The second half of the year is here and this are some the things that you may have missed in the last week of the first half of 2011:

In the News

Daily Nation
The rich more likely to die from heart disease

British-American IPO set for next month

What we are Reading
What Does it Take to be Rich
The Free Money Finance has a discussion running on what it means to be "rich", in terms of absolute numbers.
Read more here

6 Female Entrepreneurs who built their fortunes from Scratch
Read about these mega-rich ladies and how they amassed their fortunes on Forbes blogs

Happy Reading!