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The news has sent shockwaves around the world since it broke on Monday: Mike Lynch, the Irish tech tycoon worth an estimated £852m and widely referred to as the &Bill Gates of Britain&, is among the six missing in Sicilyafter the superyacht they were holidaying on sunk off the coast of Palermo.