York Harbor's Liberty Island, she was created and assembled piece by piece in France. Many of her parts, including her head and shoulders, were displayed across Paris in places like the Champ de Mars (pictured here).

Source: National Park Service

Lady Liberty was created with an iron skeleton that was plastered with a copper exterior. Over 300 different types of hammers were used to create her copper structuring.

Source: The Telegraph

All of the parts were created in Paris before being shipped to the United States. The statue, which is 305 feet high, was the tallest iron structure to ever have been built when she was first erected in 1886.

Source: The Telegraph

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Retailers often get a bad reputation as employers — it's a low-paying sector, but there can be a huge difference in how retailers treat their employees.

We've looked at some of the companies that pay their employees the most.

The data comes from Glassdoor, the site that takes submissions from employees and works out things like average pay from that — as well as the experience of the people who worked there. 

The results are based on an average of the reported hourly pay rates, and each had at least 20 submissions to draw from. Because it's based on hourly rates, it's likely to capture the lower-paid levels of employment, since higher-paid employees on fixed annual salaries will be excluded.

Here's who comes out best:

15. Lidl — £7.70 — The cut-price German retailer seems less prone to cutting wages, and it beats many of its closest competitors as the 15th best-paying on Glassdoor's list.

14. Waitrose — £7.90 per hour — The high-end food retailer sneaks in just above the UK living wage (£7.85) and beats most of the UK's other large food stores.

11. (joint) Selfridges — £8 per hour — the high end UK department store is one of the few that makes it onto the list, with a flagship branch in Oxford Street.

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In the instant after the Big Bang, the only thing in the universe that existed was a hot plasma soup full of subatomic particles.

But to study that plasma, you don't have to travel back in time billions of years to the Big Bang itself — just go to Long Island, New York.

Based on a quick (non-scientific) sampling of friends and strangers in a Brooklyn pub, it's probably safe to say most people don't know there's a giant particle collider outside of New York City.

It's called the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, pronounced "Rick"), and it's part of the Department of Energy-sponsored Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. Built in 2000 for $616 million and now valued at about $2 billion, it's job is to make quark-gluon plasma soup — and it's the only machine in the US that can do it.

Keep scrolling to see how the device works, how it's helping physicists solve the mysteries of the early universe, and why its future operation may be in danger.

RHIC is part of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), which sits in the middle of the pine barrens on central Long Island.

It's the only active particle accelerator of its kind in the country. And at 2.4 miles around, it's visible from space.

Essentially, RHIC is an underground ring that shoots two beams of particles (in blue and yellow) at each other from opposite directions.

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Some go to Italy to see its churches, and some go to Indonesia.

There's a giant abandoned church in Mageland, a forested area that's located in the Indonesian province of Central Java, that looks like a giant bird.

Daniel Alamsjah built the quirky-designed place of worship in 1990 after he received a revelation from God.

Keep scrolling to see more pictures of the bizarre construction.

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It was originally intended to look like a dove, but locals thought otherwise and nicknamed it the "Chicken Church" instead.

It has the features of a bird body, tail, and head included in its design.

A crown even rests upon its head.

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It's nice to know which zip codes are among America's most expensive, but for many, Realtor.com's 2015 list of the nation's best zip codes for first-time home buyers is infinitely more useful. 

The zip codes were chosen for their "healthy local economics, job opportunities, and affordability." Homes for sale in these areas sell four to nine times faster than the national average. Plus, unemployment rates in these zip codes are falling faster than all other metros in the country, median household incomes rank 23% higher than the US average, and job prospects for millennials age 25-34 are extremely favorable. 

Other factors like commute times, school systems, public transportation, and proximity to shopping and restaurants also play into the ranking.

Keep scrolling to see which zip codes made the list. 

92010 | Carlsbad, California

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58103 | Fargo, North Dakota

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78729 | Austin, Texas

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Running and cycling are great for your health.

They also have the potential to create some pretty cool images. 

Strava, the popular fitness tracking app for runners and cyclists, tracked 140 million rides and runs from January 2014 to May 2015, and overlaid the results on Google Maps.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch used one of the images in a report out this week, which highlighted the growing popularity of athletic wear in the US. 

That market has grown to $65 billion in 2015, according to the note.  

Business Insider has pulled together a bunch more images from Strava. Scroll through some of the world's major cities, and how people run through them below.

Images come from Strava Lab's heatmap.

Europe has the most Strava segments of anywhere in the world. Most of the running happens inside cities and population dense centers, while biking routes spread out from the areas.

The United States' running and biking patterns correspond with population density.

Manhattan resembles a computer chip. The most popular destination? Central Park.

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While many executives are criticized for their excessive pay, some CEOs have been able to skirt around the issue by choosing to forgo a lofty salary and opting instead for a paycheck of $1 a year, or less.

Of course, this isn't to say these executives are living off the dollar menu.

The CEOs on this list are still worth millions, if not billions, but while some merely pay lip service to the $1 salary club by taking home hefty compensation in the form of company stock awards and bonuses, others forgo adding to their wealth in this way entirely.

"I've made enough money," said Mark Zuckerberg during a Q&A on Facebook in June. "At this point, I'm just focused on making sure I do the most possible good with what I have." Zuckerberg chooses to take home a $1 salary and declines stock awards and bonuses.

Here are some CEOs and other executives that belong to the $1 (or less) salary club:

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin

According to Google's annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Brin and Page, the company's cofounders asked that their base salaries each be reduced to $1 per year in 2004.

Since then, Google's compensation committee has offered them market-competitive salaries annually, which they continue to decline.

While they also forgo cash bonuses based on their individual and company performance and do not hold any stock options, Google stock units, or other contingent stock rights, Page is currently worth an estimated $34.9 billion and Brin is worth an estimated $34.3 billion.

Jack Dorsey

In a filing with the SEC in June, it was revealed that Twitter's interim CEO receives no compensation for his role. This is of little financial consequence to Dorsey, whose current estimated net worth comes in around $2.3 billion.

"At your request, you have agreed to forego any compensation for your role as Interim Chief Executive Officer until the Compensation Committee agree upon a compensation package for you at the same time that it conducts its annual assessment and setting of executive compensation later in the year. Until a compensation package is finalized, you will be entitled to no cash or equity compensation for your services as Interim Chief Executive Officer,"the document reads.

Larry Ellison

As in previous years, Oracle reported to the SEC that Ellison, now executive chairman and CTO, took home a salary of $1 in 2014.

Meanwhile, new co-CEOs Safra Catz and Mark Hurd, who took over in September, 2014, each took home a $950,000 salary last year in addition to other compensation.

So how does Ellison continue to add to his estimated $49.2 billion net worth? Compensation Ellison received last year included $65 million in stock option awards, $740,000 in non-equity compensation, and $1.5 million for other compensation, most of which went towards security-related costs for Ellison's home.

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